On the dificulties of life with an anorak....

There is nothing wrong with having a hobby, indeed hobbies are to be commended. Just sometimes...

Well, it has got so that I avoid driving some bits of road.

You can be driving along minding your own when a sort of popping fizzing noise starts in the passenger seat. This will be your hint that management has spotted someone in the midst of mechanical hedgeing or some piece of hedgerow that has just been mown. Hedging is one of those old country skills and there is a apparently a right way of doing it and you can also hitch a gigantic machine to that back of a tractor and rip the lot apart.

So some bits of road we drive along with her looking and signaling warm approval at some piece of hedge that has been done properly, or you get dangerous rumblings and volcanic snorts when there has obviouly been a tractor along recently and the road will often be a mess of small bits of branch destroyed in the mechanical leviathon's trail.

Then, you drive a bit further and someone will be rebuilding a stone wall. This will be a chance to hear some rumbles of disapproval from a diferent direction as Taliesin spots some stonemason's handiwork and explains exactly where they went wrong and why the whole thing should be reduced to rubble and he should be engaged to do a proper job, since, like his mother he is the only one in the whole wide world who can do anything right.

Now, this is all very well but I'm not at all sure it's healthy, it's not like they had an interest in anything important, like say a green goddess fire engine.

Things are potentially moving in the right direction though. yesterday was given over to some "sortology" in the old abandoned bit of the house with a lot of Bedford stuff dealt with and more steps achieved on the path to being ready to start some building work inside.

As part of this Tallie and I started erecting scaffolding, her birthday scaffolding, she did not quite come all over misty eyed but at least the didn't look annoyed or angry.

She is however a bit fed up today as the wind has come up and it's blowing a bit of a hoolie.

Never mind, there is an event on in the village, I might spark up one of the green goddesses and go down there for a laugh. After all who could fail to be fascinated by a Green Goddess......

R