No, I haven’t abandoned ‘Minnow’. It’s just that there has
been too much going on for me to sneak a few moments for my mistress. She can
sulk if she likes, but it won’t make a bit of difference.
Reading this blog, you may get the impression that I do
nothing except lavish my love on the latest attraction, or shall I say
distraction. Nothing could be further from the truth, and that is, I often find
it hard to grab time for getting things done. I have had a succession of
similar boat renovation projects, and the story has been the same for each one.
Idle hands are the devil’s delight, but he seldom finds me twiddling
my thumbs while pondering what to do. Simply having a property to maintain, and
more to the point, care for a wife, daughters, grandchildren and great grandchildren,
means my time is constantly in demand. Add to that relatives and friends, you
can begin to understand, and I haven’t mentioned church and associated
activities.
Well, today, a local tree surgeon and his team started work
in our garden at 07.30 with instructions from the chief gardener to slay three
conifers, lop the head off a eucalyptus tree, and hamstring two other trees! Two
hours and twenty minutes later, light and air was restored to our garden, but
there was an awful lot of sawdust, twigs and bark strewn about the place, not
to mention two lawns requiring cutting.
I had more important things to do at that moment than set
about making the garden tidy, and it wasn’t until early afternoon that I could
put my hands to the task. Then I discovered a persistent badger had gnawed a
hole through a panel of my neighbour’s fence. I was forced to be the purveyor
of this unwelcome news, and I called him to check the damage. He had
previously boarded a hole in a different panel. My guess is that a third one
will be damaged and so on.
Isn’t there a Government sponsored badger cull on at the
moment? Perhaps I could invite them to exterminate the beast. I know badgers
are cuddly and adorable, and for thousands of animal lovers, they are sacrosanct,
but they do cause problems, not least, a high percentage carry the tuberculosis
virus which they spread to cattle.
Soon, it was dusk, and there was no time for ‘Minnow’. She
would have to wait.
Link
Is a Badger Cull the Only Answer to Bovine TB?
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