PeverilPeril

Since my last post, as you may know, I've had a couple of heart issue and now take medication. However, heading towards 84 I am still very active and enjoying life. Did a bit of indoor rowing and cycling this morning and been out working on river maintenance for a few hours after breakfast. Out fly fishing in boats twice last week and fished a contest yesterday. I always seem to be the oldest person around - so can't be in bad nick, relatively speaking My problem is, when I do recognise someone after a few years - I can't remember their bloody names

We still have mams wooden tongs hanging on the laundry door. Come in useful when retrieving items lost behind the sofa etc.

Is Dolly Blue still available? It was a little blue lump, a bit smaller than a golf ball that came in a small cotton bag. Think it was used as a whitener for shirts etc. Mam used to use it in my boating lake - the kitchen sink, with matchbox boats floating in it.

A lot of baby beans appeared in the last few days - French and runners. Will start picking when half grown next week.Hoping that a few tomatoes start to ripen as well. Loads of courgettes for 2 weeks and some being roasted with other veg as I type i

In my younger years, in response to "where do you work"? it was usually - Gun Factreh, Raleh or dahn pit.

Hope you don't stay on the bench for long DJ - you should soon be playing with the first team again

I am experimenting with runner beans this year - attempting to create a 'bean tree'. An upside down wigwam has been made in a large half barrel. 5 of the beans have reached the tops of the 6 x 2m canes. Hopefully the other one will catch up. The idea is to have a circular canophy of beans hanging from the spread out canes. Several visitors to our open garden took photo's, thinking it was a good idea.

A very satisfying, but tiring fist day of open gardens. We had a steady stream of visitors throughout the day - many of them sampling the cider. I've checked the dates and the cider was made in 2013 - so 9 years old. I wanted to display the barrel that was in the shed, which meant emptying it. I emptied 13 gallons into demijohns and a 6 gal earthenware container but it still kept coming! So the barrel is still in the shed and plenty of vintage cider to drink I put a warning notice on the earthenware jar saying that if you tried a sample it could make you ill or you may die! Made them want mor

When the boss/owner won't listen - get the consultants in. When the workforce won't listen - get the consultants in. It's just a way of impersonalising telling one or the other the obvious! .........then a third party can be blamed for everything ......bring Harvey in - he will sort it.....

I'm hoping that no one mentions the implant in my skull - be great to go out with a bang.

Talking about apples - I'll be setting up the cider press and scratter this week ready to display at the w/e open gardens. Tempted to keep the kit in place and invite the villagers to bring their apples in when ripe - maybe Sept. Bramley's are said to be OK for cider although I've not been impressed with what others have made. If I do make cider with a collection of garden apples I'll probably add crab apples from the golf course - they are bitter sweet and reminded me of one of the cider apples I used to use.

That's interesting about the Goose Fair race course. I wonder if there was a lake on the Forest site? My Grandfather said that Lake Street was said to be a track to a lake in the distant past? Think CT looked into this some time ago but nothing on the old maps.

My Uncle Ray worked as procurement officer during the planning and building stages right through to his retirement in the 80's. It must have been a huge responsibility with many situations not encountered before.

Shows how much I know about politicians Brew So, who do you think could step in as PM?

If I see the same poster responding to everything then I don't read them. Rubbish with small talk myself, but that can also be seen as boring

I doubt if we could end up with anyone worse . The problem is - is there anyone else that can step in and win a General Election? There are some 'decent' candidates such as Jeremy Hunt, but do they have the appeal to win an election?

Will Boris survive todays vote? I reckon he will, simply because there is no alternative.

Leg fell off!

Have three scratters

Fettling me scratter.

Another productive day in the garden. I've been getting things in place and making stuff ready for the 'open gardens' week end that we are signed up for. The cider press and other kit will be taken out of storage and displayed to show how cider was made traditionally. All the barrels have been cut in half to use as planters except for one that remained in the back of the shed. I tried removing the barrel to use as part of the display but forgot that there was still some old cider in it. Ah! that should be nice vinegar now, so I poured some into a glass to check it out. WOW! It was still cider

I did not live in a house with an inside toilet until I was 20. No bathroom either. After puberty it was the public baths for me every Friday night. At 28 my new house had three inside toilets and I found it very confusing

Well - he must be one of the best qualified to evaluate the strength of a case - plus, he must have a few contacts in the trade to sound out.

I read the 'I' every day. It's a brief no nonsense, well balanced paper, with a good puzzles section. AND it's cheap at 65p. It is also excellent for when I gut and clean a trout.

With a full symphony orchestra and rock band in my head I need to be wired up to Jill - who may make some sense of it