Lovely morning ....
bed up at 08.45. I'm feeling almost 'bright eyed and bushy tailed'; compared to what I have been like, for the past couple of days. Anyway, it's a bonnie morning here in KY9.... a good drying day, for the downie cover that is going through the washing machine as I type.
20.00 I have a bit of Buddleia growing on the front wall, normally I have cut it back as soon as it gets going, but this year I haven't been able to do that; anyway (more about 'anyway' later) I'm glad that I didn't prune ir.... it was living up to it's name thus afternoon ... the Butterfly Bush! At one point it had three Painted Lady's, a Peacock, and a Red Admiral feeding on the flowers. It was too windy to get a decent photograph of them on the bush, but I got one of a Painted Lady, basking on the patio. The Painted Lady's we see just now are migrating to Africa; being the offspring of the (faded) Painted Lady's that arrived, from Africa, in the Spring.
I'm missing 'The Troops'; Henry and Austin certainly brightened up Ivy Cottage; I only hope that I haven't passed this bug onto them. Anyway (there it is again... the word 'anyway'). I will explain!
I used to get a lady from Canada phoning me up accidentally, and we ended up chatting for a few minutes, every time she dialled the wrong number! Anyway, this went of for a good few months and I began to worry about her phone bill. By this time I knew that her son and family lived in Crail so i asked her his name; I forget what it was now, but I looked it up the phone book (there was only one number; a '3' of difference) and got in touch with him, to explain the situation... and that I was worried about her phone bill. Her son sorted out the problem and I stopped getting the phone calls! That lady Bless Her, began a lot of her sentences with 'anyway' and I think that's where it comes from; every time I type it I think of her! I never knew her name; but I sort of miss her phone calls! Now I'm wondering how she is getting on. It's a funny old World!
I'm going to have a cuppa, take a couple of pills; and catch up wi' the News.
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| My Soduko board. |
Which I have done today. The 'plan' is to take it easy and concentrate on Soduko's. Mind you, the ones I'm on, just now, are hard.
When I was watching the News earlier I got round to thinking how 'small' our Mother Earth has become. A mass shooting in Bangkok, is news around the World in minutes. That's modern communication! Another item that caught my eye was Meta being fined £490 odd million for young children being able to connect with undesirable material on the internet. That's just a drop in their 'ocean of profits'.
