Nuala rang today.....she has just arrived back from a brief jaunt to Marrakesh and wanted to let me know that she had booked us both tickets to see Sister Act in June! She had not read my "nun" blog...and off her own bat thought it would be a great musical birthday gift! How is that for being in sync ?Invarably, I will be thinking about Nu and the phone will go, and I know this happens to her when I call....it is a weird best friend type of thing(
pic is of Producer Whoopie Goldberg and the the star of Sister Act Patina Miller)
After last year's disastrous cancellation, we the Trelawnyd Flower Show Committee are now happy to announce that the 2009 Trelawnyd Flower Show will be held on the 15th of August!
The schedules are printed, the Blogsite has been updated! (see below)
http://trelawnydflowershow.blogspot.com/
and we are looking forward to the biggest and best show in the 36 year history of the event!
This morning the government letter arrived from the animal health agency informing me that I now officially own a herd!!! The herd name is an uninspiring FF2259!....I would have quite liked the "Gray girls"......but I guess that FF259 will have to do!The pigs have demolished most of the grass already in their enclosure, but surprisingly their hut remains neat ,clean and amazingly fresh smelling. Nora waddled over to watch what I was doing when I climbed into the shed to give it the once over, then went into a sort of stupor, which seemed incredibly strange! She stood like this (above pic) for an age, her piggy eyes open but vacant. Only after I pushed past her and rattled the feed bin, did she come to her senses and gallop over for a nosh.The Belingo didn't start this morning, so the trusty AA was called out to diagnose a desperate need for a new battery and a new set of glow bulbs (???) The AA guy, unlike the big girl's blouse that called yesterday, absolutely fell in love with Boris and insisted I take a picture of him and the turkey on his digital camera....
I have always been a big advocate for the regular meeting up with a friend over a bottle or two of wine. For some, like my friends Mike, Jane and Jonney H in Sheffield, the ritual is way too long over due. Likewise, I need to organise similar trysts with Nige in Manchester and Nu of course, but tonight I was able to call round to friend Geoff's house, and with badgers wandering around his patio like over stuffed cuddly toys, we opened a nice bottle of white and chewed the fat for an hour or two.
It was a good evening
The repair man arrived dead on time to fix the Beligo's broken windscreen. He was polite, informative and friendly and was happy for me to move the car onto the field so that he had space to do the repairs. He liked the Scotties (who were busy chewing on some cow bones) but seemed a little nervous of the small circle of hens that had formed to watch him work."I don't really like hens" he explained......and he pointed at the pigs in the distance adding "I am not a lover of pigs either!.......but the things I can't stand at all are turkeys!"I laughed thinking he was joking, and with brilliant comic timing I pointed to a spot ten feed behind him!He turned to see Boris (who had crept up silently to see what was going on) IN FULL ROMANTIC DISPLAY and the little chap "gobbled " away in full turkey volume.I thought the poor man was going to faint! "Jesus !!" he shouted and literally jumped 5 feet in the air! He wasn't kidding, he was pathologically frightened of turkeys!I had to pick Boris up and shut him into his house for the duration of the repairs.....I made the poor chap a large coffee in way of an apology
I spent most of my shift in a side room last night comforting a distressed patient. To pass the time (in those long periods when he seemed still and comfortable) I contented myself with recalling my top ten screen nuns! Yes I know it sounds a little bizarre, but it did help me pass the time a little quicker on a very long 12 hour shift.The previous short ten blogs, indicate the level of my thinking between 4 and 6 am!!!Today I have found with some horror that the buffs have lice!!! Just what I didn't need after a knackering shift. I have spent most of the day scrubbing out hen houses, powdering the buff's bums with insecticide and inoculating as many hens as I could with panomec....oh the shame I feel like a parent with a kid with their first batch of nits!!!
I first saw The Nun's Story when I was around ten, and even then I knew I was watching something rather special. The story of the trials and tribulations of Sister Luke (the amazing Audrey Hepburn), was filmed in an almost documentary style by Fred Zinnemann, and some beautifully crafted scenes of the austere convent life were sandwiched between some shockingly effective dramatic pieces ( the attack on sister Luke by an violent psychiatric patient being a standout)
Not my favourite Nun, but almost...........Deborah Kerr, shaky of faith and full of pride and memories she is the flawed and beautiful heroine of Black Narcissus.She always looked good in a white habit!
Nuala rang today.....she has just arrived back from a brief jaunt to Marrakesh and wanted to let me know that she had booked us both tickets to see Sister Act in June! She had not read my "nun" blog...and off her own bat thought it would be a great musical birthday gift! How is that for being in sync ?
