I have a new whizzy computer! So exciting – well, actually, not all that exciting, since I’m not really interested in machines apart from what they can do for me. But the previous computer wouldn’t let me blog, which was a grave displeasure. This one is much better… so far. Thank you, dear husband, for setting it all up for me, despite being gravely ill with a cold. And I can add pictures, so this is one of the garden ten days ago: our only snow of the winter, and it lasted all of about six hours.
I love hyacinths so much. The scent transports me back to my childhood and somehow to school, where presumably we must have had hyacinths in the classroom. Though I wouldn't like to be a child again. Doing sums; how boring.Another extract from a student’s essay which made me smile. Again, it took me a few seconds to work this one out: “Uncle Peter deserts from the army and goes a wall.”
Honestly, I’m not making these up.
File under "Truth is stranger than fiction!"
ReplyDeleteIm right there with you re. hyacinths and school being linked. In my very young primary classes - was a small country school and primary 1 - 4 had the same teacher - we used to plant a hyacinth every year in a see through blue vase type thing - so we could see the roots - and then it was put away in the teacher's dark cupboard to force it to grow I guess. Funny the memories we have stored away which can be triggered suddenly...
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I love the hyacinth scent, as well. It fills the home with such a good feeling.
ReplyDeleteGlad to see you back to more blogging. I have missed the new posts and pictures!
"a wall"?? Ugh! :)
Have a wonderful day, Isabelle!
A wall. That's fantastic.
ReplyDeleteThankyou for sharing these gems, I am enjoying them.
Good luck using your new computer. Don't break him...
Obviously Uncle Peter was in the Eighth Army stationed in North Africa!
ReplyDeleteA good laugh. It makes you wonder what will become of the child who wrote it.
ReplyDeleteLove Hyacinths, but the little Grape Hyacinths are my all time favourites. I remember them from my childhood too!
I haven't been here in a while. Have to go looking for other gems, because a wall was wonderful. What an amusing profession!
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