Found Photo

 

This popped up in Facebook Memories

24 October 2020 at 17.41

Looking for something else I found this taken 1990ish in the back garden, probably by Phil but possibly by Dad.

AuntyEdna, me and Mum.

It was a sunny day and Dad, or maybe Aunty Ed, had made them newspaper sunhats and Mum was relaxing in her slippers.

Miss Doozer  We had those sun loungers.  Very temperamental springs.  Had a nasty habit of spontaneously re-folding themselves with a child inside. Usually me.

Bentonbag  You'll be glad to hear it didn't survive long once the boys started walking.

My oldestbestfriend Henffrind's gran had a spring loaded deckchair that would fold up as you sat on it: great for trapping cats.

Mrs Lasagne  I love your hats xxxwe used to make them too xx

Cousin Daisy  Love the old pictures It’s deffo an aaaaah One. Xxx

Drummerman  Even then you were insisting on the straw hat...

Bentonbag  I bought that on Tenerife in the late 80s.

FifiD I agree with Daisy. Lovely photo's for. happy memories.Xxx M x

 

The back garden is a bit different now, some thirty five years on.

 

The boys and I are off tomorrow for over a week near my ancestral home, where there will be a small gathering of the clan to mark 

Bigsister's 80th birthday 

and 

Bigbrother and Sister-in-law's 60 years of marriage.

 

Enjoy Your Trip?

From Facebook Archives

23 October 2022 at 19.20

Fester has returned safely from the Haymarket rapper weekend in Leicester.  I made him a cup of tea, he is making his tea.

 

But before that he decided to put his uneaten-since-Friday corned-beef-bread-bun-sandwich out for the birds; despite it being completely dark out there and the back end of the back garden being replete with trip hazards, including windfall apples.

I heard a shuffling of grass, then a thud and voluble swearing.

I got my torch out quick enough to see him haul himself up onto his feet, give up on trying to find the birdfeeder hanging off the tree and light his way to the bird table and back to the house.

 

He seems unharmed apart from managing to get the inside of both legs nettle stung.

And of course the stupid bastard is wearing 'white' summer trousers; now covered in mud as is his shirt.

I wouldn't mind quite so much if it wouldn't have been a lot easier to do it tomorrow, in daylight, when there are birds about.

Oh and "I've buggered one of the boards of the raised bed."

Seventy years old, three f**king degrees, nee f**king nous.

Miss Doozer, Ernextdoor - in case you were wondering what was going on.

Mrs Quilt  It seems if there's an obstacle Fester can fall foul of it!

Bentonbag  Well it makes a change from him banging his head on things I suppose.

Mrs Quilt  My thought exactly!

Mrs Lasagne  Oh it could have been a trip to the hospital not just the ground! Goodness!

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Fester has form when it comes to self-injury.

May I direct new readers, or  old ones with a few minutes to spare (or kill), to previous blogs:-

Mind Your Head #1 The Shop Sign 

Mind Your Head #2 The Road Sign 

Mind Your Head #3  Sheffield

Mind Your Head #4 The Twig

 

The Lockdown Project

From Facebook Archives

22 October 2020 at 16.10

Finally finished this short sleeved jumper.

I originally planned to do a sleeveless pullover then realised it's the top of my arms that get cold. But as I almost always push my sleeves up short sleeved seemed the way to go.  I thought solid royal blue would be a bit sombre so decided to liven up the front with some fair-isle style flowers and butterflies, which took ages.

Supercosmic  Wow, love the colours

Squireen  Very smart

Ms Exlibris  Lovely

Miss Drew  Well impressed Ben

Bentonbag   Fanny Och gave me the impression I was useless at needlework!

Bess Cavalier  Love the flower banding. I’m a sleeve pusher-upper as well.  Full length sleeves just get in the way.

Bentonbag   If I ever finish dressing all the dementia dollies I'll do myself another - sans fair-isle but I have a 70s lacy pattern I fancy trying.

Ms Elplates  Very impressed.

Dr E  If I were to knit that it would be ready in 10 years!!

Mrs Quilt  You've found your graph paper exercise book then!  Looks really cheerful.   

A very successful project.

Bentonbag  Actually all the motifs came out of "Kids Knits" but the scanner/printer proved invaluable in copying out and expanding the right bits of the page.

Wonderwoman  I'd never have thought of that!

Miss GH  Lovely the blue suits you x

Mrs ER  O gosh you,re exactly like your Mum.  Jumper looks lovely.xx

Mrs Leftfoot  That looks very smart.X

Miss Doozer  That's bloody lovely that

Mrs Jeremy  Wow Ben, is there anything you can't turn your hand to? I love the colour of this jumper!

Bentonbag  I can't ride a bike or grow begonias ...

and I can't do cable knitting either.

Mrs Bun  OMG Bentonbag  I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!! XXX  ME ME ME XXX

Mrs Mobilephone  Lovely Ben xx

Mrs Poet  You look lovely!

Mrs Walker  So creative! Lovely!

Woolerwoman  I'm extremely impressed. Looks great!

Ms Marx  Lovely colour!

Darklady  But well worth the extra effort Ben! It's a reet Bobby Dazzler!

Cousin Daisy  Fabulous so pretty jumper lovely too xx

Bentonbag  You old flatterer you!

Cousin Daisy  always a libran. Ha. Xxx

 

Every Picture Tells A Story #2

Bentonbag's most-commented photo on Facebook of 2009, originally taken in 1993, and shared annually when it bubbles up in Facebook Memories...

21 October 2022 at 13.39

This should always, and will, be shared; for the legs if nothing else.

I nicked this off the Kingsmen's website.

It was originally taken by George Boznyak.

Fester* has surprisingly good legs; no wonder he once claimed to have "quite svelte thighs".

The God-daughter  Just bringing back the childhood trauma once a year.

Bentonbag  What else is a god-mother for?

Miss Doozer  The newsprint halftone dots make it look like they're all wearing fishnets.

Bentonbag  They are - that's what traumatised The God-daughter - well that and the miniskirts and hijacking her dad's bikes.

TheGoddaughter  mostly the mini skirts....

*On the left.  The rest know who they are, if you do too then I feel your pain.