So yesterday passed well in the things I had to do. The desk was collected and mother and son were well pleased with it. It had scratch marks on the inside of it from Lucy, when, having shut herself in this room had gone mad in destructive mode on two plants and the room in general.
I had the bright idea of looking for advice in the village on a handyman. So I pulled up Paul's internet site for anyone to have their say on 'Village Matters', and put the fact I wanted a bed put together with financial remuneration. It worked, all of a sudden there was a flurry of emails, and now Graham, who looks after the church got in touch and offered to do it for free this morning. Jill offered David her husband as well. So I shall give Graham money to take his partner out next door in the pub for dinner.
One of the problems with village life is that there isn't a 'gossip corner' no shops and yet it is important for all of us to keep an eye out for each other, and this was the point of Paul's website, so I am very glad that it has turned up to help him.
In the garden, a stray couple of seeds have produced sunflowers, and their perfect form brings to mind the fact that we live on a small planet whizzing round and round in space. And even this flower came from star dust, it stars in the 'Fibonaccio sequence' proving that maths and nature are linked together in a wonderful spiral. So whenever you feed the birds sunflower seeds remember the intimacy of our world with science.
So many people will step up when they hear of a need and ask nothing for it.
ReplyDeleteI so appreciate “volunteer” flowers. When they pop up, I usually leave them where they are. I sometimes, though, have to put them in more appropriate places as the birds are not that selective where they pass a seed.
Rural life out here is that way also and it came as a shock to me when we first moved here in 1977. I'd come from suburbia where hardly anybody knew anybody's business. Out here, they did through various networks from timber, agriculture, church, woman's club, firehall, school
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