Friday 15 July 2016

may time

I am moderately pleased that our new prime minister is a woman and can only hope that she does not start behaving like Maggie Thatcher.. Mr May seems a very retiring sort of chap, my first glimpse of him was his uncertain wave on the steps of number ten yesterday.  It has been so quick, I haven`t quite taken it all in. And the poor old queen, having to cope with all this kerfuffle in the space of about half an hour and not a horse or dog lover among them.
Now we wait with baited breath to see what the Labour party gets up to.   What a worry it all is. I love old Jeremy with his allotment and his Oxfam suits and will be sorry if he has to go.
Angela Eagle seems very bossy and fierce. And where`s her twin sister in all this?  It`s a bit odd.

I have just finished the poetry project with the Infants and managed to persuade an angelic little girl not to write hers about the Black Death and the Plague of London and some of the boys from writing about football and mysterious computer games.  I did enjoy being back there on Wednesday afternoons, even if it did involve sitting on tiny chairs that are difficult to get up out of.
Ninetieth birthday parties are now one of the social events in 
my life. I went to a cracking one last Saturday in Limpley Stoke,another is coming up in a couple of weeks` time.  En route for Limpley Stoke, I went to Meeting on Sunday in Winchester and it was so good to see the house and garden looking splendid. The trees and roses, some of which were planted in memory of people, had grown so huge, and it all seemed in such good heart.  And it was lovely to see so many old Winchester Ffriends. 

We also had a family get together at son T`s and went through a whole pile of old photos and letters and papers. We threw things away with gay abandon and felt much better for it. There were piles of very old photographs of grim faced bearded gents and uncomfortably dressed women and none of us had any idea who they were. It just shows that someone should always write a name on the back and a date.