Title : Still Life.

Engineers fitting broadband fibre to a house this morning. They were bemused and amused when I told them I wanted their photo and would call it Still Life. :-))
Extra is "Blue for You." You may already have the impression that I am proud of the Garden Fairy's achievements. My only fear is that while I'm here tapping away she has access to my shed. :-((

Dusty shorts. Turkey is a favourite holiday destination when the Wuhan bloody bug allows. How quickly some have forgotten that China created and spread the thing. Xièxiè nǐmen zhèxiē húndàn.


Holed up in a small hollow with my mates I was sent off to help collect stores dropped off by those nice helicopter drivers. I was wandering back quietly miles away mentally when I realised my next footstep off a rock would mean me planting my size 9 right on top of a rather large brown snake. Instead I threw the 5 gallon jerry can of water I was carrying onto it, that did not impress the snake. My first shot really upset it. Then I remembered I only had blanks,.There was a device fitted to the barrel to divert gases back to operate the rifle mechanism but there was enough going out the end to really annoy the writhing thing. Another shot close to the head and it was at least stunned.
My Sgt Major yelled at me! "What are you shooting at?" "SNAKE!!!!" "Oh for God's sake....." I was not jungle trained. :-)) There are 45 species of snake in Turkey, 10 of them are venomous. Nobody told us, probably because we were fearless harbingers of death. Well one or two of us were.
We also discovered that every rock we lifted to create our Sangers or above ground hidey holes, was crawling with Scorpions. They won't kill you but their sting is very impressive. Check everything as you pick it up, put it on or move it, or suffer the quincequonces.
Going anywhere nice for your holidays?