Christopher's Online Journal

 Belton House was the location of the first family picnic of the summer, although we did have a barbecue in Carbis Bay. If you haven't been this is place has a full-size cricket field for its turning circle, in front of what I thought to be a fairly modest house. But not modest woods, for the first time I saw a huge, weeping beech and a giant fir with quite distinct foliage, all this with a miniature train track carrying families on their bank holiday day out, and my two grandchildren posing for photographs! The football did not go quite so well, we lost at Morecambe, apparently we must expect teams to play like this against us, ergo it is going to be a season of frustration and disappointment, that is unless we win next Saturday and return to the top of the league. The Belton House picnic was facilitated by our visiting Hull on the Saturday, a place, at least down by the fruit market, very much on its uppers. We have committed to visit again, but for a stay-over weekend on the nex

The football season has started, rather well actually, although SWFC are now in league 1, that's division 3 for those of you who remember that far back. Anyway twenty-four thousand on Saturday, and twenty-one thousand on Tuesday night against Fleetwood.  George  Byers, one of our new signings said: “I tried to do the best I could on Tuesday and I really enjoyed being out there.   "The atmosphere was unbelievable, second to none, and as players it gives you a massive lift, and goosebumps as well! “I can’t speak highly enough of it. Having played against Wednesday before, I experienced a part of it, but when you’re on the right side of it it’s very uplifting.” Yorkshire sculpture park is also open again, with some new works by Damien Hirst, also Ai Weiwei, which both seemed to keep the children's interest. We had lunch in the new restaurant - Fried Halloumi and Ginger Couscous - delish.

It is time to return to this journal. I have been absent for too long; caught up in trying to make sense of life while making other things. The decking and canopy are almost completed; the planters need planting to complete the process. However, there is some disagreement, should it be bamboos (black), or grasses (tall and straight). Maybe sketches from the differing parties could be used to reach a decision, though please let it not be a compromise, for I think that to be the worst of all paradigms. Several support strings have broken, with much laughter as Christopher was soaked, whilst planning his latest solution, but, for now, the rain is being removed by the wind's action alone . Dear me, I notice it is just one month since my last posting, and in that time we have been on vacation to the exquisite Bishop Wilton, courtesy of Edge of the Wolds in Yorkshire. Where, among other things, we had a day out to Castle Howard, yes that's right, the place where Brideshead Revisited