A Little Bit of Spring............

...........has arrived on the top of the bookshelf and in the garden.

At the moment it's the Diary of an Edwardian Lady March plate. The Wren and the Blue Tit which are my only bits of Beswick and the Ladybird book 'What to Look For in Spring'. With a Camellia from the garden.

The new fence that belongs to my neighbours between me and them has been finished, it looks very solid but rather shows up the age of the back and the other side fence. Not that I'm thinking about replacing. I know somewhere on the information I got when I bought the bungalow it told me if they are mine or shared ownership but both are still OK. The man doing the work made a lovely job of tidying up on my side where he'd been standing to do the work. It always strikes me as odd that the person who owns a fence only gets to see the side with the posts, while I get the nice finish!

The Flowering Cherry is now covered with flowers, despite the pigeons who sit there and peck off the buds.

Thanks for comments yesterday - I shouldn't have said I'd nothing to blog about as there's always something.

Back Tomorrow - probably!

Sue

A Horrible Word

 ............Sharenting.

I heard this for the first time last week but it seems to have been around for more than 10 years. It is a word for parents that share Everything about their children on social media - usually for payment in some way.

More recently other people have been stealing the photos, changing them - perhaps putting bodies on other faces or vice versa and republishing in other places - including websites that most people Don't look at.

Apparently when children get old enough to object the parents tell them that without posting online the family will starve as it's their main income!

This all sounds like a very good reason for not putting photos of grandchildren on the blog. I don't do this very often but perhaps even once a year is too much. I also don't mention names now - sad that it's necessary.

As I'm really short on adventures and ideas for blog posts this week, I may miss a day or two or my posts will be about nothing very interesting.

Back Tomorrow

Sue 

March Planning

 IF, and its a very big IF, the weather is good enough car boot sales will start this month and it's Easter at the end with events to go to.

I need a list of things to look out for at boot-sales this year but at the moment the only thing I can think of is a tray to stand the food-mixer on. It stood on a tray for years until the tray fell to pieces and now I'm pulling the mixer forwards and pushing it to the back which, since the mixer lost one of it's rubber feet years ago,  is not doing the wooden work top much good at all.

A bigger list is what NOT to buy! 

On the financial front the big expense of March will be the car service and MOT. There are a couple of birthdays later in the month and WI subscription is due but other things are just the normal expenses unless something comes up............which it often does.

During the  week I went to the Over 60's group in the village, I think the last time I went was July 2022, I got fed up with the old men interrupting the speaker! Now, because of the Keep Moving group, I've got to  know two of the people who attend so decided to give it another try. 

The speaker's subject was 'Romania beyond Dracula' and it was an interesting talk by a man who travels on his own to out of the way places. He had an English speaking guide/driver to show him around and translate. They mostly stayed in homes of local people who provided them with rooms and meals.

He had slides of all the places he'd been - lots of wide open spaces - Romania is a similar area to the UK but with a third of the population -  and amazing buildings especially the churches and castles .

 He said they seem to eat huge meals and lots of meat and soups. Horses and carts are still used for many jobs and some villages still look very medieval. We didn't know that King Charles owns property there - but perhaps doesn't go there as often as he did when he was Prince Charles.

In March a lady is coming to speak about making TV and Film costumes so that will be interesting. I'm a bit concerned about the May Speaker - a lady once known as Miss Whiplash , who owned a specialist B&B that provided "extras". No idea what the old men will say about that!

Have a good weekend, I'll be back Monday. My car is still mainly with Son and DiL so I probably won't be going far.

Sue