Tennis commentators don‘t overdo it!

Broadcast –  (well 1st verse!)
After watching Hickstead on Sunday afternoon where every time the commentators predicted a good round the horse brought down a large number of fences, I offer the following!
Hush Hush and lock up your daughters
Andy Murray is through to the Quarters!
With Murray Mount now if full force
Let’s ALL hope he can go [...]

NHS and Pharmacy Regulations (2005)

I refuse to lie down and die over this.  Readers of my blog will have seen my previous post on this subject (if not type NHS into the search and up it will come!).
I have taken the matter up with the PCT Appeals officer – who despite my efforts has tersely put me in my [...]

Elderflower

Now’s the time to strip the bushes and make gallons of elderflower cordial. Personally I don’t go for the bushes by the road-side – essence of petrol is not an ingredient I feel adds much to the flavour.
I’ve made about a gallon. Enough for the coming year.
It’s very good with fizzy wine – [...]

Australia – here I come – well nearly…….

Yesterday I had to have an x-ray taken of my wrist.  All did not go quite as I had anticipated.
On arriving the radiographer – a pleasant young man – but whose English was not as good as it might be, said:
“Are you happy for your x-ray to go to Australia?”
Me – rather surprised at this [...]

A few lines on Maria Sharapova

The men all adore Maria Sharapove
Especially the view when the lady bends over!
Though her unladylike grunts may shake other Wimbledon seeds
Most men adore her verbal misdeeds
For if she gasps like that when hitting an ace
Imagine the noise then she’s in a romping embrace!

the Tennis – what else!

Broadcast – Wednesday 25 June
Look BBC I can cope with watching tennis but – please – stick to the tennis. There is really no need to diversify!
Yesterday evening’s coverage was very confusing. One minute the ladies were bashing the ball back and forth, the next we seemed to be dipping into SpringWatch with [...]

The Longest day

Broadcast
A really bad ditty!
The Longest Day is over
The year is creeping by
Storm clouds of the summer
Rush across the sky
With Autumn fast approaching
The sun is what I seeks
But with Wimbledon now upon us
It’ll rain for the next two weeks!

Southern Marsh Orchid

Southern Marsh Orchid
Originally uploaded by tansy_whitebytts
I’ve had a happy afternoon photographing orchids. Both Southern Marsh and Heath Spotted.
They really are a beautiful flower. We are very lucky to have them fairly  near us. The efforts of the local conservation group have really helped them over recent years and now we get masses flowering each year.
The Heath [...]

A use for that road-washing lorry in Marylebone Road…

Now that we’ve all got to cycle everywhere   -  at long last there is a sensible use for that Road-Washing Vehicle in charge of the Marylebone Road
It’s obviously being lined up to hose down the cyclists when they arrive for work!  Instant Communal showers – mobile – and thorough!
Well done!

Barrowlands Boyd – a few lines

Broadcast
When I was young I often toyed
With a lad who called himself Barrowlands Boyd.
It wasn’t his physique that I found so alluring
It was his sexy voice – so deceptively assuring.
But love in the young so often goes bad.
He turned out to be a bounder, a scoundrel and cad.
So my message to all those listeners out [...]