Snapshot of sweet peas and scarlet runners in the garden.
Today we motored over to Baldock, partly because we had an appointment to look at a Suffolk long case clock that's for sale there (this appointment was a dissappointment or anyway the clock was), and partly to take David and Joe (Ann's brother and his wife) out to lunch at a restaurant we used to frequent some years ago. This, I'm glad to say was not a dissapointment - it had changed hands, but not its standards, and was as good as ever.
Took the above photo near Stotfold, on our way to pick Dave and Jo up. Always admired this roof. It's a pegtiled roof with two colours of pegtiles very carefully laid in order to give a zig-zag effect. Not pretty, but pretty eyecatching for all that.
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I'm really disappointed with my sweet peas this year. They got off to a flying start, faltered and have now given up the ghost in spite of feeding and watering.
Ours have put up a pretty good display, but we're a little disappointed by the colours, they're supposed to be 'mixed' but are mainly shades of pink.
I wonder if the owners are so conditioned by their roof (imitating the Hospice at Beaune or St Stephen's Cathedral, Vienna) that they wear herringbone tweeds all day?
Hello Christopher. If you're right (and I like the idea) a family group photograph taken outside that house would look very jazzy, or like an old fashioned TV set with reception trouble.
You do realize Mike, that the 'old-fashioned TVs with reception trouble' were picking up residual signals/echoes from the origin of creation... Perhaps God wore a herring-bone tweed hacking jacket when he set off his 'big-bang'. Despite Bishop Ussher's calculations, wouldn't it be fun if the big-bang had happened on the 5th of November?
Hello Crowbard. I think the 'Big Bang' theory creates more problems than it answers. It's a THEORY- no more and with very little evidence to back it- and not a very convincing or likely one at that. How an explosion in a vacuum produces all created matterial is beyond my comprehension........
Mark you, my comprehension isn't up to understanding creation anyway.
Granted the bhuddist concept of 'Illusion' is the most satisfying explanation of our apparently substantial existence. But it is a hard theory to credit when you drop a brick on your foot. The perception of pain demands (if wrongly) a physical explanation of reality. We can, as you so wisely suggest, merely guess at such matters and be wary of both fashionable hypotheses and traditional doctrines.
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