Jackie is a little better today, and managed to insert in the softened ground by the new roses labels she had made yesterday.
On another wet, still humid, overcast day I ambled down to Roger’s footpath and back. A pair of intrepid ramblers togged up from the boot of their car and set off ahead of me. I wondered whether they were wearing the Gore Tex featured yesterday.
Even the bees had stayed at home in their hives.
Somehow, St John’s wort sparkled along the back drive.
I scanned more photographic prints from the 1985 garden fete where Sam ate his apple whilst watching a Punch and Judy show. Because of the amount of retouching required this took much of the day, which it certainly brightened up.
Jessica’s cousin, the local vet, was in charge of balloons. He seemed to have run out of hands to ensure they did not blow away
like the bubbles Jessica, Louisa, and Sam watched.
Soon the track for the running race was roped across the grass,
and a little boy eavesdropped on Louisa’s coaching session.
Her Mum led her to the start line, and
soon she was off in pursuit
of her brother and another lad. As a long distance runner, I learned that if you cannot talk you are going too fast. The opposite, of course, is true of sprinting, but no-one seems to have mentioned that to these two boys.
The Punch and Judy show, as it always would, enraptured all the children;
one of whom, as her emotions fluctuated, became excited enough to make her mascara run. The little chap behind her wasn’t exactly happy. Perhaps Mr Punch was becoming violent. The girl was one of a number who had subjected themselves to the art of the beautician before the show:
Sam’s turn came later:
Mr Pink provided fish and chips for Jackie and me this evening. I drank the bottle of Hepworth’s Prospect Ale that Ian had given me yesterday. It proved to be the perfect accompaniment.