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Perfume
Most newly married couples, each with a family of origin, divide their time over the Christmas period between the two. As I am sure you all know, this can have interesting results. Vivien’s penultimate Christmas in 1963 was no exception. After spending the day itself with my parents, we travelled by train to her family in Sidcup, […]
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Dicker Day
27th July 2013 The sunflowers seeded in Jackie’s pots by birds, no doubt as a reward for her feeding them, have came into bloom today. They are rather like cuckoos in that they are planted in someone else’s nest. I don’t think, however, that they have pushed out any other flowers. Just before we left […]
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Almost A Local
Today’s dawning put me in mind of the old adage: ‘Red sky at night, shepherd’s delight; red sky in the morning shepherd’s warning’. This was a morning of heavy frost, frozen pools, and slippery tarmac. I walked to Lyndhurst via the A337 and back by way of Emery Down. The purpose of my trip was […]
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The Village Shop Revisited
Even the dull weather this morning could not conceal the autumn beauty of the Surrey and Sussex countryside on our drive to Upper Dicker Village Shop (see post of 12th May) to visit our daughter-in-law Tess. Greens, golds, and bronze glowed through the drizzle. We stopped to admire the view from a high point on […]
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Surprise
This continues the story of yesterday. We arrived at The Village Shop in Upper Dicker. The main street was full of vehicles, as was the small carpark attached to the shop by the village green. Matthew was standing in the doorway with a beer. Jackie seemed unusually impatient for me to get out of the […]