Yesterday I planted out deep red geraniums in pots, Spanish style,on the kitchen wall The winds increased to gales this morning and I found all of the pots hidden safely in the shelter of the front garden stone wall, saved by a kind passerby. I was going to use the word nice here rather than kind to describe the Good Samaritan but in my considered opinion many nice people are not kind. Kindness is an action Painfully nice people just use words I made avacado on sour bread toast with eggs for brunch Sorted out cupboards and drawers I took Dorothy and Mary for a walk out of the village to the East, past Chic Eleanor's. Large White washed home By chance she saw me passing and invited me onto the patio with a swirl of her scarf in the wind " Darling John, do have a socially distant double shot coffee and we 'll brave the storm together!!" I sat on her windswept patio as she made coffee from scratch "Forgive me, I look a right sight!" Eleanor gasped " I ...
