Don't forget to turn off your phones tomorrow at 3pm unless you want to be alarmed by the new Government National Warning Alarm! Goodness only knows what they are doing it for - preparing for the next National Emergency we are told. I think I'd prefer not to know! Conspiracy theorists are having a fun time explaining all the things it could be used for!
The weather has been more spring-like this week, although with some very cold East winds at times, and I got the grass cut again, several loads of washing dried outside (there's more washing after visitors!) and seedlings have been moved out into the greenhouse now, although I'm covering them with fleece each night just in case. As usual there are far too many of most things although I only have one cucumber plant so far as I'm trying to stagger sowing and therefore production (if it works).
I've been 'watching' snooker all week, it's the World Championship from the Crucible in Sheffield. Always on at this time of year but something happened on Monday that hadn't happened before. Two people leapt out of the audience and one got on one table and chucked orange dye all over it, and on the other side of the auditorium a woman tried to glue herself to the other table. They were soon removed by stewards - apparently they were the anti-oil protestors? What idiots -hardly bringing sympathy to their cause from the audience and the people watching on TV.
Two days earlier animal rights protestors had broken through barriers at Aintree trying to get onto the Grand National course. They were removed and the race was held up for quite a while - adding to the stress of the horses and probably having the effect of helping to cause all the falls at the first jumps and to one of the horses having to be destroyed. There were certainly more fallers this year than for several years after the jumps and course were modified a few years ago to make it safer for horses and their jockeys.
I said 'watching' snooker because I tend to read at the same time and just keep half an eye on the score. I've really enjoyed .........
This is the third book of diaries from his second-hand bookshop in Wigtown, Scotland. I would love to visit Scotland's Town of Books again, but it's a bit of a trek from Suffolk! Last time I checked the library catalogue they didn't have his book "Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops" but now they have and I've ordered it. If you enjoy rootling around through second-hand books you would probably enjoy reading these.
I learned another reason for not wanting to have an electricity smart meter this week - apparently a smart meter can be altered to a pre-payment meter making people pay in advance for their electric - without the customer knowing! I knew I was doing the right thing refusing one for as long as possible!
There was a special Parish Council meeting on Wednesday evening and I went along to add my objection to an application for building of stables on a piece of land across the road. The access they want is on a sharp corner and no one can understand why they didn't apply for permission earlier when they got permission to build two new bungalows just along the road. Will they want to turn the stables into a house later? Creeping Planning Permission can be a problem. The Parish Council have refused permission, unfortunately the District Council could over-ride that - We all wait to see what happens next.
Anything else of note happened? Keep Moving Group, swimming, shopping and found this in old comments
Dear Sue - I'm not sure if you'll ever see this, but many moons ago you were kind enough to review my first book (as above) - A Hidden Home in the Gwydir Forest - and several of your followers made comments and hopefully read the book! In fact, it's now out of print despite having been reprinted once. My second memoir is now out, and tells the tale of our next adventure in Malta. If you're interested, I now have a website with all the details: www.janetcorkebooks.co.uk
I hope you're keeping well and many thanks!
Best wishes,
Janet
and suddenly it's the end of another week............again.
Have a good weekend I'll be back Monday
Sue