Wednesday, 22nd Oct. Garden Club.

I joined my Garden Club in February this year. It is a strange mixture. In a small village, it is part gardening, part social, part dinking tea chatting - and it lasts a whole hour!

There is a huge mix of people, mostly grey heads, but then, they are everywhere. We have a marvellous deaf old lady, who always "gets the wrong end of the stick", but her interruptions are a joy. Mr Chairman, who tries hard to keep order (he may be a relative of Mainwaring), his wife is our Secretary.

It sounds as if I am making fun, but I am not. It is a wonderful snap shot of people, drawn together by a love of gardening. We have had wine tasting, made by deaf lady - fantastic - she has been brewing wine since Adam was a lad.

There is the serious veg grower - who talks about his Swedes? There is the shy "new lady", someone who I admire, because she has filled the place so recently occupied by me. Then, the wonderful "tea/coffe girls" no group would function without them.

The best bit for me, is I have had a night out, but I am home before nine o'clock. Our drinkie time starts at nine thirty, and I am home, sitting in my chair, waiting for "HIM" to do the job of the day and POUR THE WINE. A glass a day is good for your, so is the apple!

daily doings, Tues 21st

We have been "doing" Tai Chi for approximately 10 years. Our Teacher told us at the start it would take 10 years to learn it. Having done it for so long, I would say she was right.

We started by learning the Yang Long form as taught in the West by Gerda Geddes to our Teacher. It all goes along so so slowly, but it is deceptively difficult. There is the positions to learn, their meanings, the breathing sequence, at the same time as learning the postures, balance and some very awkward feeling foot movements.

Over the years, our Teacher had to change in accordance with local authority and Tai Chi Association guidlines, to teaching what is a shorter version, called Chen Man Ching 37 steps.
This is easier to master, and may be better for beginers. We have a weekly lesson during term time as it is a "night school class", on a Tuesday morning. My husband and I practise at home as many days a week as we can fit in.

I would say we have benefitted enormously from this, it has changed us physically and mentally.
It is also very relaxing, but tiring too, we were 60ish when we started. We have made lots of friends along our fellow classmates. It is a wonderful experience.

M

Daily doings, Sun/Mon 20th Oct. 08

Oh dear! Sundya, black Sunday, Computor access was down. Not a flicker. Husband most unhappy and frustrated, he was in middle of doing our Tax Returns.

Better day Monday, we were back online again, he got the returns sent down, so peace and harmony decended again.

Talking peace, what did you think about the "peace and love" outburst by Ringo, when I saw it on T.V., I couldn't make head or tail of it. After seeing it more times, I got the drift that he was fed up of fans asking for autographs. My husband suggested he was "on something" perhaps, perhaps just a grumpy man. I suppose celebritary can have it's bad points as well as good, but surely when you have earned the income off your fan base since the early sixties, you maybe owe them a signature ot two? It was well known that people other than the group signed autographs in the early days, why could it not happen again? Very few people would actually know what Ringo signature looks like.

blog by accident.

Daily doing: 18th Oct.
It's been a blogging day. Last Tuesday I joined a Gardening Blog, I did not know that was what I was doing, I thought I was trying to identify plant. After I had typed my details in, and asked my question, within a minute I had four replies to my Blog. Today, Saturday, I am still replying to comments coming in from new friends all over the world, it's involved me in learning how to use the husbands digital camera, taking pictures of my plants, taking them off the camera on to the computor, then editing them, then sending them to the site.

Within seconds, I had three replies to people liking my photos. So what do I have to do? I have to reply to them.

I am asking myself know "What on earth did I do before I got a Blog or two?" It has taken over my life.

daily doings

Been to garden class, today. We have started on SOIL. What is it made of? What does it need.
What do we plant in it? Not the most exciting of topics, but as Percy Thrower used to say "the answer lies in the soil". So perhaps it is the most important.

The three previous classes have been on Garden Design.

daily doings

The weather has been so good to day I decieded to "play out" in my garden, it's time for it's autumn tidy, all the bushes and trees get clipped back into shape, the dead stuff and weeds removed from their base. It is a satisfying job, as you can definately see "where you've been" and the compost bin and council wheelie bin are full up with debris, I have only two and a half bushes left to do in the front garden, but one of them is very big and needs getting rid of, so we can grass it over.

My inside job for today has been attempting to get to grips with this blogging business. I unwittingly blundered into a garden blog site, while trying to indentify a plant. Suddenly I have got a whole host of new friends, both here, and in Europe ! Which was a surprise to me.

My computor is still a learning curve for me, but my typing speed has gone up.

Introduction.

This is my first attempt at doing a blog, will I be successful ? or not? nothing ventured nothing gained. I am Marge, a "Yorkshire pudding" from the North.

I live in an ex mining village, we have been in this village for about thirty years. I was born in Leeds and lived there until I got married and moved to the North East of England. We have moved up the country and down the country. I must admit, I am more at home here in the North. You can take the girl out of Yorkshire, but you cannot take Yorkshire out of the girl!