There should be a picture of Annesley Church here, but instead of uploading it for me 'Blogger' sent me an Error message saying their engineers were working on it. (it looks to me as if it needs more than blogger-engineers) I'll try again in a while. The Church is an attractive ruin, but I will wait for the pictures to arrive.Picture 2 is one of the weirdest gravestones I've ever seen. Fortunately I remembered where it was in the Churchyard. If you study it carefully you will notice that the mason has begun the inscription and not bothered where the words end - he has just carried on onto the next line. The inscription sa
ys 1700 and something and isn't badly carved. It has after all stood the test of time so to speak.The kids started back at School today so getting a haircut wasn't a problem. The barber said that yesterday was horrendous. While in Eastwood I remembered Allspice berries (unground) for Bob, and cards for Laura and Yvonne (John's wife) and cash, which I was seriously short of.
At home more jobs were cleared from my TBD list (do they still call them that?) one of which was to ring the Yorkshire Sculpture Park to reserve an electric scooter for Bob's and my visit. It is a trip I am really looking forward to. David tells me that they are now much more successful with the bread-machine. Since they bought new flour. Shame on me. Fancy giving one's son a bread-machine and providing him with stale old flour which should have been binned.
Bungus says he doesn't understand what 'this link' means. It is a shorthand Bob, for an actual web-page, and if you hover your mouse over the words and left-click, the page will open as if by magic. That isn't one, but this is click here and you should get my online photo-magazine. I also contacted the computer people recommended at Rainworth, re fitting me with more memory, and they sounded impressive.
Going to 'publish' then try to load pictures via 'edit'..........
1 comment:
Nice tombstone.
I think stonemason’s enjambment is not altogether unusual – perhaps they thought they might run out of stone.
I am delighted to hear that whole Allspice berries are still available and that RadioG has purchased some for me. The shops I had asked, including one big specialist chain, had all told me that they are not obtainable. I could have ordered them online but the p & p would have been about £7 which sounds a lot for one item (it would have been the same for up to £50 worth of goods, I believe, and free thereafter). Of course, I do not know yet what RadioG will charge for delivery. None of the supermarkets have any, not even the Co-Op, and it is not possible to pickle satisfactorily (this week, wild pears) without them.
I presume TBD is ‘To Be Done’ but whenever and whoever called it that? I have certainly never heard it before..
I managed to get to the 'this link' web-page. I think I had just been too impatient.
I cannot see what the fuss is about though. ‘The Economist’ is entitled to insist that its contributors adhere to its house-style; I am pretty sure that most publications do (certainly the Mansfield CHAD Local Correspondents are strictly limited in their presentation). So I still do not know how or why Madeline was offended and that is what intrigued me. And I am afraid that ‘That isn't one but this is and you should get my dashboard page’ doesn’t hold much meaning for me either. I understand that my IQ has apparently diminished by a third in the last two years (unless I had simply drunk too many glasses of red before competing) but am I being particularly thick and missing something?
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