Brushing up my blokeish (again)

Some serious home maintenance is needed.

Well,

perhaps not quite as bad as

this.

But this is the view from here

for the foreseeable future.

We escaped to Kew Gardens 

to see the newly refurbished Temperate House

with its pristine

new roof.

While ours was being ripped off.

And now, while you look at these fish who know not a day's worry 

about leaking roofs,I must go and practice.

My blokeish is terribly rusty and 

disconcertingly, they are right outside my first floor window.

I can hardly hear them though over the noise of the

falling slates and the tinny radio.