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A Day Out

 

Cormorant at Budby Flash

As days go, it was much the same as many other days. We did the same thing we had done one Wednesday a month ago, and in a similar drifting fashion, We really should, as we also said last time, plan our Wednesdays better.

The only thing of note was that Julia was woken by a phone call. One of her clients is in trouble with the  police. It woke me too, but I managed to fall asleep before the end of the conversation.

We went to the gardens to check on something Julia thought she might have forgotten to do on Tuesday, but she hadn’t. My life gets more and more like Alice in Wonderland. In this case, however, the label on the bottle would say “Drive Me“.

Cormorants

We also filled up with fuel, had a drive in the country (birch leaves are looking yellow in places and most fields seem to have been harvested) and had tea and cake. I continue to have poetic urges and was also able to give Julia a brief taster of my miniature medal presentation.  I have the framework and now I need to finish the slides and photography before making the final notes and setting up the display stands. I should have time, but I know from experience that it just melts away.

Julia said the presentation was boring, but added that it wasn’t my presentation that was at fault, merely the subject. It is, I believe, good to have honesty in marriage, but not too much.

I am going to use Cormorants in the photos today, to balance up the swans from yesterday.

Cormorants at Clumber

Tea and Cake – British Penicillin

I’m feeling creative again. Sloth and low temperatures put me out of the game for a bit, but an extra layer of clothing, a little heat and some reading has put me back in there. Mainly the reading. After a lazy month and a few weeks of experiments with hibernation I opened up Blithe Spirit when it arrived yesterday and felt something happen. Sparks danced from synapse to synapse and ideas seeped from cell to cell. Ideas appeared and if my life was an early Disney cartoon, bluebirds would have flown around my head.

It wasn’t just the reading of course. I have a couple of tanka and a haibun in there. They will appear here in due course. There’s nothing like seeing yourself in print for getting you going again.

We had a delivery from a charity shop yesterday and one of the lots is around 250 envelopes addressed to the Elvis Presley Fan Club. The main Presley man in the UK in the 60s was a man called Albert Hand. He only lived about ten miles outside Nottingham and this was a selection of empty envelopes he must have either kept or given to a local stamp collector. It’s an interesting lot and it enabled me to open the sales by asking “Are you lonesome tonight and wondering what to bid on eBay?”

Botham’s Whitby

It’s not quite ready for going live yet, but if say I managed to get another half dozen song titles in you will get the idea of the good humour, not to mention puerile glee, that filled the shop this afternoon. Unfortunately, none of the envelopes have been marked “Return to Sender”.

Meanwhile, customers continue to be irritating. One has refused to collect a package from his local post office in the US and it will soon becoming back to us. eBay will, of course, take his side because they always side with the customer, and we will lose the £15 postage fee. Another is claiming that his parcel hasn’t been delivered, despite the fact it was delivered and paid for a month ago. We will win that case as we have proof of delivery, but why should we have to spend time proving it? Time is money and in the case of a £20 sale the profit probably isn’t worth the time we spend on it.

To lift my mood I will post more pictures of tea and cake. Tea and cake can be very uplifting.

Tea and Eccles Cakes at Bempton Cliffs