The internet entertains me a great deal when I am stationary.... I have a lot of interests, so with the internet it makes it all so easy and possible. History I read up a lot...Ancestry around my Husbands family still is absorbing and stuff still to discover... I love music so spend time searching for new stuff, then listening to what I might enjoy, get involved sometimes in there life styles and dramas..there are a lot of dramas within the music scene, like today was reading up on Claude Francios a French Artist, he composed My Way the Frank Sinatra renown song...He made a huge impression not just in France, but likely now only remembered here. He electrocuted himself by being in the bath and reaching for the light switch that turned out to be exposing live wires.....39 years of age then...was a good wiki read and he covered Twinkles Terry Hit record as well...that got banned by the BBC and the ITV as a song with lyrics that where said to be dangerous and drivel....it was sad that is all really....yes the internet has a huge pulling, but just also be aware of the pitfalls.....
I follow this guy on YouTube, he lives in Canada and has a smallholding. He has a obsession with figs
@Odif chuckle! I can relate! We have 20+ gardeners in our Community Garden & for the most part we are an amigable lot. But sometimes there are issues. Guess who they come to?
Yesterday was Father's Day, so our daughter proposed a bike ride. We drove down to Rhode Island to the East Bay Bike trail & biked from East Providence to Bristol RI. Beautiful ride along the salt marshes and Narragansett Bay. Had lunch in an outside cafe, then back again, 28 miles, 45 km. I was bushed!! My husband really enjoyed the day. (Neither he nor our daughter were bushed.)
I ordered a new oak shoe cupboard (eBay, of course), for the hall. The original was getting a bit shabby and only held six pairs. This one will hold twenty pairs on five shelves, (I've only got six in total!) It arrived today. (not self-assembly). The packaging was excellent, but there was so much of it. It was a major job to get the cupboard out of the box. The old one plus the packaging filled the boot of my car when I took it all down to the tip. Anyway, job done and it looks OK. The colour is not far off that of the bookcase I made for the hall, over twenty years ago, from bull-nosed hardwood window sills. It's excellent for shelves as it doesn't bend with the weight of a lot of books. The wood alone would now cost over £200, it's risen so much in price, so I wouldn't entertain making something like that again. Yesterday, I was sorting out all my sheet music and I found this which I didn't know I had, so I taught myself to play it. https://app.box.com/s/4e7dhnmnys18lpd3wo5ji9w9huezkk7i
@Doghouse Riley I agree with Logan, looks great & matches well. I liked your comment about the number of shoes (6/20). I am not a "clothes horse" (do you know that expression?) but I have no idea how many pairs of shoes sneakers slippers sandals boots & dress shoes I have. Just writing that all took up a whole line of text here! I don't think I'll count them all. It might make me do something about it. Oh I didn't even add the country ski boots or the snow shoes or the skates. Good thing I don't have flippers.
haha I have flippers and a snorkel glug glug if you go to deep. I had a pair of sandals on when we took our too expensive heavy duty mower in for checking up why after why after two uses it smokes and rattles like a caput motor would..Sandal straps came apart on right foot and so I felt rather awkward but we also had to collect a repair on a brush cutter a good make by Stihls. So out the back of the store for the report/repair on the mower, it would not start,then the maintenance guy put a meter on two parts, after changing the spark plug and tuned the engine, hey presto could not believe it was fixed...see how it goes..in the meantime we go into the front Store to collect our repaired brush cutter, which only the day before we had been informed it was ready for collection. We were kept waiting for about 5 minutes while the guy seem to fuss about. He then directed me to the card machine..processed the payment and then I looked at the ticket and it said 275 euros...ooohhh, in mind bloody hell....looked as Husband and said how much is a new one..he said about 275 euros..your joking I said...that is what the repair bill was..his mouth did drop...I have a hobble broken sandal on and said I am going to sit in the car now..he only had to collect this now rather expensive brush cutter. Just a minute past and he shouted Di..come back in the Store...why..just come back quickly..like I can run in a broken Sandal....He said look over there next to the counter on the floor..there laid two brush cutters...our's with a label on and a new one...the same, exactly identical...oooo what is all this then...so soon realised with relief, they did not twig the repaired one was ours and the new one we had actually paid for but not ordered....So before you fall asleep on me...refund to come via the post because they do not seem to do a refund back on your card here in France....Seems there is a lot they cant seem to do!!!!!.Just felt so happy on the way home..as cut backs could have been enforced on my plants allowance.....Tomorrow we sign for our new land and yesterday we arranged via bank transfer all the costs...at last things are going well..No curfew since Saturday gone..Masks do not have to be worn outside unless you wish to...lets hope all of this covid 19 gets eliminated sooner than soon...
I do have a pair of garden shoes that live on a mat opposite the cupboard when I'm not using them and three pairs of golf shoes that live with my leccy golf trolley in a cupboard accessed by a small door in the side of the house.
