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Just a quickie to say that I heard from Mandi this afternoon. She's had the operation but it wasn't as bad as she'd feared. They had to take some intestines out too, but nothing near the colon and no lymph nodes touched. She's had the whole lot taken away and hopefully all the cancer was inside. Apparently they'd kept her in the Intensive Care ward all day until this afternoon. She was in a wheelchair and sitting outside with Dogan having a coffee and a cigarette!!!!! She can't have any food as…

Well the roof of my back porch is disgusting with all the poop that Fred, the seagull chick, has done and then walked across!!!! So hopefully we'll get some rain which will help it dissolve and then eventually we can wash it off!!! I can always hope!!! This afternoon, after hearing the parents of Fred, cawing at him, and then bringing down food for him, I heard him do his high pitched scream. It sounded very loud, and so I went out to the kitchen, I'd left the back door open for some through…

Are you ready for this? I suggest you have a cup of coffee and be in a comfy chair while you read this - if you don't think you can wade through a lot of drivel - then you are excused!!!!! Where was I? - Oh yes - I'd had an ice-cream then we went back to Mandi's house to finalise the packing and to go to the airport. As I walked up the driveway, I was welcomed by the garden cats - I miss them very much - they were so sweet and loving. Well after a quick change of clothes and finishing pack…

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 happy to take me out for a quick trip. WELL !!!!!!!!!!!!! how could I say no? Apart from the fact that I'm still having problems breathing - the trip out was too strong a pull. So we quickly got ready and drove out to Westward Ho!. I expected…

Mandi was surprised when I told her that quite a few people loved her photos and she asked if you would give your opinions on some of her work. She's taking her photos with her phone and if the response here is positive, she will probably go out and buy herself a decent camera. She says that living in Turkey has certainly encouraged her to take photos, probably because I always ask her to take pictures of where she goes, so that she doesn't seem so far away from me. I miss her terribly, but i…

Well my daughter Mandi came up today for a visit. She was considering staying for a couple of nights but her neighbour, Sheila, can't look after her cat Boo until next week. She went to her school yesterday to see about returning to work (she's been signed off work for stress and anxiety for over a month now), and the Head of Human Resources (Personnel) said that she isn't happy for Mandi to return yet as she doesn't think she's ready to go back. I'm with her there. The situation in the scho…

I think I told you all about how my neighbours had paid for someone to come and put up spikes to deter the seagulls from nesting on my roof inbetween my chimneys. Well, I hope they ask for their money back because the seagulls have interwoven their nest inbetween the spikes and have had chicks!!!!!! For some unaccountable reason, seagulls are a protected species and so we can't move them physically, so we have to persuade them to leave. Considering how many seagulls there are in the UK, I cer…

Well it's half way through September and last week it was raining and it was cold, but Summer doesn't seem to want to leave us, she's holding on for grim death, because yesterday and today has been lovely and sunny. Apparently the hurricane from America has decided to come across the Atlantic and visit us but we'd rather it didn't. There isn't any wind to speak of at the moment, so hopefully it's moved away. We've seen the damage it's done over there so we certainly don't want that kind of destr…

Just a quickie - had a lovely message from Mandi saying that she's booked a flight for Wednesday, landing in Gatwick at 4pm. She'll get a bus to Exeter and a friend of hers will pick her up from the bus station there and bring her home!! I can hardly believe it, because I haven't seen her (except on Messenger/Skype) since last year - I think it's almost 13 months. I do so miss her. Besides she's going to sort out my tablet, because somehow the storage space has really started to get very smal…

I've had lots of enquiries regarding my daughter who lives in Turkey, about how she and her husband are since the earthquakes, so I thought I'd write a quick article to tell you all how things are. When I heard about the earthquake I was obviously very worried. I immediately called my daughter to see if she had been affected too. As she's around 1,000 kms away, she was fine. She's on a different fault line too. The only problem was that Dogan's family lives over that part of Turkey. They…

At long last - we will be mobile for the rest of the week. We've been stuck in the home, well apart from the time Mandi walked down to the town, but the walk back up the hill nearly knocked her out!!! It's been a lousy week, weather-wise because it's gone really cold and it's rained at least for some of the days, but it always clears up in the evening, with lovely clear skies and therefore it's damn cold with the risk of frost. So today we went to hire a car. I had to ask my neighbours agai…

Hiya folks, I've just realised how lax I've been in writing my blogs. To be honest, I just haven't had much spare time, yet I wonder what I've been doing to take up so much time!!!! For the last few weeks I've had a visitor. An old friend of my brother has been coming down here even after my brother died, as he has so many friends living here. He also plays the banjo and guitar and plays in many pubs etc on their open mike sessions. So he's out every night, and in the daytime, he's usually ou…

I am getting so excited, my daughter, Mandi, who I haven't see in person for almost 3 years is at last coming over to see me.!!!! I can hardly believe it. She feels the same and says that she can't wait to have a "mummy" hug!!!! The last time I saw her was when I came back from Turkey on 20th June 2019!!!! I honestly don't know how I would have managed without this new technology. I can see and speak to her anytime I want to, and we have talked at least 3 times a week, sometimes more. If I ha…

Last night, just after I spoke to Mickey - around 10pm, I was sitting on my couch, with Pippin determined to lie right across my keyboard!! when he suddenly sat up and stared out of the lounge window! Now when a cat suddenly stops what they're doing and just stares at something you can't see or hear - it really spooks you. I looked at the lounge window, which was partly open so Pippin could come and go as he likes as well as letting in some lovely fresh air, when I was suddenly aware of a sha…

Sorry folks that I have little to write about here, apart from my pendants. I haven't left the house since I came home from the hospital, although I have been visited by some nurses about twice a week, to take blood and to check up on me. It's good to know that the doctors etc are keeping a close eye on me. I've been taking my blood pressure every day - I'm a good girl - and I measure the weight every other day. Well I lost 10 kilos of fluid around my heart whilst in hospital, and since I've…

Well this afternoon I was sitting on my couch, doing some more sewing when a movement outside caught my eye. I realised that a squirrel was out in my garden - now this is quite a rare treat so I watched it for all of 20 seconds when it shot off into the undergrowth!! Oh well, at least it was a little surprise and a very pleasant one at that. I had no idea that a squirrel was around these parts. Pippin came over onto my table to get some strokes, when he suddenly stiffened and stared out the w…

Hiya, I've not written a blog for a while, because to be honest - not a lot has happened here - it's that time of year when you want to be out but the weather gods have decided that they're going to have fun and stop you from venturing out. Apart from that - my friend asked me if I'd take up his curtains for his new home. He's got some really lovely woven woollen curtains which weigh a ton!!!! So it's one thing to say "No problem - of course I'll take them up!" but then I realised that they were…

This is written by a young girl who is married to a Turkish man and lives out in Turkey. Mandi read this and says it's pretty much how she feels. She absolutely adores her hubby and feels Turkey is her home now, but she misses Britain too - as she says - she's torn in two. Apart from the part where this girl says that neither family want to meet [both Dogan's family and Tony, Stevie and I do want to meet] and that Mandi does meet others and walks about on her own, it's very similar to how she fe…

Well maybe I'm being a tad over excited, but for years now I've just kept being with the same insurance company for house and contents. I suppose it was because I was being lazy, in that I kept forgetting to seek out cheaper options. Well this morning I had a couple of letters, one was from another company saying they had taken over my old insurance company (which is a well known and trusted company) and the other one was from my insurance company informing me of next year's cost for the hous…

Well Mandi arrived last night or should I say early this morning?!!! It was close on 5am by the time she came in. My neighbours had been brilliant and gone to pick her up from the airport, which is just over 100 miles away, and her plane didn't land until just after 2am!!! I can't thank them enough for going for her, and bringing her safely to me. Well we both had a lie-in and had only been up a couple of hours when Emily arrived!! Those two got on so well and soon we were all chatting and laugh…