Diary summary week ending 20th April 2025

[radstockjeff]

Reciprocated, one and all. rj

[Viktoria]

A lovely sunny morning here North of Manchester at the foot of the Pennines .
Cool as yet.

No idea when son will be back ,probably does not know himself ,with busy roads etc .

Tesco order to come Monday ,I must not have secured my delivery time as I asked for yesterday.
I won’t starve.

Hope everyone has a nice weekend .
 Cheerio, Viktoria.

[Gillg]

Family lunch today, hosted by our ever busy daughter.  No Easter eggs, as she doesn't allow her children to eat sweet stuff.  They have lovely teeth and are healthily slender, as she is.  I will be taking Easter nests, however, and little Lindt rabbits. 

So far it's a warm sunny day.  Tomorrow, in contrast, is forecast to be very wet. 

[Mowsehowse]

Hello all staunch diarists, Happy Easter to you all.

This morning we visited a local National Trust property: "Greenway house" perched high above the river Dart, once the home of the prolific Torquay born author Agatha Christie. We have been many times before, and previously I was able to enjoy the walk from the car park to the house. This time it was a daunting prospect and I was hugely grateful there is a buggy service available on request, so I didn't have to struggle back to the car park when I had already walked quite a lot, (stairs included). It is National Trust policy during school holidays, for an activity to be introduced, in the hopes of engaging child visitors; today I noticed they are being encouraged to write a haiku, taking Spring blossom as inspiration.
Haiku writing was a hobby I used to enjoy, but as with so many things I am no longer proficient following the stroke.
Here is my best effort, and I am hoping for some improvers amongst the readers here:

Silent like snowflakes, (5)
petals dance on the breeze,  (6)
brief beauty destroyed, till Spring returns.  (9)

The construction rules are rigid,
It should be 3 lines containing 5, 7 & 5 syllables, but I can't seem to do it anymore.
I made a book of 21 photos with haiku for a friend. All within the rules. Yet another thing gone !!

I will be glad of suggestions. Enjoy the day.

[Gillg]

Whatever the rules, your little poem was a thing of beauty, Mowsehowse. 

[Mowsehowse]

  What a lovely thing to say Gillg, thankyou, but rules ARE rules!!

[Roobarb]

Good to hear you're getting out and about MH despite your restrictions. I'm afraid the haiku is a bit lost on me so no useful suggestions from me. 

[Viktoria]

We used to get the year three children to try .
Some were very good given the children were seven to eight .
A Japanese poetry form.

I like trying to write poetry ,but haven’t tried for a good while ,must have another go.
Yes it was lovely, what word could we use for 5,6,and 9 syllables?
Let’s have a go to see if we can do something as nice.
Viktoria.

[ThrelfallYorky]

When I was young, Agatha Christie books were the first "grown up" books I and my best friend read. I think they'd not long been out in paperback - and at something less than £1 we could afford to buy them and lend them amongst the group of kids.
I have been less and less satisfied with the various t.v. and film versions over recent years. The first "Miss Marple" I recall was Margaret Rutherford - a splendid character, but so very wrong for that role. Geraldine McEwan was a real blunder, Julia McKenzie fair to middling, but the "real" Miss Marple had to be Joan Higson, didn't it?
Went to "Greenaway" once - terrible weather that day! Seem to recall they wanted you to arrive via the river? Or am I thinking of somewhere else?
TY