The very first thing I wish to say about this week is “I would like my £600 that you simply gave away!”. Twice I’ve heard Grant Shapps the Transport Minister say that through the pandemic they helped out the rail community with tens of millions of £s, equating to £600 per family. (That is a type of pretty meaningless issues that politicians come out with). I do not use railways so can I’ve my portion right here as an alternative please! The transport minister has been interviewed so much this week as a result of Rail Strikes. Inflicting so many issues for many individuals making an attempt to get to work, faculty exams and so forth and so forth. The railway unions need more cash (who would not) and no modernisation of working practices (again to steam?). Hope it isn’t the beginning of a “Season of Discontent” – I keep in mind the final time!
Whoops, straying into politics – higher get out ….fast.
A couple of small fairly issues in an outdated jar for this week’s Flowers on the Desk. The Alchemilla Mollis, Pinks and Astrantia are all issues planted since I moved in and the Lavender was right here after I got here.If solely they regarded nearly as good within the jar because the Flower Competition Preparations in yesterdays submit! However I am a shove-it-in-the-vase flower arranger with no persistence for fiddling!
Extra sitting within the solar and studying has been achieved, though I am a bit torn, because the BBC had some Wimbledon Qualifying on the purple button which is fascinating to observe for the up and coming gamers.Plus Eastbourne Males’s matches have been on Amazon Prime. (Girls’s was on BBC2 however I can by no means get into Girls’s tennis as a result of they appear to come back and go and I by no means know who they’re plus they shriek and squeal an excessive amount of.) The brand new youngsters on the block for GB males are Jack Draper and Ryan Penniston who’ve each achieved nicely and Cam Norrie has been seeded 9 for Wimbledon subsequent week which is all trying hopeful.
The studying has truly been re-reading, one by accident and one other on objective. A duplicate of a ebook of Agatha Christie’s brief tales was on the shelf – Whereas the Gentle Lasts. Her early writing from the 30’s. It did not take me lengthy to learn after which after I went to write down the title in my E book of Books Learn I discovered it already there – Oh nicely. Most of Christie’s books have been listed, I learn heaps within the 70’s after I first began work in a library. I’ve now made a be aware of the few that I’ve by no means learn and can look out for them.
The opposite re-read is that this, a favorite ebook, courting from 2009.
“Challenged to show her declare that an 18th-century food regimen was
higher than right now’s, for a full 12 months Fiona J Houston recreated the
life-style of her 1790s rural Scottish ancestors in a fundamental one-roomed
cottage, cooking from her backyard and the wild, typically entertaining household
and pals, and surviving on her personal assets. She realized misplaced
crafts and abilities, making nettle string, quill pens and ink in addition to
cheese and ale, lighting her hearth from flints, and dressing in hand-sewn
interval clothes, with nothing however an outdated vary range and candles for
light and heat.”
This image under is my cause for not consuming Wartime Rations like Carolyn is doing on her weblog with just a few different individuals becoming a member of in. Though it is fascinating to examine, I will wait till rationing is pressured upon us – and hope it by no means is.
I really like contemporary fruit and this has been my fruit ‘ration’ on a regular basis for 2 weeks with strawberries from my tubs, a small English apple from Aldi (6 for 89p) and some grapes additionally Aldi now £1.75 for 500g. The grapes will survive for many of every week within the fridge and I layer the bunches of their punnet with a few bits of kitchen roll to soak up any moisture.
This week I have been grateful for
- Sunshine
- Tennis on TV
- Strawberries
Hope you all have a superb weekend……Finger’s crossed for nice climate as now we have a household get collectively this weekend. We’re throughout to my Sisters for her particular Marriage ceremony Anniversary. Eldest Daughter and so forth was as a consequence of come up from Surrey and keep in a single day right here however Son in Regulation was away working in France and got here again with Covid………so they will not be coming – sadly. Blasted Covid continues to be round.
Again Monday
Sue
