No Words of Wisdom on Landscaping, Just a Funny Old Week.

Jill thinks I have an addictive personality. That is not the case where people become addicted to my personality but I become addicted to the things I do. She also says it runs in my family. I have to agree, my family are slightly mad, lovely, but not quite normal in my eyes. My father became addicted to running at the age of 60 and it would be quicker to say what my elder sister hasn’t become addicted to. And I realise I have just become addicted to using the word addicted.Now I have cured my obsession (thank you thesaurus) with Freecell - well for 2 and a half weeks – I believe writing a blog is becoming the next compulsion (thesaurus again). I have started to take notes, (which is another one of my fathers traits) of the things that happen during the week so I don’t forget to include in my Saturday morning ramble. The problem here is if I turn all the notes into sentences and paragraphs, anyone daft enough to be reading this will be asleep by the time I get onto Tuesdays antics.

I’ve decided I hate Ornamental Quince. It has a lovely flower but I had to dig one up on Monday so we I can transform a front garden in Cambridge. The roots are a nightmare and since there was no room to swing a mattock, let alone the proverbial cat, it took me most of the morning to remove it.I was also put into a state of shock by meeting a nice traffic warden. Normally in Cambridge they don’t give you a chance but this guy was really nice. It is chaotic in the road where we are working which is a dead end and with two other building projects going next door but this man understood the parking problems and that everyone had to do their job.As I’m coming up to Tuesday, I feel your eyes must be getting a bit weary so I will write a separate article on the garden when it is completed with pretty pictures and all.I was happy on Tuesday night to return to playing football, another infatuation or as I look at it, a passion. I haven’t been for a kick around with the boys since before Christmas and I did enjoy it.Tuesday’s football is ‘veterans’ night with a few youngsters thrown in to keep us on our toes. We play the occasional game but it’s more of a social thing. I also play on Saturdays for Saffron Walden Town A team which is a lot of youngsters with a couple of oldies thrown in. We’re sitting at the top of the table at the moment and we’ve got our first game of the New Year this afternoon. Last night I didn’t really fancy it but just thinking about it now I’m getting rather excited – I might mature one day and hang up my boots.Jill made her local journalism debut during the week as she was asked to write a regular piece for a Great Chishill village web site. This should be a great way of advertising and it will be interesting to see if any extra business comes from it.Mrs Cranwells funeral was on Thursday so a no work day. I regard funerals to be somewhere to celebrate a person’s life and not to be sad which is easier to do if you’re not closely related to the person who’s died. Mrs Cranwell, 99 years old, star of Radio Cambridgeshire, village and local area historian and a lover of nature and old ways was a remarkable person and I wish more people were like her today. How the world changes. As well as the above and many other things, she was also Patron to the Long Bow Society. At the end of the funeral, three archers sent three volleys of arrows into the sky across where she had been laid to rest with her husband into a meadow. To me, it felt like her soul was being sent across the village just to keep an eye on everything. It is something I will never forget.I’ve got so much more to write but I can’t follow that.

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Phil Voice January 23, 2010 at 11:08am

"Jill made her local journalism debut during the week" - not strictly true Simon:)

Jill wrote some great Healing Garden blogs for Landscape Juice in the lead-up, during and post Hampton Court (all while under great stress too :-0))
The Perfumed Garden January 24, 2010 at 10:06am

Yes, you're right but I was thinking more 'local' but I suppose that doesn't count on the world wide web.

(she wasn't stressed:))
The Perfumed Garden January 24, 2010 at 10:08am

Phil, I forgot to say, can I and how do I wrap words around the photo?
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Phil Voice January 24, 2010 at 10:12am

Have a read of 'Craig's Tips' simon - adding an image to a story.

...Sorry Jill, I didn't mean to make you sound like a gibbering jelly :-0))