Water, Water, Everywhere!

 

Ugh, what a wet and miserable day it`s been, it`s not stopped all day and today being Bank Holiday too. I feel really sorry for working people who have today off with their families as it`s unlikely that they`ll be able to enjoy a day out as they would have hoped.

As I guessed yesterday, work was a complete washout. We are supposed to be really busy at this time of year and at Bank Holidays we should be rushed off our feet. Instead we were sitting around after doing our usual daily tasks waiting for the customers to come through the doors. They DID come but mostly the ones who wanted cheap discounted plants and the ones who didn`t quite know what they wanted so left empty handed. I can tell you, I was really happy when 1pm came around and I could come home again. My poor garden has taken quite a beating from the wind and rain and it has seen off the last of the Spring flowers that were vainly hanging on to their fading petals.  The Clematis are hanging on to the trellis for dear life and I can only hope they don`t get blown down. One of my roses was so battered that I`ve tied twine around it hold it up, it looked so sorry for itself despite its many flowers. Jim was going to finish digging over the new flower bed but of course he had no chance today, anyway, the poor bloke had to go to work himself at 12am so at least he could have a rest before he went.

Kerry was coming down with Roman tomorrow but she hasn`t been feeling well and has called it off. I don`t blame her either, she hasn`t been right for some time and I wish she`d go back to the doctor as I know something`s not right with her, you know these things about your own children don`t you?  Danny was here overnight as he went to Twickenham to watch the rugby sevens yesterday. Like before it was a corporate do and it didn`t cost him a penny. When he came home a little worse for wear he told me that the hospitality there was wonderful, the food the drink ;o) and of course, the rugby...lol!  I didn`t see him this morning and when I got home he`d gone home but I`m sure he`ll tell me more about it another time.

This morning on the way to work there was a fallen tree lying across the main road, I found out later that it had only fallen down just a few minutes before I got there. I did notice other overhanging trees looking just that little bit lower than usual and I must admit to being more than a little nervous, somehow being crushed by a tree isn`t something I relish, nor, as it happens did I enjoy being hit by a tidal wave after a car that was driving much too fast, hit a deep puddle. For a split second I couldn`t see a thing and where it happened the road is very narrow. I wish people would adjust the way they drive to the weather conditions, it could save their lives one day....grrr!

Right, I`m off now, time I put something on for my evening meal. I hope you all had better weather and have enjoyed the Bank Holiday. I hear the weather in Scotland and in the North is lovely today so to my friends there I say, please send some of it here...lol!  :o)

 

 

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