This Weeks Happenings

 Last weekend I said I'd decided to paint the small bedroom/toy room with just enough paint left from the living room to do it but painting in a small room with a single bed and a book shelf that are too big to move out isn't easy. I moved very carefully and slowly, as I could imagine stepping back and straight into the paint pot like something from a slapstick comedy! 

I started by shifting out all the toys and books, removed 15 little hooks and filled the holes that were left and began with two walls that had to be completely finished before I could move the bed and shelves to get to the other two walls. All finished now except for moving everything back in again. I may weed out some toys now too - the grandchildren are growing up. The youngest  - down in Surrey - is 3 tomorrow.

  

I've not bothered with a TV schedule magazine for several weeks - I still miss the copy of the Radio Times that used to come through the letter box every Thursday but I'm doing without for a while to save some pennies before Christmas (and yes I know I can look online but it's not the same as a paper copy in the hand). Luckily I  came across info on several new crime series starting on TV soon - Dalgeish, Ellis and DI Ray all start sometime soon and second series of Chelsea detective started Wednesday. Lots to look forward to. I watched all of Ludwig - a clever story and it will be back for another series.

Did you know there's a US version of Have I Got News For You? It's on BBC iplayer and almost as funny as our version.......... apart from not knowing who they are talking about!  I reckon HIGNFY is one of the best programmes on TV ...watching politicians squirm has to be fun.

My Reading The Seasons 'challenge' isn't going well.  Out of the books with Autumn in their title that I'd reserved and brought home last month, I only read one. The rest have gone back unread. I'd read some of Lesley Cookman's book in the past but stopped as they were all the same and this one was just as bad - they are written almost completely in dialogue and there are so many characters that I was completely lost after about 30 pages.

Couldn't get into the Louis De Bernieres book at all and the one called Autumn Leaves was truly bad! So just the Christie book read. Which means that it's nearly halfway through Autumn already and I've only read two with Autumn in their titles and nothing else I fancy reading on the library website.

Someone did  ask if I would include books with 'fall' in their titles as well as Autumn- but I decided against as there are over 2,000 on the library website and many are romances. The way the days fly by it will soon be time to look for 'Winter' titles anyway and with the first hard frost on the car windscreen on Friday morning winter is on the way.

Must say apologies for not commenting much this week and not replying  yesterday due to the painting and when I wasn't shifting and painting I was outside clearing up in the garden - the job list out there is long, as is the list of things I need to get made in the kitchen.....that's next week.

Have a good weekend.

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Sue

On This Day - October 11th

 My eldest Granddaughter is 8 today and one of my nephews has a birthday too -  I think he must 40  -  the years just fly by - it's not the only day in the year with two family or friend's birthdays on the same day which seems odd but apparently it's not. You only need 23 people from the same family and friends in a room to find two have birthdays on the same day. You would think it would have to be 366 people so I've no idea why it's 23. It's called 'The Birthday Paradox' and is one of the few odd facts that I remember, which would be totally useless if I didn't have a blog to fill!

On this day in 1982  the Mary Rose  saw the light of day again after 437 years. The flagship of the Tudor fleet had sailed from Portsmouth on July 18th 1545 watched by Henry VIII, to do battle yet again against the French. She had already been at sea many times but had been rebuilt in 1536. Sadly she sunk just a mile off Portsmouth taking up to 400 men to be their death in the Solent sands. Only 179 skeletons were found among the wreckage and only 35 men survived.

As well as the remains of the ship over 10,000 artefacts telling the story of Tudor sailors have been brought to the surface.

We visited the  hull remains where they are on display in Portsmouth in about 1990, before the timbers had been stabilised and the museum properly established . I wish I could remember more about the visit but I do have a tea towel.

There's lots more about the ship on Wiki and on the Mary Rose Museum website.

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Sue