Tuesday 12 January 2010

Beam me up, Scottie

I hate January.

What can you do in this weather? And when it thaws everywhere will be flooded.

In desperation I took "Your Garden Week by Week" off the shelf to check what Arthur was doing in January 1936:

Chapter 1 January

General

Dig all available ground

God knows where he was living. This book cost 12s 6d in 1952, what a snip! Have returned it to the bookshelf.

No sign of my exhibition onions. Gave them an encouraging chat and left them listening to "Dark Side of the Moon". That should do the trick.

Following on from the trauma of finding Welsh Walter the genealogy trail took an even more alarming turn when I came across this entry in the 1901 Census:

Baltzer, Adolph, 53, preacher

GET ME OUTA HERE!