2021 June – Lazy Days, To Infinity and Beyond, Peckish, Triffid, Gorgeous
Lazy days
This is a picture of fab me out in the fields today.
Stuff has really grown.
It is actually quite warm, so as you can see, I’m having a little lie down.
Mum is on the phone anyway so she isn’t bothered. When Mum finished on the phone she was ready to go but I wasn’t.
So we stayed put until I was.
There really wasn’t much of a power struggle because we both knew I’d already won. In the end Mum sat down with me.
I reckon we could both have dozed off in the sun tbh.
This is me back home keeping an eye on the garden.
And this is me having a little snooze because I deserve to.
To Infinity and Beyond
This is where offspring #2 is at the moment.
It looks just awful.
Peckish
Mum has bought a massive amount of bird seed on the interweb. She can be a bit click happy. It doesn’t look as if it should, but it weighs a ton. Even the delivery guy complained.
I hope the birds really are peckish.
Triffid
This is a picture of something ‘vegetable’ that has grown outside the house.
I say grown. Mum planted it on purpose and fed it a lot. It has a massive flower sort of thing. It looks fairly spectacular but it smells terrible. It is very, very pungent in a sickly sort of nectary way – but not pleasant at all.
The bees seem to like it which is why Mum has left it alone, for now.
The leaves are a bit stabby as well and Mum is always catching herself on them.
So altogether not a fantastically welcoming plant to have at the front door.
Gorgeous
This is a picture of me looking just gorgeous. Because I am.
Saffron’s recommendations this month:
Music: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers (or just Tom on his own) an American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, and actor (The Postman with Kevin Costner) and he was one of the supergroup The Traveling Wilburys (made up of Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison and Tom of course).
Try these by Tom:
Free Fallin’
I Won’t Back Down
Running Down a Dream
Refugees
Mary Jane’s Last Dance
You Don’t Know How it Feels
Reading: Atonement by Ian McEwan published by Vintage (now also a film with Keira Knightley and James McAvoy).
Covers guilt, shame and anger. The Times says it ‘smoulders with slow-burning menace.’ You have been warned.
Film: The Battleship Potemkin
This is a really cool film made in 1925, so black and white (obviously) and a silent movie. It dramatises a 1905 mutiny. It was written as revolutionary propaganda and shocked audiences with the graphic violence. Due to the political nature of the content, the film was banned in the UK for longer than any other film in British history (so far at least).
Mum saw this screened with a live orchestra accompanying the film – atmospheric.
In the News:
A new £50 polymer banknote issued featuring Alan Turing, computer pioneer and code breaker
UEFA Euro 20; England beats Germany 2-0 their first victory over G in a knock-out tournament since 1966.
Health Minister, Matt Hancock resigns for kissing an aide (Isn’t this a bit like Mafia leaders being put away for tax evasion instead of – allegedly – murder? Just asking….)
On 1st June, zero daily deaths from the virus reported in the UK for the first time since the start of the pandemic in March 2020. However the delta variant is spreading and on 30 June the UK recorded 26,068 new coronavirus cases, the highest number since 29 January 2021
- in the UK: 75% of the adult population reported to have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine.
- in the UK: 50% of the adult population reported to have received their second dose of a COVID-19 vaccine