by admin | Nov 19, 2023 | Uncategorized
In the space of a few hours I went from euphoria to despair. As usual I over exaggerate. Last night the team of which I was a member won the quiz held in our village hall. We trounced our nearest rivals by a single point to carry home the spoils. Still on a high this...
by admin | Nov 12, 2023 | Uncategorized
It didn’t start well. On Monday I had to have a new tyre on the van. I was hoping that if I kept on pumping it up it would heal itself, but alas no. Then I felt the first signs of a cold, which worsened day by day, developing into proper man flu later in the...
by admin | Nov 5, 2023 | Uncategorized
It’s getting tedious now. All this disruption from the weather I mean. Some of you will have noticed that your delivery arrived at an unusual time last week. On Thursday I decided to get around to my local customers early, while I still could. Even then it was...
by admin | Oct 29, 2023 | Uncategorized
It’s funny how the human brain works. An example of that manifested itself this morning whilst walking Nellie. Strolling along a field margin I broke into song, in itself that’s not altogether unusual, I am a serial singer, but why at that moment should I...
by admin | Oct 22, 2023 | Uncategorized
In a radical departure from my normal narrative I wasn’t going to write about the weather this week, but holy smoke, I can’t ignore what happened at the end of last week! It wasn’t quite biblical, and not on the scale of what happened in Scotland,...
by admin | Oct 15, 2023 | Uncategorized
If you work outdoors and your living is made from growing vegetables it naturally follows that the weather plays a huge part in your life. That’s why it features so prominently in my weekly messages, because it influences most things that I do. Let’s face...