A central heating boiler packing up on christmas eve 3PM !!
HUMBUG
christmas socks (with santas on them) DOUBLE HUMBUG
....and a book on rare wildflowers of the UK, one of the pages took me back to a lovely holiday a few years back. We stopped the car on a quiet road and "found" Old Winchester Hill quite by chance. The hilltop (site of an old fort/castle?) was covered in wild flowers and butterflies flitted around in the sunshine while we took in the wonderful views. one of the plants in flower I had never seen before or since until the photograph in this book. Round-headed Rampion (Phyteuma orbiculare), and the blue flower heads were covering the hilltop, a beautiful place
Another page has Water Lobelia, which reminds me of Irish bog pools this summer, between Roundstone and Clifton, where it grows beneath the water and puts up flowers above the surface into the windswept wilderness beneath the dramatic backdrop of the Twelve Bens
Anyone going to be at the sword dancing at Handsworth tomorrow? Might see you there or in the Cross Keys after????

Roger