Just been to Central Methodists this morning, good Service, we originally thought that Ernest Baker and Ian Coverdale were educated at the same college, however it turns out that Ian was educated in Bristol.

Later on we have been to Pauline and David's with our Entries for Scarborough
I am going to win the Photographic Class.

We had a nice glass of wine at Paulines

Also I have just put the hanging baskets out at the front, Sheila is planting vegetables

JOY

What better pleasure is there than to talk to your distant Grandchildren on the phone

Sometime later they are going back to SKYPE

Then we will be able to see them at the same time as we talk to them

Crash in Lillands Lane

GOOD NEWS

Jane and Amrik rang me this morning and asked us to go over for a meal next week

So far don't know which day, Possibly Sheilas Birthday !

Floss and Boss

Paulines computer is broken down

FUNGUS AND OTHER NEWS

Last week I inoculated one log with the Oyster Mushroom spawn which Andy and Co sent us for Christmas

Today I have inoculated another log with the Shitake Fungus spawn

We have put them in the cellar and do not have to have a look at them until Christmas

Tomorrow is the Birthday of Raffaela's Granddaughter Marie Joy Craven

Busy Day

This morning we went to the Gym, afterwards we went to the allotment to check our plot. Vines are doing well, Gooseberry leaves have all been eaten away by Sawfly, but berries dont look too bad. Removed a lot of Grass and Sticky Willy
This afteroon I have been with a group to the Bankfield Museum in Halifax. The marble busts are on one of the Mantle pieces

www.imissedthetrain.com

Very good company with Ernest, good fun and good Jokes

I think that next time we might go to Huddersfield

My friend of about 50 years

Rev Ernest Baker with Sheila

We met up at the West Riding Catering Company at Dewsbury Railway Station, It is reputed to have some of the finest Yorkshire food in the county, but to-day was a little dissapointing, and certainly not as good as when we went with And & Lizzy

Yesterday

Yesterday was the first day that we ate outside

We had a swift Gin and Tonic, Followed by a delicious Chicken dish

Accompanied by a nice bottle of White Wine

We are very Lucky

Kindest Regards

David Craven

Repetition

Dear Friends

There are two thing that I wish relating to the BLOG

one is that I wish that people could us the Comment section
This is the only way I have of knowing who is reading it

The other wish is that people would used SKYPE
It is easier than Emailing and means that you can make video calls to anywhere in the world, completely free of carge 24 - 7

All simpler than you think

Cheers

David Craven

Mini Hoechst Reunion

Adrian & Mary Abel

He was cheifly responsible for oiling the wheels for my retirement package from Hoechst at Stainland

Dinner at 1845 Stainland

Toby's Note

What do they teach them these days ?

Gemma and Mark, First Wedding Anniversary

On their way to London

Double White Lilac

Just like the ones in My Dad's Garden at Horton Green

Aunty Raffaella's Walflowers

In one of our home made wine recipe books there is a recipe for Wallflower and Rhubarb PORT

Can't imagine it's very good

David at the Gym

Note the Wateraid Teeshirt

Henry Asleep

Dinner at Pauline's

Toby with Sheila at Pauline's house where we had a lamb dinner last night

Today we have been to Pepper Hill where the preacher was Jeffrey Usher.

They are closed for the next two Sundays so we will be going to Central Methodists

YFAWB Executive Meeting

Brian & Barbara Gent

Don Hawkins

Sheila an the background

Double White Lilac

These trees are exactly like the ones in my Mum & Dad's Garden at Horton Green

Today

This morning I beat my personal best at the Gym, I did the full half hour on the treadmill and fifteen minutes on the Bike

Trouble now is that I have a blinding Headache

Posted a birthday card for Amrik, it is his birthday next Monday

Been over and sprayed all the vineyard for the second time

Now we are going to turn over the Vegetable Plot

Busy Times

Yesterday we had a meeting of the One Over the Eight Wine society at our house.

We tasted two white and four red Spanish Wines, There were just six people there

Today we have been to the last meeting this year of the U3A Winers and Diners club

All the staff are trainee cooks and people training for the catering trade, I suppose that there were about 50 people there and the talk was given by an old friend Liz Robison, she spoke about collecting things

Same Event

This is Marylin Meers, she was a neighbour of ours when we lived at Newforth Grove, I have known her all my life, Her name used to be Marylin Binns,

Her father used to work with my Dad at the Prudential Assurance Company

The picture of me is better than usual

Grangers' Reunion

Past Pupils

Of Grange School

Budha

At the Coley Garden Centre

Garden at Central Methodist Church

Excellent Service this morning but not Ian Coverdale

HAPPY DAY

Early this morning my friend of 50 Years Rev Ernest Baker very Kindly gave us a ring to enquire about Sheila and Jane

After that we went to ther Golcar Lilly Festival at the Colne Valley Museum

Then we went to Czerwik's wine shop to hand over the letter from Wateraid

They then gave us an excellent Winetasting

As I keep on Saying we are very lucky People

Cellar at Czerwiks cheese shop

They Donated £65 to Wateraid

Unfortunately John Murphy no longer has a computer

We really enjoyed the Winetasting

Golcar Lily Day

Ladies Spinning

Been to vote

Longroyd School Rastrick

FRIDAY

Friday I cooked the Bol Sheila cooked the Spag

YESTERDAY

The three main jobs yesterday were to cut the two lawns

Dead Head about 300 Daffodills

And drill the logs to put in the Fungus Plugs which Liz and Andy gave me for Christmas


As I said before we are very lucky

David

Pauline's Birthday

Celebrated at the Wyke Lion

A Vintage Inn

"Inn Keeping with Tradition"

Location Hell Fire Corner

Aunty Raffaella's Walflowers

Very kindly given to us by Aunty Raffaella and Uncle Barry Kitchen

J D Wetherspoon's

This building used to be the Bethel Methodist Church.

The year we were married it combined with another Methodist Church and the joint Church is now called CENTRAL

When the two combined we were the first to be married there on the 27th of April 1984

Cock O' the North

Our Local Micro Brewery

Pepperhill Unitarian Chapel

Jeffrey Usher

Next Door's New Car

Ian Fellows with their New VOLVO

TODAY

Today Peter Kennett has been over and relived me of my Mashtun, My stainless steel fermentation vessel, and a box of Beer Bottles

We have been working in the garden and I have manged to turn over the large vegetable plot

Rod from the allotment says that the summer is about 4 weeks late