I am grabbing a coffee before getting stuck in with strimming the field borders. The spring grass has run riot with the recent and much welcomed rain and I need to get on top of the tidying jobs before the allotment open in only 6 weeks time!
Last night we were watching some tv when there was a loud knock on the kitchen window.
Our window faces on to the lane and customers often knock to collect a dozen eggs or so, but it was well after 9pm so we were a little surprised at the late call.
Chris went to the back door to hear running feet and the somewhat strange call of "gay boys!" echoing down the lane....
He was very mildly irritated when he returned and as he sat down he said " I haven't heard such rubbish since the 1980s who do you think was it?!"
I knew who it was
I had "told off" the boyfriend of a local teenage girl last week for trying to climb over our wall and in doing so used some rather cutting and colourful language and I suspected that he and his cronies had been drinking down in one of the fields before they passed our cottage and it was them who decided to remind us of our sexual preferences....
Mindless idiocy of course
But I was made up that I was called a "boy"!! dont they know that I'm 49 tomorrow?!!!!
I'll post more pig photos later!
I just realised that it is exactly a year since Maddie died
Oh I'm so sorry about you being harrassed and having your peace disturbed. Commiserations on the first anniversary of your dear Maddy's passing. Scottish Terriers are our all-time favourite dog. We had one called Magnus born on 11.11.99 and euthanased on 3.12.99. Still cry about the dear old lad. I'll pop back to wish you on your 49th tomorrow. Blessings Jo
ReplyDeletePiggies - John you brave boy.
ReplyDeleteI think you are right not to give them names if you are going to eat them. We did and my youngest refused to eat Bob in any shape or form!
Looking forward to seeing your piccies
Sue
Speaking of little boys - I mentioned your blog, "Going Gently" in a post today - http://toktokplace.blogspot.com/2011/05/encounter-with-redbelly-black-snake.html
ReplyDeleteI guess all you can do about those ignorant persons is to ignore them - and tell your friends to ignore them as well! Marvelous what a difference it makes when miscreants are told they are being ignored!
Happy birthday for tomorrow, John. May all the nuisances never come back!
ReplyDeleteMorons! That kind of episode upsets me much more than it should, given the idiotic source. Good on you for not letting it bother you so much.
ReplyDeleteHappy birthday for tomorrow!
thanks guys...
ReplyDeleteit reminds me of a day in sheffield when the next door neighbour was yelling at her teenage layabout sons who were all sprawled in the back yard...
"why cant you be tidier" she yelled
"I wish you were all more like that OLD POOF NEXT DOOR and keep the place tidy!"
she nearly died when I shouted from behind the wall
"less of the OLD!!!"
Ignoramuses.
ReplyDeleteAh well, at least you've had the bonus of being called a boy.
Loved your "less of the old"! Have a very very happy birthday, John. I hope Chris spoils you rotten. XXXX
ReplyDeleteI agree with the others! What a ridiculous and childish thing to do and if that's the best he could come up with, I feel sorry for him AND his girlfriend!
ReplyDeleteI can't believe its been a year since you lost Maddie--Where has the year gone to?
Silly little boys. Still, you can be reassured that if they're idiots now, they'll still be idiots when they're 50.
ReplyDeleteI'm still sorry about Maddie. Some things are just not right in the way they happen. You should definitely post more pictures of the pigs (whether it's of the real ones or the "pigs" who so "bravely" approached you! And as far as age goes, you are still a young whippersnapper! (I don't really know what that means, but I like saying it with a southern accent. It gives me the giggles. You could say that I am a person easily entertained.)
ReplyDeleteI just hope that that scrote and his cronies don't advance beyond knocking on your window and running away. I guess for some persecuted people - the spiral of nastiness begins with a moment like that. Instead of those cutesy doggies you have may I advise instead a slavering angry Rottweiller called Tyson?
ReplyDeleteOh for christ's sake, don't they know it's 2011? Morons.
ReplyDeleteThis sounds all to familiar...one morning we awoke to discover our cars covered in "scratched on" images of male genitalia and fornication(I say)...a couple $1000(yeah insurance)later and I could feel better...since I had to drive to work for a week with the handy work visible to everyone....! Again, teenagers upset because an adult suggested that they not destroy the trees bordering the properties.
ReplyDeleteBut I was made up that I was called a "boy"
ReplyDeleteYou obviously look younger, more fresh faced and sprightly than your years :-D
I wish somebody would call me a boy. m.
ReplyDeleteMark! Get me my newspaper and slippers boy!
ReplyDelete"Sticks and stones" and all that John. My gay friends have similar things from time to time - they say the only thing to do is to rise above it.
ReplyDeleteStill a boy at 49 - can't be bad. Happy Birthday.
There will always people who are ignorant and stupid. They get their jollies by being mean. However, I believe that whatever comes around, goes around.
ReplyDeleteHappy one-day-early Birthday John. The world is better off with a kind, compassionate man like you.
Where does time fly? I cannot believe a year has passed! I still miss her, so imagine today is hard on you.
ReplyDeleteDamn kids!
Have a great day tomorrow!
XXX
Stupid people.
ReplyDeleteAn early Happy Birthday to you, John!
God'll get'em John. She always does!
ReplyDeleteThe stupid are always with us, be it in the town or the country...
ReplyDeleteLovely to be reminded of that story from the good old days though. I remember it well...
Happy early birthday! Hard to believe that some people can be so ignorant. I hope that they leave you alone now.
ReplyDeleteThe curse of a thousand sand fleas in their crotch !
ReplyDeleteIdiots.
Sweet Maddie, she is missed ;(
Hugs,
~Jo
Such things anger me, too! Makes me want to dopeslap those idiots. I like the curse of the sandfleas; i'll have to remember that, although i've got a few patches of poison ivy very close by that can be a good substitute!
ReplyDeleteLove the pics you have of Maddie, what a sweet-looking dog. I shed a tear on the 25th, remembering my first dog, Angel, a springer spaniel, as that was the anniversary of her death. It's been years since she's been gone, but each of my furfriends has a place in my heart.
Early natal felicitations to the birthday boy! Hope your day is a very happy one, John the dogs.
megan
First, Happy Birthday!
ReplyDeleteI hope that you get everything that you want.
Second, nothing that the young man said was insulting. He was just stating the facts. That can only be insulting if you choose to let it be. He was only showing his narrow mindedness. And that is his problem.
Now, back to enjoying your birthday.
true stu
ReplyDeleteI was more than happy at being called a BOY
What a knob! Poor kids gene pool could obvisouly benefit from some chlorine. ;)
ReplyDeleteLove the pin photo! Toronto has an amazing pride festival, it's always so much fun!
Sorry John. I won't do it again.
ReplyDeletetom I thought it was you
ReplyDeletethe culprit was carrying a candlestick in one hand and a pink gin in the other
Wow! You are going to have a birthday, John!
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday! Have a wonderful day! You will always be a boy at heart.
Alcohol and a lack of intelligence make for a nasty mix. Hope they go away and find something else to occupy their sad selves. We raised dairy goats and chickens because we could not deal with killing and eating lambs and pigs. Maybe it would have been ok if we had flocks and pens full of the animals, but only having one or two... they always ended up too well known to happily grace the dinner plate.
Teenagers! they can be so annoying can they not! Of course I was never annoying as a teenager. Nope I am just sure I wasn't ROFL...
ReplyDeleteROFL and that is funny you hollered back "less of the old" in the other incident LOL
But no no monseiur...in a VERY good way!
ReplyDeleteAnd hi Maddie. I never knew you but I've missed you through John.
Dxxx
I thought crap like that only happened in Rural America!
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