Water water everywhere...., It hasn't stopped raining in my neck of the woods (Accrington/Clayton le Moors) since the first day of July (rain every day) "sometimes torrentially but mostly continually" how green is my garden??... 'lush but boggy' is the answer..

Noah has been to the timber yard and animals are pairing up...

...and our delivery driver is struggling to maintain his sunny disposition..  

Quite clearly (after my previous blogs..and my sporting tips/predictions) tipster I am not... I may know a thing or two about 'roses' but Gypsy 'Rose' lee I can never again claim to be..

The World Cup is all but over, our nations interest is far less than it was (can't for the life of me think why ???) and our pseudo English entry has bowed out of Wimbledon (sorry Andy but by your own admission, English you ain't) so if we aren't all glued to the telly, what are we to look at in our homes and houses up and down this land...may I offer a tip (cringe..) treat yourself to some flowers, and cast a gaze or two at a lovely vase full in your house. 

Pretty embarrassing wasn't it..... somehow we all sorta get caught up in the hype..being English we get sucked in, we start to believe that our English football team can do it........ONE WORD  'WOEFUL'

might just have to take my World Cup window out a bit early....

Pardon the footballing parlance "TO BOOT" in my "HEADING" whoops there I go again !!!, but all roads and all blogs, appear to be sport dominated this Summer..

My holiday is fast fading and I'm only just returned... Boo hoo..I better get on and 'tackle' some work..

So my pick for the World Cup are 'Argentina'  an easy opening group and wallop straight to the finals.. as for England (no comment)..

Wimbledon, the best neck exercise around..look left, look right, look left, look right..and so it continues..  My picks are....

Mens winner Andy Roddick.

Womens winner could be any of the loud grunters !!!!

  HAVE A GREAT SUMMER AND ENJOY THE BEST THAT YOUR LOCAL FLORIST HAS TO OFFER....fantastic summer colours and a super choice await you, pop in and see, and buy someting "ACE" (Oh no !!, it's gone all tennis parlance now...) sorry...           

 Well the happy florist certainly met her match today (family all packed up and raring to go) 

" Ash cloud 1, Florist 0 "....

 There I am in the queue, check in desk within my sight, and then the announcement, me and hundreds of other keen holidaymakers exhaled as one (all flights cancelled) its a feeling quite possibly the exact opposite that our British Euro millions winner, having scooped 84 million had felt..rug well and truly pulled from under our feet..So the frenzied whirl that followed, what to do 'oh' what to do..do what we Brits do best...get in another queue.. this time in the hope of a later flight..so hence my announcement on my home page it looks a long holiday but in reality its a waiting game... but I must commend Manchester Airport and its staff for a professional job..with special mention to Monarchs team and the chaps on the Monarch desk who kept good humoured (under immense pressure), and went the extra mile to help us hopeful travellers..      

Who'd of thought..?? Dust, Ash, Volcanoes and our skies are empty of planes, what starts off as an irritation, drags on into a major concern for all...and how does this affect me...well I'm not on my hols, nor am I an aircraft spotter..but what does concern me (slightly self self self here) is that it could (not saying will !!) impact on weddings, it could affect flower availability...what if the must have colour of rose, or orchid that is only grown on the other side of the world cant get to our shores..EEeekkkkk..!!!.. you get my drift, what do we do ?...do we hide behind the ' act of god ' stance that some insurers are using to avoid,' well actually doing anything really ' do we ignore it as long as possible ' a'la our government ' before creaking into action, or do we get all pro active..?? well personally I'm in touch with all my wholesalers and am checking, double checking and checking again, that those precious pretties are available to me, otherwise there could be a UK based eruption, from a bride who is just about keeping a lid on it as it is...