Chancers: these little pansies are always to be found amongst the stones of the drive, most days I weed the driveway but pansies remain along with Lady's Mantle and the perennial geraniums small escapees to be brought on and planted elsewhere.
It is cooler today, I have to go out and get my bread flour from Pickering, English Breakfast tea arrived from Ireland yesterday. I consider tea, coffee beans and bread flour to be important purchases, other things I can live without. This ordering online has become commonplace now, the supermarket vans and delivery vans are putting more traffic on the road as we hunt round for items that are not on the supermarket shelves. We are lucky though, came across this on F/B this morning.....
A rather dry cartoon on immigration!
But I am not being political this morning after all it belongs to the news and we are not supposed to listen to it! Some things puzzle me about news, today they are rejoicing that a fledgling golden eagle has been born in Scotland, but yesterday I read of four golden eagles that had been poisoned by game keepers, which was not on the news. Funny that, does social media have a better functioning system than the BBC, or are they protecting the fat cats. Whoops I can already feel my fingers beginning to itch.
Talking to people on F/B; someone from India has just questioned what is happening with the photo I have uploaded of a great combine harvester seemingly ploughing its way to Silbury Hill in the distance, I know Silbury is safe and protected but he doesn't, somehow we are talking to all the people around the world. There has been some discussion that Twitter does more harm than good, the transmission of globs of speech instantly fired off, politicians innocently sounding off, begins to bring talk of law suites and political incorrectness.
To get back to normality, this was Jo having a rest after ringing the bells on Sunday, not sure what religious occasion it was for but they rang out in that time old memorial way that stabilised a way of life.
Edit: Well Matilda's exam results have just come through, definitely on her way to Uni, much to everyone in the family's delight. She was heading for three A*, but still achieved one A* and two A, so marking down may have robbed her (who knows) but she was already accepted by two universities before the very controversial marking of exams got under way.
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| So there she is in the centre teasing her two brothers, she will join Ben in London on the left, and I shall have another worry about these young people and the wicked city! |
Congratulations to Matilda - brains and beauty too! A rare combination. Not everybody would be comfortable about living so close to a churchyard. All those ghosts! You must have lived a blameless life Thelma.
ReplyDeleteShe works hard and deserves it but we are all pleased for her. I remember when we first moved into this house, Matilda saying she could not sleep next to a graveyard and Jean our curtain maker putting up a blind to pull down. Now nobody worries and I have never seen any ghosts here, though last night I dreamt of a whole load of children standing outside the gates in the dark.
DeleteOh, to be young and clever. We get stray antirrhinums around our drive - good display this year. I'm hoping any damage done by the roots will be someone else's problem.
ReplyDeleteOur drive has a sandy substrata, so seeds easily take root, unfortunately no black membrane was put down though.
DeleteLove those chancers in the gravel - I have evengot a tomato plant and a strawberry this year as well as euphorbia, ladies mantle and st john's wort. And of course geraniums galore.
ReplyDeleteIt is lovely identifying the plants that appear, it is always a reminder that nature would take over pretty quick if we weren't here.
ReplyDeleteShe will do fine. We all made it through the wickedness of life and she looks like a real smart one. YOu must be so proud.I agree that if you post you like something on FB other may jump on complaining why you do not like something else...even though they have not a clue about you.
ReplyDeleteyes F/B is a funny place, best to keep your 'friends' on the scarce side, but channel one's own input into art family and funny things. Yes I know I should not worry, worked in London myself at her age and managed to emerge unscathed ;)
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