After our walk, I slept for three hours in the reading armchair in the kitchen with an unread and opened book on my knee…and was only woken by Dorothy who was tap dancing on the vinyl in an effort to control her bladder.
Albert joined us for a walk and the Animals sat around my laburnum in the graveyard in a circle while I tended to it and watered it.
Polish Monika with her little daughter stopped, they were chatting in Polish, Mary rushed over to hug the child, who tumbled backwards giggling.
The dogs ( with Albert) then piled into Bluebell and we popped up to the bus stop in the village to clear one of the untidy planters which had been left unkempt ( I had to keep the dogs with Albert in the car)
I planted up cheap bedding plants and will fill in the gaps with white petunia tomorrow.
I hear the village WI and the Papworth’s will be revamping the raised planters on the green on Saturday.
It would be nice if more interested parties would plant up their parts of the village.
Before, home I collected firewood from my sister and lit the stove when I got home
The dogs are tired and are snoring softly . A so-so adaptation of The Lady Vanishes is on the tv.
Stir fry eaten with chop sticks for supper
Nothing like a good doze with a good book! I love that you tend the planters in your village, and the laburnum you planted in the graveyard. You are home! xx
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DeleteYou can't beat the 1930's Lady Vanishes with Margaret Lockwood.
ReplyDeleteA bit comic , but yes I loved it
DeleteI am impressed by your eating a stir fry with chopsticks when you are eating alone - I would probably eat such a meal with a dessert spoon if nobody was looking.
ReplyDeleteI love eating with chopsticks
DeleteMy ex husband and i would love to go to a local Thai restaurant and would always eat with chopsticks
Perhaps you could sprinkle wildflower seeds about your person John as you stroll along as Miss Willmot and ghost x
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DeleteI'm just awake after a nap in my favorite chair and a book on my lap, too. Is it catching?!
ReplyDeleteHow nice that you and the family went to check on and water the laburnum and then tidy the bus stop planter. The white petunias will certainly contrast nicely with those magenta and red plants.
Isn't the laughter of a small child wonderful?
Hugs!
It’s all been rather nice today babs, but then you’ve seen that x
DeleteI am sitting in my conservatory drinking beer while looking out towards the remnants of sunset across the Gask Ridge and to the Grampians beyond, but just for a few moments there it was as if I was in Trelawnyd, with Mary rushing to greet me while Dorothy checked me out for cheese and onion crisps, as it is, and as I am, for a few moments, most days. Cheers.
ReplyDeletePS: If only ever allowed to eat with chopsticks I would starve. Cannot manage them and never want to. The Chinese may have invented many great things long before us but whoever invented forks and spoons stole a march on them.
DeleteMy girls and Albert make life colourful , they bounce and flounce and preen and excite my days Andrew….they give me colour
DeleteMy Lady Margaret does that for me, and she makes less mess :)
DeleteChopsticks as a postscript
DeleteMy ex husband and I used to love going to a local Thai restaurant regularly and would always eat with chopsticks …I’ve quite proficient xx
The planter looks great!
ReplyDeleteIf you haven't got a lock for your firewood shed, yet, get one tomorrow! x
The firewood is in the car xx lol
DeleteThat tickles me...the firewood is in the car.
DeleteThe Bluebell woodshed...yes...that could work!
DeleteI also ate stir fry with chopsticks tonight. I had thought I was quite good at using them until I saw my son's partner, who's Chinese, looking at me strangely.
ReplyDeleteI’m rather proficient
DeleteYou do enjoy your dogs (and Albert) and it sounds so nice that you include them in your activities!
ReplyDeletethere are some things that should only be eaten with chopsticks. and some things that should only be eaten with fingers. and when i am alone, i eat a lot of stuff with a spoon which should never happen.
ReplyDeleteWhat a lovely word picture you paint of your day.
ReplyDeleteLove,
Janie
A nap sounds heavenly
ReplyDeleteAll sounds good in your world.
ReplyDeleteYou had colour in your day and not only the flowers; your exploits in your village and with your animals brings me great joy on a grey July day in North West Rural Auckland. I love that the little girl was not scared of Mary and tumbled over giggling.
ReplyDeleteJo in Auckland
I've never seen a better version of The Lady Vanishes than Hitchcock's; and there have been many. Naunton Wayne and Basil Radford were irreplaceable.
ReplyDeleteIt seems from your morning nap that you are now really winding down and relaxing.
ReplyDeleteYour animals are the centre of your life I think. A delight.
Appreciate the work you put into beautifying the village. The squirrels and deer in my neighborhood keep un-planting my flowers out front--literally pulling them out of the ground and leaving them to the side of the hole--if they don't just eat them. Makes it hard to keep the front garden as pretty as one would like. The little darlings... :(
ReplyDeleteHome and community beautification is a true mark of pride!
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