Gardening Disaster

Who knew?
The lovely plants that I have been encouraging...the looky likey  periwinkles, the  surely maybe are hollyhocks, the viola looking things... nope,they are none of the above, they are all WEEDS!
How would I have  known?
 Hedgerow Plants is what I have called them the last two days...
But actually weeds.
Am going to have to pull them all out and start again.
This is VERY upsetting.
The Hubby thinks this is very funny.
Maybe I will leave him and go and live in a country where I know what weeds  actually look like and he can stay here and do the fecking gardening seeing as he did live here till he was 26 and has an Oxford degree and I left here when I was three and  had no idea about plants apart from Bill and Ben  The Flowerpot Men and Little Weed?

50 SHADES OF GREY

When everyone on the tube/train/bus/ waiting room is reading it, when it has outsold Harry Potter, when it is on sale in Tesco on 2 for one, well, you just have to give it a try?
The genre is called clit  lit  , which amuses me no end.
Husbands all over the world already hate Christian Grey , who is Rich, Sexy, Vulnerable, Kinky, Dominating, Handsome, has a Jet, Yacht, Helicopter, R8...

I know The Hubby hates the very mention of him...
Hee Hee

All the podcasts are talking about it, all the TV shows..
Porn has never been so out there for women..
Have no idea how I feel about this.

Lindsay Loo was somewhat shocked when I gave my copy to Dr Lauren.

You really have to give it a try..literature it is not..amusing and somewhat  fascinating...

Sometimes you just have to say WTF?

Soccer soccer football football

How much longer can it go on?? I have been a fecking SAINT let me tell you. Just wait...Wimbledon starts on monday... There will be NO MORE soccer from then on. And Wayne Rooney is Very Ugly

Health and Safety

Do Not use a weed eater / strimmer without the safety guard. (couldn't figure out the instructions and was impatient to get the weed eating done before it rained again)

Do Not weed eat/ strim without wearing wellington boots.

Luckily I was wearing my largest sunglasses, in this case , safety goggles.

Weedeaters/ strimmers are dangerous things.
 Fuckers whip their cords around your lower legs without warning.

Do not get overenthusiastic about gardening just because the sun is out for more than three hours.

Still and all, apart from that bloody moss, the garden is looking better.
Apart from all the blood on the lawn......

Hat Attack

This is my floofy winter hat. Now that it is summer...well, summer, ha ha ha ,  now that we are in double digits, I no longer need this hat to be hanging on the hat stand. I decided to take our leather jackets, The Hubby's winter parka, and my hat up to the loft.
The loft is accessed by a pull down ladder.
To facilitate things, I put my floofy hat on my head .

Shortly after this, the man who delivers our fish arrived.
It was earlyish, and I was still in my dressing gown and bare feet , for which I apologised.
'Don't worry love' said he, gallantly
'You look lovely'

Half an hour later I went up to the bedroom, caught sight of myself in the mirror... yes, I still was wearing the hat.

Mrs Balls...

Pick 'n Pay

Mrs H.s.ball's Original Recipe Chutney 4...

R 18.49

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£1.69/unit
£0.36/100g  Mrs Balls Original Chutney 470g

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Mrs Balls Chutney Original

Price: £2.59

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Signs...of Madness??

This was spotted on our drive up to Suffolk  , we had to stop in this narrowest of narrow country lanes to take a pic!

Weather again (sorry)

Woke up this morning and said to The Hubby   "Look it's summer! Sunshine!"

"No" he replied  "That is not sun, it's just daylight"
Sadly, he was right.
Anyone who watched the Jubilee Celebrations will see that summer is not upon us.
As I am typing this, it is 11C and raining.
Tomorrow doesn't look so great either.
But, let's look on the bright side, apparently if it continues to rain like this until December, the drought will be over!
Yay!

Jubilation

Always, in South Africa, the discussion ran on the lines of when would the Queen give up already and let Charles, or even William , be King?

It was never more obvious than over this Jubilee Celebration , that the answer is never.

The Queen took a Solemn and Holy Vow, she will be Queen until she dies.
And to see her over this holiday, the unshaken belief she has that this is her absolute duty, sanctioned by God, is unmistakable.

Of course, 2 posts ago I did say summer was here, so what do I know? She may just say 'Fuck It' tomorrow morning , stay in bed and let Charles take over....

I have , though , never seen anything as amazing as the show put on over this long Bank Holiday weekend. The Poms do this kind of thing better than anyone else .
At the end of that magnificent concert, when 100 000 people sang God Save The Queen, I was 'totes emosh' (as the Essex Girls say)
A tearful rendition of the National Anthem was delivered by me, towards the Queen on the TV
(standing, of course, couldn't help myself)

Note: Must learn that bloody second verse!

The nation held its breath when Sir Elton sat down at the piano...would he play Candle in the Wind? Can you just imagine?

Those who thought Grace Jones and Stevie Wonder were mad and/or drunk, may not have realised that the same day of the concert was actually the Queen's official birthday.

Lenny Henry has given his last performance ever I think, after that cringeworthy appearance, but Gary Barlow is up for a knighthood for sure!
Loved it  (even the bad bits)
Was a very Proud Pom.

Thank goodness we can get back to normal now, oh, no, forgot..it's the Olympics...