Over The Park

Just back from a wander round the local park. Lovely and sunny with a slight breeze. Found a friend on my coat - an irredescent beetle who said hellow and flew off in the direction of the canal. On the way there Hazel helped a neighbour who is 90 shift a paving slab he was struggling with. She made short work of the corner - pulverising it to dust! She is an amazing woman. I love hard work. I could stand and watch it all day long! Roy seemed very good at providing encouraging remarks as she pounded the concrete with a small hammer ( a pick axe might have been better!) Eventually progress was made and she got a corner of it up and the slab had it's defences broached. Is that the right word? Anyway, to cut a long story short we said our cheerios and popped along to the Co-op to get cat food for Hazel's sister who insists on feeding all the waifs and strays of Lostock. A walk and waving to more neighbours taking their dog Sparky for a walk. On the way back we looked in to see how Roy was doing. He'd obviously gone in for his lunch but we could see he'd managed to prize (?) up two more paving slabs! Not bad for 90 and with dodgy legs!