One week to go!
Things are hotting up, a welcome late showing by San Francisco Kid, we still have the African stallion and Four Eyes running what appears to be neck and neck out front, with Ol’ Two Face in hot pursuit. It’s time to get those whips out.
(I have a feeling that Ol’ Two Face’s latest entry might just have put one of his noses in front, time will tell)
(in-ep-toc’-ra-cy) – a system of government where the least capable to lead are elected by the least capable of producing, and where the members of society least likely to sustain themselves or succeed, are rewarded with goods and services paid for by the confiscated wealth of a diminishing number of producers.
From the office window I noticed a little clump of primroses, in a triangle of sunshine. I thought I’d snap them and post them to cheer up Bearsy. Continue reading “A little periwinkle does you good”
An old prospector shuffled into the town of El Indio, Texas leading a tired old mule. Continue reading “The old-timer”
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh (see, no familiarity here) visit Leicester.
I remember reading once that 80% of gardening is the equivalent of housework…. keeping things tidy and doing the routine stuff.
In some ways this is a fair analysis: yes, the garden has to be kept tidy and ordered, the grass cutting and weeding are necessary…. but as comparisons go it’s rather incomplete.
Indoors the floor is washed and gets foot-printed again, the carpet is hoovered and gets bitty again. The toilet is cleaned and gets….. well you get the picture.
In the garden, especially at this time of the year each action brings on an even bigger reaction (sorry Newton, your law doesn’t work in the garden)
Today I have mainly been gardening. Well for three and a half hours. I got out the hoover lawn mover and did the grass, then trimmed the edges. Suddenly the garden looked sharper and more cared for. Where I didn’t cut the lawn, just where the snow drops are finishing and the crocus are boldly doing their thing the longer grass looks right: bright and strong against the colours.The bumble bees were out in force, exploring the flowers and getting covered in pollen.
Then I started on the borders, accompanied for a while by radio four and ‘Gardeners question Time.’ (My wind-up / solar-powered radio is my gardening companion.)
I cleared away all last season’s growth which had died back during the winter. And as I cleared new tips of growth were pushing up through the warmed soil giving me that feeling of hope that comes each Spring.
Of course time ran out before the jobs were finished. I had to come in to have a bath, scrub behind my fingers nails and assemble a fish pie before trotting back into Oxford for a poetry reading which was very entertaining and inspirational.
And I returned from the poetry reading to the rest of the fish pie and a glass of wine. Pretty perfick. Oh… and a slice of collapsed banoffee pie! (Not bad, with the topping scraped off.)
And in the morning when I look out of the window I shall have a huge feeling of accomplishment which I NEVER get from housework.
No no, not The Queen song but my new T shirt.
As you can clearly see, it states that I love someone with autism, it could have actually read that I love all people with autism 😉
But, is it ‘someone’? Or should it be ‘somebody’?
Or does it even matter? Is either OK?
Answer / advice below please.
Thank you.
Allegedly a new Beeb series called White Heat is getting everybody excited about the swingin’ sixties. Danish TV will probably run it in five years or so, so I’ll let you know what I think. But meanwhile the Grauniad has asked some pundits how they have reacted to the show and one in particular has written this:
Roger McGough, poet, b.1937
“We never wore kaftans or put flowers in our hair Never made the hippy trail to San Francisco Our love-ins were a blushing tame affair Friday evenings at the local church hall disco Continue reading “The real ’60s”
Here’s another slideshow that fascinated me and I thought that I’d share.
Clara Adams is little remembered today but she was well known as a pioneer of commercial aviation during the 1920’s, 30’s, and 40’s
Ferret might get in a bit of a tizz about this, but the Military Wives have released an album. with several choirs on it. The proceeds are going to The Military Wives Choir Foundation, and the album is available on Amazon and iTunes. I think this is a worthwhile cause and I have got my copy. Now listen to the music:
Continue reading “In My Dreams”
Boadicea's Chariot 
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