Retirement and its benefits
Quick email I’ve just sent to a friend in Australia. Made me reflect for a moment on some of the better parts of life at the moment:
“Just receiving a few seeds and seed potatoes from the organicgardening catalogue – beetroot; cabbage x2; dwarf beans; onion sets and lettuce.
The company are a bit ramshackle for ordering online but they get there in the end. You ring up to sort out an inaccurate e-mail and it’s like interrupting an old dear in her potting shed with a scrap of paper and a stub of a pencil which she licks occasionally – very warm and comforting. They’ve just been taken over by a big seed company so we’ll see how that works out.
Going to a concert at the Victoria Hall tomorrow night, looks good:
http://stokeontrentfestival.com/stoke-on-trent-classics-orchestral-concerts-and-piano-recitals-concert-diary/halle-orchestra-victoria-hall-2-february-2018/
Looking forward to getting through February and some warmer days; nevertheless, I got out in the garden the other sunny day and it was very pleasant to get some tidying up done, filling the “garden-waste” brown bin with leaves and dead foliage from last year’s plants. Even hung some laundry out on the line today but the wind was so strong I collected some of it later from the flower beds.
Six Nations Rugby starts this weekend.
Supper-time and bed beckons.
About Me
Jim Granter
Retired teacher
I got this web site as a 65th birthday present from my daughter Beth. Today is day one and hopefully I’ll add appropriate stuff to this page and the site in general in future weeks. It will focus on my interests in literature (hence the My Library Thing), Americana, photography, Asperger’s syndrome and my family history.
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