Found in the soil and gravel. As a child, I used to think of the little bits of glass and pottery shards I found in the garden as treasures.
Another scorcher if a little less scorching than the last couple of days. Amber heat warning now stretching from next Sunday to Tuesday. Cycled to Zumba, read a bit in the garden, then accompanied Dave to the dentist for what seems to be his penultimate implant appointment - sounds like they'll be fitting it at the next one. Today was a little unpleasant apparently but all good.
Rest of afternoon reading and snacking too much.
3 good things
1. Swifts excitedly squealing and wheeling - love it so much but tinged with sadness - they're basically getting their wings shipshape and stuffing their faces with insects ready to fly back to Africa in barely a couple of weeks or so.
2. Lots of yummy fruit from the International Supermarket - nectarines, plums, apricots, strawberries.
3. NHS screening - Dave having reached the venerable age of 60, sent off his first poo test - hope it doesn't find anything.
That’s a horrid job but got to be done! Start at 60 but stop at 74!! You must not be deemed to get bowel cancer after 74! 😳 what simple fun we had in the long ago days…making mud pies & searching for treasure like this!
Love the way you've captured this! I'd forgotten how excited I was as a child to find a small peace of pottery when helping with the gardening - thanks for jogging my memory!
They are wonderful! I still think they are treasures lol. I have the poo thing happening at the end of the month. I wish I could send it out, and not have to go through the colonoscopy.
I always seem to find blue pottery, wherever I've lived! :-) This house we went down to remove loads of stuff before putting in a new lawn. Found victorian smashed bottles, crisp packet from the 80's (when salt and vinegar wrappers were blue, not green!), lots of broken pottery and a cat skeleton. We put the latter back as seemed disrespectful to throw in a bag!
Oh, and poop test - my mum died of bowel cancer and the poop test didn't pick anything up. As long as Dave doesn't ignore any symptoms, thinking the test is the bee's knee's as it's not, it's just the best we have at the mo. Oh, Ed did his first one too, but he's 56. Different trusts I suspect?
Who'd have thought we would be discussing poo tests here!! I receive little sticks in the post and then send back. No need for hospital appt. It's amazing the things we do as we get older........ @blightygal@kjarn@pamalama@happypat
