What generation gap?

Bess's Granny and Grandad came to visit today. They were only here for a couple of hours but in that time grandad managed to break and then fix a garden bench and take apart Bess's Lightning McQueen remote control car (and put it back together again). The best thing was watching bess and Grandad sat at the kitchen table, screw drivers in hand, repairing cars.

Aahhh!

What an eyeful....

Aren't hot air balloons a wonderful sight....I (that's Brian) spent ages in our garden watching this one until Ali took my binoculars away.

Guess what? Yep, more veg!

Its Friday night and all I've (thats Ali) got to do is talk about veg and watch a Gardeners World special. Blimey, I think middle age is well and truly kicking in.

But just look at our carrotts, raspberries and two, yes thats two, different types of bean!


Ok, lets put some scale on these . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Minature carrotts and monster raspberries.
I love it.

Look who we met this morning . . . . . .

. . . . . only Peppa Pig - wow, we got quite starstruck! She's our heroine, our blog would be nothing without her.

Move over Jonathon Ross....

Film Review.........

'The Dark Knight'

What a film!

.........Er.... thats it really.

..............Oh and if you go and see it don't have one of those big cups of Coke (or even a regular one)...its about two and half hours long and your bladder will not thank you. but as I said.........what a film!

Oh......and "Hellboy : The Golden Army" is fun too. A big red Demon getting drunk and singing Barry Manilow before saving mankind from avenging 80s boy band members, what could be more fun.

Reasons to be cheerful.......

Well how about that. Where in the country are people happiest? Well Powys of course! Who says? Top boffins at Sheffield University say, that's who, so it must be true. It's very nice to know that Mum, Dad and all the rest of the Taylor/Felgate family can feel justifed (and not a little smug) about living with a permanent smile on their faces. It is a wonderful part of the world, not least because its not really on the tourist map and is certainly far from the madding crowd...and long may it continue.

But, aren't there more pressing issues that our top academic minds (even those in Yorkshire) should be turning their minds too?

"Aye Oop Professor Thwaite what shall we do today? Find a cure for a disease? Prevent t' ice caps from melting,? Create an alternative fuel technology? Clone Geoff Boycott?"
" Nay, Professor Higginbotham, how about travelling round t' country to see who's happy."
"Crackin'! I'll get t'car"

Spot the difference

. . . . . . well, can you spot the difference?

Ah x

Idiots on the Air

Two pompous idiots on the radio in one day and Parliament isn't even sitting.

First, that well known 'pop star' Noel Gallagher appeared, allegedly drunk (how rock and roll), on Radio One. I find him pretty irritating at the best of times (I think he only lets Liam stay in Oasis so that he is not the most obnoxious one in the band). Whilst most of what he says is publicity seeking rot (Oh have Oasis got a new album coming out?) I thought it was a bit rich of someone who's entire career has been built on ripping off the Beatles (and not as well as the Rutles) to claim that the Kaiser Chiefs were rubbish because they sounded like the Monkees. Irritated I turned over to Five Live.

And I have to thank Mr Gallagher because I then heard the best radio moment for some time. It was that interview with Steve MacClaren . The former England manager is now managing a team in Holland and was being interviewed for Dutch television. If you haven't heard this seek it out (if this link doesn't work type Steve MacClaren accent into YouTube). Its hilarious! MacClaren does that old English trick of assuming that if you speak English with a slight foreign accent those foreigners will understand you better. What made it even funnier on Five Live was Alan Green almost wetting himself laughing.

Whilst Gallagher made me grumpy MacClaren for once cheered me up no end and made me chuckle all day!

.......and what about the vegetables?

Ah ,the fruit of good honest sweat and toil tastes so much sweeter!

We are at last starting to harvest our crops in earnest now. The potatoes (despite having blight) are very tasty - we've forgotten the varieties but we have red and white ones (not red & white ones, but red ones and white ones), our peas and beans are delicious (if a little thin on the ground - we know to pack more plants in next year), we've eaten stuffed courgette (well they were the size of marrows), have about four varieties of tomatoes (which actually taste like tomatoes rather than the tasteless supermarket ones we'd got used to), raspberries are being picked on a daily basis are fat and juicy. We've learnt a lot about growing this season thanks to Lucia, Mum and Dad T, Derek, Joe Swift and everyone down at the Allotment (especially Bob on the allotment hotline). It's hardly been a bumper harvest, but it has given us encouragement to carry on next year.

She definitely looks like her Mum . . . . . . .

. . . . . . . . . no, I think you'll find she definately looks like her Dad!

"I Need a Holiday......"

With 'Scouting For Girls' at full volume the CD player we (BT, Lal, Jen, Rich and Bessie) set off for Cornwall and sunny Padstow. The sun shone (some of the time - enough to all get sunburnt), we paddled, built sandcastles, surfed (well we squeezed into wet suits and flotaed around on surf boards whilst the waves pounded us 'til ached), watched the boats in the harbour, ate fish and chips from the local Chippy ('Chip Ahoy'), successfully avoided anywhere with Rick Steins name on it and generally did the whole British sea-side holiday thing.

..ahhh...and now it all seems so long ago............