Lovely Day

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12 March 2015 at 15:42

I'm having a lovely day.First to Brunswick Methodist to have a coffee with my friend Ian, before going out collecting for Marie Curie Cancer Care.  

Who should tap me on the shoulder but Mrs Poet.   

So I could introduce two of my favourite people to each other.   

Then out on the street collecting which is always fun, for people watching if nothing else. 

Where I saw Lesley who I used to help with Newcastle Talking News, a weekly cassette newspaper for blind people.   

Then Andy, the husband of Sarah who used to work with me at Neil Forsyth & Associates two decades ago. 

Nice chats and catch up - with passersby undeterred from putting money in my tin and getting a daff. 

Then on the bus on the way home saw Fester's mate from Novo's Rugby, who Thunderthighs is now delivering newspapers to of a morning, and who is also interested in pits and threatening to ambush himself at the Mining Institute sometime soon.

Beethoven's Ninth

From Facebook Archives

11 March 2021 at 18.35

So we're sat here and I've allowed Fester's music to stay on, even though I'm concentrating on tomorrow's blog.

Suddenly a bass baritone startles me, booming out of the speakers.

"Jesus! Where the fuck did he come from?"

"It's Beethoven's Ninth. It's not called the choral symphony because it's not got fucking singers."

Thank you Melvin Bragg.

All together now ....

... so like the homelife of our own dear Queen.

Sandy  Oh freundenicht diese toene!

McChurch  Yeah. Wot `e said

Drummerman Dunno, it’s all double deutsch to me...

Sandy Can't guarantee the spelling, it's what the blokey would have been singing. 

"Oh friends cease these discords" seemed appropriate for Fester somehow

MrsQuilt  Surely you mean "dopple"

Drummerman  That’s a beer!

 

Decluttering

During Covid Mrs Leftfoot’s lovely mother became frail and had to move into a care home, leaving Mrs L to sort out and clear her bungalow so that it could be sold.  In order to help hurry things along I took a carload of stuff and put in on the spare bed so that it could be sorted at a later date.  

It did, eventually, go. 

Not that that made much difference to the spare bed, which is still covered with stuff I need to sort out.

I doubt anyone will ever get to sleep in it again.

From Facebook Archives

10 March 2022 at 08:22

I've blogged: Mrs Leftfoot Declutters

Mrs Leftfoot  Well clearly Mrs L hasn't got very far. In fact the clutter has increased dramatically. Although in the past six months the mound in the front room has provided a stapler, bathroom scales, index cards (used for revision notes) and box, a spatula, crochet hooks, knitting needles, wool.  And not forgetting the turbo powered microwave that has been cluttering up the hallway and now sits in the kitchen.

Bentonbag  That's what comes of combining the contents of two households.   

I still have some of someone else's household on the spare bed for future attention.

Mrs Leftfoot  My mother has no idea of the chaos "she" has caused.

 

Spring Weather etc...

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9 March 2023 at 15.51

"I can remember a game of cricket being snowed off at Buxton on June the first."

Ms Exlibris  That may be the same year that I visited Beamish Museum at the end of May in the snow

Mr Melodeon  1976 I would suggest — followed by a heatwave.  I had that experience too that year.

Woolerwoman  So do I, I was there!! Yes, Mr Melodeon. 1976! Owzatt!

9 March 2025 at 09.38

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There was a frog singing in the pond yesterday so there's hope.

Got 8xhenmanure and seed compost from Armstrong Allotment Shop, where I bumped into DistrictNurse.  I also bumped into last week as she was about to embark on a bike ride with Ernextdoor.  Don't see someone for years then twice in a week.

Planted parsnip, radish and lettuce in the refurbished bed and marrows in pots on the front windowsill. Messed about with houseplants moving orchids around as there's only room for two on the bathroom shelf.

Today's task is to remove the redundant telly from the back kitchen windowsill so there's room for the two orchids currently on Ferretfingers' windowsill where they at risk of being swept off by the curtains.

By the way - anybody want a telly?

This year so far only ffa, radish and spring onion have been planted out.   

We have no seed compost so, as yet, no other seeds have been planted either indoors or out.   

Lots have been bought though…