So many things to write about, but I’ve done most of them to death.
Julia is having a good time and should be back in UK tomorrow. This is good as it will be nice to see her again, but it is bad as it involves a day of housework tomorrow. I’ve mostly caught up but I really ought to make it look better than it was before she went. At the moment it just looks as if it’s been tidied in a hurry and everything has been moved round.
Today’s soup was good and has all gone now. I involved more onion than usual and about a foot of celery.
Wingfield Manor – tower
I bought a helping hand from Amazon. It’s getting harder to pick stuff up and I should have got one months ago, maybe years.
Today I did some complicated things, and neglected to do some of the simpler things. I really need to make myself a list as there are things I need to do now so that they are definitely done by the autumn.
Last night I watched a programme about Philip Larkin and John Betjeman. Then I watched John Betjeman on Metroland. There’s something quite painful about Metroland. It’s partly a sense of loss, partly a realisation that even if I had tried to gain admission to it, I would not have been accepted. It is the same feeling I got from watching the earlier programme. I wouldn’t have fitted in with Larkin and Betjeman – I lack the upper class accent and the Oxford education.
A Jackdaw
Pictures are from various May outings over the years,
There are too many accents on TV. Some I can’t follow. And too much mumbling. I have a 1p coin resting on the wall underneath the back of my desk. As it is of such little value it can stay there.
Yes, the drive to include regional accents seems to produce some strange gibberish and as you say, too much muttering. My new helping hand, with magnet, will make short work of the new penny coins (made from plated steel) but anything made before 1992 is bronze and non-magnetic.
That is useful information my friend
My ex boss in the coin shop goes through his change with a magnet and puts all the bronze ones to one side as they are worth more than face value. It is currently illegal to scrap them but if they demonetarise them, as they keep talking of doing, he will be on a profit. That is how the rich get richer . . .
🙂 “ex boss” must roll nicely off the tongue
It does have a comforting ring to it. 🙂
Fitting in is also partly a state of mind. You have value, just as much as someone with the “right” accent and an Oxford education.
I know that, but do they? 🙂
Probably a mix of those who understand the inequities along with those who do not.
Yes, some will, some won’t.
We have one of those gadgets. They can be very handy.
Yes. I should have bought one a while go. I have now fallen off my typing chair twice when sitting and trying to pick something up from the floor. The castors can be tricky . . .
We have one too we inherited from Rick’s mother.
Looks like I’m joining some sort of club! 🙂