Visitors and Julie Andrews

It was past 7pm before I could soak in a chamomile bath (with the obligatory Home and Antiques magazine, where the steam and herb finally managed to break my chesty cough. I still feel rough as the proverbial bear's arse, but at least I can breath a little better through the wheeze!.
In between the usual animal jobs, it has been a day of visitors (I am not going to complain about the amount of work I have to do, especially after reading my friend Ruth's blog (Ruth lives in he wilds of Canada)--- see http://lifethroughthecracks.blogspot.com/ it is an eye opener.
My friend Geoff called around for eggs and the promise of teaching me some rudimentary carpentry skills (I need another hen house), my sister,her husband and hyperactive pattertale terrier, were next on the list. then a nice young couple from Rhyl called around to pick a couple of runner ducks for their large garden.Finally my friend Sandra from the flower show committee and her hubby popped in to wax lyrical over my baby turkeys. If I have one spare I am sure she will buy it for her own allotment on the other side of the village. Already she has a small pure breed group of hens............and is thinking carefully of my proposal to take the handsome Bill off my hands!
They will let me know how much her weaner piglets will be, we hope to get them at the same time!
I do like Sandra!, she is one of those genuinely nice people who always seems to have a skip in her step and a good word to say about everyone....conscripting her onto the flower show was a stroke of genius! even if I do say so myself
Anyhow, tonight we watched Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967)...a little uneven and a tad overlong, this musical is actually great fun.....and I must admit I was just a little surprised when I realised that Julie Andrews did prove herself to be a very talented comedian as the suger sweet Millie!.
Mind you, Beatrice Lillie as the evil Mrs Meers (from the famous Big Mary's tart shop Peking)--steals the whole film with her sooooo wonderfully non PC performance as a Chinese Madam! (sad to think that in any modern day Broadway production I bet the powers that be would now insist that a Chinese actress take the role!!!)
As Beatrice Lillie would say....."OOOHHHHHH POOOK"
Off to have another lemsip