Spring is in the air! And I hate to be the bearer of bad news, because that also means it's time to get out those brushes and mops for a good old annual spring-clean in your "pad" or "gaff", be it ever so humble haha!!!
Some people of a more meticulous disposition, however, have a more rigorous cleaning schedule than a mere annual one. Take local man Justin Bunce, whose face is all over this morning's local Onion News for East Hampshire, as you may (or may not) have noticed (!) haha!!!!
And certainly, reading Bunce's story in the Onion News print edition this morning, here in leafy, semi-articulate Liphook, not a million miles from Bunce - just up the A339 in fact! - yes, reading the story brings an ironic groan to the faces of me and my wife Lois, to put it mildly!
Spring cleaning - not a nice expression, but Lois suggests we do a bit today in the garage, seeing as how we may have to stay in all day today, anyway, for the delivery - at some unspecified time (!) - of a UK Mothers Day card and a bunch of Moonpig flowers from our dear daughter Sarah in Perth, Australia.
The weather in Perth is in a whole different ballpark, however, with temperatures typically in the 80's F, which is around 30C, and which they refer to as "on the cool side". But we can tell the overall effect from these pictures that Sarah sends us today over the Internet.
Lois and I hadn't heard of the so-called "Sandow girls", who feature in one of the songs in tonight's rerun, and who apparently became the latest craze in Britain and North America during the early years of the 20th century.
What madness !!!!!
me and my wife Lois - a recent picture
It's also a good opportunity to get some of our "summer" garden furniture - a table and a bunch of chairs - out of the garage and on to our so-called "patio" (!), just in case there's some warmer weather ahead, although the Met Office isn't giving us a lot of optimism just at the moment, to put it mildly!
Let's all give a collective "Brrrr!!!!", shall we!!!!
What a crazy country we live in !!!!
us doing a spring-clean this morning in our garage, also moving out
our garden furniture onto the patio, in a spirit of blind optimism !!!!!
And the reason we're doing a bit of a spring-clean - i.e. the expected delivery of a Mothers Day card and flowers from Australia, doesn't materialise till we're tucked up in bed this afternoon for statutory nap-time - a delivery-time that we had both privately predicted to each other. Just our luck haha !!!!
It all passes off peacefully, however, and later Lois showcases the card and the two vases' worth of flowers for my phone's camera, which is nice.
Look ye at their summer clothing and weep, o ye Brits haha!!!!
Awwwwww, bless their little cotton socks!!!!!
Lois and I, meanwhile are still wearing our big heavy woollen socks (me) and our thick winter tights (Lois), and we're feeling our age a bit tonight, after our morning of muscle-tiring work in the garage, to put it mildly!
Sarah, plus husband Francis and their 12-year-old twins Lily and Jessica are all wearing their summer clothes for the twins' recent graduation from their local Primary School. And Lois and I can't help our hearts swelling with pride, as the twins "scoop" two of the six special prizes - Lily for "overall academic excellence", and Jessica for the English prize, which is a good omen. She says in her little speech that she's hoping to become a children's author when she grows up. So watch this space!!!
(top left) our daughter Sarah and family (top right) the twins' graduating class
at their local primary school, with the twins scooping two of the six special awards
(bottom left) Lily for Overall Academic Excellence, and (bottom right) Jessica for English
On the plus side, however, in clearing out the garage, Lois and I found, like, a billion useful household items (more, probably!), that we thought had gone missing in our move to this house in Liphook in January 2025, which is unexpected! Including this set of long-lost weights, which we discover were hiding behind a bunch of damaged, and unwanted (obviously!), clothes-airers, which we seem to be keeping for nostalgic reasons apparently - I can't think of any other possible motive haha!!!!
the weights, long thought to have been lost in our recent move to Liphook, in January 2025,
which I can now use in connection with my "executive fitness" book, which will be handy!
Could Lois also benefit from our discovery of these long-lost weights, however?
This thought crosses both our minds this evening, as we settle down to watch a rerun from 1978 of the 25th anniversary edition of The Good Old Days, the show that recreates the atmosphere and spirit of the Edwardian music-hall of the 1900's and 1910's, which is nice.
Talk about women with muscles! Those "Sandow girls", inspired by Prussian strongman Eugen Sandow, seem to have developed muscles in places where most women haven't even got places, if that makes sense !!!!!
(left) Prussian muscleman Eugen Sandow (1867-1925) and (right)
some of the so-called "Sandow girls", inspired by Eugen's muscles to get some of their own (!)
It's nice tonight, however, to hear the song that was evidently written about them, and which opened this special 25th anniversary edition of the show.
Could Lois become a "Sandow girl"? Perhaps better not, because they sound like they were a bit intimidating to their current male "squeezes", to judge by this verse - yikes! What do you think?
Back to the drawing-board, then, to be on the safe side (!) !!!!
Will this do?
[Oh just go to bed! - Ed]
22:00 We go to bed - zzzzzz!!!!
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