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  • My Life and Times

    I was born in 1939 BC.
    That’s ‘Before Computers’.

    Luckily I survived the following events in my life, such as

    World War II, The London Blitz, Rationing, and worst of all… Archbishop Temple’s School.

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    During the mid 1950s I was enjoying Rock ‘n’ Roll and being a first generation teenager, when suddenly, just like Elvis, I found myself in uniform during ‘The Cold War’…and then

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    I became ‘a family’. Which meant that I sort of missed the ‘swinging sixties’, but still managed to look a complete prat in the 70s, just like everyone else.

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    During the ‘Thatcher Years’ I lost my hair and a lot of people lost a good deal more. My career fluctuated to say the least as I was demoted, promoted, fired and hired a number of times, but still I managed to stagger on into a welcome retirement and to celebrate 60 years of happy marriage.

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Archive for the ‘nature’ Category

Caught in the act !

Posted by Big John on May 25, 2020

This is how my back yard garden normally looks around this time of the year. Unfortunately, this year, it has been neglected due to self isolation and the closure of garden centres and DIY stores. In fact it all looks a bit of a mess !  …

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Now last year I often found that my young red geraniums had been uprooted from their pots and the compost in which they had been carefully planted had been scattered all over the place. Obviously one of our local wildlife visitors was responsible, but which one ?

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Well it wasn’t this sneaky looking fox or his mates, because this morning I looked out of the window and saw this little bugger ..

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A bloody squirrel who has forgotten where he had hidden his nuts !

 

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“Mad dogs and ….”

Posted by Big John on July 26, 2018

It’s hard to believe, but even those “Englishmen” who “go out in the midday sun” are beginning to complain about the present heat wave.

Today the temperature is over 90º where I live, and it’s going to get even hotter tomorrow !

I’ve crossed some pretty hot desserts in the western USA including Death Valley and have been to the west coast of Africa close to the edge of the Sahara, but I don’t recall feeling as uncomfortable as I do right now.

Back in the 70’s and 80’s a popular BBC TV show was the funny but not very ‘PC’ .. “It Ain’t Half Hot Mum” ..  Good title ! .. I echo their message !

One minor character in the series was a not very energetic ‘punkah wallah’. In this heat …

… I know how he felt !

Posted in humour, nature, nostalgia, travel | 5 Comments »

Garden guests.

Posted by Big John on June 28, 2018

Remember my little fox cubs ?  … Well they have returned, at least one of them has …

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and this time it is daylight and it has grown a bit !

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and ‘Robert’ the robin is thinking “are you looking at me?”

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Now, I may not be the greatest nature photographer in the world,

but here are a couple more visitors to my summer garden …

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This is ‘Russell’. OK! .. I know that it’s not a very original name.

Did you know that crows mate for life ?

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Here’s the happy pair on their favourite perch.

I hear your question .. ? .. and …

I’ve no idea !

 

Posted in family, nature | 4 Comments »

 
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