General Chat

Sue, the whole world seems to be full of mediocrity. It's like politics: where are the stirring speeches, the great Statesmen?

I think that the passion has somehow been stripped from us all as it is now considered a 'bad' trait.

Allan

I agree again, Allan. Rambling Rose has put up a thread with the writing Desiderata. Written in 1927 it is still totally relevant today.

Even in sports - where are the colourful characters that graced the cricket pitch or the football field. I don't mean the badly behaved prima donnas of today but the wonderful characters who loved the game for the sake of the game.

Mostly where are the people who wrote stirring dialogues in support of the everyday person. Who didn't knock humble jobs and who revered the normal everyday things that we do. Writings that don't extol wealth, good looks etc. and make acting like a spoiled brat something to aspire to. Random acts of kindness and courtesy to all is now looked on with suspicion. Working as a volunteer is often derided - I know that from experience.

Sue xx

Sue, doing something for the community, rather than for yourself, ie being paid for it, is just the way we have become.

Andy Warhol coined the phrase '15 minutes of fame' and he was correct.

The difficulty is that you don't hear of all those people beavering away in their communities because it isn't newsworthy.

I certainly know from experience that the mindless yobs who make the headlines for whatever reason are only a very small minority, but there is aleays someone wanting to emulate what they have done!

Allan

Allan - we've had a very deep and meaningful conversation but as much as I've enjoyed it I really must be off. I hope you and your lovely OH have a good day. Thank you for posting "for whom the bell tolls" - I had forgotten what a good piece it is.

Sue xx

Enjoy your day Sue :0))

Allan

CC I think that the expiry date on your medication may have passed or that your certificate of sanity may have expired :0))

My bins do hear me and to prove it I have two bins right 'ere at home. It was very traumatic but I decided that I didn't want them left 'ere.

The right 'eres are currently being framed. Just like Roger Rabbit

Allan

I wonder if CC is sleeping at the moment? She was certainly posting at a very early hour!
I have just been reading each post since my last posting and it has taken be just on an hour. My goodness, some of you can talk a lot!
Tec - be very careful when you engage the head gardener. I'm afraid she might make it sound like she wants to be warm in the heated potting shed - but beware! I also think she is being very specific about the 'young and healthy' men she will need to carry heavy items. Yeah, sure!!! You and I are not so old that we don't know what that means, are we?

Good afternoon, Berona.

Allan

I don't suppose my Aussie friends are still around, but hello anyway.

What a night, the rain was torrential. the poor garden is battered to pieces. After a bit of a green lull, it is very colourful again, mainly because lots of crocosmia is in flower. it spreads anywhere, but the orange/red flowers are very nice.

We went to the market as usual and spent a fortune on fruit which will be gone by Monday as we eat so much. I wore a fleece jacket when I first went out, but that got soaked as I stood under the tarpaulin at the fruit stall. Suddenly a whole load of water rolled off the top and down my back. Luckily the sun had come out,so it was too hot to wear it anyway.

I have been good and have frozen all the beans I picked last night, I know I should have done them immediately to preserve the vitamins, but I couldn't be bothered.

I'm sorry you got wet in the market Linda. Had I have been there I would have suppressed hysterical laughter, really I would.

It was "What a night" here too. I woke up at 4 am and it was immediately apparent that OH was having a bad hypo. She had no idea where she was, who she was, or anything else. Nurses uniform on, I went into action.
After a lot of running up and down stairs fetching things, she recovered after about an hour. In the middle of all that, the dog decided he had to go out, so I was in the garden with him at 5 am, in the rain.
Having got everyone resettled, I made myself a drink and got back into bed at almost 6 am. What a night indeed.

Berona, Yes I will be watching Amanda very closely when she takes up her position as Head Gardener. As you say, we have been around long enough to know what's what.

Tec.

Poor Tec, I hope the Duchess is fine now.
You can't blame the poor dog for wanting to go out though. If you woke him up he would think that it was morning. come to think of it, if I wake up in the night, I usually need the facilities, i don't go out in the garden though!

Berona and Tec ....will you kindly desist from casting nasturtiums about my morals ......as Head Gardener I should rather be viewed as a "Gertrude Jekyll " sort of person .....thank you .....lol

Linda ...your drenching sounds most unpleasant !

I hope the Dutchess is ok after all the disturbance in the night : (

I was up letting one of the dogs out at 6am but managed to catch a bit more sleep after that .

Thank you all for your good wishes to the Duchesss, she is ok today, if a little quiet, not that she's ever riotous you understand.

Linda I would sincerely hope you would not be found in the garden powdering your nose in the night - whatever would the neighbours think?

Amanda, Ok I shall refrain from throwing nasturtiums at you morals, pretty as they are, nasturtiums that is. I shall envisage you as a Gertrude Jekyll type figure drifting among the rosebeds, long frock, pinafore, large straw hat, directing the staff.
She and Sir Edwin Lutyens were partners but didn't always get on, I understand that she could be "difficult", so I do hope you won't be "difficult"

CC........Be careful with those secateurs, and don't get carried away - I've seen the Sisterhood let loose with them before. Nothing left!

Tec.

Hello CC .... I hadn't spotted you before and had to run as soon as I posted my last comment . Sorry to hear of your sleeplessness : ((

I must comgratulate you CC on the " poem " your penned in the wee small hours ......it did make me laugh ....lol

Tec ...thats better : )) Actually I know very little about Gertrude ( I think I've seen her picture and thought she looked similar to Margaret Rutherford ) , I'm not a " difficult " type at all far from it in fact......lol

Amanda, never let Tec know that you aren't "difficult".As lord of the manor, he will only try to take advantage of you - in a work way,not a naughty way of course.

I missed Berona again. It will be easier when the clocks change again, at the moment I can't stay up long enough and apart from being a very nice person, she is also a leading member of the sisterhood

E.xcuse me Linda - but I'll have you know I've never taken advantage of a lady in my life, not in any way - how very dare you.

I also miss talking to Berona, but it may be better when the clocks change. I think I will adopt her as the big sister I never had, though not sure what she might say about that lol.

Tec.

Hello all - hope you are all well.

Linda - I miss Berona too. It will be much easier to chat when the clocks change again.

Tec - I hope very much that the Duchess is much better. What a worry for you.

CC - don't think I could stay focussed enough in the early hours of the morning to pen anything:-))

The afternoon tea went very well although I felt absolutely as full as a butcher's dog when I waddled out. Although it was serve yourself we were told to sit and relax while a lovely lady plied us with tea, coffee and an enormous array of sandwiches, quiches and of course cakes. Of course I had to give a speech which I'm pleased to say was well received. These wonderful people raised over $2,000 for us which is marvelous.

Sue xx

I am sure that Berona will be delighted to be adopted, just as long as she can speak in English and not your strange Welsh lingo

You must be a saint Tec,

Good evening/morning all

Tec, I'm sorry to hear that the Duchess has not been well. I hope that under your tender care that her Grace has recovered.

Linda, just a follow up from yesterday, when I use the term batching, whilst it can refer to bulk processing of food (or even of concrete), in my case it means being a carefree batchelor again for a few days whilst OH is away. :0))

Amanda, please don't encourage CC in the poetry stakes, I think that she has delusions of being the next Poet Laureate. This of course is just symptomatical of an ongoing delusional crisis in which CC issues her own Sanity Certificates.

These are very good forgeries, but CC forgets that I used to be a Sanity Inspector. :0))

Allan

That is great Sue, but I still think that you should have let us write the speech for you