Yes, friends, are YOU looking for a new pastime? Well look no further than today's big splash on page 94 of the local Onion News for East Hampshire. No need to buy expensive how-to-do-it books, it'll simply be the cost of today's print edition, so it won't dig too big a hole in your finances [no pun intended!!!!].
Well, Susan probably looked out of her window one day and noticed the "jungle" out there, like most of us do at least once a week, but unlike the 'indolent majority' (!), she went and did something about it - and cured her "What
shall I do today?" problems at the same time!
Kudos, Susan!!!!
Here in grassy Liphook, not a million miles from Susan's home, my light-to-moderate wife Lois and I admit to a quiet chuckle as we read Susan's story, aware that we ouselves may have started the new local "gardnering" trend ourselves just 2 weeks ago, and word has obviously got out about our idea, so kudos us too !!!!!
my light-to-moderate wife Lois and me (and a close relative(!))
- a recent picture
And by coincidence our own gardener, Matthew, the middle-aged son of one of Lois's fellow church-members, is making his second visit to us today, to cut down some of "that there jungle", as he calls it in his colourful East Hampshire accent!!!
(top) our new gardener, Matthew, at work on "that there jungle" - his words, not ours (!),
and (bottom) our back garden as it looked 3 hours later - lovely or what !!!!!
So yes, another busy morning for Lois and me, watching Matthew toil, and wouldn't you know it, we can't even get any peace in bed this afternoon, what with the doorbell going almost non-stop with "deliveries": Lois's shiny new phone, an electric kettle, and six packs of Christmas cards all "plopping" through our letter-box at various times, would you believe!!
Busy busy busy!!! What a good thing we've both been retired since 2006. How did we ever find the time to go to work, back in the day !!!!
What a crazy world we live in !!!!!
flashback to tea-time today: Lois showcases some of the
deliveries that have "plopping" through our letterbox all afternoon
- what madness !!!!!
We're not sure what to do with Lois's shiny new phone - we unpack it and press a few buttons, but it doesn't seem to do anything, which is disappointing. I tell Lois that it may need a so-called "sim card" or some-such nonsense (!), but we're not sure. Luckily we'll be seeing our 50-year-old daughter Alison tomorrow, who lives about 7 miles away, just over the county line, in Churt, Surrey - she's a "youngster" (comparatively!!!!), so she'll have all the answers, no question!
It's well known that people the age of Lois and me (79 and counting!) are always forgetting where they put things, and by coincidence tonight, on the 6th and final episode of the BBC's new comedy drama, "Film Club", Evie's old mum Suzanne can't remember where she put an important letter.
Luckily, Evie's boyfriend Josh is on hand to solve the problem of the lost letter Sherlock-Holmes style, which is nice!
It's known that Evie's old mum Suzanne had got a bit "Brahms and Liszt" on some wine at the pub the previous evening, so after she came home and found the important letter, what would she have done next, Josh wonders...
So where would old Suzanne gone for her snack - the food cupboard, maybe?
But what kind of snack, Josh wonders.... Had Suzanne had anything to eat at the pub, as well as the glasses of wine?
However, Suzanne thinks she would have had the vital letter tucked underneath her arm, as she searched for something to snack on....
And bingo! There the letter lies, right there on the kitchen floor, beneath the nuts and crackers drawer!
It's "textbook", isn't it, to put it mildly!
"Kudos Josh!" is what Lois and I say, but "Elementary, my dear Suzanne!", is what Josh says to Evie's mum!
Well, we all had a jolly good laugh over that! [Speak for yourself! -Ed[
But there's a serious point here, as well, isn't there. Could Lois and I adapt Josh's approach the next time we forget where we've put something?
I wonder.....!!!!
Will this do?
[Oh - just go to bed! - Ed]
22:00 We go to bed - zzzzzzz!!!!!
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