well we gotta do summat to keep this ship sailing while the caps away?? I do realize you have always been a man of brevity - still tell us about the sur on? have you lost interest in that ?
Spitty told me he is jet hosing his grass! I didnât know you could do such a thing. I wonder if he has a dog and he hoses that tooâŠdogs apparently love chasing the water from a hose. Or beer from a pump, ha!
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Tea break by here in between repairing a shrub-tub in our jardin.
Itâs beer night as well. I shall either be celebrating or crying in my beer, depending on how the England Rugby team do today. I hope the Ladies do better when their tournament starts.
Other nations are available to support.
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Itâs bring on the tennis for me, Fruity! 
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Iâm glad you mentioned this, FruitcakeâŠI wasnât aware that Rugby was on. So you are playing against France? best of luck with that 
Scotland are playing Ireland later this afternoonâŠ
If I were to bet on this game, I think it would be a close call ahem
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Do you enjoy Wimbledon then Mags? I watch it sometimes, but with the sound down 
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no good askin for any help around here then?? cleaners; janitors ; salespersons ; good pay [the joy you can give others!]
back to the nurses home !! for a start we stuck to the rules - we could of course meet in the tv room ; [piano room - although someone playing their famous aria whilst tv was on wasnât such a clever idea] a multi- sexual dining room [ although no one to my knowledge had any sex there ] ground floor corridors and in the grounds for a romp in the tall grass. So there was still the challenge of the second and third floors and their mid corridor clocks!! Of course some relationships had started before this close quarter mulitracial experiment and they would invariable continue and maybe thatâs where it all started - the denigration of social harmony??
I might add as an nb: that there were many within this large gathering of workers who considered this experiment unecessary ; hazardous and downright dangerous but it had been signed off by the CMN and the Matron respectively and to my knowledge was never recinded ?? despite the frivolaties that I am about to elucidate?
Its not a question of âinterestâ Gummy, its a vehicle, nothing more nothing less, unfortunately becoming more prolific with the young balaclava clad Urban Street Cruisers, but, for an old geezer, there are always decisions to be made. This week, the weather is going to be good so, I am off to see a Windmill, the Sur ron would have been the vehicle of choice but, after surveying the Google Earth images, access would not have been possible with the bulkier vehicle so, one of the E MTBs will be used, horses for courses so to speak.
Oooh I adore windmills! Please post a photo if you are able to. They make some windmills into housesâŠthat would be so much fun, I think!
Yes, I will take some photoâs might catch some audio of a âWindyâ Miller. 
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Oh please noâŠnot audio. My earphones couldnât cope
I am also a fan of windmills. Did you know they are referred to as âSheâ just like a ship?
I grew up in a small Lincolnshire village that had a disused windmill at tâother end. It originally had six sails, but one blew off in a storm in the early 1900s, so the miller took off the one on the opposite side and ran it like that for several decades.
At the time, my local junior school badge depicted a four sail windmill.
In more recent times the mill has been restored to working order with all sails reinstated. The school badge now depicts the mill with all six sails.
I donated my old school badge to the mill and it is now on display inside the mill when it is open for visitors.
During WW2, a load of RAF engineers turned up with sledgehammers and axes as they decided the mill was a hazzard to the bombers at the nearby aerodrome.
The owner met them at the gate with a shotgun, and a friendly discussion ensued.
Seventy years later the mill is still stood standing, but the aircraft are long gone.
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I didnât know Windmills were referred to as âsheâ, Fruitcake! It must be a title given to things who are very efficient at what they do then eh?
I am so glad the owner defended his mill with such gustoâŠ!
I think there a few mills dotted around in Scotland, but they seem to be just blocks of round-ness nowâŠno sails or anything. I live close to a small mill operated by a waterfall, but it was related to weaving back in the day.
the nursing home tales - did I tell you the story about the scootsmon who finished up in bed one dark night with three dark ladies - you could say he had brought en - lightenment to them but it sorta scared the hell out of him!! true tale and he now has passed on dear fella and so wonât mind me saying?
That guy should have got a standing ovation, was that event recorded as the cause of death?
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@spitfire - he actually recounted that he was so surprised by the event and frightened at the same time that he just could not stand for an ovation?? I met him many years later and his dear wife who had been one of those ladies - but I think cause of death was lack of it and too much smoking?
Yep, âFagsâ have taken many lives!!!
even in those days same gender and tender relationships sprung up from time to time and although the night duty superintendent [who could bed male or female] had durasdiction over the control of an orderly household! - this was never really enforced unless in desperate times? and so tender dalliances ensued and secret meetings of the clandestine style were made ; nurtured and completed before the cockrel would crow each dawn! but just occasionally racial disharmony did break out and in some unusual ways and so I am reminded of the âcase of the caribbean crisisâ but that must wait for another time perhaps??