Yes, Friends, are YOU looking for a new hobby? Well, you don't have to look too far, according to Onion News. "There's a world outside your window, and it's a world of plants and veg!", as the old song says (!), so what are you waiting for !!!!!
a typical British back-garden - full of plants and veg, which is nice!
And here's all the 'gen' you need to get started - see below!!!! Roll up your sleeves and do it today haha!!!!
And reading Susan's inspiring commentary brings a half-crack of a smile to the faces of me and my wife Lois, here in semi-herbaceous Liphook, Surrey, to put it mildly!!!!
my wife Lois and me - a recent picture
the scene in our tiny back garden today, as Matthew, the wayward middle-aged son
of one of Lois's fellow-church members 'gets down and dirty' in our flower beds (!)
Yes, true to form, it's another busy day for us here on the sofa, trying to control another rowdy online meeting of the local U3A "Intermediate Danish for Old Codgers" group, the little group which we lead 'for our sins' (!). We both 'picked up' a smattering of Intermediate Danish, starting some ten years or more ago, when our elder daughter Alison and family were spending 6 years in Copenhagen 2012-2018.
Lois and I found ourselves making frequent visits to Denmark, starting with our first visit ever, way back in February 2013 - see pictures below:
flashback to February 2013: (left) our daughter Alison and her 3 kids in their
Copenhagen house, and (right) Lois and me, with little Rosalind, down by the quay
Well, you can't help getting 'smattered' in those circumstances, can you haha!!!! And it's obviously our moral duty to pass that ''smattering' of Intermediate Danish on to the good people of Hampshire, a select few of them, anyway. Locally we've been dubbed 'old codgers with a conscience', a 'moniker' we're actually very proud of, would you believe!
my wife Lois and me - dubbed 'old codgers with a conscience' (!)
16:00 By 4 pm, our online Danish group meeting is over, and our gardener, Matthew, has hung up his trowels and gone home. Unfortunately, however, this is where our day starts to go wrong.
Oh dear!!!!
First, we get an email from the Royal Surrey County Hospital, just over the county line in Guildford, reminding me that my annual check-up is due tomorrow, which I'd totally forgotten (!). And then the "taskrabbit" lined up to put together our latest piece of IKEA 'kit' doesn't show up, after Lois and I have spent a whole 15 minutes getting things ready for the guy, even getting ready to make him or her a cup of tea, would you believe, and that's the thanks we get !!!
What a mixed-up, crazy world we live in !!!!!
21:00 There's nobody in the world, however, who's quite as mixed-up and crazy as its richest man, Elon Musk, as Lois and I learn tonight from the third part of the re-run of that fascinating documentary series about him, currently showing on BBC2, to put it mildly !!!!!
Tonight, we hear from journalist Linette Lopez of "Business Insider", who wrote an article, criticising Musk's reputation as an alleged 'environmentalist'.
The whistle-blower had reported huge environmental waste at Musk's 'giga-factory', where there were many environmental violations, which, Lopez says, "was crazy, considering that this guy was trying to save the planet".
Lopez's article, based on confidential Tesla documents leaked to her by the whistle-blower, reported that 40% of the materials used to produce the car's batteries needed to be scrapped or re-worked. She noted that traditional car-makers around the world produce really minimal scrap, and then there was Tesla, its share-price beating all those 'legacy' car-makers, throwing away hundreds of millions of dollars on waste. Lopez felt this was something the company's investors ought to know about.
And Elon, obviously stung by the article, was soon hitting back at Lopez on social media.
Nice man, eh?!!!!
But what a crazy, mixed-up world we live in !!!!
[That's enough madness! - Ed]
Will this do?
[Oh just go to bed! - Ed]
22:00 We go to bed - zzzzzz!!!!!!
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