JUST OBSERVING

Hello everyone, Happy Monday to you all. I hope you`ve all had a great weekend. I know quite a lot of you have by reading your journals. Now I`m sitting here thinking of something interesting to say. I do have to mention that the best entry I`ve read today is my friend Jeannette`s. Go and have a read, if you haven`t already, it is compelling reading.

We will now have to find another place for Jake to have his daily run.  The back field, as I`ve mentioned before is being sold to developers for housing. Now we find that the council is trying to sell part of Upton Park for the same reason. That is the place where I have photographed Windsor Castle in the distance.  The other houses that back on to the proposed development are furious at the suggestion. .Sadly, this council will not be satisfied until all our beautiful open spaces are covered by tarmac, or bricks and mortar.

Also Upton Park is now the illegal home to gypsies who moved in last weekend. It is now not really safe to go there. The last time we walked there we were harassed by a couple of young lads who kept on riding their motorbikes directly at us then turning away at the last moment. So that was that...we`ll stay away for now.

Jim is fishing again today. Lake fishing at Royal Berks. He took me over there last week just to show me round. It`s a very pretty place that is home to lots of water birds. I gave him the camera with instructions to take lot`s of pictures for my journal.  As it`s been a sunny day I`m hoping he`ll get some nice ones.  I hope also he catches lots of  big fish , not that we can eat them, but he always tries to land the bigger fish these days.  I remember in his early days of fishing he was happy to catch anything.

Now Jim has put the new lawn turf down it has become my job to keep it watered. He is so worried that it won`t grow if it gets dry,  At the moment I`m watering it twice daily.  I have a large water-butt in the garden that is rapidly running out of water now. Where we are re-shaping our garden Jim has made some space for a couple of shrubs.  I want shrubs that flower and do well in full sun....so if you have any suggestions , leave it in the comments section :-)  I was looking at other people`s garden today while out with Jake. Some of them are wonderful, with well manicured lawns and beautiful flowers and shrubs,   while others don`t really seem to care one way or another,  leaving their gardens to nature, not cutting the grass and letting the weeds grow wild. I`ve lived here for many years and have seen people move away from their homes for whatever reason,  and leave their beautiful gardens in the hands of  the " couldn`t care lesses" of this world. Perhaps things like this shoudn`t really matter, but they do to me...I just hate neglected gardens.

That`s my moan of the day! With that I`ll leave you with some funny quotes that I found. Bye for now and have a lovely day :-)

 

~  You tried your best and you failed miserably.  The lesson is `never try`.  ~

Homer Simpson

~  Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.  ~

Mae West

~  Is sex dirty ?  Only if it`s done right.  ~

Woody Allen

~  I was married by a judge - I should have asked for a jury.  ~

George Burns

~  Never give a sucker an even break.  ~

W.C. Fields

~  Rarely is the question asked: is our children learning.  ~

George W. Bush

~  Children really brighten up a household  -  they never turn the lights off.  ~

Ralph Bus

~  Clothes make the man.  Naked people have little or no influence on society. ~

Mark Twain