Captain Cuttle

Well at least you know that with your acrobatic skills they are always looking for dextrous individuals to help paint the Forth rail bridge!

Had it for forty years and Kathy has had it since she was eleven and she is seventy one in July. Seems more noticeable on a quiet day and with or without hearing aids.

And in sunny Newton Abbot our nearest star is shining bright. Fluffy white clouds scattered over a mainly green and not so pleasant landscape. A bank of cumulonimbus though looking threatening on the horizon. Pleasantly warm in the sunshine, wind SSW light.

I dont know what is happening happening as my quotes keep appearing appearing in duplicate twice or more.

Torbay palms exotic? Nah, common as weeds 'ere.

Oh darn it, i thought that was a bit of snot on the screen!🙄

Oh darn, thought that was a bit of snot on the screen🙄

Oh darn, i thought it was a bit of snot on my android screen🙄

Jasper Maskelyne was known as The War Magician and its a good read if you can find one. All sorts of trickery to fool the enemy in WW2.

They are actually called Cordylines, this was or maybe still is the one at what was my parents bungalow in Coverack. Huge garden backed onto fields, great for star gazing i remember, also listening to the waves crashing on the beach, happy days.

Our day Will Come - Amy Winehouse

The last three photos showed as not uploaded!! The palm in the first photo came from my mum and was just a small plant in her conservatory. When we had to sell her bungalow in Coverack to pay for her care, we inherited it. It didnt grow much for several years but is firmly established now. The aeoniums on the decking i recently repotted, they originate from West Cornwall and are called Zwartkop and the smaller cuttings in the side porch are some different varieties we have just bought. I like them and like coleus they are very colourful and easy to grow.

Well it has in sunny Newton Abbot but as my Cornish mother would say..........its a lazy wind today! Wisteria as in 2009 with our then elderly cat Rusty and in 2024, still its at least thirty five years old. It didnt like Essex but happier here but not so prolific now. The acer is about fifty years old and had a large flowering cherry tree in front of it. The torbay palm tree is a similar age and still growing well.

Its All Too Much - The Beatles

Not in this world no, but when your time comes, him upstairs will make it all right.

How strange you should mention that as being ex RAF i did check through my drawers to see if i had any left but no such luck.🙄

May i suggest getting her some wax earplugs, they do work.

Unfortunately you read about this every day, i hope you get it sorted asap.

Keep On Hoping - Riley Clemmons

Hope it works out, are underbody parts still available?

I have a book called British Specialist Cars, Specials and Kits but i couldnt see any ones like it in there.

Yes thats the reason, Its the same in the U S where they use road salt. Keep the car power washed underneath regularly and you are fine. Out of sight and out of mind though. Something to check on in the future Jim, are there others in the market available or is that an ultra rare car? Iwas watching a YT video where someone found a rare Mazda coupe RX-3 from the seventies in a scrapyard completely rotted out and in danger of collapse but because not many came to the UK it was worth saving.

Blues on the Downbeat Pete Johnson

And our bear Brian will have to cover his ears again!

Absolutely criminal however you can only buy a couple of packs of sixteen of paracetomol or ibruprofen each so unless you can get them on prescription in a bottle i dont know. You can buy a bottle of one hundred 75mg aspirin tablets from the USA though, well you could a couple of years ago . Its like rim blocks in Tesco, they used be card backed with recyclable plastic but now they have ditched the cardboard, why?