Thursday, January 17, 2019
I expect the trout grow large in the river now. Old Tom has passed away. He carried a stick and he seemed somehow to be able to catch one any day. He could walk the fields and pick a plant one could eat it if one chose. He showed me several, though I don't remember much of those.` I don't know how...
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Wednesday, January 16, 2019
I picked a few flowers outside this afternoon anemones But I did see some Fieldfare thrushes they usual come when it is getting colder up north. Archie helped me put up some rigging for the sweet pea plants. He said he was better but he was a proper misery,kept grumbling at everything I did. Well...
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Monday, January 14, 2019
I kept putting it off I had to take an old lady her Christmas present. I did not want to go too early lest she was not up. So I did my shopping and then collected pills from the chemist. Poor thing was waiting to go to the hospital to be examined for some dismal procedure. Although she did not seem...
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Sunday, January 13, 2019
I dug a forty feet trench this mornning The ground is soft and We needed it for Sweet peas. It was not very deep, but we have some old horse manure. I was not going to grow any but, I changed my mind. Of course Arhie came down later. 'Fancy messing around on that ground after I dug it over.' 'I...
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Saturday, January 12, 2019
Archie keeps complaining about a pain th chest. He has had quite a few examinations and nothing was unsual He will lift bales of peat 125 litres I just drag them His wife said he must have Parkinson's. I tell him it is because he keeps mauling things about as he is over 70. He is always trying to...
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Friday, January 11, 2019
My Brother Arthur used to work for a firm. At times he had to visit USA. to give lectures. He does not reveal much, but occasionally he will tell me little things. Of course being 15 years younger, times had changed. H said he was in a Hotel, the company he worked for only used the best. The...
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Thursday, January 10, 2019
How quickly accident can happen to older people. I was just going up the stairs, when I heard a plaintive meow from the cat.I wanted to come in the warm or for company. I thought I cannot be bothered to let it in and then I had a change of mind I turned quickly and stumbled off near the bottom I...
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Wednesday, January 9, 2019
My conscience Daily happenings in an ordinary life. I bought a ticket for an old lady It would entitle her daughter to buy her some flowers and chocolates. It has been sitting in a cupboard I wondered if I sent it if she would feel she had to visit. Fortunately she the lady who is over ninety rang...
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Tuesday, January 8, 2019
Life is a pain at times I keep reading that alcohol is bad for one, so I bought a bottle of non alcoholic wine. I thought I could dilute it with a normal wine. It tasted pretty grim on its own, but diluted half and half with a standard wine it is mediocre,but drinkable. The problem is the non...
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Monday, January 7, 2019
One I grew tobacco plants. massive big green examples. They were all in front of our bungalow. One day a policeman walked up our drive,he studied the plants. Perhaps he was an amateur gardener, but I fretted. I moved all the plants a couple of hundred yards behind the bungalow. Replanted them and...
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