Oops! Once again, no news is good news – we’re away (again) this weekend so not able to put anything meaningful together. A brief summary of this week’s activities will have to suffice. Sorry.
It’s been another fairly half-decent week. Only a bit of rain but several days which were reasonably dry and sunny. I did think one day that I could risk taking Daisy across the fields rather than just up and back again along Plumpton Lane. There had been a couple of days of decent sunshine and wind which I had hoped would dry things out. Not quite, as it turned out. Muddy boots and a partially muddy dog but, with a bit more of this, we should be good to go soon.
Apart from the semi-decent weather, the highlight of the week was undoubtedly a visit from our very good friends and former neighbours who stopped for the night enroute from the Lake District to Devon. Always lovely to see them.
The nice days have been captured and shared by a variety of folks on a variety of platforms. The Spring flowers are beginning to burst and, as I said last time, the birdsong has to be heard to be believed. How is that robins, a small bird in this country (not like the larger robins you have in the States) can produce such a loud and delightful song? And, because they’re so brave, they will happily sit in the tree or hedgerow so that you can see him/her performing. Marvellous.
We were out at a Quiz Night on Friday evening with our good friends and former Byfield neighbours, Pete and Sal. Now, they should know better – neither Penny nor I would be your first choices to join your quiz team. Pete, on the other hand, is an ace so we managed to just about hold our own. This was in aid of the Green Acres Rural Enterprise programme about which I’ve written before. They provide a variety of educational opportunities for young people who are either disenchanted with mainstream education or for whom mainstream education is simply not appropriate. Pete and Sal’s Ruby has had some work experience in the café they run and this was a Quiz Night with tapas. Apart from being made to feel like idiots, it was a nice evening for a good cause.
Not much else, I guess. I did have a chuckle when I read that Kristi Noem had been fired and shunted to a new role – the Special Envoy for the Shield of the Americas. You could not make this shit up – this administration has become a farcical version of a Marvel comic.
Meanwhile, keep breathing, keep happy, keep smiling, keep exercising, be good, be careful, and keep safe. And, be gentle to wasps and bees – we need all the pollinators we can get. And, hold your loved ones close.
Lots of love to you all,
Greg