Tuesday May 19th 2010

Believe it or not, but today is the day when Ann Boleyn (King Henry the 8th's second wife) was excecuted for treason.  I sat in the garden yesterday reading and watching my windmills spinning in the wind.  We have sparrows who've built a nest in the guttering of the Queens arms pub, one of them likes my feeder that's hanging on the lamp post, but I'm going to replace it with one by Peckish.  They will find it easier to get into, also our blackbird has a nest in oner of the hedge's.  

I went to In-Excess the other day, they are a hardware and garden centre just outside the city.  They have dinasaurs (not real, be amazing if they did) in the garden.  I saw another plane go over while sat in cathedral gardens, I could faintly hear the engines.  It was heading towards the South West, may be going to the states.

I had a Dr's appointment today because I have something wrong with my arm. I saw my parents, I haven't seen them since march and I was dying to go over.  But government law says I have to stay two metres away and it's not easy if they can't hear what I am saying.  I saw them again In Tesco, but I couldn't get near and I would feel bad if I passed anything nasty on.  I really hate myself for it.

Apparently there's Asian wasps in France which are deadly, they are about the size of a mans thumb, I hope they don't come over here; got enough problems as it is. 

The authorities are permitting travel now, but only if people have a car; of which I don't have.  People are being advised not to use public transport which is still too risky, I only have a bike ad i'm not cycling to Bournemouth again!  Sometimes I hear seagulls and this brings it home how much I miss Deven, I do miss the seaside and the feel of sand under my feet.

Every evening while the weathers fine, I've been going for walks at 8pm round cathedral close, I'd like to go else where, but don't know how safe it would be.  

I went for a walk round towards Hudsons Road with my camera.  it seems only like yesterday that my gran was alive and i was a little kid playing by myself outside.  Me and mum used to visit on sunday afternoons during the 1970's, the whole area looked different to what it was today. The new housing estate at the bottom had yet to be built, instead an allotments area was still there; I wonder if it had been there during the war.  It was sealed off with a rusty chain link fence, no one could enter as it was locked,  

Life was different during the 70's, I wasn't allowed to go far,  When grandad was alive he stayed up stairs a lot and gran never allowed me to go up there, to me he was the man who lived upstairs.  I used to get told off if I tried to go upstairs, even when my cousins stayed I was never allowed upstairs.  My uncle had an old Hillman imp car, gran must have been very loneley after they left after staying with her for the week,  My aunt Maria (mum's oldest sister) used to live with gran, her room was at the top of the stairs.  When grandad died he had apparently fallen asleep on the sofa and aunt Maria went to prod him, but he had slipped away.  

The old semi detached house is still there, but the porch is different, it's now made of wood where then it was made of stone.  Where there is now a car park in the garden was once a lawn, I think there used to be a tree there as there was a stump by the gate.  I remember red aunts used to swarm all over it.  Mrs Dyer my grans friend lived over the road with her husband, they are gone now.  I used to stay with them when mum was in hospital, I remember her cat who has also long sibce gone.

The garages are still there, but the walkway we used to get from the path to Hudsons road now has houses built all over it.  Funny how time flies past and I sometimes wonder how I got so old.

They say that on the morning when gran died, she had passed a neighbours window on the way to sarum castle.  A neighbour was going to invite her in but decided against it, I wonder what would of happened had she did.  Gran passed in the afternoon, Mrs Dyer noticed her curtains hadn't been pulled when it was dar; gran often sat in the armchair by the window..  Apparently there was also something in the cooker which has been turned off, I still often wonder if grandad and aunt Maria came for her to take her home.

Just me, dad and mum left in Salisbury now, everyone else is gone.  I have a last remaining aunt in Warwickshire and my cousin, but my aunt is getting on now.  Once a year we visit to where she lives, but after she goes mum says she won't go up there anymore.  I've noticed people seem more unfriendly up the Midlands, folks seems to argue over the slightest thing which doesn't matter.

The entrance to the leisure centre is taped off, in this weather people would love to go swimming but because of the damned virus everything is closed. The government is thinking of introducing extra bank holidays in October, because all the others were cancelled.  Even St George's day was given the chop, there was a market for food on Saturday but no clothe's stall's,