have a good one folks.... I am proofreading my son's MA dissertation on Cladding in the UK building industry, he is an engineer, before Chris Packhams 9.00 am stream.... We enjoyed a long circular walk yesterday from home.....It is great to explore lanes and tracks we have never encountered.... . and even sat on Eddie Warings bench in a graveyard in Bramhope! Remember him well.... commentating on that odd sport Rugby league when I was a young lad in Herts.... Oop here we are surrounded by it! We walked near the airport and apart from a helicopter there was no air traffic..........all soooo quiet.... We stopped to eat on an antiquated old bridge over the railway where it came out of a long tunnel and the driver even tooted and waved at us as he passed.....
Morning all. Overcast and damp from the rain yesterday, but currently not raining and quite mild. Survived my shopping trip yesterday, and found everything that was on my list. I did my visual survey on masks, and it was quite obvious who lived locally and had been given one from the same supplier. I was quite surprised to note that the majority who didn't wear one were middle aged ladies, whereas the same aged men were kitted out. A new innovation as you went into the supermarket was a point where you sprayed your hands with a sanitizer and picked up disposable gloves. According to the local news the Friday/Saturday main shopping trip has decreased in favour of a midweek one, and that sales of lipstick, chewing gum and combs have fallen through the floor, whilst cleaning products have rocketed in sales. I did notice there appeared to be the usual healthy sale of tomato plants that you see every year, so I guess the gardeners are still hard at it. Have a good day whatever you are doing.
I don't follow rugby generally but when I was younger I preferred to watch league as they game flowed better as they got on with after a tackle rather than Unions mass brawling.
The weather here is lovely at present until you go outside and get a severe dose of a freezing easterly breeze. Lots of gardening going on here OFH, currently building veg patch.
Odd sport?? I must admit that I knew next to nothing about it when I emigrated to Australia - growing up in Edinburgh and Watford, I had played Union, and initially carried on with that in Oz, as well as the obligatory football. It didn't take me too long to discover how much better League is - I was lucky enough to be living in Australia for the inception of the State of Origin series in 1980 and have followed it religiously ever since - watching some of the finest Rugby players ever to grace a pitch in the process - such as Wally Lewis, Alan Langer, Mal Meninga, Steve Renouf and Gene Miles. When the Brisbane Broncos club was formed in 1988, most of the big name players for Queensland signed for them - and I was in seventh heaven. Thanks to technology, I can still follow the game closely - when they are playing, I watch my (former) local Qld State League side CQ Capras on either Facebook or YouTube and every Broncos match on Australian TV. For me, it's certainly not an odd sport - it's more of a religion.
I wasn't going to say anything for fear of being ridiculed, but on the BBC website I saw that Rag'n'Bone Man had performed a Dylan cover as a tribute to the key workers on the front line! I had only heard of this man on an answer to a question on Pointless! Any way I had a listen and was surprisingly impressed! Donstinhatemoticon
Ditto seedlings wise but got to watch the watering. A first today the Easterly wind blew our brolly out of its slot in the table, it landed on the greenhouse! Luckily no damage. Never done that before, maybe the exposed wind direction.
i have been to a game or two... my university sponsored both the club and headingley stadium...... I dont really like the sport... I guess i grew up to claissic rugby union and it is more in my blood.. . Eddie Waring was a great character, I always will remember him summarising the RL games on saturday pm sports TV....
Greenhouse needs daily watering yes........ and very windy here too.... as every glass changes I am replacing with plastic glass.....
As it's near freezing up here today, I decided to have my alloted exercise time indoors - on the exercise bike in front of the TV. YouTube gave me a nice little recommendation to watch as I pedalled - the England vs Scotland game from 1967, when Scotland became the unofficial World Champions. Watching made me think that time surely distorts memory - the two teams contained probably the finest names in UK football at the time, but only Banks looked good enough to be playing these days. The rest looked decidedly ordinary - lacking basic dribbling, passing and shooting skills, as well as composure on the ball. And as for the commentator and TV coverage - the less said the better. A handy appearance by Willie Wallace though, on his return to London 750 years after being hung, drawn and quartered... After ninety minutes of pedalling, my legs are telling me what a silly idea that was - am off for a hot shower and a nap.
Morning all. Sunny spells, dry currently, but tee shirt temperatures. Mme was having a dig in a box that came with us from England, and we had long forgotten what was in it. Letters that her father had written to her mother in 1929 before they were married, when the cost of a stamp was 1 1/2 d. Then there were our wedding photographs with telegrams and cards wishing us well. It always used to be a part of the ritual at a wedding reception to have the telegrams read out. Looking at the cards it was quite a surprise to see just how many people of our age we still have contact with, if not that often. Then there were photographs of cousins children's weddings, and although sometimes the picture came with an order of service they were a bit mixed up, so there were investigations into what the front of a church looks like in an attempt to get the pictures with the right person. Several hours of sorting, but every now and again something popped up that jogged a few memories. Have a good day whatever you are able to do.
