The title ought to read 'Caravan Removal Day' because unfortunately the skip is still here and, unbelievably, the caravan is in it. David & Helen and Helen's Dad did an absolutely brilliant job. Stripping out all the insides and then cutting up the walls and chassis. When the skip arrived it didn't seem anywhere near big enough but, as David perceptively said "There is a lot of space in a Caravan". It rained, heavily, but they hardly stopped. My only contribution was to chuck in a few light bits and to make cheese cobs and ham cobs and Y made lots of pots of tea and coffee and provide custard-creams etc. All we need now, is for the skip people to collect it because we can't use the garage till they do. 
The further picture of the sunflower is to show the full shot before I cropped it. It is only a titchy thing which self-set in a pot and never pretended to be a 10ft variety but I agree that my 'crop' completely removed any scale from the published version. Herein lies the danger of improving photographs.
Before we leave 'foodstuffs disliked' it was pointed out somewhere that celery is excellent for dieters because one uses up more calories eating it than are ingested ! Apart from being not too keen on parsnips or courgettes (other than griddled with herbs) my tastes are catholic - with a small 'c'.
In the evening we went to Sue and Gordon's for the video of their Machu Pichu trip (it was a cruise, and they went to other places too). The video was first-rate, lovely photography and Gordon had edited down from 9hrs to about 2hrs, with sound - and we couldn't fault it. Sue had done lovely sandwiches and home-made cream horns and fruit cake. We all had a great time and a laugh, as the committee group always seems to. Everyone made a big fuss of me due to my recent problems and it was so nice to see everyone. We hadn't hithertofore realised how enormous Machu Pichu is. In TV clips it always looks impressive but not really large.
By-the-way - is everyone's copy of the Blog now in italics? My own version is, and it is not deliberate. It must be an accidental by-product of the introduction of the 'clock' and I will deal with it as soon as I have found out how.
That's it for now..................
3 comments:
Does that mean that the day set aside for removal has been skipped? Or is today the day that the skip has been removed?
I know Amazing Grace; is Job her husband and is he very patient?
Perhaps it would have been easier to have put the skip in the caravan? (there's loads of space).
Or perhaps tiny pieces of caravan could have been substituted for the cheese and ham in the cobs? allowing the consumers' digestive tracts to deal with it imperceptibly. Little wonder I had to see the doctor, you may well say. "I'm sorry Mrs Bungus, it was a surfeit of caravan what done for him."
Having seen all the evidence, I do not think it should continue to count as a sunflower. Like Pluto, it should be demoted.
Italics, yes. I thought it was to emphasise the importamce of what you were saying. I shall now read it again and be less impressed.
As Sir Unglby Cowpertrew remarked in 1882, just before the Gunfight at the OK Corral (although he was in Shrewsbury himself, at the time): "The man who is tired of parsnips is tired of epicurism." He then added "I'll wager the bounder eats Yorkshire Pudding with pork too."
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