Orchids

Saturday July 30
After our two days away, it was time to get some jobs done for Roger’s Dad. It was also a grey drizzly day, so we weren’t tempted to do much else! Roger was outside prising up the bricks that line his tarmac driveway. Bernard has had a problem with weeds growing up between them, and he and Janet had decided to take them up, clean them with the pressure washer and reset them closer together with a bit of mortar between. I was inside, vacuuming, changing his sheets and cleaning the kitchen. When I had done that I went outside and pressure washed the bricks. We stopped work about 3pm to wash and change and take Bernard to an afternoon tea at the church in honour of a lady’s 80th birthday. She is a well known member of the church and also a local preacher in the circuit, so there were quite a number of people there in addition to family. It was a bit of a drawn out affair - it started at 4pm, but it was after 5 before we got a drink, let alone food. The tea was catered and once we were finally invited to go up, there was a good range and choice of sandwiches, quiche, sausage rolls, salads etc. Another problem was that when family members and Angela were speaking, they weren’t using microphones, and we were struggling to hear, let alone Bernard and Alan (John’s Dad, also in his 90s), who both have poor hearing! It was supposed to finish at 6pm, but we got away shortly before 7, and were amongst the first to leave!
My blip is of some of Janet’s orchids - she has quite a number of them, and they all flower really well. She has a huge kitchen/breakfast room, with an in ground fish pond(!) and I think the moisture from that and all the light from the windows suits them, and Janet clearly has green fingers!
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