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Summer is coming to an end
The leaves on the forsythia are starting to turn gold. I noticed it a few days ago. It is still August, just, and I can’t believe that summer is coming to an end. We have had so little hot weathe...
Car problems
Our new car has packed up. Well, it wasn’t a new car, just a new to us car, quite old really but seemed a good buy at the time. Two days before our visit to Amsterdam our last car developed probl...
Feeling fed up
I’m feeling a bit fed up and stressed today. I’ve been getting a lot of migraines and also the bad weather gets me down. I started getting more migraines after our trip to Amsterdam in early May....
Last Saturday in Shrewsbury Town and on the River Severn
It seems to have been raining on and off ever since we came home from Shrewsbury last week. Yesterday there was one hell of a storm, the rain was tipping down. Thank goodness last Saturday was ...
Shrewsbury Flower Show
On Friday we drove up to my hometown of Shrewsbury for our annual visit to the flower show there. I always get quite emotional when I visit. Although we left over 50 years ago when I was in my ea...
Survey
I liked this survey so I decided to do it - A. What are your favorite smells? You may think I am mad but I love the smell of steam engines; I guess it takes me back to my childhood. Apart from th...
Moving on
Chris, our eldest son, came to visit this evening. I haven’t seen him for 5 weeks so it was good to catch up. He told us that his house purchase is finally complete so he and Jethro are property ...
Home again
Well, I’m home. I finally got back late Wednesday evening. I’ve been catching up on the cleaning as I don’t think Hubby and Tony have done very much! I’ve also been spending time in my garden wh...
Shopping and time travel
We went into the city yesterday. Neither of us are very good at getting out early so we go on Thurdays which is late night opening. We had a late lunch at a lovely little vegetarian restaurent in...
Collecting the post
Yesterday morning I went round to the pharmacy to collect the post. Cat and David can’t have their post delivered to the door as they haven’t worked out a way that is secure The back gate to the ...
Making Cat's Garden
It was my mother’s birthday yesterday. She would have been 108 which is a scary thought! We had a lovely day helping Cat to make a little garden in the space behind her flat. Cat lives above a ph...
Charity shops and spending too much
Although I’m missing my garden and my country views while staying with Cat in the city, I really am loving being close to so many charity shops. There are more within walking distance of this fla...
Goodbye Val Doonican and Dr Zhivago
It is getting more often that I look at the news and find someone I have loved has died. Just over 2 weeks ago it was Val Doonican whose show I watched for years in the 60s, 70s and early 80s. I ...
Wimbledon over the years and Chris's birthday
Isn’t it strange how we women turn into our mothers over time. I have this vivid memory of coming home from school when I was 12. My dad had retired early the previous year for health reasons. It...
Still very hot and seagull attack
Last night was very hot. I needed the window wide open in the bedroom and some students nearby were having a very loud party. I thought I would have trouble getting to sleep but I didn’t. I must ...
Hot weather, charity shops and gardening.
Gosh it’s hot. I’m glad I found that long cotton skirt in the charity shop! Cat took me to another little shopping centre yesterday where there were lots more charity shops. I was hoping I might ...
Visiting my daughter in Cardiff
I am staying with my daughter in Cardiff. Her partner is away visiting his family in Spain. It couldn’t be more different here from my cottage in the country. She lives in a flat over a pharmacy ...
A garden visit, Waterloo and The Horse Whisperer
We had a lovely afternoon last Sunday visiting an open garden in the grounds of a small manor house near here. The gardens are in two parts, those beside the house and a big lakeside garden acros...
A disappointing day
We had a really frustrating day on Sunday. We had planned to visit our daughter and her partner in Cardiff. I haven’t seen her since January so was really looking forward to it. We set off in goo...
A visit to the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam
I can’t believe it’s almost 3 months since my last entry. There has been quite a lot going on. We had a weekend away visiting friends and relatives in late April and then a trip to Amsterdam in e...
Eclipse
This morning there was a near total eclipse over the UK. Here it was about 86%. I wish I had known about it earlier as I didn’t have time to buy some special glasses but it was still quite an exp...
Our 39th wedding anniversary
Today is our 39th wedding anniversary. We had originally planned to go out for lunch but Hubby has been ill with a bad cold that has gone to his chest and he didn’t feel up to a meal out so we we...
The Kite Runner
I’ve just started reading The Kite Runner. I’ve seen the movie a couple of times but not read the book before although I did read Khaled Hosseini’s book A Thousand Splendid Suns a year or two ago...
Fed up with being unwell
I’m feeling rather fed up at the moment. This week was a relatively free week and I made a lot of plans. Nothing special, just jobs around the house that I wanted to get on with, like sorting out...
Slipping Through my Fingers
I watched Mamma Mia on TV yet again last week. I’ve lost count of the amount of times I’ve seen it. It’s on TV a lot and each time I say no, I won’t watch again as I only saw it a few months back...
Book Description
I live in a terraced cottage on a hillside in South Herefordshire, UK. We are just in England but from our windows we have a view of the Black Mountains which are in Wales. I live with my husband, 2 grown up sons and 4 cats, we also have a daughter who lives with her boyfriend in South Wales.
I don’t have good health but I do voluntary work on a crisis helpline. I love writing. I write poetry and have written a book about my childhood growing up in a pub in Shrewsbury which I am hoping to get published.
I love music. I sing and play guitar and enjoy entertaining, though I don’t get to do that so much as before my health got bad. My other interests are psychology, the environment, history, gardening, genealogy and travel.
Because of my health I am home a lot and this is my view from the terrace..
