Today, 29th October 2020, marks the 80th birthday of my eldest sibling, Maureen.
Last weekend I should have been travelling to England for a family get-together to mark this important milestone.
Due to Covid-19 these celebrations had to be cancelled.
My next eldest sibling, Michael will reach the same milestone in June of 2022. Fingers (and everything else) crossed that we'll all still be around, and able to get together for that celebration.
Hey, Gary!
Sounds like here, to me. We've got rain on and off as well. Busy removing last of wallpaper from living room, prior to getting a plasterer to come and patch things. At that terribly slow stage where the walls look bare, but there's still lots of stubborn patches that need re-wetting and scraping completely clean.
And I have a beef casserole cooking in the oven, with potatoes, carrots, swede (aka: rutabaga), onions, runner beans, shredded cabbage, beetroot (aka: beets), bay leaf (aka: laurel), and rosemary, all from my garden.
The old farmer who lived beside me when I first moved to Ireland once said to me, when I was bemoaning a stillborn calf to one of my cows:
"The only way you'll never have livestock die on you, is to never have any livestock in the first place."
True, that.