I seem to have suffered from cognitive dissonance for ever. I know I can grow things yet every day I see evidence to the contrary, and I still keep planting stuff. I know I don't need a mobile phone but I seem to be the only one who believes that. Worst of all was being 'lunched' when I was working - trying to find ways to agree with someone who clearly had no respect for the planet, its wildlife or its inhabitants.
I have been feeling so good today and I wasn't going to be curmudgeonly but there you go, culturally necessary to join in, hey ho. OOOh its getting really dark out there again, best go get the tools in the shed.
"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it." Sir Terry Pratchett
What does being lunched mean? It must be awful if it's worse than working. I must admit, it's difficult to remain curmudgeonly when the weather cools down, but rain and cold can be irritating too. It's only a matter of time.
I do not like the current "cold" weather. I have had to wear full length trousers to walk the dog, instead of shorts, and this morning I had to put a cardigan on! Not good enough. I have even had to keep some of my windows closed all day today. I have been able to walk the dog around 10.00am instead of leaping around at 7.00am to walk him before it gets too hot and am beginning to think I might have to start using my duvet again, instead if the lightweight cellular blanket I have been using for the past several weeks. Even more not good enough! I have even had to hammer 6 tree stakes in around my runner beans and tie the canes in hoping they will be enough to keep the beans upright during the wind and rain forecast for this weekend. Not good enough, again!
I'm not really a people person @B3 which is why I chose to work with computers (mostly predictable outcomes) but it has been necessary for me to attend lunches from time to time and I hated it! People talking at you for ages and not saying anything useful, getting more talkative as the wine was consumed.
My favourite was being an 'ignorance' attendee, back when I worked for the MoD. Being a lowly grade I got taken along to listen to others and not speak unless spoken to, helped being a woman as none of the chaps noticed me anyway. Then report to my boss what others were researching and who was funding who, that was fun, but I was younger then. Now I just can't be asked.
"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it." Sir Terry Pratchett
I am so glad to see rain!!! We’ve barely had a drop since May! My pond was almost empty! Just been out to check on it and the garden frogs are out in force tonight, the little babies leaping about, which made my heart sing! Oh hang on a minute I’m supposed to be whining... erm.... ermmm...oh oh I know...my husband is cooking, which means dinner will be around midnight and the kitchen will look like a bomb site! Fortunately the cold prosecco in the fridge has tempered my tutting!
Re - the excess fuel consumption, could be the extreme heat - 28C going up, 38C coming down. Satnav took us a different route thru Rouen, straight into huge roadworks and diversions (deviations in French) and that involved a lot of faffing in slow queues. Wouldn't have thought that would make 10 litres of difference tho. Didn't speed, honest.
We have just been out for a nocturnal guided walk thru the little local town. All very well until we'd been led by mobile phone lights thru a field of cattle and cow pats in the dark (one Parisian having ab-dabs about live cows!) and thence to a beautiful chateau, floodlit in its moat but then some local actors presented a short scene about Henry IV and his doctors, written by a local historian. Total waste of time, badly performed, badly written and French humour which isn't funny. Not to me anyway.
Came home for a glass of wine and a gaze at the stars. Milky Way out in force tonight. Stunning. Had to put the patchwork quilt back on last night after weeks of just the duvet cover.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Right so I know this is dangerous territory, given how readily being curmudgeonly can tip over into being downright cross on the subject. But I have to say it so I'm going to mutter here in the Corner. I had to turn the radio off this morning. There are very many concerning issues around Brexit - Kent being a giant lorry park, cod wars, restarting the conflict in Ireland, collapse of the beef farming industry, food price impacts and all of that. But I REALLY am NOT in the smallest, tiniest fraction concerned about the impact it may have on European footballers in the Premier League. Not, even the smallest bit interested in the discussion. It is NOT a problem worth even two seconds of air time. BBC - GET A GRIP.
Sorry. I feel better now. Thank you
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Posts
Fact changing is so easy now that poor Winston would be out of a job.
I have been feeling so good today and I wasn't going to be curmudgeonly but there you go, culturally necessary to join in, hey ho. OOOh its getting really dark out there again, best go get the tools in the shed.
It must be awful if it's worse than working.
I must admit, it's difficult to remain curmudgeonly when the weather cools down, but rain and cold can be irritating too. It's only a matter of time.
I do not like the current "cold" weather. I have had to wear full length trousers to walk the dog, instead of shorts, and this morning I had to put a cardigan on! Not good enough. I have even had to keep some of my windows closed all day today. I have been able to walk the dog around 10.00am instead of leaping around at 7.00am to walk him before it gets too hot and am beginning to think I might have to start using my duvet again, instead if the lightweight cellular blanket I have been using for the past several weeks. Even more not good enough! I have even had to hammer 6 tree stakes in around my runner beans and tie the canes in hoping they will be enough to keep the beans upright during the wind and rain forecast for this weekend. Not good enough, again!
How is that for a whinge? Or two or three.
My favourite was being an 'ignorance' attendee, back when I worked for the MoD. Being a lowly grade I got taken along to listen to others and not speak unless spoken to, helped being a woman as none of the chaps noticed me anyway. Then report to my boss what others were researching and who was funding who, that was fun, but I was younger then. Now I just can't be asked.
We have just been out for a nocturnal guided walk thru the little local town. All very well until we'd been led by mobile phone lights thru a field of cattle and cow pats in the dark (one Parisian having ab-dabs about live cows!) and thence to a beautiful chateau, floodlit in its moat but then some local actors presented a short scene about Henry IV and his doctors, written by a local historian. Total waste of time, badly performed, badly written and French humour which isn't funny. Not to me anyway.
Came home for a glass of wine and a gaze at the stars. Milky Way out in force tonight. Stunning. Had to put the patchwork quilt back on last night after weeks of just the duvet cover.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I HATE BEING COLD ( ie below 20C)
Sorry. I feel better now. Thank you
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”