Heroes

Taking inspiration from Boa with her ‘on this day‘ series I have a for a while been contemplating doing a ‘hero‘ series. The way this works is every so often I would put together a post relating to a personal hero of mine. The choices may well surprise some of you, the chosen ones will reflect varying lifestyles, ideoligies etc. Some of the choices will be political, some will be from the world of sports, music, film, education etc …. some will prove controversial whilst others may well find strong support.

As many of you will be aware I have always gone to great pains at not commenting over weekends, that time is sacred …. family and friends time and initially I had intended to wait till Monday to post this, however today saw the loss of a hero of mine thus it was fitting I not wait till Monday but pay tribute to him today. Continue reading “Heroes”

And the excitment grows….

Today is the day that the ‘pool from hell’ arrives.  The children are so excited-they have been up since rediculously early in anticipation and they keep asking me to track it, but I can’t give them any more information than I did originally, that it left Bodmin at 9.30 this morning and shall be here shortly…….grrr kids huh!

Our new 'small' pool

All of Talwyn’s friends are rallying around, because I have decreed that if they don’t help they are not going to be able to use it (a slight over exageration, but may as well get all of the free manual labour that we can!).  The bottom garden has been cleared of everything, no mean task I can tell you and we are all ready to go-well, rather they are, I am site supervisor for the day, I do not want to get involved with it, oh and the sun is shinning.

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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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