Just enjoyed a very good outdoor picnic with friends in their garden, seven of us in all. I gave one friend a potted penstemon as she had lost most of hers due to the cold snap we had and in return was given some London Pride bits and two rose cuttings from what I'm hoping was a Munstead Wood rose. Fingers crossed they survive.
Not round here, the season's only a few weeks in. Yesterday OH insisted that I watch some on his phone. I thought it was going to be something like a dog or cat or a streaker on the pitch, but no, just Grimsby Town scoring a goal. Apparently it was a really good one 🤷♀️. You'd think by now he'd have learned that such things are lost on me .
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
Although the football season is actually upon us, there won't be the wall to wall coverage that we saw around the Womens World Cup. Unless you have Sky or TNT Sport there will be little on terrestrial TV until the FA Cup starts up. Even then there will be a match or two every couple of weeks. Almost the only football on mainstream TV is Football Focus for an hour on a Saturday and Match of the Day on Saturday and Sunday late evening.
I do enjoy football, but the coverage leading up the to the Womens World Cup final was ridiculous. Now we have politicians saying the England team members, who lost in the final, should all receive honours. Talk about rewarding failure!
It's a problem that has been growing for years. My nephew, now in his 30s, used to complain at school, how poorly performing pupils were rewarded, to encourage them to improve. Those who were already doing well, got nothing!! He was one of the latter.
Plus, too many people in politics believe that even taking part in sports events, warrants honours. Honours should be given to the few, not the many, otherwise they are devalued.
Heck, I've even got some medals - for completing half marathons. I don't deserve them, and they have no value. Now if I'd won, that would have been different.
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My nephew, now in his 30s, used to complain at school, how poorly performing pupils were rewarded, to encourage them to improve. Those who were already doing well, got nothing!!
He was one of the latter.
Plus, too many people in politics believe that even taking part in sports events, warrants honours.
Honours should be given to the few, not the many, otherwise they are devalued.
Heck, I've even got some medals - for completing half marathons. I don't deserve them, and they have no value.
Now if I'd won, that would have been different.