So the next 24 hours will be filled with sunny intervals and temperatures between 17 to 22 degrees here in Worcester Park. Well, technically that's the weather in Kingston-upon-Thames, but close enough.
The recent heatwave I think did a bit of good for the plants in the back garden, but am glad for the cooler weather that followed. Although the rains did put a bit of a damper on the Harry Potter premier. A good bit of publicity for drenched Emma Watson. And good sport of her to laugh it off - atta girl Hermoine!. Hmm... it would be nice to go see the movie, but hate to go to movies on my own. *sigh*
Oh dear... someone named Toyah Wilcox just auctioned a Calamity Jane cardboard cutout of herself on TV for charity. Very brave girl as it would have been quite embarrassing if no one put a bid of more than 5 pounds for it! Ten minutes later, it turns out that someone bought it for 50 pounds, to which she graciously commented that it was a 'sympathy purchase'. Humility is very charming in a person.
I love these antiques auction shows on tv. It's amazing the kinds of old things people have in their houses, kept from decades ago. There was one show where a man was about to sell a bracelet at a car boot sale for a pound. Luckily someone told him to take it to an antiques auction house. It turned out the bracelet - which had stones in it that he thought was just paste (ie: fake stones) - were real diamonds. Suffice to say he got a whole lot more than one pound for that antique diamond bracelet!
Anyway, the recent bout of rains has done the garden good. The lilies have come out in great big yellow-apricot blooms so heavy we had to put up stakes to hold the stems upright. And the seductive, sweet smell is more pronounced right after the rain. So we've moved it to the corner of the garden so we can see it every time we look out into the garden from the kitchen. Between the scent of the lilies and the sweet peas, we've managed to get quite a number of bees flitting around in the back garden. Big fat fuzzy bees they are! It seems almost impossible that they could fly. To the naked eye, it's just aerodynamically impossible. But the bees don't know that, do they? So they fly anyway...
OMG, that reminds me of one of the first books I read and really really fell in love with - Robert Cormier's 'The Bumblebee Flies Anyway'. That, 'After the First Death' and 'The Chocolate Wars'. I have to get my hands on these books again. There was something about them that moved me when I first read them all those years ago (I'm talking about way back when I was 12 or 13). For someone who has serious long term memory retention, remarkably I can even remember the local public library in Kuala Kubu Bharu where I found the book. I can see the painted steel shelves with all those dog-eared books lying almost on their sides - all shapes and thickness and sizes lumped together under 'Fiction'. *sigh* KKB... those were the good old days indeed. :)
Enough reminiscing. Time for lunch. :)
The recent heatwave I think did a bit of good for the plants in the back garden, but am glad for the cooler weather that followed. Although the rains did put a bit of a damper on the Harry Potter premier. A good bit of publicity for drenched Emma Watson. And good sport of her to laugh it off - atta girl Hermoine!. Hmm... it would be nice to go see the movie, but hate to go to movies on my own. *sigh*Oh dear... someone named Toyah Wilcox just auctioned a Calamity Jane cardboard cutout of herself on TV for charity. Very brave girl as it would have been quite embarrassing if no one put a bid of more than 5 pounds for it! Ten minutes later, it turns out that someone bought it for 50 pounds, to which she graciously commented that it was a 'sympathy purchase'. Humility is very charming in a person.
I love these antiques auction shows on tv. It's amazing the kinds of old things people have in their houses, kept from decades ago. There was one show where a man was about to sell a bracelet at a car boot sale for a pound. Luckily someone told him to take it to an antiques auction house. It turned out the bracelet - which had stones in it that he thought was just paste (ie: fake stones) - were real diamonds. Suffice to say he got a whole lot more than one pound for that antique diamond bracelet!
Anyway, the recent bout of rains has done the garden good. The lilies have come out in great big yellow-apricot blooms so heavy we had to put up stakes to hold the stems upright. And the seductive, sweet smell is more pronounced right after the rain. So we've moved it to the corner of the garden so we can see it every time we look out into the garden from the kitchen. Between the scent of the lilies and the sweet peas, we've managed to get quite a number of bees flitting around in the back garden. Big fat fuzzy bees they are! It seems almost impossible that they could fly. To the naked eye, it's just aerodynamically impossible. But the bees don't know that, do they? So they fly anyway... 
OMG, that reminds me of one of the first books I read and really really fell in love with - Robert Cormier's 'The Bumblebee Flies Anyway'. That, 'After the First Death' and 'The Chocolate Wars'. I have to get my hands on these books again. There was something about them that moved me when I first read them all those years ago (I'm talking about way back when I was 12 or 13). For someone who has serious long term memory retention, remarkably I can even remember the local public library in Kuala Kubu Bharu where I found the book. I can see the painted steel shelves with all those dog-eared books lying almost on their sides - all shapes and thickness and sizes lumped together under 'Fiction'. *sigh* KKB... those were the good old days indeed. :)Enough reminiscing. Time for lunch. :)
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