Not telling anyone where my veg plot is. Dont want it being raided. Will be digging up some tatties later. On a serious note, theft of fuel and livestock from farms is on the increase in our area.
Not a surprise Remote. Hope you are not affected. Many people seem to think they have a right to steal from those who work, harder, and are more successful in life. It is a very sad indictment on society.
End of first week up here and we went past Chequers today - just 10 miles up the road fom where we're staying. We didn't stop there was some sort of party going on. Diverted down to Marlow again for a walk along the Thames path and around Higginson's Park past the larger than life Steve Redgrave bronze statue - was he really that big???? Bloody blistering heat today though . I allowed the other members of the party to buy me some delicious cakes for tonight from Burgers bakery shop - fantastic individual cakes. It's been there as long as I can remember - Swiss heritage I believe. Skimmed around Wycombe (have I told you I don't like the place ) and went to 3 lovely places after this afternoon just up the road from where we're staying - Chesham, Amersham and Berkhamstead - Sainsburys, Tesco and M&S....... Back in the cottage now and the Peronis are out.
Got enough room in the fridge? Been to Monkeyworld today. Took 18 month old grandaughter. She absolutely loved it. It was fiercely hot, but plenty of shade as well. Now settling down to watch the latter stages of Norrie v Djokovic at Wimbledon with a pint of my rehydration of choice, Theakston's Old Peculier. May well have another with dinner.
We're only a small concern, a hobby really. It makes a dent when stuff does go missing. Not lost livestock, and our diesel bund is tucked away and locked. We have had leisure batteries and fence energisers stolen. A couple hundred quid, but they dont see the risk of a few grand of animals getting out on roads. The last visit was funny. A couple dead batteries were being used as a couple steps. They got nicked. No use to anyone. Its frustrating to think people have been snooping about though. Its been going on for years. Quad bikes are a regular targets. Police are good in the area though. They stop and check people regularly if they have equipment with them.
Anyway, had to go into Wycombe today - afraid the M&S Food Hall was a fatal attraction Bought two saris for the wife and her sister, and a turban for me not to look too conspicuos - the dogs got away with it........
Today I'm interested that proceedings in the House of Commons has been delayed due to a leak! Thank goodness that every leak doesn't result in delays in government. Apparently this one is different because it's the plumbing causing the problem.
Not a leak but an air blockage I think. Every time the loo is flushed in the gents, the noise vibrates around the building. I find that interesting
Cheers BT. Obviously poor reporting by BBC. Their strap line on the Parliament Channel was saying it was a leak. You're right. A blockage is interesting. Surely, the Houses of Parliament aren't full of sh**!? Surely not.
OK, last night up here before heading for home, and bleeding 'ell, it 'ain't 'arf 'ot mum. Just a point of interest on this "interesting" thread. I'm pretty easy going but certain things iritate me and this is one of them. I like my food and get stuck in whatever's on the plate, but the wife's sister picks over her food I've prepared like she can't be bothered. The wife and I tend to finish our meals whilst her sister has got half a plate left. She flicks it about with her fork as if she's looking for plutonium pellets. Mind you, she has got a lot of money...........
On a similar note then... I'm no snob, though over time believe myself to have moved from lower working class to probably lower middle class... I was however taught how to hold a knife and fork properly and whilst my table manners aren't perfect, I'd like to think I'm at least semi acceptable to sit and dine with. I see some people these days happily just cutting up their food, putting the knife down and then just stabbing and shovelling the food down their gullets whilst holding their fork more like a skewer or something. Others sit there just scooping food up or even (shudder) stabbing food with their knife and eating it off the end (have seen roast spuds eaten this way a few times)... You're sat in a pub carvery eating a potato for crying out loud, you are not Bear Grills skewering a wild rabbit in the middle of a remote woodland Manners maketh the man/woman/non-binary/gender fluid/occasional side table/android/or whatever else you identify as.... Boils my blood it does...
Going back to things of interest (don't want to drag the thread down a negative pathway of annoying things as it'd become the longest thread known to man (et al). Linking in to the thread/quiz on stadiums I posted the other day, as a kid (and still to this day) I have a fascination with stadium architecture. I'm by no means particularly well versed on it but it's always been a geeky interest. I used to have a book by a chap called Simon Inglis (from memory) called something like "The football grounds of England and Wales" that I must have read dozens of times... At the risk of misremembering I'm sure the description of the Grandstand at Ninian Park was "a neat stand but colourless also"....
