The Roses in full Bloom at Heywood

I feel that the roses at Heywood are putting on a good and final show after last years pitifull performance...the desprez a fleur Jaune and the Albertine and the Belle Isis are all in full bloom. I brought them home from Sissinghurst in Kent when I came to Alderley so many years ago, and they have never looked so beautiful. Quite what I can dig up and take will depend on my spade technique. mmm could be tricky.

Bed head and early morning hair

Rosa has brought new meaning to the title and I feel I am struggling to compete. I can always give it a good go though....

Barnsley and the gardens in full bloom

Very rarelysome occasions need no words. Its all terribly sad . Barnsley House. Just in bloom and at its peak. What can I say.

Pierre and his new album

Blimey. I am having a surreal moment in a surreal week. First I am told that Jacks golfing and football schoolboy pal is Niall Marr, son of Johnny Marr...I couldn't bring myself to tell him that a long time ago backstage at Salford Uni, after a Smiths early gig his fathers band mate Morrisey and I... well lets leave this blank...and then Pierre tells me he has made an album . All at 23 years of age. Good stuff indeed and we shall be hearing a lot more of him no doubt. And if Manchester gets its way again, seeing too. Its all music and bells this week... I said bells.

The Scarecrow Festival at Dunham Massey

Its a random life. In the middle of Brad meets Jen in secret and It bags you never knew you wanted to put in a bin liner, you chance upon a medieval festival, which involves ....Scarecrows in character from Alice in wonderland Lewis Carroll style( or should that be Charles Dodgson?) Anyway Teddy was impressed and selected one which he thought looked like TMH. it wasn't Alice thankfully but it was the 6 foot white rabbit. Surreal.

The Three Settings on the Toothbrush

Loosely I read these as;

1. What I do
2. What I don't do
3. What I daren't do

Leave this one with me and I will be back to it when I have decided whether its publishable in a built up area...

Mens Pants for a change

Aside from frillies-usually for girls and builders from Accrington having a night in canal street-there is a bit of a pants revolution going on in the boys locker rooms...a bit of print and colour I do detect and long overdue. Whether its sightings of the Beckham bill Boards or the relaunch of CK pro-stretch on that hunky and slightly chunky model..who knows but the top few above show that life is alive and kicking in the male frillies division......the Ralph red flared boxers are quite something...