Month: July 2019

Painting inspiration this morning at Pengover Green wildflower meadow!  Well, that's an lovely way to start the garden theme by giving you a link to click on. What comes to my mind is the glories of nature. It only lasts about 30 seconds. The National Garden Scheme, a charitable project where people open their own private gardens for a few days per year. People come along and pay four pounds or...

If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. I know the first line but I haven't a clue why Duke Orsino should ask for an excess of it. (guess) Of course if you have too much the appetite will sicken and die. Maybe this is is attempt to deal with unrequited love, his aim being to stuff himself sick with his own passion. I'm...

Today is one of those days when I have a great list of things to do. At nine o'clock this morning someone rang me asking if they could have a plot on my allotments or should I say the allotments which I run. The plot in question is notoriously wild but the chap who wanted it was quite happy to take on something wild and tame it. How often in life have I found that a problem which has been...

Neither of us slept very well last night. I reckon I was unconscious for about three hours. When we were in Cornwall a few weeks ago, neither of us had any problem sleeping through the night but here there is too much energy so we must simplify our life somewhat.  It sounds so boring to an ever active Gemini but we got to do it. I wrote a great 'to do' list today most of which I've achieved....

Unbelievable bad practice! See below. But meanwhile read on My wife wants to build a rockery. We used the excellent services of Facebook marketplace to find that someone was offering local stone, an ex-wall, for £10 for a van load and £5 for a car boot load. The owner of "The Old Vicarage", Craig, was affable enough and waved us towards three big piles of stone of varying sizes. It was truly...

Saturday is play day, especially with a clear blue sky and the promise of warm sunshine so off we go at about 10 AM to Wedmore. This town has many cultural activities during the year which is very good for such a small conurbation, somewhat shy of 4000 people. This was the annual Street Fair. The town is affluent. There is money around. You get the feeling that people don't need to prove a...