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ReplyDeleteLove the sunflowers, and I expect the railings would act as support in windy weather.
DeleteFrance vs Argentina at 10 am and Uruguay vs Portugal at 2pm, these are of course my time zone 😀⚽️😀
ReplyDeleteMsrP and stasia I do hope you have met today! Please tell us all.
ReplyDeleteI asked same at the end of the previous blog. Hope not more than one lady wearing a floppy pink hat though 😊
DeleteRuthy looks sooo relaxing 🍷and cool and needs to be at the moment ! Have you hit the 100 yet , not you personally 🙄 We are around 29 - 30 c here at the moment. Such blue skies and for so long for GB 😂
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DeleteIt is getting hot here. Watched the France vs Argentina on the deck. The deck is in the shade during the morning but full sun in the afternoon. Will either watch the second game at home or out to a local pub. How is everyone doing in this heat?
ReplyDeleteI am fine, but the younger family members are having problems, as live in London using The Tube everyday. As one neice posted at 6.00pm Thursday, - "no air, very hot, 40C and Very Smelly!" She had to endure it for an hour, with so many "strap hanging" (standing up, holding onto a strap from the ceiling to stay steady - up to your imagination).
DeleteI know what they are going through. I had to take the New York City subway Thursday and standing on the platform waiting for the train was oppressive, but thank goodness the trains I took were air conditioned. Hopefully, they get a reprieve this weekend from the Tube.
DeleteOh Miriam I do so remember those strap hanging days in a hot London summer.
DeleteThey are many decades behind me though.
Lovely deck Ruthy.
We call them balconies here, if in a block of flats ( apartments).
It does look as though you are in a block, though very rural in outlook.
Will British Transport ever put Air Con into the London tube trains? - it will be the day when Jazzer's pigs do a fly past.
DeleteI am feeding my lovely cat differently at the moment. She normally eats fully nutricious cat biscuits, but is now having a meat feast, as it contains so much more moisture. This will help with any potential dehydration.
PtbY - I am with you (respond to comment from last post now close.) Checking this blog a few times a day - I am also not on any other social media and happy to stay in touch with my Archer family.
ReplyDeleteStasia approached Mrs P and asked, " are you Mrs P ? "
ReplyDeleteI had practised my answer, which was to be " do you mean Mrs Perkins of Ambridge ? " but forgot and simply said " Stasia "
We moved to the nearby Churchyard and sat on a tombstone and chatted for a very pleasant couple of hours.
For the time being, I will leave any further comment to Stasia.
I can't wait for the next installment. 😀
DeleteWe all know "When Harry met Sally". Now we have the latest Ambridge 4ex episode- "When Stasia met Mrs P".
DeleteDitto to Miriam's comment 👍
DeleteHow lovely. I would have gone to the tea rooms though, rather than the cemetary.
DeleteI think we both intended to do so Mistral, however Stasia had just come from the tearoom, and in the end we forgot to have tea at all.
DeleteI just have to post that my runner bean plants are now in flower. I am busy watering and feeding, but this year I bought a "patio" variety which are planted in a big pot in a corner of the garden. It will be interesting as to what sort of crop will actually grow, if any.
ReplyDeleteHow lovely Miriam I wish I could grow such but I have so many slugs and snails 🐌 and they have the upper hand.
ReplyDeleteMrs P and Stasia how exciting to actually meet. So glad it went well. Did you see Shula tidying up in the graveyard or has she finished her penance now.
I am struggling with the heat and interested to hear I am not alone in disliking the hot weather. Incidentally the circle line tubes are air conditioned these days but I am not sure if any other line has gone that way yet. My suburban trains are definitely not air conditioned and I have been extremely uncomfortable and grumpy getting off them the last couple of days. Thankfully I am only travelling to leisure events and not having to commute to work any more.
I'm finding the heat a great trial at the moment, too, as my legs and ankles start to swell as the temperature goes up. Especially if I am walking around a lot during the day, and if I persist in walking I get something called superficial phlebitis around the bottoms of my legs which the doctor tells me could turn to ulcers if I'm not careful. I have had compression stockings prescribed for me, which help a lot to start with, but by the time the evening comes around, they are so tight and my ankles burn so much that I can't wait to struggle out of them, so I try not to use them unless I have to go out and about a lot. My strategy is no walks for my dogs for the time that the heat lasts. I do as many of the essential activities as possible in the cool of the morning and then feet up in the shade or indoors for the rest of the day and evening. All rather boring, and I shall be running out of books to read soon - at the moment I'm galloping through the final books of the Poldark saga, having only read the first three many years ago and loved them.
ReplyDeleteNow that I am watching Poldark I keep thinking about a visit to the library to get the first book, Suz. So I would be interested in your thoughts.
ReplyDeleteI am another who finds the heat difficult to cope with, but my management strategies seem to be working.
I have spent much of the week inside, but it is a stone house and so cool.
I have erected a form of cage at the back door which is preventing the cat from escaping, plus the little dog very near to that door sitting waiting to see him, and barking madly when she does.
I cannot have any other windows open without shutting him in one room. Fortunately he wants to sleep a great deal, and chooses a corner of my bedroom most of the time. So I am able to air the house when he does so.
I will not go to the garden for more than a few minutes.
If I have to go out I wear a hat, and I wear loose clothes most of the time anyway.
This afternoon we sat in the shade in the church yard.
I was intending to go to a concert this evening, but found that I had neither the energy or the motivation.
So it's the neighbours pots to water and bed.
Hi MrsP, so sorry to be so long answering you, but haven't looked in for a day or so. Poldark novels - wonderful. I would rate Winston Graham with the best of the Victorian novelists - great plots, wonderful descriptions of (my favourite) Cornish landscapes and weather, and brilliant characterisation with three-dimensional characters that have good and bad sides to them throughout. I'd pop down to the library and start on them asap if I were you. Be warned though, there are 12 books in the whole series, and none of them are slight volumes, but I have so much idle 'reading' time at the moment in this heat, that I have been galloping through them at a prodigious rate! Good luck. Also, so glad that you are managing to cope with getting your new furry friend through his first few weeks with you. I'm sure that once he settles it will become easier, and surely the heat can't last all through the summer . . . can it? Although I remember that it did in 1976 - phew, what a summer that was!
DeleteOur dogs are just getting a little walk round the block , about 25mins, first thing in a morning and that’s it. It’s too hot for them. Whilst I’m out in the garden they are all kipping in the living room.
ReplyDeleteI’m also experimenting with watering up on a morning and not on a night. My theory is it’s then not damp enough on the night for the slugs and snails and they don’t venture out into the sun after watering in a morning. So far it seems to be working.
I would do the same, but unfortunately I don't wake up till after the sun is well and truly high.
DeleteThat is a good tip. Gypsy gets me up round about 6 even though I am not a morning person so can water then. I usually try to fit in a siesta in the middle of the day as having roused her humans at that hour she proceeds to sleep most of the day after her morbning walk! We have dispensed with the short evening one for the time being because of the heat. Shouldn’t grumble but will be glad when temperatures fall a bit. I’m so pleased Stasia and Mrs P met up. I would have loved to meet Mrs P when she visited the island but felt the greatest need for her was to be with her family before they go off to Dubai. Incidentally, Mrs P go to visit as unlike us there will be aircon in shops and houses to deal with the heat. We are just not equipped to deal with it!
DeleteEv, I think you've slightly mixed me up with Spiceycushion ( I think) whose grandchildren are off to Dubai.
DeleteMy two still have a London home, and may buy a property in Cornwall.
Though my daughter is now saying that she thinks they will be back on the island at some point in the future.
Ironic, since she deterred me from settling there as, " we won't be here forever "
So sorry to have mixed you up Mrs P. I think it was that both families were on the move at the same time! Hope yours come back to the island. Just keep that pink hat!
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DeleteIt was Archerphile's son and wife and their two sons who were going to Dubai. I remember because I felt great sympathy for her, because my son, who can work anywhere in the world there is internet access, has not long married a Filipino woman. He intends splitting his time between the Philippines and Cornwall, and has just arrived back to see us which us great, but just tell me why he had to fall in love with someone the other side of the world.
DeletePTBY: Interested in the watering tip. I watered my pots this morning and picked one or two snails off the miniature strawberry. I am a morning person so I will continue that strategy. That’s another trial with the hot weather as the neighbours like to sit outside late in the summer and I like to sleep early but when it is hot I can hear them through the open window. I have to resort to ear plugs. Will be off very soon...
ReplyDeleteMrs P Pleased to hear your cat is settling in 🐱
Ruthy’s Deck looks wonderful - wish I was there!
ReplyDeleteSpent this evening picking raspberries and black currants in the garden - much too hot during the day. Was astounded to get 10 lbs of blackcurrants off of one bush.
Spent rest of evening picking off the stems and discarding leaves and I now have purple fingers! There is only so much jam I can make so goodness knows what I shall do with the rest of them. Much prefer the raspberries which are delicious and freeze really well.
I have not heard black currents before. I googled it and found that thet grow in the American northwest. I will order a bag and try them, but can only get them dried. What do these taste like? Are they sweet or tart?
DeleteTart Ruthy !
DeleteArcherphile I would have thought you could freeze black currents too.
Worth a try I would think.
I froze most of the raspberries I picked at the farm.
I freeze in batches on a plastic tray, then bag them up all together. Easy to stuff in awkward spaces in the freezer like peas.
Archerphile, I freeze most of my blackcurrants. I just put them loose (washed and dried) into bags or boxes and pop them into the freezer. Then when I want a blackcurrant tart in the winter, I can tip them out - they come out like tiny black marbles, and defrost and cook in the tart as it bakes. Same with gooseberries and red currants.
DeleteBlackcurrants are tart rather than sweet with a very distinctive flavour. They make wonderful tart jam, delicious on newly baked brown bread! They are also a key ingredient of our famous Summer Pudding..... line a Pudding basin with overlapping slices of white bread. Lightly stew a mixture of soft fruit (black and red currants, raspberries, blackberries etc) with sugar or sweetener. Put mix into centre of basin and top with more slices of bread to make a lid. Pop a saucer on top and weight down with something like a tin of beans. Leave in fridge overnight. Next day turn out your little purplish red mountain onto a plate. The bread will have soaked up the fruit juices and when sliced, the delicious berries and currants will spill out. Serve with cream or ice cream DELICIOUS! ��
ReplyDeleteArcherphile, I was just about to write the same thing. I LOVE summer pudding, and grow black and red berries and raspberries for just that reason. I usually add a few strawberries too to bulk it out. My fruit is nowhere near ready, no rasps in sight yet, but the currents can at least be seen. No-one I know has ever had summer pudding unless I've made it for them. Really strange as it's one of the easiest and fruitiest and tastiest desserts in the world.
DeleteRuthy, not quite sure what you could do with dried blackcurrents. They are quite small so would be small and hard. You couldn’t make jam with them but could probably mix them into muesli or something like that. They need a cool rather than hot climate and lots of water to swell the berries (the ones I picked yesterday were rather small as we’ve not had much rain recently. One of our farming neighbours used to grow a large field of blackcurrants and supplied a British company called Ribena who make a famous blackcurrant cordial, beloved by children, full of Vitamin C but also loaded with sugar!
ReplyDeleteSorry Archerphile, didn't mean to tread on your toes, answered before I had read your response.
ReplyDeleteI used to love making Summer Pudding.
Not to worry Mrs P. That was probably because I tried three times to respond to Ruthy’s question and each time my typing just disappeared! It happens quite often when I try to post and is VERY frustrating!
DeleteYes, I have put most of last nights blacurrants in the freezer with the intention of making more jam when I have time. Last year I found that freezing the fruit first meant less boiling to get the berries soft before adding sugar - I think it breaks down the skins a bit and worked very well with gooseberries too. I shall offer the excess (there are still loads of fruit on the bushes) to neighbours then probably be serving apple and blackcurrant crumble for the rest of the year!
My neighbour told me about small batch jam, so I googled, and one of the tips I found was as you have found for yourself that freezing the fruit first cuts down on the boiling.
DeleteI do hope that one day I will make jam again.
Mmm summer pudding. I have a Jennifer Aldridge recipe made with brioche instead of bread. I don’t add sugar to the fruit but I use blackberries or brambles as we say up north instead of blackcurrants which I collect from the heath in the New Forest where we holiday every September. 🍓🐴
ReplyDeleteRuthy I keep forgetting to say your deck looks lovely. Very calm. I sat out in my little garden for breakfast until it got too hot. I love the peace and quiet before anyone else is up.
DeleteI love the experience of the peace and quiet like you Seasider- but at the end other of the evening when most people are a bed 💤😂
DeleteWhat a day yesterday was, filled with excitement and lots of things to see. Very different to my last, very wet excursion to Stroud. The Market was the best I've been to outside of southern France, lots of street food, vegetables. Artisan breads, cheeses and much more. Went to the Georgian Tea Rooms and had Pound cake, something I'd never eaten or heard of before, it was very nice, but extremely filling.
ReplyDeleteDuring this time I was looking out for MrsP but didn't see a woman in a pink floppy hat, so after the tea rooms went back to the market, and then a woman in a pink hat came walking in my direction. As I hadn't given any description of myself it was up to me to make the first introduction, so I took the risk and approached and said " are you MrsP? She looked at me for a few seconds (seemed like ages) and then said Stasia, and we shook hands. Although I was expecting a very large pink floppy hat, don't know why I had that imagine in my head, still it was as she had she had described. I don't t think it would have been difficult to identify MrsP as her hat was the only pink one I'd seem that day.
The town was busy with people milling around the stalls, so we headed for the church yard and found a shady spot under a tree, and sat on a tombstone chatting for a couple of hours about life, the universe and everything. During that time I think we mentioned The Archers only a couple of times. We certainly discovered that we had a lot in common and the time passed very quickly. MrsP's personality is warm and accepting, and in a funny way knowing her from the blogs helped make me feel comfortable in her company.. So I was very pleased that we had met and I do hope she feels the same.
Sorry about this long winded account of my day in Stroud, it was a fantastic day. I shall be returning in a few weeks time to buy dinner of curry goat and jerk jerk chicken from the street vendors.
By the way, Shula had already completed part of her penance as the cemetery was in pristine condition.
Ruthy, I love your veranda.
Stasia - what a wonderful
DeleteDay you had and such a lovely account of it! It almost sounded like a Joanna Trollope novel with two penpals meeting for the first time in a typical English market town. I think you should take up your pen and engage Maryellen as your agent!
So pleased you and Mrs P hit it off and enjoyed each other’s company.
Stasia and MrsP. How lovely that you have met up at last, and so glad you had a better experience at Stroud market than on your last visit, Stasia. It is well known for being a very good market, although not entirely surprising, as Stroud has always been what you could call a town with an 'alternative' lifestyle. I remember when there was the Stroud £ which could be exchanged for produce or services, and which worked quite well for a while, but seems to have died out now.
DeleteI always make summer pudding when I do a “posh” picnic. I am lucky enough to be near Grange Park, (another Hampshire lass) which holds a Glyndbourne style opera festival. Going twice this year, so two summer puddings, like Jennifer I use brioche and very little sugar in the fruit. Waitrose sells sliced brioche in it’s essential range !
ReplyDeleteThe Grange is quite close to me KPnuts! Never been to a concert there but sometimes visit after having lunch at The Woolpack Inn. Once had the lovely experience of seeing a beautiful barn owl floating across the meadow and settling on the Palladian front of the building.
DeleteI don't feel that Stasia should apologise for being long winded.
ReplyDeleteI too enjoyed her account of our meeting, and yes I was very comfortable at our meeting yesterday.
I am certainly flattered by her description of warm and accepting and happily return the compliment.
Thank you Stasia.
I have in my head, been pronouncing Stasia as ' Star see a ' Apparently the correct pronunciation is ' Stasha '
This has got me wondering. Is Basia 'Basher' ?
I certainly agree with Stasia, it was a warm and friendly meeting, and I am pleased that we did get to meet at last, even if we didn't get that cuppa we are always mentioning.
Another time maybe.
And perhaps Putney High Street with Lancashire Janet sometime in the future.
We could explore TKMax together.
As for the Pound Cake, didn't Jill used to make it in the earlier days of TA ?
Someone will remember and who amongst us has made it in the past.
I thought it was Stay-zee-a and Bay-zee-a.
DeleteGlad you had a good day, I will definately go to Stroud market next time I am Down South, probably September. I like the idea of meeting up, but am a bit shy, which is ridiculous at my time of life. I over-compensate by being super-garrulous. I actually really hate meeting new people, but wish I didn't.
Now I know what black currents are, I have to learn summer pudding 😃🌸😃
ReplyDeleteSo glad to hear the meeting MrsP and Stasha!
ReplyDeleteI met an English woman last night, won’t say more for now, but she listens to TA omnibus. I have sent her link to our blog. Hoping that she’ll make an appearance here soon.
Oh that's very good news Ruthy.
DeleteHow good will that be, a new contributor, English but living in the States, and discovering this blog through our American Hostess, in America.
Thank you Ruthy.
I am sure we will welcome her with open arms.
How lovely to read about your meeting Mrs P. and Stasia. I hope you will all eventully get to meet under the clock at Waterloo Station.
ReplyDeleteDoes anyone like Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong? They have just re-released their 3 albums in a set with takes of some songs. Their colloborations are wonderful to listen to. Sitting on my deck, balcony, veranda, listeninging to Ella and Louis with birds chirping in the background. It is a steaming hot morning that should be unfit to be out this afternoon.
ReplyDeleteA lovely music choice Ruthy 🎼 👏
DeleteThat sounds like a perfect Sunday Ruthie. Your deck looks lovely. I have a small back yard, (walled, concrete), full of tubs and hanging baskets, it is a real sun-trap. Beyond the yard I have a long but narrow garden, grass and trees and two veggie plots. The grass is now like cut hay, cruncy underfoot and bleached. It is not growing at all, so that saves me the job of cutting it. I grow flowers from seed, many have died due to the drought that normaly would have survived where I planted them, they have been exposed to too much heat. However, seeds cost almost nothing, and I love this weather, although I tend to stick to the shady areas and just 'potter' with small tasks throughout the day. Every so often I sit in the sun and bask like a lizard. It's so lovely because it's so rare. (I live in the North -East, not known for tropical heat-waves).
DeleteOh yes Ruthy, love Ella Fitzgerald. I had all her recordings on my TK57 when I was a young girl. And I went to see her at Hammersmith one of
DeleteThe London large auditoriums for international stars.
Was never that keen on Louis A though didn't dislike him.
My eldest is named Ella, after all the black Ella's in Jazz, from the twenties thirties forties and fifties and Nell for Nell Gwyn.
We lived within yards of her house in Worlds End Chelsea.
Yes, both of them, Ruthy. I love Ella Fitzgerald's beautiful voice, and I used to go to see Louis Armstrong in Bristol, when he was in the UK with his All Stars. My father had a dance band in his youth, so I was introduced to band music and jazz at a very early age.
DeleteReally glad you found each other, Stasia & Mrs P, & had such an enjoyable time, chatting about all sorts....can sort of picture it, the two of you talking away, laughing sometimes, pink hat flashing through the tree shade.
ReplyDeleteA cheering read for me today, ad a fox got our Beatrix hen last night. A sad, sad shock. The garden seems dead today without her cluck, strut, & friendly ways.
How sad 😢
DeleteI don’t like foxes. We hear them at night barking although the area is quite built up, an eerie sound. I knew a farmer who lost a whole litter of pigs to one. All strewn about so obviously not for food. Can’t understand why some people feed them.! So sorry about Beatrix, Carolyn.
DeleteSo very sorry Carolyn. We have lost hens to foxes too so I know how devastating it is, especially when one is almost a family pet.
DeleteSo sorry to hear of your hen being slaughtered by the local fox Carolyn.
DeleteThey are tyrants.
Will you get another ?
My granddaughter did not replace her hens when the fox got them, and friends in London did not replace their rabbits.
It must be devastating !
Just to clear up a little confusion earlier today - it is I - whose family is off to Dubai. In fact my son and d.i.l. were supposed to be on a fact finding trip this weekend to check out possible apartments and schools but the youngest grandson has been very ill this week and in and out of hospital in Toulouse. At first it was thought he might have meningitis and had to undergo a lumbar puncture. Then he had two fits, and was terribly sick, so has been given a brain scan and is to have a second one next week. He is only 7 and it’s been a very worrying time for them as well as trying to prepare for the move. They are not sure if he had an infection, exacerbated by the heatwave in Toulouse, or whether it is more serious. Naturally I am very concerned too, but there is not much I can do from here.
ReplyDeleteMy thoughts are with you.
DeleteArcherphile what distressing news for you and your family, like Stasia sending thoughts to you.
DeleteArcherphile - My thoughts will be with you and your family.
DeleteArcherphile, I hope your grandson recovers very soon. What a frightening time for you all. xxx
DeleteI am thinking about you and your grandson Archerphile. I do hope all turns out well in the end.
DeleteYour thoughts and support will see your family through this difficult time
DeleteArcherphile, and from those on here, including me, support is with you.
What a worrying time for you Archerfile. Thinking of you. Apologies for causing earlier confusion over Dubai.
DeleteHello Archerphile, I was reading through the comments tonight and put in a comment earlier about it being you , before I got to read this part. You might like to go back and read it as I explained why I felt so much sympathy for you.
DeleteAnd so sorry your grandson is ill. Thinking of you and yours.
DeleteI'm so sorry to hear about your little grandson, Archerphile. This must be a very worrying and stressful time for you and your family, and I'm sending all the healing thoughts I can. I do hope that all turns out well very soon.
DeleteIt was interesting to meet MrsP and get to know the individual behind the blog name, I'm amazed how much one can learn in a couple of hours about someone who could have on the blog, created an entirely fictional persona. The person I met yesterday was honest and open, but on this blog I can suspend that reality and say that on here, MrsP will always be MrsP. I do hope that makes sense.
ReplyDeleteI have just had a sweltering morning on the allotment and dug up a few potatoes for lunch.
Gianna, a meeting at Waterloo would be wonderful, but you and Ruthy would have to make a long journey to England.
But Stasia, didn't Ruthy tell us a couple of weeks ago, that she and husband were coming over here next year ?
DeleteArcherphile so sorry to hear about your family news. I do hope you have better news soon.
ReplyDeleteIndeed. All the best.
DeleteArcherphile. What a horrible and very upsetting situation.
ReplyDeleteMy thoughts are with you, your grandson and entire family.
Just pack a bag and go!
Archerphile,I have just seen your comment.
ReplyDeleteI will be thinking of you would like to send my best wishes to you and your family and hope for a speedy recovery for your grandson
Carolyn,How awful for you too.
I am with Kirsty regarding the hunting of foxes but I am against encouraging them .
Ruthy.
I love Ella Fitzgerald's voice.
"Every time I say goodbye"
She came to the town where I used to live and a friend's husband who drove a taxi was asked to take her after the Show ,across the Pennines to Yorkshire.
He was thrilled until she decided she would in fact be staying briefly in Lancashire and would not need his services.
It was a stoat that decimated my younger sisters' chicken coup + due to the experience, didn't restock.
ReplyDeleteArcherphile, I guessed from some of your previous comments that we probably live fairly close.
ReplyDeleteI do hope that whatever ails your grandson in self limiting and quickly resolved. French health care is excellent and I assume your son and daughter-in-law have fluent French, I can’t imagine how difficult it would be dealing with that sort of situation when you don’t understand the language, I discovered google translate the other week when trying to interpret a letter from a Belgian solicitor, very helpful.
Thank you KPnuts and everyone else who has sent good wishes, I do appreciate your thoughts. Yes, my son speaks excellent French (did it as an add-on to his Engineering degree) and my daughter in law IS French so no language problems. Both boys are completely bi-lingual too. The little one is home again today after being re-hydrated in hospital but they are keeping a very close eye on him.
DeleteSo pleased to hear your little one is back in his own home, some comfort for you to know that.
DeleteMy thoughts and best wishes for speedy recovery for your grandson Archerphile.
ReplyDelete👍👍✔
DeleteArcherphile, so sorry you & family are having so much worry, very upsetting. Poor little chap. Like the others, thinking of you, & hoping he rallies naturally &/or suitable treatment is found.
ReplyDeleteThanks everyone for commiserating over our friend, Bea (a feisty 6 1/2. yr. old, still laying occasionally). I like foxes, just wish they didn't like hens so much...
All the best, Archerphile.
Fingers crossed for your little grandson and you, Archerphile ❤️
DeleteThank you again everyone for your very kind wishes. I only learned of the full situation today as they had not wanted to worry me until Elliot was back home. Fact finding trip to Dubai is now postponed but my son will probably have go out on his own initially, with the rest of the family following later when the little one is fully recovered and further tests have been completed.
DeletePlease do keep us informed Archerphile.
DeleteAnd I hope you are at least, a little less worried, now that he is back home.
Stasia, the goat curry man Derick from Brixton is up here today, as he is each weekend.
ReplyDeleteI have thoughts as to serving his curry from my own table as a Sunday lunch sometime.
But I suspect he is also venturing further afield as I passed him on the road just outside Cheltenham when returning with my car from being serviced a couple of weeks ago.
That’s interesting Mrs P - a goat curry man! Reminded me that when we used to keep goats on the farm (and what a nuisance they were!) we couldn’t keep any billy kids that were born. Nobody wanted a billy, only young females which would, in time, give milk.
DeleteWe were stumped for what to do with them until we heard that the Gurkha regiment, who had their barracks here in Hampshire, were always searching out goat meat as their soldiers were used to eating goat curry in their home country - bingo! A useful outlet fir any billy kids we were stuck with. I hasten to add we donated them free of charge!
Archerphile, Derek came up from Brixton about a year ago. Brought his family with him. He has his dreadlocks under his Raster hat, has a van, advertising his West Indian Street Food, which everyone raves about.
DeleteHe is a jolly chap, friendly and interested in meeting people. Helpful and good tempered too.
Stasia was very taken with the idea of getting goat curry, which I believe she is very fond of. I think she intends to return here to get some in a couple of weeks.
How romantic that you were able to give your Billy's to the Gurkha regiment.
I like that.
I love goats. Part of my family kept them on common land in Chelsfield after being re located during the blitz, so I was weaned on Queenies milk.
I've lived on all goats products for about fifteen years now.
I was so interested to read that Mrs P and Stasia have met.
ReplyDeleteI love the idea of them sitting in the Churchyard chatting and look forward to meeting Mrs P in Putney ,Ruthy at Heathrow Airport and as Gianna wrote earlier,other bloggers under the clock at Waterloo Station..
Your on Lan Jan.
DeleteBut please don't leave me out of the Waterloo hook up.
I'll be there !
We will organise the meeting at Waterloo Mrs P whilst having a bevvie at a pub down by the river.
DeleteThinking of you and your family archerphile. Wishing him a very speedy recovery.
ReplyDeleteLove the thought of a good old chat sat in the churchyard. Very relaxing. How lovely for you to have met.
Been inundated with courgettes this weekend so made 3 courgette cakes this aft. Including a new loaf tin recipe with ground almonds, courgettes and walnuts in. Can’t wait to try a bit with my mid morning coffee in the morning.
I am missing Hamburg Gardener.
ReplyDeleteIf you are still reading HG, do let us know.
If something awful has happened in your life, then please be aware, my thoughts are with you, and I hope you are able to return to us soon.
Waterloo Station. How romantic. I am a train lover.
ReplyDeleteLet's wait for the trains to get back to something like normal ! It's been a nightmare these last 3-4 weeks. I've been venturing into the unknown every visit to London, or another town in Herts. Far worse for commuters, a daily test of endurance.
ReplyDeleteI miss HG too, but I think she said something about having a lot on, couple of months ago ? Also hope OWIAS returns, as she's been absent awhile, & that she is all right. Sorry that Annhill didn't join us ( not sorry about FOSO, & positively relieved that JtA didn't)
I know some miss FOSO, but I don't miss his condemnatory and sometimes prissy posts accusing others of all sorts. I do miss Annhills humour.
DeleteI do hope HG makes an appearance at some point as I'm thinking of going to her neck of the woods, and she did say she would help me. I also miss her comments.
Are you based in Herts yourself, Carolyn? It's my adopted county.
DeleteYes - Hatfield. In what sense 'adopted', Maryellen ?
DeleteSt Albans is where I moved to from my native county, midway between London and home.
DeleteThe reference to Waterloo station was made because, some time ago someone suggested meeting at Waterloo station under the clock. I think it was on the old BBC blog. I could always combine it with a visit to my daughter who lives in London.
ReplyDeleteA number of us have proposed 'under the clock at Waterloo' both here & on the BBC blog. It is central enough, Gianna, to make sense for quite a number of players.
DeleteGianna ,I suggested ages ago on the BBC blog that we should meet under the clock at Waterloo.
ReplyDeleteIt was "THE" place to meet apparently .
There was a programme many years ago on TV showing a day in the life of that venue.
It was happy but sad.
One man stood there for hours I think clutching a bouquet of flowers and a young woman had obviously been "stood up" to.
Mrs P and I will organise our meeting after we meet up at Putney!
(See my response a few posts ago to Mrs P)
Now there is a programme the BBC should show .
Our meeting.!
It would be interesting to know the origins of the Waterloo Clock becoming a universal meeting spot.
DeleteCertainly long before our time LJ, since I am sure I remember my dad referring to it when I was a child.
I miss Old Woman and Annhill and hope HG 's is only a temporary absence
ReplyDeleteMrs P,!I see your mate Eddie Mair has resigned from the BBC.
ReplyDeleteI don't know if it was because of money but I understand that he did refuse to take a pay cut ( poor chap was only on between £300,000 and ££350,000 a year -how on earth did he manage?)
The arrogance of the man.
I hope Sean Ley takes over the programme.
Yes Lan Jan, I gasped when it was announced on the news yesterday.
DeleteYour probably correct in your assumption Lan Jan
Most people are greedy in my experience, and my daughter in her capacity as an estate agent confirms that.
Nevertheless Eddie Mair is a first class radio journalist and presenter and I will miss him very much.
It will be interesting to see where he fetches up.
According to our newspaper,Eddie Mair refused to take a salary cut to £300,000.
DeleteIf that is the case I have little sympathy with him.very many folk are not on 1/10 th of that
and are doing very worthwhile jobs .
Mistral (yesterday)
ReplyDeleteInterested in your description of your garden. Sounds similar to the one where I grew up, also in the north east. I loved playing out there like having a secret garden behind the houses and my mother loved gardening so we spent summer evenings out there with me on my swing and not being much help. I do remember growing night scented stock and being proud of them.
Mum is sad she can’t manage the garden any more although she has pots in the yard and a small front garden she still prunes sometimes.
I hope Old Woman is Ok perhaps busy perhaps shoe dwellers exams or something. I love her humour. She should publish. Perhaps she does.
DeleteRuthy you could try blueberries for summer pudding with other red fruits. Could probably work.
DeleteStasia. 10.08. So many small mining towns followed the same pattern. I live in an agricultural area, my end of terrace house was built to house farm workers, the gardens were like allotments. There are ten houses in the terrace and all the gardens were open at the back, behind the drive/lane used by the coalman (Smut!!) and the binmen. All the children used to be out whenever it wasn't raining, building dens, playing various chase/hide games, aged from about 4 to 10. This went on for years. I feel very, very old when I think that my children were the last to enjoy this freedom here, because as people die/move, new residents have enclosed their plots, none of it is accessable any more.
DeleteOn a similar note, following the rhythm of the day outdoors, mornings seem to have dog-walkers and older people passing by to get shopping etc, lunch-time till 3 p.m. is generally quiet, 3 p.m. has hoards of children going home from the nearby comprhensive school, usually gloriously quiet in their electronic isolation, then - 4 p.m. ish, neighbours are coming back from work, small children incessantly screaming as they are let loose on their climbing frames etc. Why do children scream so much? I am really lucky that no-one around here has music blasting out constantly, although my neighbours 'singing' is truly awful, but that only happens occasionally.
Tamsin Greig is appearing in the 15 minute drama after Woman's Hour. She is playing a doctor whose husband is an astronaut.
ReplyDeleteMistral. It would be wonderful if and when you visit Stroud you will let us know, and I'm sure we can arrange to meet you and have tea.
ReplyDeleteRUTHY, I have to say thank you again for this blog, it is interesting that we, who followed you here have always shown kindness and consideration towards each other, despite what we might say about Archer characters. That wasn't always the case on the BBC blog and whilst I do miss some bloggers there are many I am pleased haven't ventured over here.
Stasia. 11.08, thank you, I will ;)
DeleteIt is a lovely friendly site. Perhaps that’s why I mostly “lurked” on the BBC until the eleventh hour.
ReplyDeleteI too very much miss annhill, I always felt that she and I were on the same wavelength.
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed some of FOSO’s posts too, but he definitely had a blind spot about Pip and I got fed up with him always complaining we were ‘anti-women’ if we ever criticised her or Helen.
Just a small update on the grandson - I managed to speak to him this morning as he is home from hospital, though not back to school. He sounded quite cheerful and has managed to eat some breakfast (first solid food he has kept down for over a week). So, hopefully on the mend, though he has to undergo another brain scan to determine if he has developed epilepsy.
Regarding the meeting up under the famous Waterloo Clock. A lovely idea but I am not sure I would want to participate. I have such clear pictures of you all in my head that it would be like seeing a member of the Archers cast for the first time ....and finding they were not at all how one had expected or pictured! Just my opinion of course and I hope it goes really well if any of you do decide to meet.
That's good news, Archerphile as at least he's home, & sounding perky. Do hope the next scan comes back clear, & you can all relax somewhat.
DeleteArcherfile, really pleased your grandson is making good progress. Yes, it is scary to think about meeting up although Stasia and Mrs P had a successful and enjoyable time.
DeleteArcherphile: Glad to hear your grandson is on the mend.
ReplyDeleteGood news about your grandson. Let us know when he has had the next scan.
ReplyDeleteArcherphile, I have always pushed away any thoughts about what any of the contributors on here look like. And I havnt found it too difficult to maintain a ' fuzzy ' picture of each.
I have had a great deal of experience of telephone relationships and so am well versed I think in being able to keep a visual image at bay. Perhaps that helps, but of course I don't know for sure.
Re. Mistral’s post July 2, 2018 at 12:01 PM
ReplyDeleteYour description brings back a lot of very happy memories indeed. My childhood was also spent in a row of terraced mining cottages, but slightly longer than yours – 40+ houses. We had a back yard with the lavatory and coal house at the end then the back lane. Beyond that my dad prepared a drying ground for my mum to hang out the weekly wash and behind that he had his allotment. Ours was also in farming country, so together with a colliery, a brick producing company, a large farm at the top of the hill and about half a mile away a Priory with the local church in its grounds (where I was married just over 50 years ago) it made for an interesting mix. I found some old photographs online recently of the whole row of houses in the process of demolition – it was a very sad sight, although the colliery and muck stack had been razed a few years earlier. I don’t post very often, but always keep up with the blogs, and wish everyone all the best, especially Ruthy for all her hard work in keeping us connected.
Patricia that's a fascinating insight into the past. Progress can be sad sometimes. I was brought up in a tiny horseshoe shaped village where everyone knew everyone, and gradually more and more modern bungalows have been built on the outskirts.
DeleteI sometimes wonder how many of us there were who quietly read the old blog in the background without posting, and if nice souls like Parsley and Ah um ? are still around.
still lurking!!
DeleteI'm really glad Parsley 😊
DeleteDelighted to hear your news Archerphile.
ReplyDeleteAs others have said I am sure you will keep us informed of the progress of your grandson.
As regards meeting up with other bloggers.
To some extent it is a bit like
"To travel hopefully is better than to arrive"
It is something to look forward to which may never happen .
In our case those with vivid imaginations"know" what fellow bloggers look like and may not want their illusions dashed .
Though why should they be dashed?
We know each other's personalities from what we write.
I read the Inspector Morse books long before it was on television.
I "knew" what Morse looked like and it wasn't like John Thaw but ai soon accepted that John Thaw was Morse.
The same happened with the Wallender books.
Wallender looked nothing like either Kenneth Brannan nor the excellent Swedish actor *when I was reading the books but when I saw KB ,he was Wallender and then when I saw* (I will go and check out his name) he was exactly right.
Wallender was played by Kenneth Branagh (not Brannan-I knew that didn't sound right) and by Krister Henriksson.
DeleteI know what you mean. I loved the Elizabeth George, Inspector Lynley series of books. I couldn't watch the TV adaptations, as the characters were so very different and the plots were changed too much.
DeleteI am a very "visual" person, but very strangely I have no "visual" images of the posters here except Mr.P. She is now just a 70's style floppy pink hat. Sorry Mrs. P.
No no no Mirium, it is a paper straw and NOT seventies.
DeleteAnd it wasn't as floppy as Stasia had anticipated.
Strangely enough I have found and washed this weekend, my sixties orange floppy hat, bought for me by my husband to be when we went to Ibiza to meet his mother and friends. I am about to iron it in the next half hour.
I agree with LJ about accepting the person presented whatever our pre perceptions might have been.
I have a 96 yr old cousin who says she has never seen a film if she has loved a book. I find that so sad, in particular about ' The English Patient '.
I'm afraid your pink floppy hat has already passed into legend, Mrs P, regardless of its reality, 😀
DeleteI love "The English Patient" and I have a DVD. The story, scenery, acting and photography, is wonderful. I also enjoyed a film, starring Richard Gere, "Nights in Rodanthe", also the very poignant film, "The Notebook", which in the end shows a focus on dementia. A box of tissues is needed for both of these.
DeletePatriciaC/Mistral.
ReplyDeleteWhat memories!.
I grew up in a terrace (council owned) and more country than suburban. It was 2 beds with an upstairs bathroom/loo, a main room and a kitchen. There was just a coal fire for heat, and hot water geysers for sinks + bath. I so remember the bath, in front of the fire, with self + 2 sisters in it, with our nightwear warming on the fire-guard. I have no idea how my parents bathed.
I also remember helping out on washing day, clothes boiled on top of the cooker, and then rinsed in the kitchen sink with cold water. I helped putting them through the mangle, out the back. I have a copy of a photo showing this.
I remember ice on the inside of the bedroom window, where all us 3 sisters slept.
How things have changed in my life-time. My 7 yr old great niece is so very intrigued with videos + a VHS player (at her grandma's house) and proper photographs!
I have to add, that the mangle base was moved each time my parents changed homes. It was found in the garden of their last property, when sadly the family was doing the house clearance after their deaths. One of my neices loved it and saved it from the skip. She has revamped it, stripping down painting the wrought iron frame-work black and replacing the wooden top. Her sewing machine now sits on it. It is lovely that this piece of my memories, has survived + and loved.
DeleteThat's a lovely story Miriam.
DeleteI remember sitting on the mangle table top and falling off. I was eating jelly babies and have never even touched them again.
Later in life we were fortunate enough to be re housed from our two first floor rooms in a red brick London terrace to a brand new flat on a housing estate in 1947.
At the back of the estate were laundry facilities with washing machines and 'hydroes' which spun the washing at tremendous speeds. Outside were washing lines. So we did not need the mangle.
Then when I had my first child, my mother in law found an old mangle for me.
Back in the semi basement of another red brick terrace, it sat outside in the garden and the nappys went through it.
Swinging sixties Chelsea girl who went home down the Kings Road to the mangle in the back garden.
Hi, I think that a possible reason some bloggers aren’t posting may be problems logging in, I have to restart frequently and it often takes multiple attempts by which time I’ve lost my post, hence my longer gaps from joining in.
ReplyDeleteMe too, KP, often my typing just disappears into thin air!
DeleteI don't know if this will help, but......when I click on comment or reply, I'm told reply/comment as (either) maryellen (Google) or simply Google Account. If the former, I'm okay to type my post and click on PUBLISH. If the latter, I have to sign in again (rather like the BBC blog periodically asking me to sign in again). So I type a fake message ( just an M) and click on PUBLISH. This brings up the Google 2-stage sign in box. Once that's completed, I am sent back to my comment, delete the M, type my message and click on PUBLISH. It sounds and feels very long-winded, but is effective. If anyone has a shorter method, I'd be grateful for it!
DeleteHow interesting, as I do not have any of these problems. I am signed in a g-mail account, which I had to activate to be able to access this wondetful Ruthy blog. I have super-fast broadband, does this make a difference?
DeleteI have no problems at all.
I am obviously very lucky. All I need to do is to go to google, type in- ar- click on archersblogspot, and I'm in. No wonder that I get carried away.
DeleteTo add to the ‘not what I had pictured’ stories: I have always been a great fan of Peter Robinson’s books about Cheif Inspector Banks set in the Yorkshire Dales. He is descibed as shortish and wiry with short trimmed dark hair and very neat in dress. I have read and have on my shelves all 27 books, so I feel I know the character very well.
ReplyDeleteA few years ago ITV decided to dramatise some of the books and I eagerly awaited the series. After the first 10 minutes I could watch no longer! They had chosen Stephen Tompkinson to take the part of Banks - tall, gangling, shaved head, a bit shambolic - absolutely the opposite of the character as described in the books, as were several other participants. What a shame!
I agree. I have one, which I have not yet read "Sleeping in the Ground". The other detective series, I really enjoy are the Peter James, featuring Inspector Roy Grace. Luckily these have not been adapted for TV.
DeleteI have a google account, although when I clear my history I have to sign in again. No problem though.
ReplyDeleteI have none of these problems as described above.
ReplyDeleteI have a google email account and a tablet.
Ruthys blog is permanently on my home page along with the Archers website and some other often used sites.
I click on the Ruthys blog and I'm immediately in.
I then refresh using the arrow at the top of the page and it takes me straight to the current topics.
I also do not have super fast broadband.
Clearly I am rather fortunate in this matter.
I have enjoyed Wimbledon today. It has been interesting, as due to my minor eye problem (mentioned last week), I see 2 balls! I am sure I will adjust to this and adapt, even if I have to resort to an temporary "pirates" eye patch!
ReplyDeleteI am still OK to drive surprisingly. I am being very careful though, and won't venture very far away from home.
DeleteMiriam I am also watching the tennis, my yearly sporting fix. Just as well we have Hawk Eye so your confusion of two balls on the line is cleared up and you can carry on watching. I would be concerned if you suddenly started shouting 'pieces of eight' and 'arrh Jim Lad' at the tv screen. 😎
DeleteI am more worried about the potential of parrot "droppings" on my left shoulder.
DeleteJanice - your post at 9 .51.
ReplyDeleteYou were obviously reading those posts on th BBC blog a lot longer than me that's for sure.
I have never heard of Ah um or Parsley.
Clearly long before my time.
Lan Jan, do you remember those names ?
I certainly have never heard of Ah um Mrs P.
DeleteNot sure about Parsley.
Hello Mrs P and Lanjan. They joined in briefly with some protest comments on the BBC blogs. Probably like me normally quiet, but felt they should say something when the original blog was closed. My guess is that there were quite a number of quiet readers who enjoyed and pondered over the blog, and I would have liked to know if they managed to get on to Ruthy's lovely site (I found it difficult so expect some others did as well), but will probably never know simply because they are the ones who prefer to stay quietly in the background. There are all kinds in a community , and that's how it should be or it would be a very dull old world. I am a bit sad because I just have a feeling some got left behind.
Deletecoucou!!
DeleteWelcome.👀👤
DeleteWonderful that you are here.👏😊
DeleteThere has been so many good comments lately on so many topics. I am enjoying very much.
ReplyDeleteTwo lovely things happened yesterday.
ReplyDelete1) The young Thai boys were found to be safe in the cave
2) I saw an interview with the Duchess of Kent which brought tears to my eyes.
Do you remember how lovely she was some years ago when she comforted a losing finalist by putting her arms round her?
I was so pleased to see her on TV as I must admit I thought perhaps she wasn't well.
I believe she will be at Wimbledon this week.
Ladies,do you remember her stunning ly simple blond hairstyle.?
She was always so elegant.
Yes, I agree Lanjan, about the Duchess of Kent. Always so elegant and cool and seemingly much more ‘human’ and empathetic than some Royals. I remember how beautiful she looked at her wedding in York Minster. I must admit, I wasn’t sure if she was still alive or not. I know she went through some years of mental problems, suffering from severe depression, I think, so it was lovely to see her being interviewed yesterday. And a little reminder of how we have all aged over the years, I am afraid!
DeleteLike Mrs P I just click on to Achersfan web site and just post my comment.
ReplyDeleteI never sign out in case I can't get back in again.
I only use an IPad not a computer .
I have just popped out to get some shopping before it gets too hot and heard the cicadas chirping.
ReplyDeletecicadas here too :)
DeleteWell how about that ...... Parsley is with us after all.
DeleteNot lost in the silence of the Internet.
Thank you for posting Parsley.
Janice will be thrilled.
can't have somebody calling me a "nice soul" without a response..!!
DeleteIt's great you got here.😊
DeleteI'm off to the dentist this afternoon to have a crown re fitted.
ReplyDeleteThen to Bath to see my Granddaughter play solo sax in the wind band.
I've been washing and ironing some more of my vintage clothes to take to pass on to my young girls.
Hi Janice
ReplyDeleteI started reading the blog when I stumbled upon it at the time the Helen and Rob story came to a head. I read for a while but there were some rather strange posts at the time, in code shall we say, which put me off for while. Also there was some tension between some bloggers so I stopped reading. Then I became curious again about how folk were reacting to the story line so I started reading the blog again. I didn’t really consider posting until the blog was closing and bloggers started asking us silent bloggers to make ourselves known and support the cause.
I remember several people posted but I think only a few have come here. Ruthy and others did advertise this blog helped us transfer over here. I had never blogged or used social media so I would not have had a clue how to go about it without their help and warm welcome to encourage me to dare.
Sorry about typos and also to say I agree that the silent bloggers may still be reading and hopefully enjoying the posts.
Delete👍😊
DeleteSeasider, I ventured into the blogging world of TA for a brief period and found it very cliquey and unpleasant at times . I then returned just before the Helen storylines using a different name and many of the posts were interesting and informative. Although some comments and discussions became intense especially when there were disagreements. I especially enjoyed the creative and witty writing of many clever individuals, some who thankfully have moved over here.
ReplyDeleteI do enjoy the banter about certain characters, and don't take it seriously if my comments differ from others. " it's all in the best possible taste" can't remember who dais that, but hope maryellen understands.
I'd been lurking in the wainscoting for quite some time, found myself being poked with a sharp stick at the decision to close the TA blog, shared my Spartacus moment, & have been eavesdropping on you all ever since... :)
DeleteAnd now you've unmasked yourself, do stick around, parsley16 !
DeleteUnderstood, Stasia! ❤️
DeleteMe too! and I really enjoy them.
ReplyDeleteLanjan & Archerphile I agree with you both regarding The Duchess of Kent (now there is a TRUE Lady 😉) her genuine warmth during yesterday's tv interview was palpable. I checked out her age she is now 85yrs...just where have all those Wimbledon years gone, she is so genuinely interested. It was Yarna Novotna that she comforted and later celebrated with and how lovely that between those occasions and YN death they became friends.
ReplyDeleteThe most memorable Wimbledon moment for me is, 1977 with HM The Queen presenting Virginia Wade with the Winners Trophy, in Her 25th Jubilee Year.
DeletePS My eldest (and favourite niece) was only 10 days old.
Oh yes Miriam that was indeed a very special moment 👏😀
DeleteStasia....it was a kenny Everett character that used to say “all in the best possible taste”. Now that’s a few years ago!!!
ReplyDeleteYes, way back in the 70s - remember the way he used to cross his legs to show underwear ?
DeleteYes he did and in drag with big boobs - it al looked lovely with his beard 😂
DeleteWelcome PatriciaC and Parsley16. Good to know you are reading these blogs! Cicadas have not yet arrived in New Jersey but lighten bugs (are they called such in the UK?) have.
ReplyDeleteRuthie 6.15 p.m. I wonder if your bugs are the same as my thunder flies? Tiny, black, winged, attracted to anything yellow and very irritating? Millions of them.
DeleteAs Miriam said, they are also called fireflies. The tiny black winged bugs are gnats? They do give small annoying bits.
DeleteNo, not gnats, I have them too. Thunder flies are more like tiny flying beetles. I will look them up and let you know :)
DeleteThis made me think of 'Gno Gno Gno I'm a Gnu'. :)
I was very frustrated today. I have a smart TV but I was unable to access i-player for the extra Wimbledon match coverages. I went onto a TV box (little used but it does cost me nothing, as it is supplied by my internet provider as part of my package free of charge). I have a BBC account, but it took quite a long time to co-ordinate these.
ReplyDeleteI eventually managed it, so I now have access to so much more.
My internet package is really good. £32 a month for line rental, unlimited free phone calls 24/7, free TV box (with players and apps) plus superfast broadband. This deal cannot be beaten just yet.
DeleteMiriam, that is good. My package which is similar costs £45 per month but it is with an island based company who are superb for customer service and being based in Cowes there are no language difficulties! I became very frustrated with BT because they were increasingly expensive and when you had a problem you were speaking to someone in far off India where they couldn’t understand you and you couldn’t understand them! When I left BT 3 years ago broadband alone was nearly £20 and downloads were limited,. I’m much better served now and with the TV package can record 2 programs at once! So often two must see progs are on at the same time!
DeleteMiriam, have you looked at the Mill at Posara blog? They have an Italian language course on at the moment.
Getting bored now with England’s game. You watching Ruthy?
ReplyDeleteYes I am watching and not much action :(
DeleteOh wait - England's Kane has a penalty kick - score!
DeleteMuch of what there is appears to be dirty play on behalf of the opposition! Glad we got the penalty shot in 🏐
DeleteI am so hoping England advances. I work very closely with an expat Englishman and he is enjoying the game with his son in a pub in Philadelphia. I am watching it on my iPad at work :(
DeleteFats in the fire now! After Columbia's dirty play did not deserve that goal- come on England. Here we go again possible penalties!
DeleteNot got a good feeling about this.
ReplyDeleteJust been on a bat walk in the local park and missed the end of the game. However the park cafe was open late and we heard the cheers across the lake (and we saw the bats and a lovely sunset).
ReplyDeleteWhat a nice evening Seasider.
DeleteI've got a date in my diary to go on a gloworm walk soon.
Havnt seen them since childhood when we used to walk up Culver cliff each evening when on holiday in Sandown.