Wednesday 30 September 2009

Malvern Show


On Sunday I was treated to a day off. A friend came to 'babysit' the invalid and I drove his wife to the Malvern Autumn Show where we had been again treated to free tickets. The vegetable display above is amazing; the exhibitor grows and displays all his own vegetables at shows across the country. The show itself was slightly disappointing. The craft and plants were excellent but other stalls were selling what I think is described as kitsch. Maybe just as well as it enabled us to be selective with what we looked at, and happily, we liked looking at the same things. Including this garden for the disabled design below.

We are going back to the hospital tomorrow to see the surgeon in outpatients. We hope we will get a clearer picture of 'what next' in the way of physios and timescales for weight-bearing. Meanwhile we are praying daily for a dear friend, pivotal in the scene here, who has received a serious diagnosis.
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Monday 21 September 2009

Operation done

Operation took place this morning. With eight screws! Thank you to all who prayed and thought of him. He's not too happy a bunny at present, so please continue.

Tuesday 15 September 2009

Hemmed in


HoF is in the wars - bigtime. On Friday he fell from a ladder and broke his heel. He spent all weekend in hospital, which it has to be said, he quite enjoyed, apart from the suspense of not knowing when or if he would have an operation. While he was there a blue tit flew in through my bedroom window. If you can spot him, there he is looking at me from the bookcase. He might have thought I was cruel shutting the door to keep him in, and then shutting the curtains when he went to the window sill. He just could not work out how he'd got into such a mess. But hemming him in worked and he found the open window again.

In the event, HoF was released from hospital on Monday on condition that he was extremely sensible and kept his foot above his waist all week. On Sunday he goes back again to have a long operation for the surgeon to try and make sense of the jigsaw in his heel. Here he is in the base set up in the study where he can receive visitors.
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Friday 4 September 2009

Beer Festival


You can't say nothing happens in the county.
This was the fourth annual Sun Beer Festival, a piece of village tomfoolery creating a new custom. It may well have been the last as you can see here. It began at the cemetery with flowers being placed on the grave of the late Flossie Lane, last publican of this parlour pub. Then a procession led by Scottish pipers (' whose grave is that?' the Highland lassie whispered in my ear)

Then the Mayor, elected annually by regulars, opened the event.

We put in an appearance (spot us if you can) and might have stayed longer but for the rain. Rumour has it that the Sun is almost in safe hands. We hope the new owner manages to maintain the atmosphere of the old building whilst conforming to Elf and Safety, more tomfoolery.

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Wednesday 2 September 2009

Visitors


It's not that easy to get me on a bike but when some enthusiasts come to visit and you want to show them the beautiful countryside, what can one say? I just have to get off and walk the slightest slope; there seem to be some muscles missing. Perhaps it was merciful that soon after the second photo my bike got a puncture!

We had other visitors for the Bank Holiday weekend and this is one of them being amused by the first ever phone box cosy in the world, or so they say, a feature of an exhibition by another local village.
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