Marty

And a cherry?

On your knees, wench!

Well, I can... More so now I am cutting back the overgrown hedge. But as the hedge regrows, I'll keep it neatly cut and shaped, maybe to four feet high (1.2 metres). The garden is already around a metre above the ground those cars are parked on, so the hedge should hide the worst of the view when it regrows. Currently, with the hedge having been allowed to grow unchecked, I can see through the bottom of it, anyway.

What picture? I posted one a couple of minutes ago showing the view now I've started cutting back the hedge. What more do you want, wench?

Ditto!

And I'll be interested to see if you still think the same when I have opened the view up even more... So here's what the view looked like at the end of today, after opening it up a little more: Do you still think it's a "great" view?

Not at all, Albert. I'm a zoombie!

I think you said she's coming on the 29? While that means she can no longer be considered a young horse, she's certainly not super old either, and hopefully could still have a good number of years left.

Fingers crossed it's nothing serious. ❤️ Have you spoken with your veterinarian?

Today was an unusually mild and sunny day here. I didn't get as much work done in the garden as I might have, though. I found out that an organic garden centre not too far away from me is still open, so broke my self-imposed quarantine and drove up to see what they had. I came home with two one-year old apple trees, one cooker and one eater, plus a one-year old plum tree. All three are grafted onto semi-vigorous rootstocks, which means they should grow to about 4 metres (13 feet) high; although they could be kept pruned below that if I want to. Apparently the advantage of a semi-vigorous, rather than a dwarfing or semi-dwarfing rootstock is that the trees will finish up with more vigorous root systems, and so be less liable to wind damage. I also got eight bare-rooted raspberry canes. Yay, me! What a good Friday it turned out to be!

Zoom....? Nope. Although I've two sessions tomorrow. Bake a cake...? No again. That's one of Sunday's jobs. A friend's birthday on Monday. Coddamnit! What's special about today?

A proper series of unfortunate events.... But they do say that accidents tend to come in threes. Let's see... Sump pump - that's number one... Cauli rice and sausage - and there's number two... Egg on floor - and now you're at number three! Looks to me like you're safe for the rest of the day, Val.

I know. Albert and Gary have already mentioned the fact. Sheesh. What's all this fuss about a mere day of the week?

Or even rainbow. Wait! What??

Sounds good, Albert. With freshly ground black pepper?

Happy Friday to you as well, Gary! Friday... is there something I need to remember about Fridays...

Great news, clo! When's the party?

After seven years of retirement, very often I find it difficult to tell the days apart... Wait! What!! It's Friday again??? Oh My Cod! I'm sure there's something I'm supposed to do....

And that makes me think of the Wall Street Crash and the Great Depression.

Immediately makes me think of Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath.

Michael Marshall Smith is one of my favourite authors. He's written under a number of pseudonyms, including Michael Marshall, M.M. Smith, and Michael Rutger. His horror/science fiction novels, written as Michael Marshall Smith, are my favourites. I particularly liked Spares, One Of Us, and his debut novel Only Forward. There's also a collection of short stories, What You Make It, which had some very interesting, and sometimes quite disturbing, chapters. I believe that was only published in the UK, but the chapters were included later in a much larger collection of short stories (More Tomorrow & Other Stories) which was sold outside of the UK. I also enjoy the more "modern day" novels that he writes as Michael Marshall (The Straw Men and Blood Of Angels spring to mind. But I have to say that his horror/sci-fi novels are my favourites. Thanks for reminding me of him, Val! I must dig his books out and give them another read.

Thank Cod for that!

Well, it's after 1:00 am here. Good night, all! Gonna leave you with some Iron Maiden.

The number of the beast...

And I'll be interested to see if you still think the same when I have opened the view up even more...