True of false
Latte liberal
Nantucket or bust
Spanish or English
Candy or salt
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The Storm of 2017
This is my favourite photograph taken by the boffin Cameron .
It’s a real stunner
It is of my Soay Ewe Irene during the harsh snowy winter five years ago.
She was hardly bothered by the weather.
Irene was a particularly difficult Ewe. After her mother Sylvia died ( and yes I did name both sheep after the flower show matriarchs ) Irene spent most of her days in the livery stables fields, shunning any attempt to be caught and moved, and there she lived with the horses until her peaceful death today
Her face lying straight on the grass facing the ponies in the top field
Don’t anyone say they are sorry. She wasn’t my ewe for nearly a decade, so I had no real investment in her care.
But I kind of respected her chutzpah at choosing where she was going to live.
Thank you to Rachel who runs the livery for allowing her to stay for so many years
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Comedian
The ability to make other people laugh is a precious gift. Laughter is indeed the best medicine and a day without laughter is a sorry one.
Lord knows why but my ability to retain jokes is on a par with that of a dead tree stump. In my life, I have known several people whose brains seem to be filled with remembered jokes. My late brother Paul was an excellent joker and so are my friends Tony and Mike. I guess that as time passes by, jokers gradually hone their skills and learn where and how to insert jokes or funny stories.
But last night at "The Hanmmer and Pincers" quiz, it was my turn to bask fleetingly in the limelight like Ken Dodd or Les Dawson (deceased British comedians).
As James the quizmaster went through the questions the pub was hushed as quiz teams checked their answers. He reached question four and repeated: "What is said to be the lowest form of wit?....The answer is sarcasm. Sarcasm."
Immediately I chuntered, "You must be kidding!" igniting peals of laughter around the room. I guess you would have had to have been there to get it.
I was quite surprised by the mirthful reaction and said to my quizmates, "It could be the start of my stand-up career!"
Overhearing me from an adjacent table, a woman piped up with "More like a sit-down career!" which made me chuckle too.
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In other "Yorkshire Pudding" news, I found out this morning that my photo of a beached jellyfish was chosen as the picture of the week over at the Geograph website. Selected from 3376 contenders I am of course delighted. It is the first overall winner I have had in twelve months...
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The final series
Apart from theatre tickets, oh and a new carpet washer, is my subscription to Disney +.
This will come to an end in eight weeks or so with the final airing of the last season of The Walking Dead.
I will be sad to see it go, but it’s time it did.
The last season has now morphed into a war film, with our multicultural and predominantly female “ family” set up as the French Resistance in WW2
The zombies are only a side threat. Revolting set decorations.
Halloween miss en scene
I’ve followed the series from Frank Darabont’s seminal first episodes and carried on watching this morning with my bucket of coffee and Roger cocking his head at all of the zombie grunting
Like all good friends, I will stay to the end
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