Monday, May 31, 2021

31st May 2021




Bank holiday weekends do not often come with good weather but the sun shines and it is warm.  My two have arrived and the talk becomes continuous.  So glad to have my granddaughter sort out the couple of technical problems I have with computer and phone .



She also manages to find the old silver plated tea set from the depths of the cupboard, hidden because I hate cleaning silver.  Its incredibly tarnished surface says at least give me one more clean.  No one wants it, I suggest it goes to Oxfam, and my daughter says inexplicably, so you are keeping the prostitutes in Africa in business I suppose.  Light dawns, all those male Oxfam charity people who paid for the service of the prostitutes, how a story sticks.



Sunday we go for a walk in the fields, Teddy, thin whippet type dog, now 13 years meets five other whippets and a great tangle of leads of furious whippet's barking ensue.  We all move on, the riverside field have been somewhat disfigured by the new farmer, he seems to have killed all the grass on the bank, presumably to stop any weeds invading the fields.  I note that in all the mowing of roadside and garden verges someone has carefully mown round a clump of cowslip - good.  There is a red Midland hawthorn in the hedge and I wonder how it has escaped to the cold North.

And just because we have only  just lived through a pandemic I manage to put on entertainment in the afternoon, the annual tractor run comes through the village, and Lillie and I stand outside watching the tooting little old tractors and large new tractors potter past with cross car drivers caught up in the muddle.



Jo also comes over in the afternoon and chatters away for an hour.  She has also just lost her dog Marshall, and now his urn of ashes sit by the fire in Marshall's old spot, she is sad and doesn't know whether to get another dog.  They are both getting on and she fears the dog being left although her son said he will take it on in the event of their death.

We discuss the arrival of swallows, they have given up nesting under the church eaves these last two years but she has a pair in the ponies shelter, they have built their nest on an old light, and presumably the swallows will come back to the Gospel's house and fly up and down the straight Salton Lane.  She tells a funny tale about the charity tractors annual run down Salton Lane which is single tracked.  When out with pony and trap she met the run of tractors but managed to find a spot to take Charlie and the trap off the lane.

And so, a cynical view of the latest wedding.  Was it not convenient that it happened immediately after the Dominic Cummings appearance.  Of course it was not a distraction was it??? But it was definitely a managed press affair Carrie...


12 comments:

  1. The good weather makes us all so much more positive after the weeks of rain. As regards silver, once so desirable to have, but so much more bother than stainless steel. If you don't clean them regularly they can become tainted with a food smell. My dad gave us his canteen of cutlery. It's beautiful, Kings pattern, in a lovely wooden case, but it went in the loft and is still there more than 20 years later. When he used to visit he always seemed disappointed we continued to use our (also very nice) Arthur Price stainless steel set. I feel a full blog post coming on.

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    1. Must admit we also have a box of beautiful cutlery which does not see the light of day as well. The tea set was a useless wedding present you used to get in the olden days;) Glad you feel inspired to write a blog, also have the same problem as to what too write..

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  2. Oh the old nostalgia coming on Thelma - the farmer had an old Fergie - sometimes he took part in the drive, sometimes we just stood at the gate and just watched them psss. As to you know who and his marriage - I must say she looked divine - beautiful hairdo, beautiful dress and lovely thingy on her head. Of course it made us not think of politics for a whole day

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    1. They are cute those small Fergies and compared to the modern large tractors almost dinkie. Well it sailed through the news quickly, it was their wedding and she did look pretty.

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  3. How strange that today as we walks on the coast path we met a couple with five whippets - and a tangle ensued!

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    1. They are excitable I think. Teddy my daughter's whippet was happy that Lucy is no longer here, as he would always bolt upstairs if Lucy just looked at him. But then there is the little cat in the garden which he got excited about and apparently will chase to the end.

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  4. That sounds like a very pleasant day with family! How we treasure these moments again!
    If your daughter and granddaughter are handy, they might like to paint your old silver tea set. Have you seen this? http://www.markmontano.com/2011/08/tea-rrific-tea-setwith-krylon-fusion.html
    I gave mine away to charity, tho, as I couldn't be bothered with it.
    I will head to my brother's house this afternoon for a cookout and I am looking forward to that.

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    1. I think Ellen painting silver stuff would be frowned upon, but my daughter did rescue a christening (real silver) cup, given to her by her then godmother who was American but that was nostalgia of course. So I shall give it to Age Concern charity.

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  5. Did not now that about Oxfam and silver here on this side of the pond is also not wanted by anyone.

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    1. Well it was a news story a few years back when charity workers in Haiti and Chad got thrown out of the countries for messing around. Silver residing in glass fronted cabinets is definitely out of fashion now Tabor.

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  6. Re your answer above - how could anyone so young and pretty fall for you know who? Well they say love is blind.

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  7. But theoretically, a Prime Minister is something of a 'catch' and you can always get a divorce nowadays. Cynical as ever Pat.

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