Today’s picture shows John and Andy, our end-to-end guests leaving this morning. It was taken by Mrs Tootlepedal. The reason that Mrs Tootlepedal took the photo and not me is that I was still lying asleep in bed by the time that they left and Mrs Tootlepedal hadn’t the heart to wake me. When IContinue reading “An unexpected meeting”
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Stay-at-home
Today’s picture shows one of Mrs Tootlepedal’s gaudy tulips hanging its head with weariness. I know how it feels because after yesterday’s excitement, my head was drooping a bit too although my joints were feeling pretty good. I decided to give the whole system a good rest and enjoyed a day of leisure, rising lateContinue reading “Stay-at-home”
A day of (enforced) rest
Today’s picture, sent to me by a Langholm exile in New Zealand shows an intelligent child anticipating the ideal Rugby World Cup final. For information, she is lying on a saltire and clutching a kiwi. We started the day by waving off our three cycling overnight guests. We don’t usually take three guests as weContinue reading “A day of (enforced) rest”
All right so far
Today’s picture is of a water lily in the pond. For some reason they never seem to open fully out. We are nervously waiting for the hurricane formerly named Katia to arrive but meanwhile, after a late breakfast, I had a pleasant pedal round the morning run in dry and warm weather. It was asContinue reading “All right so far”
Not quite so bad
Today’s picture is a cosmos, one of the few flowers not to look battered. It rained heavily in the morning again and so I invited Dropscone and Arthur round for coffee. This was partly to give Dropscone something to do as he is getting rather bored of enforced inaction and partly to stop Arthur doingContinue reading “Not quite so bad”
Cracking walnuts
Today’s picture is of George. He is cycling from Land’s End to John O’Groats in what can only be described as inhospitable conditions. He told me that he was looking forward to the challenge of cycling to Edinburgh today. I was speechless (for once). He was a bit under-equipped for the weather so I lentContinue reading “Cracking walnuts”
A nice cup of tea (red bush) and a slice of cake
No flower today as I forgot to take the camera into the garden and the flowers are disappearing because of the cold nights anyway. I might have to start having a bird of the day soon. I had a very quiet day today what with it being Sunday and myself being somewhat tired. In theContinue reading “A nice cup of tea (red bush) and a slice of cake”
Out and about
Today’s flower is unidentified even by Mrs Tootlepedal but it is small and in the rockery The morning was spent gently enough in drinking coffee, purchasing beef for stew and that sort of thing. Dropscone is in France golfing so the morning ride is optional at present. Mrs Tootlepedal went off to work after lunchContinue reading “Out and about”
Rather them than me
Today’s flower is especially pleasing to me as it the second of the two fuchsias which were flattened by the frost and one which looked as though it was dead as a doornail. Even when it showed a bit of growth, it never looked as though it would flower so this is a real bonus.Continue reading “Rather them than me”
Bad knee
Today’s flower is a sunflower I went round the morning run with Dropscone again today for the fourth time this week in probably fractionally the quickest time of the four. He was unsatisfied with his picture in the blog yesterday so I will have to capture him again in a more flattering pose. We recentlyContinue reading “Bad knee”
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