Friday 13th November 2020 Day 234
5.15 Wide awake and didn’t go to bed until one am so I would sleep a bit later! Not sure what that was all about but I will sit and read until a more sociable hour to get up. Then I remember the Joe Wicks PE 24 hour challenge for Children in Need and watch some of that on iPlayer and end up not getting up until just before eight.
9.30 The challenge is finished and Joe has made a whopping million and a half for CIN, how marvellous that people are still digging deep even in these hard times, even kids emptying their money boxes.
Friday the thirteenth and my grandson’s eighth birthday, hopefully it won’t be an unlucky day although he won’t be able to invite anyone for tea of course but I know he will be spoilt rotten as you should be on your birthday. The ‘no friends’ would have
suited my son when he was very small, we would throw him a party and discover him missing half way through because he had nipped off upstairs to play with his new toys. I am pleased to say that this anti-social behaviour was only temporary.
I have just been looking at a photo I took yesterday of a little hamlet nestling on the Ashdown Forest , it looked very pretty in the sunshine but the Forest is a funny place, it has an atmosphere all of its own and sometimes seems very melancholy and foreboding. That wouldn’t be the reason I wouldn’t want to live there though; my reason would be because it is the perfect environment for adders and people have been warned to be careful in case their dogs get bitten. They are my least favourite thing in the world. We went to see the big telescope at Goonhilly Downs in Cornwall once and we were told that we mustn’t walk around outside because it was infested with adders, what a ghastly thought!
The rainy day we were supposed to expect today according to all the expensive equipment used by the meteorological society, hasn’t happened and in fact our local walk this morning was in bright sunshine. As kids my sister and I had our own little house with a weather man and a weather woman, a bit like a cuckoo clock except that I think they were attached by gut. The woman came out if it was going to be dry and the man came out if it was going to be wet. Personally, I don’t think you can beat a bit of seaweed hung outside on a nail, if the seaweed stays dry the weather will be sunny and dry but if the seaweed is wet and flexible you can expect rain. Works for me.