Today was the start of half term, I know I sort of vary between the Welsh
holidays and the English ones but I do live right on the border and after all
the school is now an academy and as head boy I guess I can have holidays when
ever I like. Yes I am still head boy despite several votes to remove me, but
since dad has been bribing the selection committee with plain brown envelopes
full of money the headmaster cant get rid of me. Apparently dad says its what
parents do because the alternative is going to parents evening which is full of
parents and depressed teachers which would be awful.
So, here we are the at the end of the first
day of the holiday, which was dry and even sunny at times and so I was sent
down the large muddy cold wet dark hole in the garden again. It seemed a bit
unfair to me but dad explained that as I have done most of the work in the
muddy cold wet dark hole it would be terrible if he ruined all my effort and
toil and got onto it. I did say I didn't mind but he said he knew I was just
saying that to make him feel better about it.
I did finally manage to
get the large bit of root out of the muddy cold wet dark hole by using the
chainsaw which was super sharp but which is now blunt wet and muddy, you see
chainsaws hate water and mud, both of which are in abundance in the muddy cold
wet dark hole. This now means I have finally sorted half of the muddy cold wet
dark hole and once I have managed to remove a huge half ton concrete slab from
the other half I can start all over again . . . . O GOODY such fun . . . . . . .
I also got to do a bit of tongue
and groove panelling which is almost finished for the moment; I have a small
fiddly bit by the door to the utility room to do. I think I have one more strip
to do and then it is done until a new hob and oven is fitted, luckily I don’t
have to do that . . . . . . . . .AH DAMN.
One other thing I have
noticed is that we have a mole in the garden; I am not sure if this is a
classic case of if someone digs a hole then all the other hole diggers think
oooooooo that must be a good place to dig holes I will go over there.
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Do you know what is reaLLLLLy great about 'half term' ? When you take out the middle you get 'ha m', and ham is great, what you took out -'lf ter'- is even better!!! Hahahahahaha -laughter- -lfter- ham and ha m, a great round of smiles. Now, back to reading your words ....
ReplyDeleteit you take our 'hf m' you get alter so Ham and Ha m are half term altered. It appears Half Term is more flexible than I thought.
DeleteA half term plus a half ite makes a whole iteterm. If you do it incorrectly you get a termite.
DeleteI am tired and while I was near the end of your writing I feLL asleep. I dreamed that you were a spy tracking down your archenemy when you were kissed by a woman who looked kinda like Ann Margaret. But while she was kissing you, your archenemy got away. If you happen to know someone you dislike named Archie, that would be veRy close to being an arch(i)enemy. Hahahahahahahaha (pause) hahahaha ha. Instead of Ann Margaret, it looked closer to the female in the stiLL photo at the end of your blog post, so be careful.
ReplyDeleteI tried to Google Ann Margaret as I was not sure what see looked liked but it appears there are lots of pictures of diffident women and a small dog and several men. I wonder therefore if Ann Margaret and Archie are one and the same person.
DeleteI don't think I would make a very good spy, no where near as good as my friend Miss Fionaski, she is a good spy provided I stop telling everyone . . . . . . . .AH.
It is now very late here and I now need to go to sleep after working hard in a muddy hole.
Did you know I was referring to Ann Margaret the actress? Now I am wondering if I speLLed her name right.
DeleteFrom Wikipedia: Ann-Margret Olsson (born April 28, 1941) is a Swedish-American actress, singer, and dancer whose professional name is Ann-Margret.
She is best known for her roles in Bye Bye Birdie (1963), Viva Las Vegas (1964), The Cincinnati Kid (1965), Carnal Knowledge (1971), and Tommy (1975). She has won five Golden Globe Awards and been nominated for two Academy Awards, two Grammy Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and six Emmy Awards. In 2010, she won her first Emmy Award for her guest appearance on Law & Order: SVU.
I did know the name but it is not one of those names whose face will leap at you when mentioned, say like Marilyn Monroe or Elvis or even Hitler or the Queen. But it is strange when you look something up and click on the images option of Google and a hundred different faces look back at you. . . . Oooooo I need to go we have a visitor
DeleteOur visitor has departed, but it is now getting colder and I have a pork pie to eat for supper as I have had a large lunch today in the village hall with all the locals.
DeleteHalf term is a weird one here on site. Usually when the kids are off all the grey haired people dissapear into their warden controlled flats or wherever they go when they are not camping. But this weekend has been nuts with a captial n.
ReplyDeleteWe're almost full to bursting with grannies and gandpa's and nannas and all sorts of wrinkly people - who do resemble zombies more than any healthy person should.
And yet as all the schools are closed, there are only 3 kids on site. 2 are babies and one a teenager who sits all day jabbing his my-phone and not looking up and the lovely sun that is shinning down on us today.
Plus I'm on my own as the staff (or mum and dad as i call them) have buggered off to egypt and I'm proper knackered.
I'm sure you can catch old age.... I'm feeling older every day. :(
Your staff running off to Egypt reminds me that when we had a shop we would manage a trip to North Wales or Scotland for a weeks holiday every couple of years. But one of our staff members used to vanish off to the Maldives or Africa or the like each year. It always used to make us think something was all a bit wrong.
DeleteHaving just one teenager must be a bit hard on him as he looks across the elderly sea of Zombies. Do you regulars read your blog Mr H, if they should accidently come across a comment suggesting they resemble Zombies they may not be amused and eat your brains.
It is the English half term now so maybe things will change and sadly I appear to be getting older too I blame the rain.