With you there on the barkers and yappers DE. None of my dogs have barked and I mean almost never!!! I don't know why they didn't but I'm fine with it. My current companion has only ever barked in her sleep even when my drunk neighbour locked himself out and banged on the bedroom window and nearly gave me a heart attack! Does anyone remember the American sit com 'Benson'? When the doorbell went the butler used to look around and say "you want me to get that?" She reminds me of him.
Ruby. I employ three local people two gardeners and a Lady Cleaner mainly because I can well afford it, not all are in that happy position. My Lady Cleaner Joanne is a pure Gem she comes bustling in every Tuesday and three hours later the whole Bungalow is spotless. She chats as she works never stopping her routine and tells me some can only afford her once a month but that keeps the place in a reasonable state. One Gardener keeps the lawns immaculate and the other gardener does all the heavy work to my orders so I can do my pottering around. I am in the process of educating the heavy gardener in plant names new old and latin, how to cut and prune and which are winter and summer flowering shrubs. He has a solid round of general gardening mainly for pensioners and is not afraid to ask questions, I tell him what wants seeing too and why he writes it in his little book and tells me it all go's on his computer. We all reach an age Ruby when not keen to hand things over to others we still need some help, with people you know and can contact it becomes easy, it is not giving up it is easing the burden. Frank.
I threw together some random delicacies out of the fridge and the oven and looked at my plate. I thought:"This is just like the plate of food that you would forage at a barbecue" (apologies to pendants if my spelling offends). But the difference is, I don't have to clear up the ash and my plants aren't burnt to a crisp - and neither is my food.
Feeling extra carmudgeonly today. A combination of Monday grumpiness and very little sleep last night. The local hill fire meant we had to have windows closed due to the smoke so the house was too hot. The baby is having a hard time with teething right now and the heat isn't helping so I got to bad about 1:30am. Then at 4am some local cats decided to have a scrap in my garden which woke the dog who woke the baby again. We also seem to be surrounded by houses with 1000W LED motion sensor floodlights pointed at our bedroom windows. Why is it so hard for people to set up the angles properly so they only light up their own properties? We're only a couple of miles from the Brecon Beacons Dark Sky Reserve where The Man comes around and tells you off for not pointing your floodlights at the floor.
Here's the picture before the fire got going. It eventually covered the whole hill top but it was too dark to get a photo. You can see the lights on the closest houses up there, the wind changed direction just before it reached them but the fire crews were camped out there all night. Beautiful wildlife habitat up there too, scrub intermingled with rocky scree on a south facing hillside. Loads of pipit and skylark nests will have been wiped out. I hope it doesn't turn out to be arson
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
I had a check of news source last night and was surprised not to see coverage. They need to get their finger out. I guess when things are so dry, the smallest thing can set it off. Lots of the Canadian and Californian wildfires were arson. It's heart breaking and mind boggling. Mind breaking and heart boggling.
It's been reliably reported that most of these are arson caused by kids having a 'who can start the biggest fire competition'. It happens every year and always on weekends and school holidays.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
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My current companion has only ever barked in her sleep even when my drunk neighbour locked himself out and banged on the bedroom window and nearly gave me a heart attack!
Does anyone remember the American sit com 'Benson'? When the doorbell went the butler used to look around and say "you want me to get that?" She reminds me of him.
I would love someone to clean my home . But there are so many buts .
My Lady Cleaner Joanne is a pure Gem she comes bustling in every Tuesday and three hours later the whole Bungalow is spotless. She chats as she works never stopping her routine and tells me some can only afford her once a month but that keeps the place in a reasonable state. One Gardener keeps the lawns immaculate and the other gardener does all the heavy work to my orders so I can do my pottering around.
I am in the process of educating the heavy gardener in plant names new old and latin, how to cut and prune and which are winter and summer flowering shrubs. He has a solid round of general gardening mainly for pensioners and is not afraid to ask questions, I tell him what wants seeing too and why he writes it in his little book and tells me it all go's on his computer.
We all reach an age Ruby when not keen to hand things over to others we still need some help, with people you know and can contact it becomes easy, it is not giving up it is easing the burden.
Frank.
I threw together some random delicacies out of the fridge and the oven and looked at my plate. I thought:"This is just like the plate of food that you would forage at a barbecue" (apologies to pendants if my spelling offends). But the difference is, I don't have to clear up the ash and my plants aren't burnt to a crisp - and neither is my food.