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July 31 The flight of the KiteA few years ago they reintroduced Red Kites back into the North East of England and for the first couple of years it was a real treat to catch sight of them. Now their numbers are increasing really well and it is not such an uncommon sight to see them flying overhead in search of carrion. Nevertheless, I was staggered yesterday driving along with John to see a Kite flying literally alongside of the car, it was so close you could have reached out and touched it's wings, it must have been in search of road kill I guess, but it really took my breath away. the daft part was that as it was Wednesday we were on our way to meet the Wednesday Wobbly Walker group and as part of the walk we were to go to a Kite Watching spot!
A couple of weeks ago I was contacted through Friends Reunited by one of the young people I used to work with at Lingfield, needless to say I imagined this bonny 15 year old so why was I suprised to discover that she has 2 grown up children and is a Granny! I am still 23 in my head. It really is lovely though to hear from her and to catch up after 35 years. July 28 Trains and boats and no planesI'm back into reading, I left off for a long time and now can't understand why. My sister gave me a random book she had picked up at a book fair, 'Miss Smilla's feeling for Snow' by Peter Hoeg, a Danish author. I picked it up one sleepless night and hardly put it down until it was finished, now I'm working my way through his books, strange and haunting though they be. When reading his work, it's sometimes hard to make head nor tail of it, you blame the translation, his writing, your own lack of intellect, yet there is a huge force to read on, it's going to be worth it, and it is. I have just ordered the the movie of 'Smilla' from Amazon, though I cant see how they can do justice to the book in less than 2 hours.
My all time (never been dissapointed yet) author is Bryce Courtney. (The Power of One), and I have 3 of his books to read next, I have read 5 of his and these 3 were a Christmas present 2 years ago so it's high time to get them off the shelf. And just for those pick up times I'm reading Susanna Clarke's, 'the Ladies of Grace Adieu', a slim book of amazing short stories. I loved 'Jonathon Strange and Mr Norrell' even though it took me almost a year to get into it, once I did, it was another page turner.
So retirement is sweet! There's always a bundle of stuff like housework to do I know, but I think it's only right to acknowledge the hard work of these clever people who can tell a story well.
Poor old Sunderland had their Air Show in the fog this weekend. Xine was there with Joe and she said it was the surealist experience of her life, all these people sitting on a fog bound beach waiting for the sea fret to lift so there could be flying. The strangest thing was that 500metres inland from the beach, the sun was splitting the trees. People turned up because it was so amazingly sunny and warm everywhere else. A million people came over the weekend by train bus and sea and saw no planes other than the ones on the ground.
Take care out there.
July 25 I am a 'Walker Texas Ranger' widow!I don't know when it started, it just sort of crept up, but, it is fast becoming obvious that my own sweet loved one is now more in love with Chuck Norris than he is with me. Everything stops for 'Walker Texas Ranger'. I thought it was a one off thing, that he was - could only be - Chuck's one and only fan but it seems I am mistaken, there are millions of them out there all tuning in, absorbing the daft story lines whilst at the same time mocking Walker's adversaries shouting at the screen to them, 'that they'll be sorry' while they openly throw encouragement at little Timmy held hostage, knowing as Little Timmy doesn't, that Walker will be right there to get them sorted. I mean, the man is actually really scary, he acts like he's on something, and has about as much charm as my cat eating a rat. But there you are, there's no accounting for taste, and as yet the sweet loved one is still happy that it's me he's in bed with and not Chuck Norris. He'll probably grow out of it.
Actually peoples taste in their devotion to celebrity never really ceases to amaze me. I have a very dear friend of over 40 years who in the 70s was absolutly stunning to look at and very clever to boot, her all time favorite person on the TV was the character Arthur from 'On the Buses'. So there you are, and I'm probably no better myself who around the same time drooled over Edward Woodward as the detective' Callan'. He actually was booked to open the Fete at the special school I worked at in Surrey. I was so excited at the prospect of meeting him. He was sitting down at a table signing autographs as I approached him and I had the audacity to ask him for a kiss. Shock horror, when he stood up to do so he came to about my belly button! Ah, the sadness!
No real excuses about where I have been for the past few months.
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