First of all, a lovely picture of poppies which which remind me of the First World War. They sit in our front garden. Yesterday, we did a very hard days work dealing with a real wilderness of a customer garden. This is not the prettiest of pictures but shows the left-hand of my partner Francoise. We were involved in a freak accident. I was mowing a fairly rough area with my trusty petrol mower....
Month: June 2018
RUH Hospital Bath – making efforts to communicate
An interesting thing happened in the bus on the way to the hospital for my monthly eye checkup. A young woman with a pram got on to the RUH bus from Odd Down. After several moments struggling in her pockets and holding up the bus she found she had no cash. She apologised for wasting the drivers time and made to get off the bus again whereupon a man sitting behind me decided to go forward to the...
Two aspects of nature
I went to see Terry my friend and computer helper; his wife has got a great idea of making the most of space by growing lettuce vertically.Yesterday Monday was a big day. My brute force strimmer has failed and because it is a cheap and cheerful thing, the cost of repair is not much less than the cost of buying a new one so I decided to buy a second example anyway and use the other one for...
good vibes bad vibes
So here was I early on Sunday morning, not much wind, to witness yet more chem trails. If you haven't yet woken up to what these are, these are artificial constructions that contain barium, aluminium and strontium designed to work on the human psyche in various ways. I went to a happy communion service with the most remarkably inspired him words of which I reproduce a part. This is about...
The Bath and West Show in all its glory
So here we are at the famous Bath and West agricultural show. At least, it started like that many years ago but has now branched out into a combination of the Ideal Home show, an historical machinery show, an outdoor traditional music show and just a lot of varied fun. As I promised yesterday, days diary is mainly pictorial with comments. The entrance charge for us seniors is £23 which I...
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