Thursday, 4 June 2015

THE GLORIOUS FOURTH.. A SPECIAL DAY FOR ETON COLLEGE & REBECCA,.

Sunny. clear sky.. she's been up for hours.. gross exageration but for at least two!

Those briars are for the chop and burn.. heehee! Nothing like having friends who will help you in times of need.. I know that there is the incentive of 'folding notes' for this is their business but the joy of being able to get at bits of the plot that old briar has been lurking over.

More raised beds.. perhaps the Solar House which she's been promising herself for many a month. A new area of ground to dig over, clean out and manure, this is where her next raspberry plot will be.

A wire fence will be put up, then next to it she'll plant an English hedge, this will be a mix of various bushes all of which have berries, fruit or nuts. Good for wildlife.. and talking of wildlife, guess who she saw visiting the Calamondin trees yesterday?

A Honey Bee! It was visiting the Calamondins oranges which are covered in the most beautiful FAT white buds, some of which are fully open and that's where the Bee was.

And it was having a lovely time! The essential oil of the Bitter Orange is one of the most valued in perfumery and in facial creams and serums.. its' properties are wondrous and the perfume.. is literally out of this world. Brian, her old dustman, always used to sniff these flowers and Alan, her postman, certainly does!

The Fourth of June is a special date for Eton College, as is its' correct name, which was founded in 1440 by King Henry 6th for the education of seventy poor boys who would then go on to Kings' College Cambridge which he founded in 1441.

The various Kings and Queens of England have been 'hot' on education. And not a lot of people know that it was Queen Elizabeth 1st who founded Trinity College in Dublin.

King George 3rd's library went into public hands, it was gifted to the British Library as too have been several other royal collections of books and manuscripts. Go and see this marvellous place, she's a Friend of the Library and regularly attends lectures there.. for tiny sums of money, I think the last one cost her £3.00!

Well.. we've got to get 'cracking'.. gross untruth.. SHE's got to get cracking, I am staying here. Then she'll come back and set up Tereza's gift of the CD/ DVD player.. will we ever get up, we could loll about in bed all day long watching the unwatched dvd's that she has been given and collected over the years.

And I know that she away but it IS someone's birthday today.. she is in Switzerland on a school trip but we still would like you to sing 'Happy Birthday' to Rebecca.. you know the words..

Farewell.. adieu.. auf wiedersein.. goodbye.. adios amigos.. she's off to the plot.

GeeGee Parrot.
June 4th, 2015.

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