....reminded me....with a smile, of my mother's attempts to make me leave home.....which she eventually achieved....not pregnancy.....but because I dated a Protestant at fifteen..... However....one of...
.....three bats! Finally my lone bat has two friends..... And.....sitting on the patio with my bat detector and a wine recommended here by SunnyDave..... LaLaLand....with a name like that I just had...
...the wind had dropped....it's warmish.....sitting on the patio with guests and another experimental pud...peach liqueur this time....lots of it.....coffee and the bat detector..... Lots of different...
One fire pit................ Two bags of Irish Turf............. One luxurious swivel patio chair with footstool......... One solar pond fountain......... One little greenhouse.......torrential rain...
....a red pen...... Mrs O is still very poorly.......we did have a nice time together though....I hope I cheered her and passed some time for her.....'tis a long day in an isolation room..... She was...
...inside a man...... I was fitting an electric pump in a pond when my brother arrived... Good....says I.....you can turn it off and on at the plug til I get the flow just right...... And yes......he...
Mrs O is touched by all the messages she has received by text and email wishing her well. She's still in hospital and too ill and weak to reply to you all but wants you to know how grateful she is for...
...I have a few.....birds of course....the sound of Joan Baez's voice....water trickling in a stream......silence.....Hi, Mum ...on the phone..... Now I am sitting in the black arbour, surrounded by...
but just for one hour and no longer.......how it feels to be a ninety two year old alzheimer's sufferer.....long after the confusion and memories only of long ago have gone..... To lie in a bed year...
The weather was perfect.....for a change..... Sitting under an apple tree, with a picnic, in John Clare's garden in Helpston watching three members of The Pantaloons Theatre Group perform Treasure...
Taking my morning cuppa onto the patio and finding egg shells discarded from the sparrow's nest in the guttering......the cheeping all day as they are being fed by busy parents has been a joy.......
I'm spending a rainy day knocking tiles off a kitchen wall with the intention of re-plastering and papering. A tile I've just knocked off has exposed an oblong of formica set back slightly. It's the...
...apart for having to go to the hairdresser...but it is next to a little gardeny shop...... A whole day in the garden.....no rain.....no flipping, howling wind....just me, red kites and silence.......
I had to accompany a neighbour to hospital as an emergency last night. The nurse doing the checking in looked at his watch and said.....Ahh...one minute past twelve.....I see it's now your birthday,...
...successfully spraying some Lloyd Loom tables and chairs for the garden....black of course... Now that wasn't overly blissful but.....I found the glass top for the table... looked nice but something...