Re: Diary summary week ending 29th June 2025

[Viktoria]

The Emmanuels were not the right designers for such a traditional occasion -  mind you many of Diana’s later outfits were dreadful ,she looked like a reformed pirate in one!
I think she chose  the  Emmanuels though .

Ah well , all water under the bridge now.
Viktoria.

[radstockjeff]

Had Mark and Erica down from London for the weekend (my birthday!). They came Friday evening and then yesterday spent a lot of time tidying up the back garden area.
I had ordered a skip and thought, when it arrived, we will never fill that! But we did- and more besides.
They did a jolly good job and made the place much more pleasant and presentable. I have not been able to do much in the way of physical work in the garden of late. I get a chap in to cut the grss and keep the flower beds tidy, but this was a major exercise.
We then went up to the local Garden Centre and bought some more plants for the various pots. Job very well done and looks so tidy.
I did manage to pot up some tomatoes which I had grown from seed into pots outside so I hope they will survive.
All in all a lovely weekend.
I think next time it will be the garden shed which gets "the treatment!"

[Viktoria]

Well done,Jeff, it is such a good feeling when a big job like that is behind you.

I sorted out some clothes which are much too big for me now.
Not yet gone to the charity shop and gradually one or two are making their way back into wardrobes! ——-it is not me!

Well we have certainly not had a heat  wave up here in the frozen North!
Mild and cloudy mostly .
 
At Rochdale Hospital tomorrow early,  for an iron infusion.
Quite painless just a fag .

Daughter phones every Monday ,so will get more news of Flash Harry and Kyra and baby Lily who has discovered the delights of a baby bouncer thingy — like a sling seat so no weight on her legs but her toes just touch  the floor and she pushes up with her toes and bedoing bedoing bedoing , loves it- shrieks with delight.
Eating a very wide selection of food and can feed herself with a spoon ,it seems very early to me ,but I can’t remember when my three managed that.
She us eight months now .

Must ask if she has started crawling yet
Her Daddy’s Birthday this week so I will be speaking to him and can ask?

Well no news really , so good to read other’s posts.
Cheerio.Viktoria.
I am fed up with Glastonbury !
I must be getting old or something .
Viktoria.

[mare]

Belated cheers and best wishes for your birthday Jeff, an ideal gift of time and labour by family too 

I did expect to see more gulls since we moved so close to beach but haven't really in any great numbers and only a brief visit or two around home so far. Last Sunday while visiting one of several beaches on way home I noticed a few sparrows on the sand below the bank I was viewing from when a lively young dog ran up to them frantically called back by owner, no sooner had they moved away when it broke free and came running back. I had to see what it was after and saw a pile of bread crusts dumped there and was trying to scoff, surprisingly not a gull in sight! As we don't have really harsh winters in my neck of the woods really no need to have a bird table or feeders. No squirrels either, though other vermin attracted by any food source and there are some rats around the rocks of some of the beaches. I have a bird bath or two and enjoy the birds visiting, just the odd scrap out for them now and then that I know will be quickly taken 

Day closing in NZ Monday afternoon, all the best for a new week all round  ....

[ThrelfallYorky]

I didn't watch the Royal wedding "that dress" was designed for - actually had very upset innards that day, slept all day, apparently - but when I saw a news programme, my thought was that the woman had accidentally put on the crumpled tissue paper from the box, and that the actual dress had escaped somewhere!
Never changed that view of it.
TY

[louisa maud]

At the time I worked in a material shop part time, suited the hours with my daughter, as Diana got out of the coach my first words were,   "Michael my boss could have sold her material that didn't crease like that"  it was such a shame.

Off to the new week

LM