I have run out of time to do all I wanted to share for
February so decided to have to two halves to my approach, the second halve to
come will include one of my videos of our 29th Wedding Anniversary
celebrations, we had a great day out altogether!!!
So I start my blog with a ‘Sweet’ moment being really
simple. It is such a relief to see Milo out of his old tatty Parker with rips,
discoloured and stank into a smart, formal, tweed coat purchased from a
gentleman’s tailors.
This may sound like a mother making a big deal but the
process of getting him to look at another coat has been a long drawn out affair
of cajoling, bribery, threats and out right nagging of how awful he looked to
“what is that smell? – OMG Milo it’s you in that Parker!”
So in the holidays, after we had all been to watch the
new ‘Dads Army’ film together before enjoying a lunchtime Thai meal (at the
bottom of Timber Hill in Norwich and absolutely scummy). I announced we had
enough time to look for a young man’s coat. Greeted by a significant groan and
mutter we set off to the tailors as suggested by Jerry.
Stepped into the shop, I was looking at jackets in the
middle of the shop, but Milo had been introduced to a new world of what was
available to him as he looked around the room on the top rail where tweed coats
were displayed. He instantly fell in love with the formal look enhanced by a
scarf. The added bonus was these £200
coats had been reduced to £50, so the question of ‘Mum can I have a scarf too?’
with a reply of ‘Absolutely!’
The old Parker, which was always on his back and he would
never part with, was instantly discarded at the till in the bag and the new
coat on Milo’s back from that point on. So a lovely picture of Milo above in
his new tweed coat and scarf and new Paton shoes instead of scrappy boats with
holes in the soles. He is a working boy in the local computer shop in his
‘heaven’, at least every Saturday building and assisting in the repair of
computers.
The next event in our lives in February was a ‘Sweet’
moment which sadly turned ‘Bitter’. Anybody who knows anything about Jerry
knows he really enjoys going through the process of getting a new vehicle. At
one point in our lives together we calculated he brought a car every nine
months. Fortunately he has moved beyond this point but still enjoys getting
something different and on his bucket list of vehicle ‘wants’ is a Rolls Royce.
The long and short of it he ended up purchasing a Bentley Arnage with a Rolls
Royce engine, a W-reg car but changed to reflect its new owner and a really
really excited Jerry about the prospect. A rare moment in life!!!
It is a really luxurious ride with for-nominal power,
very comfortable and a pleasure to be in, but sadly with too many things wrong
with the car it has had to be returned, hence the ‘Bitter’ moment and a sad
Jerry – not easy to live with. He can say though he has in his lifetime been
the owner of a Rolls Royce vehicle.
I must just finish with letting you know about my hot
date this past week, the only one I have had. The lady I stay with in
Sussex, Thelma, invited me to the Horticultural Club to an evening of
entertainment with an interactive presentation on owls. As I had been asked I
was very happy to go and it was a really great evening and a delight to be part
of. A group of owls is called a ‘Parliament’ so the owner named all his owls as
politicians so we were introduced to Mo Mowlan, Boris, Nigel Farage, Maggie and
Winston and more. The owls were flying around the room and people were given
the opportunity to hold the owls, Thelma cuddled up to Nigel for a good half
hour. Hope you like the pics and Part 2 for Feb to follow soonish!!!.
