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Well ,so much going on this week,Dentist , fire repair and Church cleaning for Easter.
Son safely home .

Had to,phone The Police, some very big canisters of Nitrous Oxide ,- Laughing Gas, have been dumped in the side lane.
Eight of them as far as I can see.
Well tomorrow the High School children will be passing along the lane.
It is a bit of fun in very small doses but very dangerous in large quantities,I understand the containers can explode ,I had told my s on    on the phone when he gave a rough time of arrival ,and he mentioned it to his friend who said I must not touch them ,they can explode. Otherwise I would move them.
Well seemingly it is not a Police matter, given the Council number to,phone tomorrow by which time the chidren -  well high school teenagers ,will have passed ,hopefully with no messing about .
The number given is the one you phone for all sorts of things,BUT never answered .
I shall have to stand by my gate to make sure they don’t spray them about.
In large quantities it can stop people breathing - for ever!

What a dangerous thing to do.

Tasty chicken and mushroom casserole for tea.

Need to order my prescription ,some new ones not on my usual order, the
Pharmacy send me things I do not need and  leave off things I do.
I will go down tomorrow ,it all needs sorting out ,supposed to have  had a Drugs review on Feb 1 st ————

I ought not to moan really ,Our Lloyd’s closed soCohen’s took all Lloyd’s patients not very well, chaos.Not their fault.
I can also call in the Surgery re the Drugs review .

Am I supposed to have a Shingles injection ?

   Hope everyone is alright,those with illness, difficult jobs and family problems are in our thoughts I am sure ,what a blessing The Diary has been.

Look after yourselves folks .
Viktoria.

Hope I have got this right, a new topic.

A bright morning after a very squally night.
Got up early —- sprouts!
Table set, all veges prepped last night.
Got a Christmas pud from last year,a present .
A Fortnum and Mason one good until June this year, also Brandy butter, BUT,
It is leaking through the cloth covering the basin so I don’t trust it .Have made mince pies and a mincemeat and apple open top pie ,so with cream and ice cream it will be O.K.

Just watching “ The Day We Sang”.Victoria Wood’s take on the Manchester Schoolchildren ‘s 1929 choir.

My husband was in that choir but not so early, in the late thirties early forties when another record was made.
Sadly his parents could not afford to buy a record but had no gramophone anyway.

Son and daughter in law coming for a late lunch ,another Christmas dinner .

Cheerio with best wishes for the future.
Viktoria.

Hello, I have been up all night so I could start a week of the Diary !
Not much to say but I have “ Dunnit”!

A grey morning ,no big clouds just a grey sky .
More washing to do today but it will most probably be on the maiden not outside ,which I love.

Well the expensive piece of beef was nothing to write home about,I thought to use it up, cottage pie - but waiting for a replacement mincer from Lakeland ,the suction pad on a handy little mincer from them,three years’ guarantee, has failed .

I will have to throw away a biggish joint of ham.
Chucked it in the freezer when I knew we would not be here for New Year, it can be frozen but must still be used by original use by date —- a bit daft but all the salt means it is not as deeply frozen as other ,unsalted ,meat I
expect .
Put some croissants out for birds but usually the noisy Starlings would be at the bird table but nothing ,they have not been eaten.

Went with son to a big Church now an antiques centre, on Saturday.
We have so little room now ,so what does he buy?
A press, looks as if it would be for something large book size ,honestly !
Weighs a ton!
Oh and a little model of a steam engine that would have been used in agriculture ,something like Fred Dibnah drove.
For his brother who now he is retired and doesn’t know what to do with himself ,is restoring, authentic paint and parts, all the Dinky ,Corgi and Matchbox toys they played with ,in sand and mud, proper play but the toys showed it.
Again Honestly !
They remember which belonged to who !( whom?)

Well hope everyone is alright ,and we have a good week .
Look after yourselves folks .
Cheerio,
Viktoria.

Hello Skoosh ,bought a book today ,about The Highland Clearances.
Not new, by John Prebble.
He wrote one earlier re Culloden, this follows on and describes the long term aftermath of the battle.

How highlanders were deserted and betrayed into famine by their own chiefs.
ISBN 0-14-0022837-4
Penguin.Published 1963.
You probably know a great deal about it already,I ought to read Culloden first, and will try to trace a copy.

The cover is a detail from the famous “ The last of the Clan”, by Thomas Faed
in Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum.
Cheerio.
Viktoria.
Cheerio, hope all is well with you .

A whole new meaning.
Watching the TV programme tonight about Cross Rail ,and the Lost Graveyard It was stated that a common term for a streetwalker in those days, was “Goose”——.
The number of bodies with dreadful signs of the effect of Syphilis in their bones was amazing.
Many Nursery Rhymes have much more sinister meanings abd there is now a wholley different meaning to” Goosey goosey gander ,
                                             Wither dost thou wander ?
                                              Upstairs and downstairs
                                                In my lady’s chamber.etc.”
The words of quite a few Folk Songs too, may have very different meanings than is first obvious.
The programmes have been very interesting , and all exhumed bodies we are told will be reverentially re interred.
Viktoria.
At least those not kept in boxes for further research.
Viktoria.