Just like great great grandfather!

" Talc Miner Italy " For Barry the coalville miner

The title is a slight alteration to Florrie's description of her daughters if she disapproved of their actions or words, but I was up early this morning making coffee for my dear wife's breakfast,when I spotted a rat near the edge of the dyke,so with my trusty rifle I got it first shot,but not an instant kill as it crawled off to die, before I could reload .

My great great grandfather W. Jeffrey of Hatton ,a village on the wolds, had a spell as a "vermin killer"according to the census records,after being a farmworker and later moving to Hull and trading as a greengrocer,hence the title of the blog.

The weather looks to be going downhill it started off sunny but cloud is moving in from the wolds,and the forecast is strong winds and rain,Florida seems a long way away.

Montana Mike is visiting some weird exhibition of human bodies! I think he has lost the plot, speaking of Montana,we visited Mrs. Broccoli yesterday,and it turns out her husbands sister lives in Montana,its a small world.

We met Mrs Gander a couple of days ago, and Bob the Goose is still recovering from his back operation, Barry the miner of coalville is going into hospital today for his hip operation,and if they read the blog, best wishes to him.

I am waiting for the postman to call preferably with cheques ,but usually its only junk mail and inland revenue letters.

Thats it for now as you see not much happening. Graham

ps.the painting is of Piero the Italian talc miner,done on wacom programme ,for computer buffs.

TERREMOTO !

Terremoto(earthquake ) here on the prairie,numerous funny thoughts come to mind about the bed lifting of the ground at 1.am in the middle of the night,was it the whisky? did someone break wind rather strongly? and others too risque to mention,but no it was an earthquake,the italians call it a terremoto,which means earth in motion,and describes it perfectly,its a little bit like a really bad drunken night when the ceiling swirls,or so I am told.
As far as I can see there seems to be no structural damage,even though the epicentre was at Ludford a village just to the west of Louth.
I mention the Italian word because some friends of ours who lived in a flat in Pinerolo in Italy once had a domestic disagreement,and being Italians things were being thrown about including a large item of furniture,the residents in the flat below were recent arrivals from the south of Italy,and were used to earth tremors,they ran out into the open shouting TERREMOTO!! but fortunately it was only our friends arguing ,they are of course now divorced.
So nothing much else to report at this early hour, possibly more revelations later.
Graham

First bike ride of the year

Sunday morning dawned breezy but fine,so I rode the bike to mablethorpe and back to buy a paper ,about 4 miles in total,but it was much stronger wind than I bargained for ,and made it hard work pedalling there but ok coming back.
I did some gardening work,tidying up the borders and spreading grass seed where the mole has damaged things,also moved some big pieces of tree trunk out of the back to the grass verge at the entrance,to dissuade binmen and others from destroying the grass verge.
Sheila made a sunday dinner and after scoffing that,we watched the cup game between Chelsea and Spurs,and the result went to Spurs who were the better side.
Thats about it from the little house on the prairie for today.
Ciao Graham

Over the hills and back.

Back from Preston today,after delivering posters to Sheffield and then overnight at Gina's,took her some paintings for the walls which are in need of some ,as they are very high old fashioned walls.
It was raining as usual in Lancashire but cleared up on the Yorkshire side of the penines,and positively balmy here in Lincolnshire,the car registered 16c at Gainsborough,and 13 on the prairie.
The Mole may be dead as no further eruptions of vesuvian magnitude,the reason could be Sheila who stabbed away at a small eruption a couple of days ago,and may have killed off the blighter.
Not much else to report so I am signing off, Graham

cartoon showing the tribulations of a gardener

Below is a pictorial blog showing me furiously trying to pitchfork a mole which is creating havoc in our back garden,the mole as you can see is having a laugh. Graham

Mountains out of molehills

Heathy Eating

Today started frosty and sunny,then the north sea decided to send us some mist,which cleared the frost but scuppered the sun,I finished the poster orders and came in for a warm,to find out Sonia and Michael are cutting short their holiday,I think maybe a week is enough in portugal as there is little to do if the weather is bad.
Montana is reduced to sharpening knives for a hobby,and revealing all about his errant youth,(well nearly all).
We have a mole creating havoc in the garden,I tried stabbing it with the garden fork but fresh piles of soil keep appearing,I must look for a trap to kill the blighter,can't shoot it because its underground.
I hear on the local grapevine that Mrs. Broccoli has a part time job as a swimming instructor,which leaves Ian the Blade without a driving instructor.
Tonight I am in charge of the tv remote as Sheila is WI'ing ,so no soaps tonight,just football,and everybody loves raymond.
The cup game at bramall lane was not a great football match,and Utd.were not the worst team either,the preston game was a better game and Preston should have won,but they had a penalty saved and gave away a goal in extra time.
Sam the Pom is doing well with his Australian team,and at this rate could be in line for the England job in a few years,Sandra the Pom seems to be encountering a lot of OZZIE wildlife,spiders,snakes, and such, which leads me into snake oil and stuff,its time to get on the yorkshire artist diet,and exercise regime,drink plenty of fluids containing alcohol,eat lots of fatty bacon and red meat,do a minimum of exercise,tv remote channel changing is ok,and throw all the vitamin pills in the bin,this will not prolong your life expectancy,but you sure will enjoy the bit you have,NON organic food is a must on this fitness regime.
Only food cooked on the same day must be eaten,no leftovers,and every day a diverse menu,small amounts of water may be drunk but only to alleviate the dry mouth syndrome occasionally experienced after copious amounts of whisky.
Good luck Dieters,and do publish your results,,Graham the guru.