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Talk about flaming June: we had two days and nights of straight-down rain, then two days of sun. I'd taken advantage of the fine weather on Sunday, to some work on the Sunday in the back garden. I'd only intended to spend a little work, trimming a hedge. I'd found the work so cathartic that I'd stayed out there for hours, trimming and weeding.

And then, come the Monday the rain had fallen again, as if Noah would soon be awaiting the plans for his ark. At one point I'd been doing banking business and I'd looked out the window to see a stream coming down the road and passed Bromborough and down the hill.

I's spent my awake time in the evening writing and listening to the first in a series of stories, that I'd found most entertaining, 'When The Screaming Begins'.

I'm pleased to have found this interest in audio stories through 'Doctor Who' and, then the stories I've acquired, partly through youtube and a few useful sites in the internet.

Then we'd had more rain, again and this time I'd been thankful of my audio stories...

I'll be serious here & now, those audio stories keep me going on my bad days... leaving me thankful for the fellow, or woman, who decided to make audio stories, all those years ago...

Talking of the rain, the weather people are calling it a 'yellow alert' and, there have been results to the constant rain, floods and delays in transport.

This flooding has affected us locally, with floods at Hooton Station and all the confusion that had led to, with rail replacements being needed an all...

And, although I've spoken already of my interest in audio stories, initially gleamed through my interest in Doctor Who. Well, events transpired to evidence to me that Life is most definitely circular, to say the very least.

The fellow who wrote 'The Ultimate Evil' recently, a finished version of one of his own script for the show unmade, is an author I've developed an interest in through stories I've acquired through Youtube, Wally K. Daly.

As Colin Baker, the Sixth Doctor, recently wrote in an interview, 'I didn't believe there was a Wally K Daly or ever would be... but there is!'

Strangely enough, I like his writing, Agatha Christie, P.G. Wodehouse and amongst the others I like, are audio stories written by yet another Doctor Who writer from, 'the old days', Eric Saward. His stories are excellent.

All of which brings me neatly back to my Doctor Who audio collection, that I'd accidentally deleted, while working on my laptop, while feeling tired.

If I'm not committed that act of gross stupidity [ie; working on a laptop, while tired] I'd not have heard of many of the authors I have; and nor would I have learned of Wally K Daly and, just how good his stories are.

So, Life is circular...

And from circular Life to observed wildlife: well it's a way of looking to what I'd observed recently.

There had been a fly on the window, or so that's what Dad had intimated - son I'd got a cup and card, to remove it.

It'd been a ladybird.

Then the next afternoon, I'd performed the same action, removing the 'fly'/ladybird, from the living-room window.

Then on the third day I'd done the same, only this time the ladybirds had been mainly yellow and black, with no red in sight.

Talk of the invasion starting: it began with the Ladybirds...

Anyway...

The rain ceased. Well, we'd waited for it for ages, it'd seemed.

Then, it'd rained endlessly, or so it had seemed, to me.

With a couple of dry day's I had gone out and trimmed the top of the beech hedge, that surrounds the back garden.

Less than an hour later I'd finally finished, to my satisfaction and, I'll say here and now, there are few things in Life more satisfying than looking to ma well-trimmed hedge and thinking, 'I did that.'

'n talking nature. Much as I can only eat solid food two or three times a week, thank to my guts and my Father's schedule, I can have strawberries, with ice-cream and, in my banana and blue-berry cream-shake. So going out in the backgarden on a sunny day and picking a few strawberries is one of the best things one can do, I think. And as an aside, after picking what my potted plants have to offer, I always say thank you. It just seems to be, the right thing to do...

''n talking of nature still, I'm really quite enjoying the 'new' take on 'Swamp Thing', a character that I used to read of, way back in the late sixties and seventies.

Granted, that said, I did also enjoy the previous televisual take on the character, way way back, when others were younger and so had I been, back then.

But, comparing the two series, is like one comparing the Michael Keaton take on Batman and the later Christopher Nolan trilogy.

Now I write, I'm thinking of the soup I'm intending to finish making, prior to my attempt at finishing a story...

While I write I listen to another of my audio stories, this one being an Agatha Christie Poiret story, having listened to another earlier in the afternoon, when I'd been waiting on the bathroom, yet again...

{Sighs}

Such is Life.

Come the weekend I'd actually got some weeding done in the front boarder...

Come Monday, after housework I sat to type awhile, listening to 'Moonraker' with Toby Stephens as James Bond. As a fan of audio stories, I can say I preferred this version to the film.