Saturday Morning: The family buzz around me. Andrew off for a 10 mile walk. Up to Gaddings Dam where he will then join the Pennine Way. A sort of roundabout way which will end up in Hebden Bridge. I told him about Geograph and the mapping out of every square yard. But funnily enough he already knew it as he had done some work for the Ordinance Survey people. Which was analysing the language people used to describe their photos.
Lillie got home late last night from London she is off to camp one night somewhere. She emptied a bag of goodies on the table. Apparently the train staff had handed out these bags because there was no restaurant car onboard. She has an app that allows her to bid for a first class ticket, it costs an extra £12 and she always gets a seat in first class. A message pings on my phone, leave the back door unlocked, because Lillie hasn't got a key. I am going to the doctors for my jabs this morning. Which means standing in a long line as we shuffle through but it is very quick usually.
My daughter is off to work to wrangle with the customers at her charity shop. Many amusing tale comes out. Last week Ben had sent a pile of famous racing drivers clothes for the shop. But they hadn't arrived, but one day a little old man struggled into the shop carrying a very large parcel, the parcel had been delivered to him by mistake.
What did I hear on the news this morning. The Conservatives are going to build more prisons with 50,000 places for inmates. I have been hearing that all my life, and it is has been a long life! You would think that a different solution would have been arrived at by now.
Otherwise a quiet week, watching how other people live their lives out on You Tube, knitting away and quietly sinking away into a land where everything is serene and gentle.
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| Guess what this is?* Tom and Ellie are taking their six month trip at the end of this month. As always I worry when members of the family travel. It is good to hear that Ellie's parents also worry about the trip. They will end up in Japan, which they have both fallen in love with and hopefully explore more than Tokyo. Kyoto is really old Japan and has that flavour of spirituality that is part of the Japanese culture. * It is a rug loom. |
Gosh, your gang is busy! I did not make a good guess on that item - I thought some sort of musical instrument!
ReplyDeleteGood luck with your "jabs". I must go for my flu shot soon...
One jab is definitely hurting this morning but I am glad I did them Ellen.
ReplyDeleteI love how your family are always so adventurous and busy.
ReplyDeleteMy local doctors have special flu vaccination Saturdays in October but it's silly crowded and busy so I wait 'til November and pop in for the nurse to do it.
Well because we have a very large medical centre (slightly white elephant though) they vaccinate everyone on a Saturday . There is probably a dozen doctors in with nurses and a queue system regulated beautifully by volunteers. So you may arrive at the end of a very long queue but you are seen in about 10 minutes Sue.
DeleteThe rug loom is puzzling to me. Is that it in its entirety? I assume the small piece is the shuttle. What holds the top of the loom in place?
ReplyDeleteNo I don't think so Debby because the holes are closed, my friend the co-pilot says it is a panpipe, which I don't think it is either. So it has got wrongly tagged.
DeleteI was thinking something along those lines. Very unusual.
ReplyDeleteNot up to 10 mile walks any more, though 5 or so would be ok if not too many hills involved!
Need to stretch my legs after yesterday's Fair and the unloading this morning.
Well at least you will have a couple of months off fairs Jennie. Time to heal your back from heavy lifting, perhaps more church visiting will be easier.
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