Re: Diary summary week ending 13th April 2025

[brigidmac]

enjoyable book club the theme was biographies and we discussed an incredible variety from Claudia Winkleman. Fred Astaire ,Theresa May .Dirk Bogarde. Jane Austen ,The knitting bishop of leicester (Richard Rutt ).
a south korean lady ,a newsreader & a child of missionaries in china ..forgotten their names

im eating my pack up in quiet library garden with just the birds for company.

Will go on to comedy club ..want to show off my sweaing talk to my mentor tho i dont have the script on me   

[Viktoria]

Well had Covid jab,then to opticians to pick up specs with new lens, my frames.
£273 !
I will have to go to Specsavers ,I like to have two,pairs so I have one pair to wear wear when I have lost the other pair!

Asked Nurse re a wasp sting on my neck .I had chased a wasp. Or some wasps one at a time yesterday,well it if was one of them it got me last night.
I have a “ sting pen “ but quite old now,so applied it anyway and also dabbed with ammonia  - no big painful throbbing lump ,just a small one a bit itchy.

Got a few plants,a lupin  a Salvia and something I will have look at to remember its name.!Special offer at Morrisson’s —— they will probably die.!
Glorious afternoon ,” lunched “ie,cheese and crackers,chutney and an apple.
Out in the sunshine underneath the still small apple tree that has a good number of buds .

Grandson , grand daughter in law, Flash Harry and Kyra up on 16 th,son must be at head office so he will miss them .

Hope all are having some lovely sunshine ,
we need it after the miserable wet winter.
Look after yourselves and thanks f or your kind wishes.
Viktoria.

[brigidmac]

i was late to comedy club and they were preparing for launch of a new book of poems by mental health patients .
we get to read some of them on camera . & 4 people at the actial launch on 24th
my chosen one was " pancake day

Our  mentor let me perform part 1 of swearing ; phonetics lesson  b/p
v/f.& g/k
the second sound in each pair being aspirated makes more powerful expletives in many languages

they also liked the childrens ditty

mums out. dads out lets talk rude

"be bo. belly .bum  drawers "

i let on that i dont know what bebo  is supposed to be .

i the evening i was very sleepy anf forgot that i had a zoom with a writers group

we re following a book / method which has a reputation of helping people overcome writers block .
its called " the artists way " by julia Cameron( or Campbell  )

A smoke  alarm in hallway floor above has been going off since 5.30 am !
i got up checked there was no actual smoke ...texted neighbours and made myself some hot soya + half a baked potato

theres no bread in the house
& the rice pudding i prepared last night wasnt cooked enough
will try to go back to sleep for an hour .

Viktoria stop chasing wasps they are vengeful creatures.
i dont remember what my beekeeper friend puts on stings its a cream + works immediately

last year a gang of wasps killed a lit of his bees

[Gillg]

I think it's vinegar for wasp stings and bicarb of soda in a paste for bees. Some like to use honey, preferably Manuka honey for bee stings!  Pull the sting out, if you can, and wash the wound.  Use ice before treating. 

Keep clear of wasps, as they can come back and sting repeatedly and bees can only sting once. 

[ThrelfallYorky]

I was told "Winigar for Wasps" is the way to remember it.
TY

[Viktoria]

Yes,That is how I remember it T.Y.
In Victorian times,Dickens wrote about ,many characters use a W in place of a V,—- wery, wictuals.

I must say the ammonia really worked.
Victoria.

[ThrelfallYorky]

Dickens always amused me - except in "Pickwick Papers", which I found a real bore and letdown when I first - and last time - read it. Sam Weller was not my favourite character - or was Mr Pickwick himself, I may add.
TY