Friday, 18 April 2008

Bracing ozone laden easterly

Yesterday we were walking around Gainsborough,when I spotted a face I knew,then I realised who it was,John Kettley the BBC weather man, I think he is now retired and living in the area,you would think he could have picked a more congenial climate with his meteorological background.
The wind is blowing in from the north sea at a steady 18mph and feels like winter,I have just been checking on the neighbours farm and it was a case of leaning into the wind,surely it must start to warm up soon,or is it going to be one of those Summers where we reach the longest day and are still in winter mode?
Le Blade is off up to Sheffield on Saturday to watch Utd.he was on the phone the other night telling me how many clothes his dearest has in her wardrobe,it seems she was sylphlike when they were married,and has saved all her clothes in the forlorn hope of turning back the clock.
He claims to have only a couple of pairs of torn jeans and all the rest is hers, the cycling tour of Italy is at the moment on hold and I feel may not re surface.
Mrs Broccoli is away for the weekend in a chalet at Filey,her little grandaughter who lives with them was quite excited when we visited early in the week,even though Le Blade in mischevious mode told her all the houses up there were falling into the sea as the coastline erodes,I assured her that theirs would be fine and was secure from the elements.
Montana is ranting again on his blog,this time picking on a poor elderly chap who is visiting America and can be seen walking around in what could be described as a white frock, he is visiting from his palazzo in Rome,and has even met the President of the USA,the aforementioned frock wearer has a chequered background,and as a young man was a member of the hitler youth,but now speaks to the sky and passes on percieved responses,seems a fairly harmless pursuit for a person to pursue in old age.
Ex" constabule" Dave was on the phone the other evening to regale me re the merits of Gibraltar as a shopping venue,it seems that booze is incredibly cheap as is petrol(gas) to US readers,he is as a result considering moving to live near his son in Spain's Costa Del Sol,which seems as good a reason as any, there was muted noise from the background which he said was his dear wife imbibing french brandy which was priced at a reasonable £2.50 per bottle in Gib.
My old protege Shaun has left Sheffield and moved on to pastures new nearby,it has to be said without leaving me a forwarding address,into which I shall read no ulterior motives.
His dear old Mam and Dad are merrily going about their business in Mablethorpe and not regreting in the least leaving Rotherham,he is recovering well from his hip joint replacment and when I called was polishing away at a leather footstool,before breakfast.
PS. May I recommend that students of Theology read the Old Testament by Terence Milligan,a tome of some consequence by the now sadly deceased Irish author.

1 comment:

Mike Saif said...

Glad to see you are up and running again. Just watched a program on Exorcists. It showed three different ones getting the demons out of people. One only charged $165 a time.