{"id":2854,"date":"2021-08-06T18:25:16","date_gmt":"2021-08-06T18:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mch-net.info\/wordpress\/?p=2854"},"modified":"2021-08-06T23:06:43","modified_gmt":"2021-08-06T23:06:43","slug":"friday-6th-august-2021-day-508","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mch-net.info\/wordpress\/2021\/08\/06\/friday-6th-august-2021-day-508\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday, 6th August, 2021 [Day 508]"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today is the day when our domestic help calls round and we always seem to have a lot to talk about, even\u00a0though it is only a week since we last met. She is bringing round a big root of mint for me to help to populate my mint bed in <\/span>Mog’s Den.<\/i> In addition she has donated a couple of\u00a0planters to me and I now just have to think of something really colourful to put in them – perhaps some\u00a0fuchsias or geraniums. We decided to go down into town by car as there were one or two gardening things that I wanted to buy from <\/span>Poundland<\/em>. It was one of those frustrating days when the layout of the store had been changed around and the various things that I wanted seemed to be quite elusive or the design had changed and it was not quite what I wanted. Whilst we were having coffee in <\/span>Waitrose<\/em>, one of old friends that we often met there so we had quite a long chat. I did have an ulterior motive in wanting to see her again because she and I have both had a similar type of\u00a0medical\u00a0investigation and I wanted to know what ‘post-operative’ advice she had been given. So it was fairly late when we got home but we\u00a0rustled together a quick curry type meal. After lunch, I was dismayed to find that one of the cheap storage containers I had bought from\u00a0Poundland<\/em> \u00a0had a flaw in it (a hole in the incredibly cheap plastic it was made of) and I couldn’t find the receipt. I decided to make the best of a bad job and effect an emergency repair with electrician’s tape so the container will serve for the purpose intended (quite light peat for the garden) Then I planted the mint, got my peat and topsoil containers filled and had a general sort- out within my mini greenhouse. Tomorrow I have scheduled for myself a cleanup of some of my gardening tools, some of which need a de-rusting as I store them outside. I have a\u00a0technique to do this which involves a dousing in\u00a0white vinegar followed by either a wire brushing and\/or a treatment with a\u00a0Brillo pad. I try to get into the habit of\u00a0regularly treating my garden tools with WD-40 or the Asda alternative (much cheaper!) so that in general rust is not a problem for me.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

It is said that most people dream but we don’t tend to remember any of them. But just as an exception, I had rather a vivid dream the other night which must have resembled the ‘Theatre of the Absurd<\/em>‘. \u00a0In the dream, I was playing the part of the producer of a play called ‘The Vigi<\/em>l’ (which is\u00a0actually very easy to stage as it essentially a ‘court room drama’).The play revolved around the evidence for the ‘Resurrection’ and\u00a0therefore is\u00a0<\/span>basically on a religious theme. I cannot recall now how I came to be involved but basically I got drafted into the play which was being put on by an amateur dramatic group in Wetherby in Yorkshire. On the strength of this, Meg and I put on the same play when we were university students as a ‘one night stand’. Because it is dark when one is on stage and gazes out into the\u00a0void, you do not know if you have an audience of 8 , 80 or 800 but I suspect that the entire audience was nearer 8 than anything else. But now to return to my dream. I was trying to\u00a0persuade one of my colleagues at De\u00a0Montfort University in Leicester to accept a role in the play. My colleague was\u00a0affectionately known as ‘Auntie Pat’ by the students and had a buxom figure and a sweet, typical ‘English’ style face. I was trying to\u00a0persuade ‘Auntie Pat’ to accept the role of Mr. Pinchas who was a Jewish store keeper (who sold the material for Christ’s shroud). \u00a0I was\u00a0saying to Pat that if you don’t want to accept that\u00a0role, I have another part that needs to be filled, namely a kitchen door. I was trying to\u00a0persuade her to accept either role by saying I would have to accept the role she did not choose. Just then, my son wandered in, grumpily, complaining that he could not get a good \u00a0signal \u00a0on the\u00a0radio he had clamped\u00a0to his ear (think large 1930’s\u00a0radio with a mahogany surround)\u00a0He complained that he could only pick up Hilversum<\/em> or the Light Program and then only if he located himself just outside Paris. (I know\u00a0know that Hilversum<\/em> is a Dutch complex of radio and TV stations and was always\u00a0well\u00a0represented on the old-fashioned radio dials). At that point, I woke up and realised why I would\u00a0never be successful were I to ‘tread the\u00a0boards’ and try to produce ‘naff’ plays more\u00a0regularly.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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