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Sonntag, 5. April 2009

A right scare.


Last week weather wise was superb, we had a week of blue sky’s and the temperatures rose steadily as the week past by which meant we sat outside on the patio most afternoons.
On Monday I cut the lawn and applied fertiliser also tided and straightened the garden up which took up most of the day.
The evening walks with our dog; well that’s my privilege. Some times my wife goes with me but mainly I go alone.
On Monday evening my wife volunteered to take the dog for his walk because I wasn’t finished in the garden. When my wife leaves the house my last words are always “be careful” and it was the same “be careful” this time when she left with the dog. About one hour later my wife came back in a hell of a state, she had fallen and was in a bit of a shock. Apparently she had not realised that she was so near the verge on the road and slipped with her left foot causing her to fall onto the road. After she had recovered a bit we examined her knees, they were badly grazed also she had a cut above her lip and her chin was grazed. She was very lucky that she hadn’t broken any bones or broken her glasses, during the evening her knees swelled up and we had to cool them with ice. She has now on both knees a whopping big bruise the cut on her lip has healed very nicely.
Now there is a coincidence for you, I have just read the post from my brother no1broadstreet and his wife has fallen as well, glad to hear that no harm was done.
My wife was on to me about getting rid off two large ceramic tubs with boxwood shrubs in them, which we have in our garden, they are at least 15 years of age and she says she can’t stand the sight of them any longer. Now I’m a person that hates to part with things and my wife is exactly the opposite but after listening to her going on about these boxwood shrubs I decided the best thing was to get rid of them (the clever man gives in) or so they say.
I asked one of the neighbours in the street if she would like them for her garden she wanted to see them first of course; one hour later we had transferred them from our garden to hers and like I always say “ a good job done”
On Saturday morning we went into the local town Hilden, my wife wanted to look for a light jacket for spring and we had a stroll over the market before having a coffee sitting outside a small café looking on to the old market square. From there we drove to a new large D.I.T super-market that has just opened which is not to far from were we live, very handy.
Take care out there were ever you are. Tshüss.
The photo was taken in Düsseldorf Hofgarden were they had just let the Swans out for the summer.

Donnerstag, 13. März 2008

Spring is just around the corner.

Although we are continually being lashed by gale force winds from the never ending low depressions coming in from the Atlantic, hitting of course the British Isles first causing a lot of damage there also in France & Spain, one can’t deny it, spring is just around the corner. Every were one looks things are bursting into life there is a light touch of green on most plants and bushes.

The weather situation being unpredictable at times, I have still managed (between showers) to do some work in the garden, in fact I even managed to mow the lawn and then Thatch it (that word I didn’t know, in German it is Vertikutieren) There are so many jobs to be done in the garden before the fine weather sets in ( if it ever does) but I extremely enjoy working in the garden so it raises no problems for me.

I finely posted the bloody Income Tax return on Wednesday. My wife and I had to go through the whole lot again because we had missed something out in the first attempt, we still don’t know if we have filled the forms in correctly! But who the hell cares! If they are incorrect we will be sure to hear from the Inland Revenue people in no time.

It is my brother’s birthday today. I have sent him an e-mail congratulating him and wishing him all the best. He will be 55 on the day, I wish him most of all less stress situations in his life and the most important thing of all, good health.

The photo that I have added is one of the rare photos that I posses of my brother and me together, taken 1983 while on holiday in New Zealand. The other photo is taken of the front garden of a house a few streets away. When I saw it that’s when I thought spring is just around the corner.

Take care out there were ever you are. Tschüss.