Time today working with gardener Bill, spreading the mature compost on the beds and gathering and shredding the latest batch of leaves.
Also taking in hand the repair of the electric strimmer, visiting Ibbett's of Paxton and getting the bits and some of each of the spark plugs that we use on about nine motorised garden machines.
Also some time with Sam, with closer obedience and retrieving practice. The Mirror Group of newspapers widely condemned for publishing covert photographs of The Princess of Wales
It would be nice to leave certain jobs to others and to get on with those things that were most important; but in, reality, unless a householder takes an interest, then delegated tasks just do not seem to be done right. I find this with Bill and the garden. He is good at the immediate tasks but leaves other things to build up and does no planning for important annual events. Today, I got out with him and completed the process of spreading the mature compost on the beds and gathered and shredded the latest batch of leaves.
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I also had to take in hand the repair of the electric strimmer, visiting Ibbett's of Paxton and getting the bits and some of each of the spark plugs that we use on about nine motorised garden machines. If the compost heaps are not managed to fruition and emptied before the leaves fall, then it causes all sorts of problems of space and efficiency. I just hope that, after today, I can give Bill a few pointers and leave him to keep on top of things. Good walks with Sam; being far stricter than of late and leaving him no scope to be naughty.
Even so, we got in some good obedience work, and he retrieved a few dummies well. Diana was home to get me lunch and tea. The evening first updating and archiving my journal and then relaxing in front of the TV for a football league match. The news yesterday and today is about the outrage of the Mirror Group of newspapers publishing covert photographs of The Princess of Wales taken in secret by the owner of a gymnasium club where she thought she was exercising with privacy.
The newspaper group is totally unabashed and dismisses the criticism of the Chairman of The Press Complaints Commission. It is now thought inevitable that this voluntary body will be replaced by a statutory authority and a new privacy law. It showered a little today but there was not rain enough to stop us working. A break in the weather is now forecast for the next few days.