09:00 Lois and I can get a bit longer in bed this morning. Usually Mark the Gardener comes at 8:40 am, so we need to be up and about: Lois to give him his instructions and me to unlock the side gate - what madness! But Mark texted us late last night and said he couldn't get here before 10:40 am. Hail to thee, Mark, you have kept us in bed a bit longer haha!!!!
Mark the Gardener in happier times - on holiday with his partner
10:00 We get a phone call from Alison, our elder daughter who lives in Haslemere, Surrey, with Ed and their 3 children: Josie (14), Rosalind (12) and Isaac (10).
We update her on our other daughter Sarah's efforts to buy our house on a buy-to-rent mortgage and then let it out to tenants. Sarah and her family are currently living just outside Perth, Australia, but they would like to return to the UK, and this is one way they could do this. We need to keep Alison up to speed on all these developments, because we've said we obviously don't want the deal with Sarah to affect Alison's own inheritance rights. Nothing is going to happen on this front in the near future anyway, because of the uncertainty surrounding the pandemic and the economy.
Alison is working again after 15 years of full-time bringing up children - she's now a part-time teacher's assistant at a local primary school. She has to self-test herself for coronavirus twice a week using the LFD (lateral flow device) home testing kits on her nostrils - she then contacts the school twice a week to say that the results are negative, before reporting for work at the school. What madness !!!!!
10:40 Mark arrives and sets to work pruning the roses in the front garden and then doing general weeding in the back.
Mark the Gardener busy weeding in the flower beds in the back garden
12:40 We are having lunch when Mark leaves. After lunch it's back to bed for a nap and then a cup of tea on the sofa at 4 pm.
It's Pancake Day today, in the UK and even in Australia, so I'm looking forward to what we're going to be having tonight - yum yum (in advance haha!!!) !!!!!
18:00 We start the main course with some savouries: tuna and sweetcorn pancakes, with tomato.
the main course: savoury pancakes with tuna, sweetcorn and tomato
We break off to see a bit of TV and then at 7:15 pm we have the dessert: pancakes with lemon juice an brown sugar - yum yum!
the dessert: two more pancakes with lemon juice and brown sugar - yum yum!
20:00 We listen to a bit of radio, the second part of Rebecca Front's amusing look back at the career of the late lamented entertainer Victoria Wood.
Lois has just finished reading Victoria Wood's biography, "Let's Do It", the title based on her famous song "Let's Do It (Let's Do It Tonight)".
So it's very interesting tonight to hear some of Victoria's private cassette tapes of material, and to hear, for example, about some of her early experiences with boys, when she was growing up in Lancashire in the 1960's.
She rails against "all those things you're supposed to say, like 'Did the earth move?' 'No', she says, 'but the wardrobe door came open'. She also rails against "all those horrid things you're suppose to have on you, like Dutch caps. If they're too small they can make your ears itch".
"My first boy-friend had a sex manual", she tells us, "but he was dyslexic. I was lying in bed, he was looking for my vinegar."
I don't know - what a crazy world we live in !!!!!
22:00 We go to bed - zzzzzzzzz!!!!!
No comments:
Post a Comment