Old fart’s blog

Research has revealed that women are better than blokes at recognising faces. I pointed this out to Mrs Old Fart but she insisted that there was no excuse for me failing to recognise her.
On a more positive note research has also shown that old farts - whilst we cannot remember what we had for breakfast [...]

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Longest day of the year today. This was when the maidens used to go and hide in the wood and the first man they saw was going to be their husband! Sounds a bit opportunist to me but it is all in Thomas Hardy’s novels. Anyway it is a lovely summer so far and in [...]

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The Sunday Times carried a message board yesterday (where readers comment) on children dying because the police et al now observe health & safety laws which forbid them to save a drowning child. All comments were violently anti all this nonsense. One comment was particularly good:
‘Lord Young (who is reviewing this area for the Government) should [...]

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Well today I am chilling - as the young’uns say.
We opened the gardens on Sunday and the sun shone. Everybody seemed to enjoy themselves and we raised nearly £2k for the church funds. So all pretty good really. Then we crumpled into an exhausted heap and today has been good, taking things easier and actually [...]

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Frankly I cannot wait until Call me Dave and Nick Somebody start their economies in the public sector and getting people off benefits (including Urban Eric). The paper was full of it today, but with no details. Just who exactly did the late lamented Labour Government think creates the wealth in this country? - certainly [...]

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So most of the bedding plants are now in and yesterday was spent on the exciting job of weeding the veg patch.  The gardens are now starting to look good enough for the garden opening which is now only just over a week away.
This morning we had a visit from researchers for a new book [...]

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