Just a normal week

Sitting outside on an overcast day writing this post is a new experience for me and I must admit quiet a pleasant one.

Now if I had locked myself out of the house liked my brother did (No1broadstreet) then I would have had some thing exciting to write about especially if our dog was observing me instead of a cat. (Sorry brother)

No it was a normal week! On Monday I cycled to the near town of Hilden for my appointment with my optician. I have to go every three months to have my eyes tested for the Green star, up to now; thank goodness every thing is ok.

On Tuesday I was up at twenty past five and on my way to work (remember I work two days a month for my old company) I arrived at work for seven. The day was filled with three meetings, two of them concerning gluing of boxes, we are having difficulty with a certain product and the third was with the Die maker that produces the cutting Dies for our company, this is normal proceeding every six months we get together to discuss development and new techniques. Just before I was leaving to go home my boss called me in to his office to discuss his plans about the Die Cutter that is going to our company in Hungary. He wants the people that are going to work on the machine to come over for four weeks and be trained here instead of me going over and doing the training there. I must agree with him the idea is a good one; here we have all the fertilities that we need for optimal training, the day was a good one and I was home for around half past four.

Yesterday I mowed my new lawn for the second time, I must say I am very satisfied with it, of course it has to develop which will take a bit of time but that’s normal. I also mowed the neighbours lawn as well, they are on holiday in Salzburg Austria and come back at the end of the week so I thought I would do him a favour, he helps me with my computer when I am having problems.

My wife bought a rose stock at the beginning of the year and it is now in blossom, the name of the rose is Brother Cadfael a English one (see photo) with a fantastic fragrance, my wife can’t stop talking about it. We have had roses before but always seemed to have chosen the wrong ones.

This morning we had breakfast on the patio the temperature was 19 degrees at half past seven. Later on the sky darkened and in the distant we heard thunder. On the radio we heard that there had been a very heavy storm not all that far from us with hail that apparently were as large as tennis balls which apparently and for obvious reasons did a lot of damage, all we got was a bit of rain thank goodness.

My wife has just made me for my dinner one of my favourite dishes, bacon pancakes, instead of adding sugar to the pancake mixture you add salt, lay strips of bacon in the frying pan and pour the mixture over the bacon and fry delicious.

The photo of the rose and the lawn.

Take care out there were ever you are. Tschüss.