St George’s Day and The Bard’s Birthday!

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Anonymous said…

Can't wait to see the greenhouse, hint hint... :-) Really enjoyed the video - we don't have many lilacs around here (Bay Area, California) grew up with Lilacs bordering every single field so miss them and their wonderful smell and all around prettiness in the spring. Elderberries is another one I miss - they are hard to come by, not impossible, but there are far between them.
KJ

24 April 2020 at 19:27

Denise said…

I shall post photos of the greenhouse as soon as it is built, KJ. When that will be, who knows? The lilacs are beautiful at the moment - I spent an hour or so yesterday afternoon sitting amongst them and enjoying their scent. There’s plenty of elder around, too. Just right for making elderflower cordials and champagnes with! If only Andy didn’t have such a tremulous history making elderflower champagne...!!

25 April 2020 at 10:40

Anonymous said…

Oh gosh! I think I remember; did you have a intimate relationship with the ceiling right after!?
KJ

25 April 2020 at 17:27

Denise said…

Well remembered, KJ! All very explosive!

25 April 2020 at 17:36

The Frosted Dawn Enigma

The decorators are in at the moment. Stairs and landing. Given my previous history of 'Hoo Ha Occurring on Stairs ' - reference the Trapped Under the Sofa Incident and the Foot Wedged Between Bookcase and Stair Rise Debacle - I thought it wise to pay for professionals to decorate the stairs and landing rather than get myself in a mix with ladder and plank combinations and achieve the Magic Three of staircase accidents. The decorators are a father and son combo who go by the names of Craig and David. This automatically causes me entertainment. 'Came in on a Monday, prepped, filled and undercoated, back on Thursday, first top coating, by Friday finishing touches...' Okay, not as frisky or well-scanned as the original song, but you get where I'm coming from. Anyway, before they started the job Craig asked what colour I wanted for the walls. 'Same colour as the downstairs walls, please,' said I. 'Dulux Frosted Dawn.' And then white for all the woodw

Day 1 - Decisions Are Made Beyond the Author's Control.

‘Well,’ I say, looking at the expectant faces gathered around the huge table in the Great Dining Hall of Much Malarkey Manor, ‘I didn’t think it was going to happen this year, but it is!’ There is a sharp intake of breath as everyone wonders of what I speak. I’ve been muttering about all sorts recently, and I’m not talking liquorice here either. ‘The Much Malarkey Manor Annual and Traditional Christmas Story!’ I say, and wait for the expulsed air of relief to settle before I continue. ‘I thought we had done it all. I thought we had covered every Christmas story there was. I’ve been wracking my brains for a full two months now, trying to come up with something we haven’t done before and then it hit me! We haven’t done a version of one of the Great Christmas Films of Yore!’ ‘Your what?’ says Mrs Slocombe, who is more interested in the selection of pastries I have brought to this breakfast meeting, because that is what one does, isn’t it? Eat pastries at breakfast mee

Launched!

I was going to wait until tomorrow to launch the ‘Hallo Tarot!’ website, what with tomorrow being 1st July and, therefore, a nice tidy date for a beginning. But this afternoon, I became involved in a flurry of final tidy loose ends activity, and thus ended up cracking the metaphorical bottle of champagne against the ship of which I am Captain and whoosh! Off she went into the World Wide Web! You can find it here : www.hallotarot.co.uk The blog is moving there, too, so unless things go horribly wrong, this will be the last entry here. I hope to see you on the other side then! Let me know what you think.

Oh, My Days!

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