Happy and Golden?

I think if I had children I’d call them by those names (joke). A friend told me of a little boy whose parents were expecting twins. He was told he could pick names for them. The boy chose Hoover and Washing Machine (a Hoover is a type of vacuum cleaner).

This blip is a follow up to my ‘prairie’ blip of last Tuesday, which sparked a discussion about the Little House… series by Laura Ingalls Wilder. I checked my collection and found that I had six volumes, but not the seventh, the one about Laura’s married life . I ordered a copy online, not expecting it to have the same cover as the version I remembered . The package arrived this morning, and on opening, there was the familiar cover ! I think I got most of my ideas about courtship and wedded life from that book. If a person offers to take you for a buggy ride, marriage cannot be far behind. You will have some children that live, and.some that die. Locusts will attack your crops, just as they did your Pa’s….

So I’ve been to Stroud Pride today, in Bank Gardens with the boys, and danced 2,000 steps, and listened to tales of how difficult it is to book a driving test (you have to go online at exactly 6 am to find a local cancellation, or else book a test centre hundreds of miles away). I’ve also got very hot because it’s another scorcher today.

I gave away our second TV to a person on Freegle, who apparently used to holiday in Arisaig at the same time as I did in the early 1970s! She is the same age as me. This chance conversation arose because of a fridge magnet saying Arisaig, from the West Highland line museum at Glenfinnsn station.

I’ve also watched Neil Young play at Glastonbury, on TV. Coverage has now ended, but if there are even more mistakes in my typing, it’s because I’m sitting in semi-darkness.

Goodnight, and Keep on Rockin’ in the Free World!