Tuesday 19 March 2024
DIY
Monday 18 March 2024
Stéphane Grappelli - Honeysuckle Rose - vers 1959
Sunday 17 March 2024
Seal of Approval.
Saturday 16 March 2024
Prince Buster, Enjoy Yourself
Friday 15 March 2024
Guess the location.
Thursday 14 March 2024
Fashion.
If you tell them that covering your arms, legs, neck, and hands with tattoos, is really cool; they'll do it.
If you tell people that when they leave their house/flat they must have a rucksack, mobile phone, water bottle, cardboard cup of coffee, and earphones, they will do exactly as you say.
If your young son is told by his school mates that he has to wear £250 'trainers' or they'll never speak to him again, you buy them at once.
If you are told that puce is the new black, you wear puce.
Now this one will really make you laugh. Someone in Taiwan had this great idea. They will slash brand new jeans with a Stanley Knife, rough them up a bit in a concrete mixer filled with pebbles, and then charge you an extra £500 for the pleasure (as they now look like a tramp has been wearing them for a few years), someone, somewhere, will buy them and actually wear them outdoors in the open. Yes, there's one born every minute.
Wednesday 13 March 2024
My 30 Greatest Pleasures (not in any order of preference).
2. Unsophisticated local red wine (either Merlot or Cabernet).
3. Paintings by Matisse, Derain, Kitaj, and Augustus John.
4. Lady M's Tarte Tatin (above).
5. My 3 gorgeous children, and my 6 gorgeous grandchildren.
6. My house (as it was).
7. My village (as it was).
8. Instrumental Ska music.
9. Meat.
10. Haddock's (my old veg' garden).
11. Christmas Day.
12. Latin.
13. Monty and Bok (our dogs), and Freddie the Cat (now all deceased). And, of course, now Billy too.
14. Dark green glazed 'Biot' pottery.
15. French 18th C country furniture.
16. Fresh eggs from our hens.
17. Sunshine.
18. Patchouli.
19. Beer accompanied by Pork scratchings.
20. Pork pies.
21. Log fires.
22. Home made bread.
23. Strong blue (and other) cheese.
24. Writing.
25. Driving.
26. Kissing pretty girls.
27. Eating out.
28. Getting up in the morning without any aches or pains.
29. Hearing our church bells.
30. And finally;..... Swimming.
I shall now be going around, for the rest of the week, thinking of all the things I've forgotten.