YesâŚthe expensive option. 
Gosh.
There really is nothing that can give such great rewards as a properly trained & maintained Bush.
With me Home Alone I have free range to carry out vital tasks and the sheer sweetness and juicyness & succulence of the output of the Bush has been something that has brought a spring to my step on this damp Sunday morning
This is not fucking SaintsWeb or The Ugly, FFS.
Your self-censorship offends me 
Oh wait, forgot the photos they didnât loadâŚ
Lot of work in keeping that Bush trim.
This morningâs effort
Tomorrow the Carrots
Fuckinâ Brambles running wild at the bottom of our garden, not a single berry so I hacked them down yesterday.
Mind you some good ones on our daily walk, our old boy used to love themâŚ
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It was a lot of work pruning & putting up strings but paid off.
Also looking good for the plonk crop.
Just need to avoid an early frost.
Daughter asked what Grape types. Green & Red wasnt the right answer apparently- planted by Grandad back in the early 60s
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My mate here in N, Baddesley used to have a Still. He grew grape vines too. At one dinner party, (mid-80s dinner party boom) he gave me a shot of his latest alcohol brewâŚa Potato peeling spirit. Best with a mixer he said but being a brave gung-ho drinker I said âIâll take it straightâ. I didnât taste itâŚit evaporated on my tongue.
âWhatâs the mixer ratioâ I asked.
âAbout 20/1â was the answer. 
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No. He harvests those from teenage motorbike crash victims. 
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Big fat sloes on the Blackthorn in Lymington. Bumper gin year I reckon.
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Cunt.
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The anniversary of 9/11.
Getting the call while driving home.
The real fear, running a US Company in the ME & worrying what came next.
Hearing the story of Shawn who worked at our HQ who was flying his GF to Hawaii to propose & who left a voicemail on the way down.
And the AMAZING response by our team, our partners & HR especially in Ireland who, in the days that followed got Visas for my team AND their families to evacuate to Galway just in case.
Remembering lighting a Candle for Shawn & crying then rejoicing for someone I never met.
The Little Pleasure?
Knowing we made a difference & people cared for us. Something an MBA todat would never understand
Fuck off
I was working for Aon back in the day. People I know, worked with and met died. I watched the fucking towers collapse live just like you did. Fuck, Iâd regularly been to meet them/clients as people.
Apologies for that but your touchy-freely comments have stirred up something Iâd buried @Polski_Filip - but I am coming from it from my perspective.
Sorry.
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Weighed myself this morning, had my morning ablutions and weighed myself again.
I was 1.75 lbs lighter 
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So, you were really full of shit???
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On my (long forgotten) tours into the countryside, I explain the dilemma of coal & fossil fuel use in rural Poland & further east.
We know it is bad but the cost to convert to Gas is on average 6 months salary.
Polish politics seems incomprehensible to many, but PiS do invest funds & Grantâs to rural areas, and cover some of the cost of conversion - about 25%.
So, this week, the family have scraped enough savings & loans together to convert. The maths was quite easy, grant + cost saving of buying Wood/Coal is returned after 3 years.
The point?
Farewell to this museum piece!
No more trudging to the wood shed in the snow!
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My wife left me this morning.
Caught an 05:50 bus.
Just got the call to go collect her as she was struggling to carry these beauties home.
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