Yawn yawn, wakey wakey Autumn 2018

Aloha everyone,

A mild morning with some rain forecast. Students went well yesterday and I managed to find time to repot a load of Nagas as they have now grown quite big. Some of them are now ready for sale - they're a much later developer than the Shiney Hybrids.

Today I have my first county match of the season (the squad rotate who plays each time) and we're playing Bedfordshire. We've won the national inter-counties tournament three years in succession so we have a reputation to keep up - so no pressure! Of course, individual matches are not quite as much pressure as it's run on a league table but we still want to do well.

Keep well and have a great day

Aloha!

 

Aloha everyone,

@CanadianLori I hope your picnic went well and the rain kept away.

The match went well after a disastrous start. We play in four x 1.5hr sessions with complicated scoring. By the end of the first session we were losing by 47 points (a big loss) but managed to claw it all back and won 170 - 96. These gave us a league score of 18 - 2 (all results are equated on a special scale that allocates 20 points for the whole match. So we got a 90% result. We play as pairs and my partner (my sister) and I were the stars of the match

Today is going to be complicated. They're closing our road for two days whilst they resurface it. I'm hoping that residents will be able to have access through either end otherwise it means a five mile detour! I'm guessing that they won't close access completely (don't think it's legal - in case of emergency). This morning I'm running a bridge seminar in the village, I also have a hygienist appointment in the completely opposite direction past our house and I need to return from both. I had put in a request online on a special form the council have for the purpose asking them to tell me what's happening and how we have access. It may be a special form but it only works if they reply!

I'll go out there and chat with the engineers when they arrive.

Keep well and have a great day

Aloha!

 

Good morning all my friends have a great day,and keep smiling,my Grandchildren are visiting to day and are staying until Saturday,Kieran is 9 and Chloe is 6

 

Aloha everyone,

@wiseowl How lovely! It seems as though you're going to have a wonderful week.

It's bridge club as usual this afternoon so I'll have to fight my way through the workmen as they've already started ripping the road up in that direction!

Keep well and enjoy this lovely sunny and mild day

Aloha!

 

Good morning all my friends have a lovely day,Grandchildren are keeping my mind occupied and my body in shape yes its another Bonus of a day so make the most of it

 

Aloha everyone,

It's too late to get my body in shape - although it does have a custom built shape already.

The workmen were actually doing a good job of the road. They had four machines virtually nose to tail moving down the road. The front one was removing the top three inches of tarmac (in sections, as they were only patching), the next one had big brushes that were brushing up any loose bits of tarmac, the next was laying hot tarmac and the fourth was rolling it. Behind those was a man with a big cutter (circular saw) that was cutting around the edges and another man that was filling those edges with a fine type of liquid tarmac (gives that nice shiny smooth strip around the patches). The two patches outside my place were more than the width of my driveway and across both entrances . I asked the man how long before I can drive over it and he said 10 minutes should be enough. They had gone the full width of Shineyland in about ten minutes.

This morning Mrs Shiney has a free morning and wants to go to the cinema to see the new Mama Mia film (we only see about one film a year - and she usually falls asleep whilst watching it!). In one of the towns near us they have Wednesday mornings as Senior Citizens day - £3.50 includes tea and biscuits .

Keep well and have a great day

Aloha!