I love to stand at the kitchen window and watch nature as it unfolds. This summer we have had so many dry sunny days some of our well love flowers have died but others thrived including the Roses, some of which are flowering now for the third time in fact they don’t know when to stop blooming. Despite being dug up and put in the compost bin, the Evening Primrose has taken root in all parts of the garden and is beautiful.
As I see the abundance of Hips, Haws and Sloes in the hedgerows I remember years ago when nobody fed the birds in their gardens, because the birds fed on berries. I think we have spoiled them but still in those days , except for the Robin you couldn’t see birds in the garden, as we do now, so perhaps it is worth us feeding them as we can see them close up.
A letter to the newspaper asked if Adolph Hitler had designed the Volkswagen Beetle . The answer was that Hitler had outlined his demands in 1934 for a ‘People’s car that ordinary families could afford. Porsche was looking with coming up with a car under the motto ‘Strength through pleasure’. Hitler didn’ have a driving licence but approved the prototype for the ‘Volkswagen in 1935. It’s success as a small car only began after the war when it was rebranded ‘The Beetle’ to distance itself from the Nazi period. The last traditional Beetles were manufactured in Mexico in 2003 after more than 21.5 million had been built worldwise.
A man who conquered Everest added his discarded cylinders to all the other refuse littering the mountain’s slopes. Not content with this sight he went back , and started gathering up some of the debris. He melted down the aluminium containers, made them into works of art which he sold for Nepalese charities. An example of the philosophy for life advise, “Give more than you take, fix more than you break”
Marie Cove