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The odd entries from life …….

by jamez

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19th January 2015. Not quite what we expected, Monday morning and the bin lorry is due but there well be no any bins out from us, I tried the footing on the steps and I doubt I would complete the...


I went in to Truro yesterday, I felt I needed a new ½’’ flat brush for today’s Acrylic Class, I have one of those of course; but the bristles were a little soft. The Park & Ride Bus stops ri...


We are back at the watercolour painting classes, our first subject was a white jug with apples and pairs on a white and blue cloth, my Daughter’s painting was lovely; mine – I could go better! No...


Fox News, I had access to that when we had satellite television, and I watched it on odd times for a laugh, for a time I thought it a take off of the BBC’s ‘Not the Nine O Clock News’ but not qui...


Saturday. It works, first thing I opened ‘Word’ it was like the keypad wasn’t connected, I could see financial numbers spinning in my head! After looking here and there with no response I turned ...


January 09, 2015

Wind stops play.

…. and there was a little fine rain. Our Wednesday agility class was cancelled, and that was due to rain, today we were ok for fifty five minuets then in the last five minuets the jumps started t...


January 07, 2015

Silence is loud tonight.

The weather seems to have caught the mood, the sky is full of tears “Je suis Charlie”


January 06, 2015

2014 all over again ……

Every one’s wrong! A friend in Canada is leaving her old job, and in her entry she says it will be Friday 16th January, a glance at the calendar I see it is the 17th January! Other dates seem to...


January 03, 2015

Blooming in Cornwall.

Blooming January! Our weather may not be improving, I suppose we are in mid winter just now but we do have Camellia japonica blooming in January, the pink are more buds yet but the white are bud...


Second day as escaped with out an exposure made, so for resolutions, it went swimmingly yesterday on the beach, dogs people tide and storm clouds with out the storm; but I shall have to put up wi...


January 01, 2015

Walking in the New Year!

The midnight trees. We have a Cornish Soft Day to start of our new year 2015, the sky is a spread of light grey clouds with a chance of rain, and there is a wind blowing down the valley swaying ...


December 31, 2014

‘2015 has arrived’

To those who have been in 2015 for some hours, and us just in 2015 and those who will be in 2015 in a while …… Happy New Year to you all. As New Years go this one was quiet, I could hear firewor...


Today or I should say this Day in particular, is all about waiting, the last few hours of the old year! At time we hope the new year will be better than the one slipping into history! As just any...


December 29, 2014

Looks warm feels cold!

I should take a series of photographs about a half hour apart, starting with the morning sunlight touching the top of the valley, and follow the light till it stops just across the road from us, ...


December 27, 2014

Making a day of it …..

It’s Saturday, I know it’s Saturday yet it doesn’t feel like Saturday, it’s not the first Christmas I’ve felt that way; it’s just being out of the usual weekly routine. It was about this time of ...


Christmas Day 2014 has been a pleasant day, cold but we had some hazy sunshine, Sweetheart and I took a walk on the beach, the beach car park was full and also full of people looking for an empty...


In the first hour of Christmas Eve. Some how it doesn’t feel like Christmas Day is just twenty four hours away, I have just one card to write and a few small gifts to wrap, half of the vacuuming ...


This last Sunday before Christmas is almost over, and it wasn’t a great day weather wise being mostly dull and damp, not at all an unusual day at the end of the year, no wonder the ancients cele...


December 20, 2014

With out the flying Snowmen.

Sitting in the lounge tonight something caught my eye, we had the lights on the tree and round the inglenook fire place, it looked lovely festive decoration; I looked at the tree for a minute or ...


December 19, 2014

Making do with Ystad!

For a few days now we have been without a television signal, when we try to watch all we git is a ‘No signal’ message on the screen, we can play all the programs we have recorded in the ‘top set ...


December 19, 2014

After the upgrade …..

The last few weeks I have been eyeing a free upgrade that has been popping up in the right top corner, I’ve lost count of how many time I’ve flicked off the screen, of course it is back in a few ...


December 16, 2014

Portsmouth once more for 2014.

The Long Friday. Friday morning Sweetheart drooped me off at the Park & ride, I was there at nine twenty five, a time when the roads in to Truro are still very busy; and even worst this being...


I’m home once more aI’m home once more after a weekend in Old Portsmouth with my Sister and Brother-in-law, the weather was good until I gat back to Cornwall! Mum was ok in a physical way, in th...


December 11, 2014

The Last Canvas ….

We had our last acrylic painting class this afternoon, and the subject was in tune with the season, more winter than festive! Judi is quite open to the way we treat the subject of the week, the h...


December 10, 2014

Oh what a palaver ……..

Oh what a palaver, I can’t find my winter coat with a hood, I don’t usual like coats with hoods but our last winter made having a hood a necessary; you recall my entices and the thousands of news...


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The odd entries from life, as I feel!