forgot to post this photo, sort of sums up the end of a rather "jolly" evening........hummmm don't feel like work tonight
final photo
forgot to post this photo, sort of sums up the end of a rather "jolly" evening........hummmm don't feel like work tonight
Prestatyn Flower Show plans
The Prestatyn Flower schedule is out and already the gloves are off as we the competitors vie for the best ideas and entries.I have taken a score of the programmes into the post office last week and already I am hearing that in the absence of our own show this year, many of the villagers are entering Ann's Show.Auntie Gladys at ninety, walked down to us yesterday with a batch of her famous scones (she drops them off "in payment" for the few eggs I leave for her) I suggested that I enter her baking into the Prestatyn show and she was excited as a kipper at the prospect of giving it a go.
The weather has been dreadful today, and I got soaked to the skin with the dogs when up the gop this morning (it did help to clear a rather muzzy head). The Buff chicks, safe and warm in the shed, have grown dramatically and now at three weeks old have started sprouting feathers.as well as exhibiting the proud stance of Buff Orphinton adults.When these little chaps are robust enough, I will put them in the A frame ark with the duckling run attached, and will move them all into Stanley's enclosure soon.
I am working tonight, and already have received a couple of phone call orders for potatoes and cabbage from the allotment, it is a grotty job digging veg in the rain.
Ann's 60th
sister Ann has the Gucci shades on and we the siblings have the Woolworth 75p shades on......at least she loved her 60th Birthday gift...........from left to right...Brother in law Ned, Anns hubby Tim,Brother Andrew, Birthday Girl Ann, Andrew's wife Jayne,Jamet, Me and Chris
Ned.....has anyone noticed that his specs are on upside down?
Janet....
on the way home. We had a lovely meal in Osborns.......The Mist
Last night I did something for the very first time.......I actually watched an entire film on YOUTUBE. I mentioned in an earlier blog that I was very much looking forward to see the film The Mist (2007),on paper the story of how a group of small town characters fight to stay alive from a mist shrouded hoard of monsters, ticks every box in my disaster film loving obsessional personality and although I was watching it on a screen a few inches square, I absolutely loved it.
Frank Darabont has taken the novella from Steven King and given it a darker, heavier twist, he has also learnt lessons from the classic but rather bland The Fog (1980) and has fashioned a tense motion picture that's ultimately more about paranoia, religious fanaticism, and the price of hopelessness than it is about monsters and gore.
America cinema abounds with stories of small town hysteria.The battle between good and evil, right and wrong, self and foreign is ingrained into the US Psyche, and parallels between how America views anything "external" from self are obvious in the way the survivors react to the monster threat on film.
I wont go down the spoiler route here, suffice to say that I loved how the film celebrated the unlikely hero. Lumpy Store manager Ollie ( the excellent Toby Jones) and feisty old bespectacled gal schoolteacher (Frances Sternhagen) are two ordinary characters that make good in the crisis, and I suspect they will have the typical movie audience cheering and clapping in their seats.(Well that is until the rather bleak and surprising ending)
I need to see this film on the big screen when it does eventually gets released in the UK, but I was satisfied with my mini view last night.
Pic Jeffrey DeMunn, Laurie Holden as Amanda Dumfries, Frances Sternhagen as Irene, Thomas Jane as David Drayton and Nathan Gamble as Billy
Selling on
12 kilos of spuds,radish,cabbage,French parsley,eggs and broad beans have all been harvested,weighed and bagged up in preparation for selling on at work tomorrow. The day has been showery, so I have been soaked to the skin several times and look pretty much like an old tramp at the moment. (By the way a woman at work said that she thought I couldn't be gay because I was too scruffy!!)Tomorrow we have a chance to dress up a bit, as we are going to Ann's big 60th birthday dinner in Llandudno. I have got something planned which may raise a laugh, but can't post just what it is, just yet.......
ps the application form for the Conwy Bee keeping course came through yesterday, Chris will be enrolling with me!
The "Bug"
Hazel (left) and Marie have been bitten by the hen keeping bug after seeing my girls running riot in Trelawnyd. Hazel has 5 hybrids and will soon have one of my Buff Chicks, and Marie as you can see has three girls.Both have been growing their own vegetables and Hazel is actively looking for an allotment to rent, so we feel as though we are members of an exclusive club.I have not managed to do much in the allotment today as it has literally pissed it down all day. Unfortunately the ducklings still have to be shut in as their feathers are not quite formed, so cleaning the hut out was a particularly fraught and dirty job this afternoon.The rest of the day has been filled with jobs indoors. At least Chris' Canadian cowboy hat has come in handy, as it may look ridiculous but it sure keeps you dry in the rain.
Last night I went to a friend's house for a supportive chat,( Chris terms it an emotional romp) Ended up drinking a large glug of her Bombay Sapphire......hey ho
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