Success and failure

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...
Bad week

Bad week

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...
Boring now

Boring now

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...

Second childhood

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...
Dodging this and that

Dodging this and that

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,...
Plenty of weather

Plenty of weather

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...

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