Month: May 2019

I really must learn my lesson not to take anything for granted when the customer says "I leave it entirely up to you". Normally, that is a sign that people are not particularly concerned about their budget and will pay what is necessary and this was the line that I took.  The garden was easy enough to do though volume of spoil was considerable. We took away 12 one-ton sacks of material to the...

Off we went about midday to repair a rather untidy garden. It's the usual story, the husband predeceases his wife. She loves the garden but cannot do it any more so just needs it done. The lady we are dealing with has a pleasant disposition, 90 years of age, bright as a button but little bit deaf, and makes us a cup of tea. Just the sort of customer we like. My policy with untidy gardens is to...

After three days of dystopian material given to me at a conference between 9 AM and 10 PM every day the time has come to have a break and seek refuge in nature.  The most difficult images to get out of my mind are pictures of Yellow jacket protesters being shot directly in the face with rubber bullets. The so-called police who do this are anonymous with no identification, showing no sensitivity...

Following on from yesterday, our weekend conference did continue so I watched through the Sunday sunshine yesterday and finished off watching a couple of presentations this evening. We heard first-hand from someone who'd been on the riots so-called riots in Paris – the yellow jackets – and hence seeing and hearing how a European police force had mercilessly fired soft bullets at people for just...

I went off to Wetherspoon's this morning to have breakfast in anticipation of another day sitting watching amazing presentations on various aspects of alternative reality. (See yesterday's diary). I returned home by nine o'clock  - having had an excellent egg Benedict - to find a blank screen. At half-past nine came an apology. Sorry we cannot bring you the service today.   My guess is that they...

Due to my electro-sensitivity I found myself unable to go to Alternative View 10, an annual conference over three days run at a large hotel in Hertfordshire.  I did a pendulum reading on whether I should go or not and I obtained the following ratio +2, -3.  This means that the disadvantages would have outweighed the advantage. I decided to take the streaming version of the conference where for...