Wednesday 29 May 2013

WAS SHE A GANGSTERS' MOLL OR A LOCKSMITH?

Dear Readers.. what does YOUR beloved do on gloomy wet days when they are not working?

Read a book, watch a film, chat to YOU or suggest that YOU both go to museum.. whatever it is they suggest.. I doubt very much that they do what SHE has been doing today! 

And I am not sure that YOU will believe ME when I tell YOU what it was that SHE did, for it truly was the most bizarre sight and it led ME to wonder the following.

What was SHE in a previous life that SHE knows how to strip down Chubb and Yale Mortice locks, degrease, clean and restore metal parts back to their original shiny brass state, oil and put all of the 'jigsaw puzzle' bits back together again. 

And.. then for all of the locks to work, it is very easy to take things apart, it is not so easy to remember how all the little pieces go back together again!

Was SHE a locksmith? Or a gangster or pirates' moll who sailed the high seas on a galleon, after all they must have needed someone with nimble fingers who knew how to pick locks, some ancient locks were so complicated, it was impossible to blow them open with a firearm, how would YOU get into those famed treasure troves? 

But it is a curiously strange ability for a woman of a 'certain age' to have, do YOU not think? 

"Rain stopped play" is the state of play here and it is far too wet to 'play' in the garden, SHE needs to stand and walk on the potato bed as that is where SHE is planting one lot of the sweet corn, it will grow as shade for potato plants and the two vegetables grow very happily together.

The other lot will be planted amongst the climbing beans, beans fix nitrogen into the ground and sweet corn loves nitrogen!

The 'good' thing about this rain is that it will benefit all of the fruit tremendously. Luckily the blossom was so late this year it missed those dreadful winds, they ripped the blossom from the trees last year which was why the harvest was so poor.

SHE will get the nylon tent out of store shed, it is a vast amount of nylon curtain fabric that SHE sewed together and it goes over the top of four cherry trees and is secured to the ground with big bricks. 

No birdies can get through it and gobble up the fruit and it stops 'human' poachers from scrumping as it is very difficult to get underneath! 

WE have lamb fillet, purple sprouting brocolli and apricots for supper, I hope YOU have something equally delicious?

GeeGee Parrot.
May 29th, 2013.. aka Charlotte's birthday.

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