21/06/2007 by Ted.

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21/06/2007 by Ted.

Hi family,

What a deafening silence from all of you since my last post of 16th.  As I started this thing - when I was told what a good idea it was by so many family members - I guess it must be up to me to keep it going.  So here we go!

Today is the twenty-first day of June - the longest day.  Happy longest day to everyone. Now we can all start counting the days until 21st December when it is the shortest day.  And so on ‘ad nauseum’.  That means until we are all pig sick. 

We don’t seem to have had much of a summer yet - well not in Cumbria anyway. We are, as usual, busy storing up rainwater for all you thirsty folks further south to drink to quench your thirst in your hot sunny weather.

We shall be down in the southern parts to drink some of that water over the weekend - a couple of nights in glorious Rhyl in Wales and a visit to Chester and Port Meirion (I think I spelled that right). Then hey-ho, back to Cumbria, Millom and St. George’s.  One of the carers laughed the other day and said that I seem like one of the residents.  I’m not sure whether she meant because I look eighty-or-ninety-odd or because I am there so often. She wouldn’t explain!

Hey anyone, do you remember this? “He said to me can you swim, I said swim?, he said, yes, I said no, he said oh!”  It popped into my memory a day or so ago - something from my childhood no doubt. I suspect I was taught it by my dad, bless him.  He left some lovely memories as his legacy - unlike Tony Blair. (Heavy hand on shoulder,”Come ‘ere me lad and be punished, You’re not allowed to say things like that - there’s a law against it now!”) Sorry Tony - no I’m not! I have come to the formal conclusion that this country now is a certified lunatic asylum.  And the sad thing is that it is run by some of the inmates! I try not to read the newspapers these days because of the things that are portrayed there. Some are absolutely unbelievable for their idiocy.  It is just not good for the blood pressure.

Even writing about it has just given me a hot flush and cold shivers so I will have to go and have a lie down.  It is nearly lunch-time anyway so that is another excuse for discontinuing.  Next time I will probably have some photos of Rhyl - whoopee!!!!! - to put on the blog, and I’m going to keep it going even if I am the only contributor.

So all my invisible and silent kith and kin I bid you farewell for now. (I assume that you are all still out there - or did I miss the Talbot family rapture?)

Seriously, my love to you all.

Ted.

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