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I just wanted to thank you all who wished me a happy birthday. I had a lovely day, both of my neighbours popped in with cards and pressies, my daughter rang from Turkey and both she and her hubby wished me happy birthday. Then my son and his kids sang a

I was looking out my bedroom window this morning and I saw a small flash of pale colouring and so I took a few pictures so I could see what it was. Imagine my surprise when I enlarged the pictures - Spring has started to tease us - they were the first

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

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

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

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 -

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

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,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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,

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

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

Lately I've been having problems walking and so I tend to stay indoors most of the time. However it was such a glorious day, Wednesday (yesterday) that I just had to go and get around the garden. As I have donated most of my garden to wildlife (!!!!) I

This is just a quickie, I realised that I hadn't written for some time - so I apologise (or do I gain thanks for being quiet!!!?) We have had a glorious May - I think we had mostly warm sunny days, with bright blue skies most days, so it was quite a

I noticed the cherries are almost ripe and the birds are going to have a wonderful feast. Unfortunately for me - they are about 25 feet off the ground!!!! There are no cherries at a lower branch. So I thoroughly enjoyed the cherry blossom earlier on

Happy birthday Mickey - I hope you have a wonderful day.... Sorry for the mix-up - speak later tonight. Love Jenny xx

Hiya folks, just thought I'd check in here, well we've had really weird weather lately. First of all, we have a very warm and sunny May, then we had a wet June (or should I say - still having!!) yet up until last week, I was always having to wear a

I have a feeling that today won't go down as a good time to celebrate, but for those of you who feel up to it - a very happy 4th July. I don't know about you all, but here in my part of the UK, the weather has changed from lovely and warm to horrible

Yep we did have one good day this weekend, yesterday!!! It was lovely and sunny, even warm enough for me to have the window open for most of the day!!! Such a contrast to today though. Rain, all grey cloud cover, cold wind - no windows open neither!!!

Hiya folks, sorry I haven't written a blog for a while, but to be honest - my life is so much the same every day, I haven't had anything to write about. At least Mickey can write about his gardening, but I don't have even that!!! The last few days have

I was shocked when I read in the on-line local paper, that a town about 9 miles from me had been completely flooded out!!! Seeing the streets and roads completely awash, shops being swept out with the water, goods for sale were totally ruined, cars had

I'm sorry folks that I haven't written much lately, but every day seems to be the same to me. I can't believe it that it's over seven months since I last left this house!!!! I'm not trying to win a contest on who can stay indoors for the longest time, but

I'm so sorry that I've been sort of absent for about 3 weeks now, but things have been more than quiet around my home. We have had some good weather and today the weather gods have decided to remind us that we are coming into the Autumn (Fall to you

My gorgeous new friend, Emily, came today as usual and she said that as the weather was good - did I fancy a quick trip to the seaside!!!!!!!!!!!! I couldn't believe what she was saying - she said that she realised how much I was missing the sea, and was

I had a sort of lapse in my latest craze - I really enjoyed at my first attempt at using epoxy resin. I made some items to put on a chain, but I wasn't completely pleased with the result, so I ordered some better moulds and also some dried flowers etc. As

Just a quickie, in case you had heard of that awful earthquake in Turkey today. Luckily it didn't affect Mandi too much. She told me that the electric was the first to go, then without much time, she suddenly was thrown around her room. Luckily she was

Mandi's latest brood of kittens are starting to make themselves known and have decided that they prefer the lounge and also they have grabbed Mandi's part of the couch for their own!!!! Mandi took these pictures to show mum, Fluff, making the kittens at

I was so aware of the hail because it made such a noise against the window and then I heard them coming down the chimney!!!! It had to be a heavy one then!! Anyway the next day (yesterday) I went out into the area by the kitchen, and I was so surprised

Hiya folks, Sorry I haven't been writing much here, but with this lockdown going on - I'm not going out much neither!!!! So I've been making resin pendants to give to people for Christmas and then I have to make some things for the men in the group who

Hiya folks, well I was going to show you more of my pendants and keyrings that I've been making, along with some snowflake designs, which I thought I'd give as extra pressies for them to hang on their Christmas tree. So you'll just have to wait with

Well Christmas is fast approaching, I've really got to put my skates on and start sending Christmas cards out - now you folks, will just have to bear with me if you don't have a card from me this year, but as I can't get out to post etc, and the cost of

I really hope that we can all have a good Christmas, despite everything that's going on in this world. This has been a year none of us will every forget, but we must try and learn by it. Consider others first, don't risk your life, or others, for

My Christmas was a very quiet one, as you might imagine - being on my own. I did try and make a roast beef dinner, but the enjoyment went out of it - having it just for me - but as per usual - the beef has been enjoyed ever since in various disguises!!!!!