Have you heard the one about the city-dwellers who moved to the country, then complained about the noises made by - cattle, sheep, passing tractors, ploughs, combine harvesters, chickens, church bells, etc, etc?  Not to mention the 'Country Smells', eg: slurry spreading.

( Urban Silliness and Seafront Delights )

I had a good swim yesterday.  As it's now the Rush Before Xmas, and I write Xmas advisedly.  The real Thing is Christmas, but all the Festivities - the food, the overeating, the drink, the overdrinking, the present finding/wrapping/giving, the 'perfect' whatever, all tends to get in the way of the Real Reason for the Season.  I'm glad I went to the ( Read more... )

Swimming yesterday was really good.  There were hardly any people there when I got into the water.  Most were women and all were swimming calmly and thoughtfully.  Thoughtfully, that is, of other swimmers.  No thrashing along regardless of anyone else's comfort.  That said I managed a couple of 'drowing' moments, when people swimming breast stroke ( Read more... )

It was sunny Monday, it's sunny again today, the washing is already out on the line.  Yesterday was damper with greater cloud cover, though a brisk sou'westerly wind was blowing all day.  It also came on to rain around sunset.

( Swimming, Walking and Tea with a Friend )

Yesterday I was all set to go swimming, as usual on a Tuesday.  Trouble was I left a tad late, arrived at the bus stop in time, only to find that the 15 bus didn't arrive ( Read more... )

Did the usual Tuesday swim, walk along the Front and a bit of shopping yesterday.  The swim was ok, most of the time.  At one point, entirely on my own, I got some water in my throat and had a bout of choking, which fortunately didn't last too long.  I swam on, coughing a bit.  Honestly, the times I've told myself to breath through my nose.  At ( Read more... )

I'm not particularly keen on the colour orange.  Don't wear it, don't like to sew or knit with it.  Though H's St Clement's sox were fine, but they're in a mixture of orange and yellow ( Read more... )

Coo look, Parliament is, very, very slowly, becoming more 'representative'.  Now if they'd just work for the good of the whole country instead of merely talking about it, then saying 'we haven't the money' and bringing in more cuts, which inevitably affect the poorest ( Read more... )