"I'll admit I may have seen better days, but I'm still not to be had for the price of a cocktail, "(Margo Channing)
Louis Xavier Walkden-Williams
Today my Nephew Peter's son, Louis was Christened at the pretty Church in Dyserth, and it was nice to be able to celebrate the in a rather festive style...as both Church and restaurant reflected a Yuletide theme.
Peter is one of the most sociable people you will ever meet, and it was lovely to be included in their day......makes you feel a little old though!
Nephew Chris and partner Rebecca
Real Winter ,Boris gets plucked and Chistmas Shopping
Christmas countdown
Geoff and Chris
No False Nostalgia
The rest of the day has been pretty nondescript. Clover has been flinging me dirty looks all day, but has kept his distance, and poor Bunny (the little black hen with the congenitally damaged hip) has constantly been the object of Rogo's affections...which is worrying as physically her legs are just not up to the onslaught. I think I will separate her from the others and put her in to her own little run along side her sisters tomorrow.
The weather has been awful by the way.
The news has been full of the sudden demise of Woolworths and I must say I couldn't give a fig that it may well disappear from our high streets.
I have no nostalgic memories of Woolies at all. Even as a kid, I never ever really liked the store ( I was a bit snobby even then!), and to this day I have always found it to be---well.... a bit of a mess. I think that most big chains have a certain identity with the public which they have cleverly cultivated over the years. Marks and Spencer's are reassuringly Middle class;Waitrose and John Lewis have buttonholed the luxury market and Tesco does "cheap and value for money ". For years and years now, Woolies seems to have lost its way. Having too many fingers in too many pies,the store has become synonymous with cheapness and throwaway service and its lack of sophistication has become unfashionable with a more fussy shopping public.Personally I am tired of the big eazyjet type colours , logo and plastic 1990's feel.....I kind of prefer our village shop which perhaps sells all the same things crammed high in untidy cardboard boxes on dusty shelves...........
Buff rage
By this time the rest of the buffs had tumbled out of the hen house to watch, and I found myself strangely worried that they might judge by lacklustre fighting performance!
Testosterone filled cockerels must be dominated as soon as they show bullying behaviour, so I immediately counter attacked with a sweeping kick to his backside. Amid a shower of yellow feathers, Clover was launched airborne with a loud "cluck!", and he landed with a bang on top of the little Buffs outdoor run.
I then pressed my advantage ( and started to feel slightly guilty as I remembered that hens have the brain power no larger than the average peanut) and gave him a hard slap on the rump for good measure.
Defeated and shamed he stalked off muttering to himself as Lily climbed up onto my knee with open and undisguised admiration
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Thoughts of past housewives
During all this home baking and home making, I got to thinking of perhaps how hard it must have been for women of my grandmother's generation to sort out everything at home. I sort out the home and the animals with all the benefits of washing machines,house hold gadgets, constant hot water, a car, supermarkets and a more importantly a wish to do it all, but even though, I can appreciate that there just is not enough hours in the day to do what needs doing
Albert minus Balls
Perhaps things will get better?
Series such as Threads and films such as The Mist and 28 Days Later... did it all so very much better, as they slowed the pace of their pieces right down....allowing some semblance of tension into the narrative.
Having said, there are few things that I did like in tonight's episode. I liked the fact that the leader of the survivor group turned out to be a woman. I also liked the underplayed performance by the 11 year old Chanak Patel as a doe eyed orphan, and I did appreciate the only one chilling scene in the entire episode, where Patel watches a trapped dog in the back of a car barking piteously for help........... but generally the whole thing was rather rushed and all too slick for my liking.....bring back the original that's what I say