Friday, July 25, 2008
26th July quiet day at home.
This has been another quiet day.
There was some wrapping of parcels to be done, ready for successful bidders on EBay.
But that was after we were busy before breakfast. Bill got the hose pipe out to water the gardens and I did a bit of tidying and dead heading with the secateurs.
I took a few pictures in our tiny back garden.
Bill has now booked a boat to take us to the Isle of Wight for a day with Ashley and Ekatarina. Somehow it just about turned out cheaper to take the car over than go as foot passengers. And of course having the car gives us greater flexibility. If we had left the car on the mainland there would have been parking charges and then on the Isle of Wight there would have been bus fares for for the non old people - Bill and I have bus passes of course.
Now we have to hope for a day without rain.
Bill has fixed the 2 pictures of Chinese women to the long wall on the stairs and the old dragons have come down.
They have been there for almost 40 years - but nothing ever need be a permanent fixture, and they very much belong to an earlier time in our lives.
Though I am not sure how long the Chinese pictures will stay.
This evening we have been watching the big athletics meeting from Crystal Palace, remembering the days of old when we rarely missed a big meeting with all its atmosphere. Even better were the few times when we were timekeepers at bigger meetings. I shall soon make a cup of tea and we shall catch up with The Tour de France, which we recorded earlier.
The cyclists arrive in Paris on Sunday.
Now for some garden pictures. Remember to click onto them to make them bigger if you would like to see them in their full glory!
