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We took Ellie for her walk through the fields and bluebell woods.
On the way back we stopped to talk to Rod who lives at Rose Cottage (my dream house). We must have stood chatting with him for about an hour. He is building an environmentally friendly swimming pool. Of course Mal wanted to know exactly how it worked. Then the conversation went on to things like property insurance for a thatched cottage and he told us one of the requisites was to have his chimney swept every month by a professional registered chimney sweep (he was not allowed to do it himself even if he did the training!!) He had put in an application to build a wooden barn on his land to put his tractor in, It was turned down but of course they have agreed to 70 houses being built in the village. This then went on to he is now being prosecuted for parking his car in a Plymouth car park, for which he paid £6 only to have a ticket slapped on it saying his vehicle was 20cms too long for the car park! He is going to court fighting that one. With all the other issues he seems to have going on, I don’t think we were surprised to hear he is waiting to have a triple bypass!! I have now gone off the idea of having the dream house, especially as he also told us that woodpeckers are destroying his thatch! Poor man.
In the afternoon Mal went to the allotment and I gardened the front garden.
Our postman wasn’t too impressed as he shouted over the hedge “I have two very heavy parcels for you.” I didn’t like to tell him, there are at least another 50 coming soon! That is the start of Mal’s exam work.
Thought for the Day – “Being honest may not get you many friends but it’ll always get you the right ones.” ~ John Lennon