Earlier days.   I thought you said it was today.

 
I distinctly said Saturday.   I wonder how the Mares Tails getting on.

 
I’ll just use the film up.   The year the Princess of Wales died.

 
     
This is the Bournemouth in Bloom team that won the Entante Florale for Bournemouth a few years back. It’s a competition between nations, or should I say between towns, villages and Cities of different Nations in Bournemouth for the prize winning ceremony. That’s another time I wrote a song, some said it was the reason we took precedence over the best in Europe. I have my doubts, as the gardens of Bournemouth were the best I’d seen for some years. It wasn’t a bad song, bit old fashioned, like most of mine. However when a local school choir sang it, to the bemusement of our foreign guests, who all went away with a copy of the lyrics, it sounded quite good. Later that year I sent a copy to the Queen and the Prime Minister with a letter telling what we’d accomplished to try and get some further recognition for the town, and the organizers, I didn’t get any where, but I did get a letter from the Queen, well not directly, but from her secretary thanking me for the song. I’d love to think perhaps, one Sunday, when she hasn’t got much on, let me rephrase that, when she has time to spare, she’d get on the old Joanna and play my song.

COMING SOON I HOPE.    A VIDEO ON BOURNEMOUTH.

 

 

 

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SILVER JUBILEE HYBRID TEA 

The rose is our national flower, unfortunately since the air of Britain has been transformed from the smoky foggy atmosphere of my younger days, to one that is reasonably clean, Black Spot is now thriving, here’s a tip to rid yourself of this menace, it works on standards best. During the dormant season, and after you’ve done your autumn light pruning, mix 80 ml of Jeyes Fluid to a gallon of water, that’s right, don’t panic 80 ml, but stir thoroughly, and of course do it when there is no rain forecasted, and about a week after pruning. Use a brush, and paint all the pruned branches. The reason it works on standards best is, most standard heads are three foot our more off the ground, and they aren’t splashed by rain, unlike bush roses where it could be reintroduced from the soil.

 

 

 

 

 

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