If my counting is correct, this post keeps things on target It was a long day yesterday and I didn’t post in the evening, but I had a some posts in hand, which has enabled me to keep on target and reflect on the value of advance planning.
I disgraced myself in the morning by getting Julia to the doctor three minutes late. I thought the appointment was for 8.10 when it was actually for 7.50. In everyday speech that is ten to eight and ten past eight – an easy mistake to make if you aren’t listening to your wife as intently as you should be. Or as intently as she says I should be. Her opinion is that I only listen to her if she talks about coins, medals or food.
This is true – I do only listen when she’s talking about interesting things. Fortunately I didn’t say this aloud or I may have needed a doctor too.
We went to Swineshead and Sibsey after the appointment, two villages in the Lincolnshire Fens. The Fens were not at their best, with it being a generally dull and depressing day. On a bright day, with the famously large skies of the Fenlands (no hills to block the view) and lots of fluffy cloud you can’t beat the Fens. On a grey day there isn’t much to recommend them.
Sibsey War Memorial
The afternoon improved when we dropped down to Peterborough for tea and cake with my father to celebrate his 91st birthday. We were a few days early but it was close enough. I didn’t even mind being beaten at dominoes by Julia. Let’s face it, there is nothing that cake can’t improve. Apart from diabetes.
The snowdrops are starting to show, tempting me into thinking winter is over. In fact, as I know from experience, the worst is yet to come, though we have been remarkably fortunate this year.
Snowdrops at Sibsey
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I usually like your ‘dull posts’ which could mean that they are actually good, or that I’m from Yorkshire 😂 Anyway I liked this (said with conviction) 😀
Thank you. It may be that you are part of my target demographic… 🙂
Apart from the weather, what was dull about the post? And that is not an invitation to write it all out again.
🙂 It was just going the long way round before seeing Dad and failing to do much. Things will get more ineterstinmg – one of my tetth, for instance, is playing up and that’s always good for a few posts .
Perhaps good for filling
It needed doing – the longest journey starts with a single step etc.
That snowdrop photo is amazing. Of course, so are snowdrops.
Yes, the snowdrops are the stars, I merely point a fully automatic camera at them and bring the picture home. The days when photography was a difficult, expensive and disappointing hobby are way behind me. I love the ease, and economy, of digital cameras.
Yup. I remember getting two or three excellent shots off a roll of 24. Still, I like film once in a while.
You can’t beat the thrill of a week waiting and the glossy photos in a paper packet…
Or the disappointment at the inelegant results. 🙂
The snowdrops look beautiful! Tomorrow will be better, Quercus. 🙂
Tomorrow always has that possibility. 🙂
Bearing in mind the start of the day, that defeat at dominoes might have been a very good idea.