Had to go to a council meeting tonight
Searching for a lost duck until late
And was still doing the washing up at 9.45
Eventually I sat down 20 minutes ago
And will relax with a rerun of
My favourite movie
Bliss
Gracie & Mary
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| Gracie........not a big " excitement" personality |
Affable despot and blog pin up Jason, gave me various instructions regarding water spraying, feeding and the like, so I was ready to cope with the responsibility of " looking after Gracie"
Or so I thought.
The water spraying was easy, the sorting out why Gracie's tank was not plugged into the mains was sorted ( I had to ring my sister who is works in a national pet shop to find this one out.....)
But I couldn't quite get the hang of tipping a few miniature live crickets into the tank for Gracie to chomp on.
Miniature crickets are slippery little suckers.
On my first attempt I managed to get just one into the tank
On my second attempt I dropped the cricket container onto the living room floor, scattering the little bastards everywhere....
Have you ever had to round up a dozen or so tiny insects from an average shagpile in someone else's home?
No me neither.
It took an absolute bloody age.
..and this is only day one!
I think I'll stick to baby rabbits
Roland seems to still be doing fairly well btw
Although my pet shop expert sister thinks he may be a her
Roland has therefore been renamed Mary
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| Mary , still going and walking |
Ooohhhh Arrrhhhhh me hearties!
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| The former vicarage gardens where the show is held |
Of course there are always a few difficult customers.
" How much to come in love?" One old bag asked
" £ 1.50 " I said giving her big smile
" HOW MUCH?" She shrieked
I repeated myself and added in my best PR voice " there's lots to see and enjoy"
" You can bugger off" she said huffing away.
So I couldn't resist a call of
" have a nice day" as she left
She wasn't my favourite bad tempered customer.
And Chris can verify this story as he was stood feet away from the exchange, which had to be seen to be believed ( he has actually left his first (AND LAST) comment on GOING GENTLY below!)
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Dr. Chris Burton9:47 amI have been asked to verify the truth of this story, which I can. The only thing he missed was that her false teeth fitted none too well, so the oooohhhh and ahhhhss were interspersed with a high pitched whistling of air. Delightful.ReplyDelete.......Anyhow
Very old lady in a blue mac. She walks firmly up to my " meet, greet and pay " table and plonks down a one pound coin.
I smile and say in my best Nanette Newman voice
" I' m sorry admission is £ 1.50 I'm afraid"
She starred at me long and hard
" I am not going to be very long" she muttered
I smiled again
" Admission is still £1.50, you can't just have a pound's worth of a look"
There was then a bit of a stand off.
The pressure was on
The queue was starting to form and she knew she had me at a slight disadvantage
She gave me another long stare
I thought I would play it hard ball
So I looked the old bat straight in the eye and said slowly
" ONE....POUND.....FIFTY.....PLEASE"
She then played her trump card
And I am not exaggerating when I say this,
For suddenly she started to make a noise I can only liken to Robert Newton's Pirate voice from the film TREASURE ISLAND
" arrrhhhhhhhh arrrhhhhhhh arhhhh" she croaked ( thank fuck she didn't add " Jimlad" ....) and I looked helplessly at Chris not knowing just what to do
It's not often you see an old lady giving a pirate impersonation....and a good one at that
" arrhhhh arrrhhhhh" she repeated gnashing her gums at me.....and I did what any self respecting Flower Show admission steward would do in that sort of situation
I waved her through the gate.
John O
Old pirate lady 1
Encore
Chris has been working in London for most of the week
He took one day off to go over to France with his mother
And he bought me a typically French themed gift
What do you think?
When the visuals are THIS GOOD
A blog is worth repeating
I have been running around the field in it frightening the sheep
Who said ponchos aren't sexy
French Leave
Chris has been working in London for most of the week
He took one day off to go over to France with his mother
And he bought me a typically French themed gift
What do you think?
Dirty Feet, The Winner Is.........and English but not as we know it
I spoke to Chris last night.
He has been working away all week and will be back today
" have you been looking after yourself ?"
He asked after he heard I had been mooching around Bosoms all day
" yes" I told him
" have you had a bath today?"
" Of course" I replied
And then I looked down at my feet
He knows me well
Ps
Just been down to the Prestatyn Flower Show......my veg box won second prize...my cabbage won second prize and my curly Kale won second prize........always a bridesmaid and never the bride eh?
The winning veg basket.....a worthy winner...the bastard!
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| My curly kale! |
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| My flowers ( fifth from theleft top row) didnt get placed...bastards! |
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| The Floral Art Section |
and to end....
The Open Allotment Day has had some publicity
in the local paper.
Nice Picture of village despot Peter Vincent with "the turkey"
but i have to say that I despair that the twelve year old reported referred to the day
as a FATE
rather than a FETE
Even I know the difference
Bosoms comes up trumps
I have not really got a good eye when it comes to arranging veg, but I hope that the above basket may win me something......
Tally ho
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