Photographic Quiz.
Photo No. 244.
Question:- What is so
unusual about the photo of this particular Godiva runner and the photographer?
And at his funeral, what didn't his relatives understand??
Dear Blog,
So after
my moans and groans in my last missive to you Blog, I promise that this letter
to you will be a moan free posting.
Proud
to say that in the local Horticultural and Whatever Show about three weeks ago,
I managed about half a dozen thirds, same number of seconds and ONE FIRST for
my various fruit and vegetable entries!!!! So a big well done to me for all the
careful attention and time and loving care I have lavished on my fruit and veg
during the year.
BUT.
AND A BIG BUT.
My only first was for my desert apples, that is, my
eating apples to you Blog. Was I chuffed you ask me Blog. WAS I? Well I have to
admit to you Blog, that I was given the apple tree from which the 5 apples were
selected by a family friend because the tree was a nuisance and got in the way
of her washing line. I dug the tree up about 4 years ago, not expecting it to
survive the up- rooting!! Survive it did. Flourish it did. Win a prize it did.
So I spend hours and hours on my produce and do sod all for the fruit tree. And
what wins???????????? The sodding apple tree for which I made bugger all
effort!
I did
offer the lady the certificate and the prize money, but she declined my kind
offer! Story of my life -- a lady
rejecting my offers!! Tell me about it, Blog.
Am I irresistible or am I irresistible to the opposite sex??? Tell me
about it Blog.
I do tend to
criticise the local authority when I feel criticism is due so it is only right
that I redress the balance when I feel the opposite is true. Such a case occurred
over the weekend at Lake View Park when the Coventry Parks Department (?) mounted an Apple Day.
Most interesting .... and the important gentleman using a fruit press and
promoting a display of many apples recognised me from the days of yore ... 40
years at least!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And the following day, just the opposite
occurred. Out 'running' (shuffling,
trudging and so on and so forth to you Blog) on Sunday morning I saw a runner
approaching me whom I have know for 40 odd years. I said 'hello' and asked
after his health as you do in such circumstances, but was met with a grunt ...
and that was it!!!!! Puzzling or what??? Was it because he was with a posh friend
and preferred to not let on about the company he kept? Was it because I smelled????
Was it because I hadn't paid my council
tax or was it simply a case of him being bedazzled by the sheer beauty of my stylish running? It was a mile or so later that the penny
suddenly dropped. For the last quarter of a century , he had got used to seeing
me with a face full of hair and a mouth
full of teeth .... as of last week, my facial hair has been shorn and I now run
without my false choppers in. Looking in the mirror when I got back to the
changing rooms, I didn't recognise me so he had no bloody chance Blog.
And a little more pluses for the Council. The
previous week they mounted a public meeting on the Thursday evening at 5pm for
an hour when everyone was struggling home from work, to explain what measurers
they were being taken on traffic calming at the junction at the bottom of our
Lane. Basically they are turning both my Lane and the on opposite lane, a cul
de sac, into the preferential main routes and sticking a traffic island in the
middle of the cross roads ... quite ingenious. They do not seem to understand,
however, that we have 18 wheeled lorries delivering up the narrow country lane to
the farms, the furniture factory and the animal food suppliers. It will be
impossible for them to turn 270 degrees on the traffic island. But what do I
know? The same situation arose when the council built the high concrete
retaining barrier along the lane six months ago to stop erosion and flooding. I
told them that the barriers would merely channel the water along the Lane and
cause worse flooding in the winter, worse than we usually have. But what do I
know?? I was wrong, however. The barriers have been in place for 6 months and
they did channel the water and cause flooding worse than we usually have ...
and it is only autumn and it was only after a single day of heavy rain. So
Blog, I shall write to you by the first class postal system when the traffic
island is destroyed by the heavy goods vehicles, given that it hasn't been washed away by the flooding first!!!
Colin
P.S. OK Blog, I did not quite stick to my first terms of
engagement. So there is no surprise there then!!!
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