Things That Gladden The Heart

[Orikoru]

A lad I knew at School Kenneth Varley. He was a lovely kid who was always bullied because he was not the brightest. We shared a bond. Anyway he was rubbish in most academic subjects. When we left school
I bumped into him In a Pub and we had a game of arrows. I was doing the scoring. Hid it was painful taking 26 off 394. Hr said “ here give us the chalk”. I was gobsmacked. It was like playing darts with Stephen Hawkins when it came to scoring. He was fantastic.

Saw an interview with Luke Littler where he said he's not very good at maths, but he's just played so much darts that he knows what all the combinations are and what total it leaves him etc etc.

 

[Hobbit]

A sweet & sour chicken with egg fried rice. Sweet & sour made from scratch, and a bit more care taken with the rice, inc. cooking it early afternoon then letting it stand for a couple of hours before adding the egg yolks as it cooked.

Topped off with a new wine for us, a Rioja Crianza.

A bloody good end to having friends out from the U.K. - next week my liver will be resting…

 

[IanM]

Pair of collared doves spent all day unsuccessfully trying to build a nest on the bracket of our sky dish. Whatever they put there, fell off.

It's looks like they've come to their senses and are trying elsewhere. It was fun watching.