THE BALCONY IN SPLENDOUR

 

Flowers by Wendy Cope

Some men never think of it.
You did. You’d come along
And say you’d nearly brought me flowers
But something had gone wrong.

The shop was closed. Or you had doubts —
The sort that minds like ours
Dream up incessantly. You thought
I might not want your flowers.

It made me smile and hug you then.
Now I can only smile.
But, look, the flowers you nearly brought
Have lasted all this while.

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The wonderful Wendy Cope.

And the flowers in the pictures above are the ones that Col did buy for us. He also bought me some yellow tulips for the house.  Love tulips, don't often get them. A picture of them should appear in one of my next blogs.

It has been sunny, but has gone quite cold again. And I am ashamed to admit that we have been turning the electric blanket on at night.  Must be something to do with our age I guess, we feel the cold more than we did.

Ironically, and rarely, Captain Butterfly was not detecting on Sunday - wait a minute - hold the presses! - HE WAS NOT DETECTING ON SUNDAY!!!!  So he could have helped me get dressed and got me to the Sunday morning meeting at the Kingdom Hall in person.  But there was no meeting, as we had a special live broadcast, which including a very good summary of the Watchtower, on Saturday morning.

What lies ahead this week?  The dentist...  my hearing aid service... and a blood test next week... oh dear, oh dear, oh dear.  But on the doubleplus good side, three Zooms with family and friends and hopefully I will see my Bible student on Wednesday.