2025 doing something new / different

Who was the first to use it?

Bob. Which is fair as he did most the work putting it in.

You spoil him!!

Last year I soweed a large bed of Mooli and it must have been too late in the season as it didn't come to much. Undeterred I left it in over winter with the hope of something positive? As soon as it started growing it bolted straight away (to be expected?) but what I didbn't realise was how pretty the white flowers are!  I have left it growing as it gladdens my heart and adds a bit of colour to the plot! Anyone looking at it would think I had planted two rows of pretty white flowers!

Had my first outdoor shower of the year.

Had my first outdoor shower of the year.

Where's the pictures then?

Doing something new, using an indoor toilet, in my own house. 



To anyone that doesn’t know. This is going to be a very weird statement   .

That's a major milestone, just as well it wasn't outdoor like the shower.

P's new thing was taking out the sliding aluminium porch doors, or at least trying to. This is to enable living room furniture to be taken out whilst plastering and decorating is being done. It's something he did 40 years ago when we moved in, but he couldn't remember how. We were both struggling, then next door builder man popped over to help and solved the problem. P spent the rest of the day putting it back as we don't need the opening until 19th. We didn't have the heart to tell builder man that it I was a pre-emptive exercise to find out what to do next week.

Visited a churchyard and looked at the gravestones. My great grandmother and her very young son were buried there in the 1890s, but there's no grave marker so I don't know where they are. I doubt that they had enough money to pay for a memorial anyway.
My great grandfather was a coachman, driving carriages for a household at a big house (now a hotel) a couple of miles up the road from where I live. My grandfather was born there. From there, they moved to another household/farm, which, amazingly, was at the other end of the road where I live. Until I started tracing my family history, I had no idea that they were ever in this area - they moved from Gloucestershire to South Wales.
Sadly, my great grandmother died, giving birth, leaving her husband with 3 young children to care for. It was all too much for him and he arranged for the children to be cared for by his sister, a staunch Salvation Army member, who lived in Cheltenham. My grandfather didn't fancy this at all so, when Auntie Edith came to collect the children, he ran away and hid. She returned to Cheltenham with 2 children.
Great grandfather  also disappears, and lost touch with his family.
Grandfather found work on the canalboats, and was taken in by a bargeman and his family. I don't remember him, he died when I was 2 but my Dad had lots of stories to tell about life on the canal bank.
I find graveyards fascinating - looking at the different styles of monument and the inscriptions. How they change over the centuries. Its an easy way to lose a few hours, just wandering around, enjoying the peace and quiet.

Graveyards are fascinating places. I remember visiting one years ago. It might have been on the way up the great orme in Llandudno, I can’t remember. One of the head stones had just dates and one word. Murdered . I’ll never forget that.

A fascinating story Veggie, life was so different in those days. Very poignant.