THANK YOU
To M, D, I, & P for all you have done for me since I was a toddler.
To S for everything
8/6/25
For the life of Willie Davies, one of my teachers, who will be fondly remembered by many of his former pupils. W T H Davies was a gifted rugby player who played outside half for Wales in the late 1930s. And as a teenager he was also a member of the Swansea team which famously beat the All Blacks in 1935. He later became a highly respected PE and geography teacher at Weston Grammar School.
7/6/25
For memories of former teachers and everything they taught me.
For all those working in the formal business of education – in schools, colleges and universities.
6/6/25
To Margaret for the long chat about PD and how she is getting on with it.
4/6/25
To Simon who works for Rob for getting a portable thermostat fixed up.
31/5/25
To S for the home grown strawberries. Went down a treat.
For another beautiful rose. Its name says it all: Avec Amour.
27/5/25
25/5/25
To KM for kindly coming round and helping with my boiler.
To the owner of a gas boiler business for explaining that it would be OK to switch on my boiler again when the pressure was topped up.
24/5/25
For this beautiful rose. Its name is PEACE..
To S for the walk up to Spooky Lane and back, and for the garden tour.
13/5/25 for Kate’s video.
12/5/25
For the courgette seeds that have germinated so quickly on my window sill.
To Asda for a very tasty chicken pie and the chunky leeks I had with it.
For the hawthorn blossom on my tree which I can see just outside my lounge window.
10/5/25
For the swifts which have arrived early in Britain this year.
What an incredible creature this is.
8/5/25
To an amazing generation of courageous and resilient UK citizens who exactly 80 years ago were finally able to celebrate VE Day.
See my post about this here:
5/5/25
To Powergen and everyone involved in restoring my electricity.
4/5/25
To those who organised the May Day Fair and to those who helped on the day.
1/5/25
For a sunny May Day and the harmless and happy tradition of dancing round a maypole.
April 2025
23/4/25
For the Pope. He was a good and very caring person who followed the precepts of Christ. Whatever our beliefs, and whether we share his belief in God or not, the world would be a better place if we all tried to do the same.
To T & C for their blubell card and Easter greetings.
And thank you for brambles as well as bluebells; brambles with their pretty flowers that attract the pollinators, and their tasty fruits, the blackberries.
18/4/25
For Good Friday, a day which perhaps we should use much more than we do to reflect on the Easter message.
For my kitchen window sill, or kitchen garden as I call it, and the seedlings that are growing there.
17/4/25
For Maundy Thursday, which is today, and for the enduring commandment Jesus gave his disciples on the first Maundy Thursday: love one another.
16/4/25
To Asda, for their steak pie, and for their cauliflower. Also to the farmer in Cornwall who grew it and the lorry driver who brought it up here.
14/4/25
To Abbie, for an amazing session doing the garden – putting new compost in patio pots and arranging them so well, weeding the rose bed, planting the onions and potatoes, and mowing the lawn.
To the person who saw me struggling to go inside the vaccination centre and very kindly let me hold onto him, to the person who gave me my booster jab, and to her and the volunteer who helped me to the back door.
13/4/25
To S, for planting hellebore, watering lupins and moving pots to the yard.
11/4/25
To, KM for cleaning the house so nicely.