It's been a nice day here in france, we got our wood delivered for the winter and my one and only near neighbour covered the four trailer loads with a plastic cover,
It's good to have nice people around you and as we are english and they are french are humour is different,
Let me explain,
This morning we had to go out to the vets to pay a bill ref one of our four rescue dogs and also the rates,
As we drove out of our gates our neighbour was waving from her garden with phone in hand,
I opened the car window and she said "Im trying to ring you!
I said hold on and i'll go back and pick the phone in the lounge, "SHE REPLIED OK"
(and i did)
she wanted me to know the woodman was coming sometime today.
After we'd sorted this delivery out i returned to my car and we waved to each other as i drove off. (We we're never more than 6 feet away from each other)
But the woods here now and its nice knowing we've the winters fuel in and no matter how cold it gets the wood burner will be blazing away and the house warm for all of us,
It's nice enjoying the simple things in life, the smell of wood burning as i return from the last walkies of the day with the dogs and seeing the lights on and the smell of dinner being cooked on those freezing winter evenings.
It's one of those nicer things about getting older when you enjoy the simple things in life,
But remembering where you came from as a young lad and how life once was is something one should never forget
"like when non of the neighbours of those childhood times had their own house tele phone and we kids would rush to the red phone box on the corner of the street when it was ringing away and pick the phone up and ask (Who do you want? What number house?)
On being told who the caller wanted we'd tell them we'd go and get them!!!
(and then the hand set would be put down, cutting off the caller)
Arhh yes days long gone but still fresh in the mind,
Now just about every house has a phone or two but still some people like my father in-law will not speak to the answer machine,
if he rings and the machine kicks in he shouts down the line
(Im not talking to one of these daft machines, ring me back.)
Some people will never except modern ways no matter how good they are.
Well good night all sleep tight .
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