Jenny McIntyre's articles

Hiya folks, how are you all? I do hope you aren't finding this lockdown we have isn't causing you too much distress. I personally find it okay, because in a way, I'd already had a sort of self isolation anyway. Being disabled and living at the top of a hill, it doesn't seem to be possible for me to get out and about. Also my car has decided to give up the ghost, [last year], and so even if I could drive around, I can't. The weather has been really good on the whole - we've not had much rain w…

This morning whilst I was washing up - I noticed the blue sky behind the white lilac which is just outside my kitchen window. The wind was blowing but the white blooms stayed put. I couldn't resist taking some pictures - the blue sky only lasted about an hour, then it was clouds galore - in fact at one time I thought it would pour down, the dark grey was so prevalent. Anyway folks, I was so thrilled to see these flowers, and I know that soon they'll disappear, further down the drive is the…

With the lockdown here, as in the rest of the world, it's necessary to find something good and something beautiful to see and I see it at the moment from my lounge window. As I don't get out and about - in fact the last time I left my home to go anywhere, was in January!!!! I'm sort of housebound, since my car gave up the ghost, and I was going to buy myself another one - thank heavens I held back - I'd have been paying insurance for nothing, as we have to stay indoors and no unnecessary travel.…

Well the other blog I did, was a long, long one - I will be the first to apologise. Emily came up on Tuesday as usual, and she immediately cut my grass for me!!! What an angel..... As you can see, the white lilac is starting to open up and the scent is so overpowering in the evening. It's absolutely gorgeous.... She did some shopping for me, and managed to get me some petunias too. It was lovely to see them - I haven't done any potting for a couple of years now - and I managed to put…

Some of you might not know this, but I haven't been very well for a while now, and walking is hard for me - I struggle to breathe, which funnily enough - you do need to breathe when you go walking - in fact all the time really!!!!. Well it had been such a wonderful few days of unbroken sunshine and at long last - no wind - it was fantastic. So I negotiated my rollator out the back door - and believe me that took a lot of hard work, it's so heavy and awkward - I have to fold it up and lift it…

As we are all going through some horrendous times, with the COVID19, I thought I would take some pictures of the beauty surrounding my home at the moment. I hope it gives you some pleasure as it does me - of course I've got it all the time, but you can see what I'm getting at. I'm really scared about what's going on in the world - I normally stay indoors on my own anyway, so that part of the "lockdown" isn't too hard for me, but the fact that I can't go and see my daughter in Turkey, nor my s…

I woke up early this morning, to face a beautiful blue sky which obviously made the cherry blossom stand out wonderfully. So camera in hand - it's always with me and it was already on the trolley, I took some pictures of the blossom, so it started my day off beautifully........ As you can see the blue sky was amazing. Maybe because it was early in the morning, but the colour was such a deep colour. Well the sun has been out all day - with a really strong wind - they had…

With all this awful situations going on in our world, and with the rest of us being self-isolated, I thought that these pictures of the beginning of Spring, might just lift our spirits a little. I am fully aware of how lucky I am to have a garden outside my home, where I can wander and watch nature carrying on regardless. I do realise that there are more people out there, who have no garden and being kept indoors indefinitely at the moment, must be horrific. Here are a few pictures of my…

I've just been watching the film "Contagion" - if ever someone was seeing into the future in 2011, when this film was made - it's eerily too close for comfort. It's a brilliant film and it's almost like watching the news of today! If you can get hold of a copy of it - do watch it. Talking about social distancing, face masks, gloves, not going out - it's really scary. Not shaking hands etc. I do hope you all out there have a good weekend - well as good as you can - and please take care…

Ann and Peter have at long last made a bower to go over the gate between their house and mine. It looks gorgeous. So far they've only got honeysuckle climbing over it, but Ann is going to get some climbing roses etc, so it'll be a picture. It's brilliant because I'm going to reap the benefit of it and it hasn't cost me anything!!!!! Ann has said that she's going to put gravel in that bit that looks like a flower bed, but it's a step. She did say something about putting a pot with a flower i…

I've spoken about Noodles before, but today he took things a bit further - he decided to take his chances by walking into my lounge!!!! He's a very pretty cat - I'm assuming he's a boy - I mean who would call a girl "Noodles" anyway? Well I was aware of a black and white cat walking into my lounge - I said hello and he miaowed back, but carried on walking in. I knew Pippin was outside, so I was waiting for the kerfuffle - nothing!!! Then I was aware that Noodles had decided to go to the couc…

Well hiya folks. Things have been rather strained here these past few weeks. I hadn't realised I had a bad chest infection which stopped me from breathing properly, which made any movement etc a great effort. The big thing about this, is that I live on my own and it's very easy to be scared in the middle of the night when you are struggling to breathe. There were many times when I almost rang our emergecy services, but apart from "I don't want to bother them", I knew I wouldn't have the strength…

Poor Mandi - she's lost 3 of her kittens this past week. They are her babies and so she's extremely close to them. Well first of all, Panda the youngest, died suddenly last week and she was absolutely distraught. He was such a beautiful little kitty, always wanted to be close to Mandi and spent so much time cuddling in. He was found abandoned outside her home, so Mandi being Mandi took him in and nurtured him, he was only about a month old when she found him. He was soon under the wing (paws) o…

As you know I said that yesterday was a great day with sunshine pouring into the lounge, but what a difference a day makes!!!!!!!! This morning I woke up to this....... I couldn't hardly believe it as it was really cold too and normally that comes with clear skies - not today!!!!! This didn't help my mood much neither.... Another abstract picture of the rain pouring down the panes of glass..... Even though it looks pretty seeing the raindrops lining along the bottom of the wi…

For the last couple of weeks or maybe even longer (I've given up trying to remember!!!) we've had the most awful weather, as no doubt everyone on here is well aware, either experiencing it for themselves or else hearing about it constantly on the tv - that and this Coronavirus, seem to be the main topics of every news programme. Well day before yesterday, we had awful sleet and later on - rain. Same again yesterday and it really went very cold...... I took a picture of the sleet and…

Well I'm sure there are some people on here without a partner and so don't associate themselves with St Valentine. I'm one of those - it's been over 20 years since I last had a Valentine's card or a special someone to share a bottle of wine and some chocolates with. Still never mind eh? At least I can share today with wonderful friends on here. I feel that St Valentine shouldn't just be for lovers, but for those of us who have a wonderful friendship which is just as good (well without the lovey…

Well at long last there is growth in the garden - well the driveway at least. The bluebells are sprouting their leaves etc, and it will be quite a few weeks before the flowers come, but it's just lovely seeing the new growth and know that Spring is on its way. It's great looking out to the driveway and seeing all these little shoots coming up. There are a few celandine and buttercup plants are showing too. It's too cold for me to be outside to weed the driveway and to be hones…

Every year around January, I have to attend my doctor's surgery for my annual MOT!! Luckily for me, my doctor agreed that maybe I don't need the "Pee pills" anymore, as it hasn't done me much good. Oh the joy - the freedom - the more time I have without the constant dashes to the loo!!!! Pure bliss!!! Anyway I needed to give blood for testing and they needed to check my blood pressure. Well I was given a small bottle to put my wee in, but being a female - it's not all that easy to try and ge…