Month: October 2018

Annual General Meetings are in general boring affairs so I do my best to liven them up a bit. We had about 35 people and when they had gathered together before the meeting started I got the new people, the people who had joined our motley allotment crew since the last AGM, to introduce themselves. It's not nice sitting in a meeting when you don't know anyone so it's much better to break the ice...

Guys I love this statement / mission statement from a CEO of Walmart, quite exceptional in my view. I would like to quote it in full "Stay humble", said Greg Wasson (pictured). When he started out as a pharmacy intern at Walgreens in 1980, Greg Wasson never imagined he'd one day become the CEO of the whole company. But, over the years, the Indiana native climbed the managerial ladder....

story continued from 10 October....In the end we gave in and instead of trying to patch up the hole or holes we bought 4 x 4 metres or waterproof lining for about £52.    It took us 3 hours to fill the pool with water and then mother nature came along and rained for 4 hours.     It does not look very beautiful at the moment but we are letting the mains water breathe so it's not too much of a...

Sooner or later, the rubber or other synthetic material which stops the water getting out of your pond will spring a leak. It could be due to a root of a plant trying to get through, some unfortunate person with hard shoes waiting in the pool, or just sheer old age. I'm so determined to find the leak but I don't really want to accept the fact it will be cheaper to start again and get a new...

Snobs - do not read this. I absolutely love outdoor (or indoor) boot fairs, jumble sales, anything where you can pick up a bargain for 50p and maybe find the unexpected. Although the big Cheddar boot fair goes on rain or shine all year I prefer to go when the weather is clement so the weather being fine and promising off we went. I as usual was determined not to buy anything but of course I did....

Today a cold and rainy start, a depression from the Atlantic (how depressing). Off to the men's group for a breakfast which we have in the Somer Centre, which is right slap bang in the middle of the town. There were about 10 of us and we had a very nice meal to start the meeting with very good local sausages and bacon. It is lovely to have a meal without food additives. A local Methodist...