Monday 17 September 2012

Is it really that long since I did this?

Thing is, th'Limpits was actually quite good, especially the bit where we won stuff, but on a serious note, Seb Coe? Boris Johnson - what the freaking hell does he take to get like that and THAT hair, he must have got it from some obscure DIY shop, you know the sort, they sell individual nails and screws and they put things in brown paper bags still. 

BUT, the best moment was Gideon getting the bird from 80,000 in th'Limpit stadium - whose dumb idea was that, "Yes George, good PR, go to th'Limpits and stand out in the open with a gold trinket. That'll sort out all the problems and send us flying high in th'Pinion Polls." And one last thing before th'Limpits gets to Rio (what will they do with the kids on the streets this time?) if Cammo claims the Volunteers as an example of the Big Society one more time, I shall... Well, I shall! 

See, the thing is, people have "volunteered" to help others since time immemorial. From doing a bit of shopping for a sick or elderly, or both, neighbour to helping out on the school PTA to collecting jumble for some obscure cause you believe in or, wait for it, some needy political party that is struggling for support. Here is a Party Political Broadcast on behalf of the Lickle People Party (that's the Lib-Dems to you, 'cos at the next election that's what they'll be, Lickle... And if they actually call themselves The Lickle People Party they might just get a few sympathy votes.)

Since I was last here I have picked up two more gardens and have a very healthy full few weeks up 'til the end of October, which is good, as I have missed so many days over the summer - what summer? - don't think I've been so wet so frequently. Wetter than a wet thing that's been swimming, forgot their towel and then walked in the rain without a coat or umbrella-ella-ella-ella...

Anyhoo - why do I say that? Anyhoo, here be some pictures from the last six weeks or so:


Our own garden, looking  a tad unloved...

...bit of hedge trimming at home, busman's hols!!!

Some of the trees at Rebecca's in Quainton

Occasional work in Hudnall, just outside Berkhamsted - this
and next two shots



The new "big" house. This place is a beauty, about a mile from home and has so much grass and so many hedges they have one bloke to do the grass, one to do the hedges and me, to do the rest...

I actually trimmed this hedge, the longest single hedge I think
I've ever done. About 80 metres long - that pen houses the
pig, no not Boris or Osbourne, The Pig, see below...


I trained this clematis in the Spring - and it did what it was told

Tom & Vicky's place in Aldbury. I'm going to get rid of most of the gravel and enlarge the lawn area. Lawd knows when, but hopefully before the end of Autumn

A long bed at the new "big" house. Before...

The Pig...

A long bed at the new "big" house. After


New lawn needed methinks. Quainton again

The new "big" house.. Awright for some eh?


Me new bezzie. She's very old and very blind, bless...
So, there you have it, apologies for so many new pix, but I have been most neglectful during these past few weeks and felt the need to catch up.

Oh yeah, Th'Aralimpits, what an inspiration; what a cornucopia of togetherness; what a delight to see Ellie Simmond's smile again. Blind football? Wheelchair rugby? Archery without arms? You couldn't make it up...

Happy whatever!

Si-Botic







11 comments:

  1. I want that pig and anyhoo is a very irritating word.

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  2. I like the word 'anyhoo'.
    Maybe you are just easily irritated?

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  3. i am on the fence with it, with a slight tendency towards liking it.. like a bird on the wire i spose. did you see the pig on the wire during the olympischeiße? boris johnson i mean, that was the best bit, apart from the spontaneous booing of wee georgie osborne of course

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  4. I have to say I find it mildly irritating, bit like when people start an answer to a question, "So..." - Will I Am does it all the time.

    Yes Boris stuck on the wire was cool, but Gideon getting the bird was excellent. I think Michael Gove should have gone to the pool and dived in with lots of heavy objects in hie pockets, now that would have been beautiful...

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  5. Oh I like Nick Clegg on Autotune... What fun!

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  6. Simon is irritated by the word Wilf. But at least that is a proper word. Anyhoo is not.

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  7. Anyhoo is a proper word to me because, irritatingly, I can't seem to stop myself from using it.
    I thought that Wee Georgie getting booed was one of the Olympic highlights, without doubt. And I wish people had started shooting when the pig was on the wire.
    We went t'Paras and when Claire Doodah, you know that horsey woman, came on to present some medals, the whole stadium erupted into ecstatic applause. It was was like Nelson Mandela had walked in and I couldn't work out why.

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