Due To All Of The Celebrations,

we stayed at home,

there will for the next few days be so many fools out there throwing buckets of water at motorcyclist that it is totally unsafe to take to the roads for the next 3 days, so we spent the day doing nothing at all, but in the evening we were outside for our bar-b-q, the moon was easy to see although it was not really dark, at the time I took this picture it was 394,300.43 kilometres away,

 starters for this evening,

 scallops wrapped in bacon,

 followed by garlic bread,

 then it was time to lit the barby, with the aid of the fan it was soon roaring away,

 on with the vegetables and two peppered slices of chicken,

 open the foil,

 and on with the potato, onions and bacon bits,

 it looks, smells,

 and was delicious,

 then a nice surprise, Diana had been busy in the kitchen and made a lovely dessert, crumble, caramel, mango and all with a frozen cream topping,what could be better?

 then a bit of a buzz, just outside of our house and the next door neighbours there is a transformer, tonight it was making a slight buzzing sound, looking closely one of the relays I think they are called was glowing,

 and was red hot,

our neighbour had a look as well and called the electrical supply company, so I guess they will call at some time, the good news is that we still have power this morning so all is well, back to last night we listen to music for the evening, I mention to Diana that as a kid I always laughed at the Laughing Policeman which is a music hall song by Charles Jolly, under the pseudonym of Charles Penrose, in 1922, Penrose made the first recording of this song, (Columbia Records FB 1184), the composition of the song is officially credited to his wife Mabel under the pseudonym 'Billie Grey', however the music and melody are taken from The Laughing Song by George W. Johnson which was recorded in approximately 1901, the Penroses wrote numerous other laughing songs (The Laughing Major, Curate, Steeplechaser, Typist, Lover, etc), but only The Laughing Policeman is remembered today, having sold over a million records, its popularity continued into the 1970s, as it was a frequently-requested song on the BBC Radio 1 show Junior Choice, but for myself back in the mid 1950s, Garby as I called grandad, I had a problem with certain words, had the 78 rpm record and played it on his gramophone,

anyway here it is, I hope you laugh as much as Diana did when she heard it! and with that we were off to bed.