Category: General

spam

Got another supply of weird snacks yesterday. Every couple of weeks an old lady shows up with a bag of groceries for me. I have no idea why she gives them to me but she’s been turning up on a regular basis for four years now. Sometimes the snacks border on edible, particularly if it is late and options are few, but I generally hand them out to the students, who have a palate as refined as a seagull scavenging a refuse decorated beach.
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For Boadicea: The Belgrave Hospital for Children

Browse the estate agents around SE11 and you’ll soon find adverts for smallish flats in Belgrave House. At 1 Clapham Road, it’s handy for the tube at the Oval, and even handier  for St Mark’s if you are a churchgoer. Pretty well placed for fans of Surrey County Cricket Club and the England team as well.

It’s a big imposing building with a high gable, mullioned windows, and it’s made of red brick with mosaics around the entrance. Even if you didn’t know the names Charles Holden or Percy Adams, you’d soon realise that Continue reading “For Boadicea: The Belgrave Hospital for Children”

Pools and Badgers

Wow, what a glorious day it is down here, and good job too.

As a family, we really don’t need to go on holiday.  We live in the place where most people would like to come on their hols, if you get my drift, so we go all out and buy a swimming pool for the summer.  May sound a little extravagant, but it keeps the children happy for the whole of the summer and they can go in it come rain or shine throughout our glorious british summer.

As some on here may know, we have had pools of varying sizes in the past couple of years, they generally end up as ‘swimming ponds’ come the end of the year as they are nigh on impossible to totally empty, so I figure that the money that I fork out is worth it per season.  The last one we had is no exception.  A couple of weeks ago the children managed to find 5 frogs, starting from a centimetre long to great big, full grown daddy frogs, a toad and several newts in there.  I have had frog spawn in my sitting room for weeks now, but has had to be put back outside as they are growing into little jumping creatures.

Biggie and Frog Marley pictured.

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Thank you

Thank you for allowing me to join, I shall try not to bore you all too much with my ramblings, anyway I am so busy these days that inbetween running another care home and trying to turn it around, shooting arrows and sleeping there is little time left for me to rant.

I have changed my username from one which many will remember, and some with disgust, thats cool, I have not changed one bit, I am still the same outspoken nasty b*****d I always was (or so my staff tell me, but what do they know?).

So guesses as to who I am could make for fun.