22nd January 2024 - Preparing for another Storm

Thought for the day :"I used to play piano by ear, but now I use my hands"

Wet

2025 : Wet 13 : Dry 9

Susie managed to get out with the new cutters and attack her roses - got most of them done before the rain suddenly fell - very wintry showers - almost sleet.

Temperatures dropping again

Was going to build the log store and finish the duck shed - but there is another big storm coming in so we decided to leave it until the weekend in case we get hit again ..

Another slow day in the end ..

In other news - a note from Facebook Pages but that cannot be retrieved so putting it here ..

On the subject of tax avoidance - thanks to Bob Williams...

The Sibyls were oracular women believed to possess prophetic powers in ancient Greece.

The earliest Sibyls, ‘who admittedly are known only through legend, prophesied at certain holy sites, under the divine influence of a deity, the first being at Delphi. The Sibyl held her rites when people came to consult her, and her acolytes would take a small fee.

All went well until the rulers at Delphi realised that money was slipping through their hands, so told the Sibyl that she could only continue conducting her rites if she paid what amounted to a tax to the rulers.

The Sibyl was understandably very upset at this and decided that she and her entourage would ignore the rulers at Delphi and move lock, stock and barrel to the Hellespont.

This is the first recorded incidence of a Sibyl rites movement.

Cheers !