When I got back from developing photos, my brother-in-law who lives in the other side of the semi collared me before I got inside, and lead me to the mini-garden between the parking space and the pavement. I say “mini-garden”: it’s a triangle of ground with poor, thin soil. Having tried other things, I planted nasturtiums there, since they would survive. I love nasturtiums. Admittedly, most people here regard nasturtiums…
Up again, to do the Galileo for the first time. Nobody fainted, thank goodness. But I need to work on the timing a bit.
And what does he want for his birthday? “Just more Peace & Love. It would be really cool if everyone, everywhere, wherever they are, at noon on July 7 make the peace sign and say ‘Peace & Love’.” That sounds like a much better present than a pair of socks and a dodgy tie.
Well I feel I’ve been rather productive today. Two loads of laundry Handwashing Scrubbed the kitchen An hour’s ironing Sorted through my son’s T shirts and removed the ones that are too small One page of translation A ton of email Found a couple of new markets Finished my son’s passport application Got a present ready for my son’s teacher Nagged my son into a thank you note for his…
We moved into this house almost five and a half years ago. And I’ve finally got all the banisters varnished. To be fair to myself, I got the ones at ground level done years ago, but since then there’s always been something more urgent to do first. And of course banisters are almost entirely awkward little corners, so it wasn’t a small job. In fact I started ten days ago,…
Today was the annual water fight at my son’s school. In previous years he forgot to tell me in advance, and I’d get a sad phone call at 11 am. “Mum! PLEASE bring my water gun and swimming trunks!” This year he remembered about it the day before. Which was a very good thing, because his big water pistol was broken. He’s had this water pistol for years, and it’s…