Povey Prattle

My birthday was on May 26th.  Today I received a gift from my friends Jack and Donna Chrisman, and from Ashley Lloyd.   Here it is. What kind of gift is this?    It is a deep cleaning of my kitchen and lanai; paid for by Jack, Donna and Ashley; then executed by Gusetta, the woman who cleans for them. Way to go, and thank you Jack, Ashley, Donna and Gusetta.  My kitchen and lanai are so clean that I will never use them again! Gusetta is a Seventh Day Adventist.  She and I sang a few bars of "We are walking in the light of God"  before I left my home so that she could work undisturbed. https://youtu.be/K9T7TUGp3WY -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I had another wee "gift". My auto insurance is to be renewed in early July.  I have used AAA Insurance since I moved to Florida in 2006.  Their rates for my 2017 Kia Forte have gone up by $500 in two y

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I bought this Mantle Clock some forty years ago at (of all places) a J.C. Penney store in Holyoke, MA.  I have a yen for chiming clocks. This one has four settings: Whittington Chimes; Westminster Chimes; St. Michael's (Charleston S.C.) Chimes; and Silent. Four or so years ago I wound it up, but something went wrong.  The Clock ran and kept time, but the chimes were dead. I let it run down, and then the clock sat mute on a Table. Last year at a Ben's Bar in my home, my pal Gordon asked me why the clock never ran. I told him that the chimes were broken.  He told me about a Clock repair store on Bee Ridge Rd in SRQ. I did nothing apart from moving the mute clock to my spare bedroom there to gather dust. Today,  perhaps because of COVID 19 boredom, I took the clock to the repair shop.   The owner/staff member gave it a cursory look.  Within minutes she had identified the problem. The clock was not chiming 'cause I had it set to the "silent" mode.

Colston's  fall was on June 7th.,  but first please see this: Statue of King George III in New York City.  Toppled by members of George Washington's Army on July 9th 1776. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Statue of Saddam Hussein, toppled by U.S. Marines in 2003 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Statue of Edward Colston, (1636-1721),  toppled on 7th June 2020.  My home City in International news. --------------------------------------------------------------- The U.K. into which I was born in 1944 was a nation of white skinned people.  Most people had never seen a dark skinned person, except perhaps those who had seen American "Negro" troops (in a segregated Army) who were barracked near their cities (there were fights between black and white American soldiers who had visited pubs in Bristol). There were no dark skinned pupils in my Infant  ( ages 5

Seedless Water Melon, Chopped Basil, Crumbled Goat Cheese.  Chilled in the fridge. Great for summer days.