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Nothing!

Nothing!

I was going to write a post about our last day trip but I had to postpone it because we went off on a 3 day trip from which we have just returned. :cool:

So I'm not posting anything here but just letting you know what you've missed. :twisted:

I will post about our day trip then I'll post about the latest 3 day trip and I'll give you a clue to where that was. It's a Mere 173 miles from home. :razz:

So this is really just a post about nothing. :banana:)

 

A pile of words

A pile of words

I have very many words buried in my memory somewhere but I can't always reach the ones I want and even if I could, a pile of words doesn't necessarily produce prose. In my case it seldom does so you have to put up with what you get.

Now do try not to doze off while I'm talking to you.

A week ago last Sunday the weather forecast for the following day, for our planned day trip, was good but by the following morning it wasn't good so we postponed. Yesterday, a week later, the forecast for today was good but by this morning it wasn't good so we postponed. Haven't I heard that somewhere before?

The weather forecasters can't get their forecasts right until about an hour beforehand and at present we seem to be promised only one good day a week and that often doesn't materialise. We have three day trips planned when (if) we get some good weather. October perhaps?

Meanwhile I'm keeping on with the exercise I started on the 1st August. One and a half miles every day and I don't know how long this regime is going to last. I do the same circuit each time because it's convenient and today I took my camera for an outing.

There's a lot of wheat, or corn as it used be called when I was a lad, about in the fields around here.

I've just discovered that I can do something a little different with this blog (how long have I been writing it?). Try clicking on the pictures. Is it worth the effort?

So there'll be a day trip coming up sometime but don't hold your breath. :cool:

75%

75%

Well I've completed 75% so only 25% to go (I'm 75 today)! :???:

It's not going to be long before I find the camera too heavy to lift. Besides, holding a camera in one hand and a walking frame in the other and things start to get tricky. :bawl:

Maybe I should retire? :cool:

Today we had visitors; about 25,000 of them!

Today we had visitors; about 25,000 of them!

We had visitors today. As there were so many we didn't want them in the house so they hung around the garden.

I happened to go out of the back of the house just after lunch and as soon as I opened the door I heard a noise that I recognised immediately from past experience.

It was a swarm of honey bees (Apis melifera) settling in one of our trees. The air was full of flying bees for a while but they all gradually settled down until there were only a few flying and then I took this picture.

I went out again to look at them again in the early evening only to find that they had moved on.

We could easily have missed them altogether had I not gone into the garden when I did and they didn't even say goodbye. :cry:

Just to show that people don’t always avoid us.

Just to show that people don’t always avoid us.

Last Thursday we went to the Tourism and Leisure Show which covers the south-east corner of England and discovered a few places we didn't know about.

We called at the Essex Writers' stand and found ourselves in a group photograph. There's only one person with a beard so I suppose it must be me.

We called at various stands for Kentwell Hall, Colne Valley Railway, East Anglian Railway Museum, Hylands House and arranged to visit them sometime. We knew about these places but just haven't got around to arranging visits yet.

We also visited the Barleylands stand and arranged to visit them sometime. They had some of the cutest chickens I've ever seen with a rather elaborate 'hair do' in a cage.

One of the places we didn't know about was Hole Park Gardens and going by the photographs we were shown it looks as though they have some lovely gardens. We spoke to someone on the Isle of Wight stand and talked about fossils and, no, I wasn't one of them.

So now we have even more places to visit. We need more time. :bawl: