Wind Dropped - 20C - Pleasant

More rosebuds ! But I'm not apologising because they are so cheerful and they are just outside the front door which is nice. The weather has been pleasant; details in title and a wind-speed of only 12km/hour which is negligible. Just a foliage-rippler is all.

We went to Matalan this morning to obtain some better looking boxes for things in my room which was, since getting rid of furniture, looking distinctly downmarket. I settled in the end on 3 'faux leather' magazine racks which are made-to-measure for the shelves for which they were intended. As is usually the case when things work well, they look as if they have always been there. Then we called in at Morrisons for essential supplies and Y likes their 'fill a box with salad from their salad counter' for lunch. It is a Y-day for catering today and I settled for a cheese & tomato cob (2 actually) with a glass of fizzy water. And I haven't been nosying about in the kitchen, honest, but I think we are having griddled tuna steaks and I've seen new potatoes being scraped. We really like this day-on/day-off system.

Bungus sent me a photo of a wild flower he had spotted at Ollerton and was of the opinion that it was Toadflax. My Collins Little Gem wild-flower book confirms his suspicions - Common Toadflax (linaria vulgaris). I know the Collins Gem series are maybe intended for children but I always find them excellent. Children's books often are. Many years ago we thought we would like an aquarium (decided against) and I went to the Library finally settling on the only book I could understand. I read it carefully thinking "this is good" and eventually came to the sentence "if a fish dies you must get an adult to remove it from the tank". Ah well !

We still can't get the VCR bit on the new TV system to work but I've arranged for a 'person' to come and set it up and show us how to use it. I know that with cable TV we can't watch one thing and record another but there is still the aerial point in the ex TV room. Maybe that can be brought into play. Steven would know, but he is so busy we don't intend to ask him. Neighbour Peter would also know but we always ask him to do things like that and this time we have decided to sort it ourselves.

Thats it !.....................