Grapes

We have a generally sunny back garden with a vine. Believe it or not we grew a large bowl of delicious looking grapes this year.
If only they tasted as good as they look.

Mixing with the great and the good.

So I had just parked up in Harrogate and noticed the man in front of me paying for his car parking at the roadside machine. Anyone who wears sunglasses on a relatively cloudy day needs looking at. So I did. 

Gareth Southgate lives near Harrogate and he drives a Range Rover (thanks Jan, beautifully composed) and he wears sunglasses on a cloudy day. His ticket took an age to come out of the machine and I asked if he needed some money. He laughed and I thanked him for the work that he was doing with the team.

He seemed pleased.

Provocation

I'm at my naughtiest first thing in the morning. We were both awake at 5.30 this morning and so to test her patience I asked Jan a question.
'What's the time difference between the UK and Japan?'
Now any self respecting woman would tell me to bugger off and go back to sleep. Not Jan who has the patience of a saint. She replied, '10 hours.' My gut told me that she was wrong but even I didn't want to start an argument at that time of the morning and was secretly laughing my head off at how ridiculous it all was.
To save you looking it up the answer is 8 hours.

Getting Old

For the whole of September and the start of October I have been ill. I feel like I have become officially old.

After guests left at the end of August both Jan and I have had the most horrendous hacking cough. Bad enough for me to have to use an asthma spray to be able to clear my lungs. Then, when that was coming to an end, I fell backwards and injured my hip and banged my head. I have never fallen in my life. Today I feel that my back problems are coming to an end, a bit like me!

I'm not really sure why I fell but I was down on my haunches checking the car tyres at a garage and it was a very windy day. I fell backwards and gave my head a really good smack against something hard. The lump has now gone as has every ounce of self respect.