(looks better viewed large on a black background if you have time)
Real hard graft this morning shovelling several weeks worth of muck into the trailer for it to be taken up the hill to the village allotments. We haven't been able to do it for the last few weeks because of the weather and the fact that our quad bike was not working. It really was a beautiful morning and a half-time sit down on the bench in the field with a cuppa in shirt-sleeves was the highlight. Graham was relentlessly jovial throughout the whole of the proceedings, which I am ashamed to say irritated me beyond words. He is always happy working outside, but particularly so if somebody else is suffering too. Actually his joviality did fail him for a while when the quad and trailer slipped on the mud and got wedged in a gateway. We even had a few 'words' when my mind-reading skills proved themselves to not be quite up to scratch and I failed to correctly interpret one of his not very specific barked orders and pushed the wrong part of the crap laden trailer the wrong way or some such thing. How I laughed!
Did about three hours worth in the end and was quite relieved to have to go to pick Sam up from a friend's house where he had been for a sleep-over. Judging by the way he looks today I don't think that much sleeping went on, but it sounds like he had fun.
Graham went to the pub for a well-earned pint in the afternoon, but I yet again turned down the opportunity because I wanted to go to take some photos at the reservoir - people are beginning to worry about me!
The sunset wasn't nearly as spectacular as I had hoped, but it was a lovely place to be.
Three good things:
Beautiful, almost warm weather
a very nice fisherman I met at the reservoir, he and I talked about photography and the underhand goings-on in the pike fishing world - who'd have thought........?
Love your narrative.as ever amusing and real life!! Sounds hard work your neck of the woods but your escape here is spectacular........beautiful, we had a good one last night too but i couldn't be bothered!! a fav
And I always thought pike fishermen had a shifty air about them.