77 years young .. Mr Leonard Cohen delights

On Sunday we went to Wembley Arena to see one of the top troubadours of our time an ageing Canadian  poet and singer who delights in the name of Leonard Cohen.
The warmth that greeted his arrival on stage was palpable and the love was tangible, gracious in the extreme he gave a concert ranging across the decades  he's been active in and included the tremendous Going Home from the recent Old Ideas album.

He's our Man

How can a man of 77 who has lived a 'full life' defy the laws of gravity and decorum with such abandon, what is the secret he should share with us (in his secret life)?
Both the Times and the Daily Telegraph reviews awarded him and his concert a 5 out of 5 and they were not over selling the occasion.
Interestingly the final encore was a song made famous by The Drifters performed excellently by his brilliant band, if you take the time to find out about 'Save the last dance for me' I'm sure you'll be touched too. Tangentially I have a connection when I worked in France, Richard a colleague at Euronews shared some of the tunes that had been written by him and  Mort Schuman for a musical about Hong Kong, Mort co-wrote  'Save the last dance for me' and many other smash hits with Doc Pomus who was inspired to write the earlier mentioned song when he revisited notes on the wedding reception where he'd watched  his brother dancing with his new wife from his wheelchair.

Sweetcorn time

Mice food?

Tim's food

I was a bit shocked to see that my Sweetcorn had been harvested by something other than me - have managed to retrieve something (right).
  

Shuffles and a Windsor visit

Very shocked to see that one J Hunt has been promoted to Health  don't think he covered himself with glory at DCMS but fear that competency is not the criteria here. New DCMS boss is Maria Miller a woman who presented herself as member of the public in Tory election broadcast so we can worry about this too as she takes action (or not) following the prolonged Leveson  press enquiry.
Anna Soubry MP (conservative)  in the news as a health minister saying Euthanasia should be looked at  tend to agree with her - in fact I worked with Anna about 30 years ago when she was employed by Central news as a TV reporter. She presented live from Wick (in Scotland) into ITN news broadcast using very early fly away SNG.

We went to Windsor for afternoon tea today - don't think I'd visited before it was quite pleasant and got loads of bargains at the local Lakeland shop - including a chipmaker at better than half price.

more harvesting

Garden pears

Beetroot peas and cucumbers