Black Widows, Church Meetings and bad Humour

 

My meal on Tuesday bloody lovely

My next day off is Sunday, I’m back on nights Thursday, Fri and Saturday nights 

Sunday afternoon my friend Colin and I are doing a gay afternoon 

Lunch out and the Bette Davis movie Now Voyager at the Storyhouse….

I’ve told him we are drinking vodka martinis 

I got myself all a bit fed up yesterday .

The good humour, meal out and theatre of Tuesday boosted me so much that I came down with a rather large bump yesterday 

The day was boring and gray and wet 

I mooched most of yesterday then met luckily Gorgeous Dave for a trip to the cinema

We had arranged to see a well reviewed art house horror movie Boys From County Hell at llandudno cineworld but they’re cancelled the showing due to “ lack of interest” ( obviously there is now a policy of cancelling poorly subscribed movies so that popular shite can be rescheduled instead ) so we went to see the awful Black Widow which is a dreadfully loud superhero thing. I knew it was a bad move because even my nephew Leo texted me that it was rubbish and he adores anything Marvel

Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow

Gorgeous Dave as Gorgeous  Dave 

It was nice to catch up with Dave though,  who has agreed to accompany me to see Nigella Lawson later in the year

He giggled in the cinema when I said I would only go with a straight friend to see her in her one woman show…….she Is definitely one of his cougar crushes…every straight man I know fancies Nigella 

Today I’m meeting with village leader Ian regarding a plan of action regarding the Church

Like I told u I’m back on nights tonight 

Hey ho

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Considering

The  IPCC report that I blogged about on Monday has left me feeling rather solemn and helpless. Here are some random personal reflections upon where we are with climate change and how we got here.

When I was born in 1953, this planet's population was way short of three billion but now in 2021 we are up to 7.8 billion closing in rapidly on 8 billion. The world's  population has more than doubled in my lifetime. By a long way.

When I was a child there were no plastic bags in shops. There were no supermarkets and most people shopped locally - taking their own bags and baskets with them. Fine green beans were not imported from Egypt and the only rice anybody consumed was in the form of rice puddings. Buying vegetables was a much more seasonal affair. You only ate salads in the summertime.

Hardly anybody owned cars and there were no motorways. Public transport was far more comprehensive, regular and far-reaching. Ordinary people did not travel on aeroplanes to enjoy holidays in foreign lands. In fact they rarely travelled far.

Ordinary homes were not centrally heated. You relied upon open fires to keep your home warm in the wintertime. Most families had just one fire. Nobody had showers in their homes and unless you were in a particularly dirty occupation, you had just one bath a week.

If you had siblings, clothes were passed down through the family. Laundering clothes and bedding was not as regular and energy-sapping as it is today. Nobody had tumble driers. Washing Day was a once in a week event - typically Mondays.

Things were made to last. My mother had a Hoover vacuum cleaner that lasted for twenty five years and even then it was not done. She passed it on to us when we bought our first house in 1981. 

Electric lighting in the average home was a simple business - normally just one light fitting per room. Side lights and suchlike were a rarity.

I am pleased to say that we always had a flush toilet but my mother and father grew up in homes where human excrement was collected to feed vegetable plots. They called it "night soil" and there were special galvanised buckets in which to carry it or let it mature. People who grew vegetables did not do so as a hobby. They grew them to save money and supplement the family diet.

Nobody bought ready meals because they did not exist. At the pub you could ask for bitter or mild from its parent brewery and there was little else to choose from - just some bottles, optics for spirits and soft drinks too. There was only one flavour when it came to potato crisps - plain. Cheese and onion came later.

Milk was delivered to the doorstep in glass bottles which were later collected and washed ready to be used again and again. There were no plastic bottles containing spring water from The Alps, The Scottish Highlands or Buxton in Derbyshire.

I am not listing these things for the sake of nostalgia but to say that back then the way that people lived tended to put less strain upon the planet's resources. Though coal was vital to us, our carbon footprints were nonetheless much smaller than they are today. I am sure that you can also recall other aspects of the way we lived that just happened to be friendlier to our world.  

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Udder Cream

 

A local read all about Dorothy’s bite the other day and popped around with some magic cream which she said would help the wound enormously .

The cream, she said, was used by farmers to treat sore udders in cattle so I thought nothing ventured nothing gained and took a large spoonful of the ointment 

Within a couple of days the would improved much more than I expected and now, a week after the attack her wounds have healed and the skin is pink and clean and painless.

Lol for the past four days I’ve rubbed a little udder cream on the tiny spots of psoriasis on my knees

And voila! I now have knees of a 40 year old!  

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Sweet delight

 Fruit so sweet

Kissing my lips

The smell an elixir

The taste divine

A perfect start

To a day

I am grateful

To be able

To experience fully

What a you grateful for today?

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