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Thank you all for all your kind well wishes and lately my birthday wishes. I'm afraid I won't be writing etc for a while because just doing normal things like drinking a cup of tea etc takes such a great effort. What happened is that I have quite a few

Hiya folks, sorry I haven't been on here for so long, but this process is so damn slow and now unfortunately I've developed another infection which has slowed things down even more now. So it's a case of doing little and taking it easy. I have two carers

This is self-explanatory.......... Subject: Vladimir Putin on Russians. Hello to all those who know what is going on in Europe. No wonder he was selected by Forbes as the most powerful person in the world. This is one time our elected leaders should

Hi folks, again I'll start by apologizing for having been absent for so long, but I really haven't felt well enough to come on here and write blogs or comment on pages. I am finding this recovery totally taxing and feel wiped out most of the time. I've

This poem is so lovely and it does describe the little village of Appledore and it's inhabitants to a T. I used to live there and they were wonderful years..... APPLEDORE... I’ve lived in different places I used to move around But since I’ve lived in

I am sorry to have stayed away so long, but I do get so tired very easily and this damn pain is really getting me down. My date for the operation is 2nd March, which is next week. They are going to take the stent out of my kidney and hopefully clear away

Hiya folks, this is just a short and sweet visit. Well the news is good in the fact that the operation is over and I haven't had another stent put in, so that should mean no more operations and I can now start to get better. Like last time though, I'm

Well I'm still in the land of the living, I hasten to add, and feeling so much better. I'm afraid I'm still impatient with the slow pace of recovery. I am well aware that I was very ill and that I have to take things slowly, but the speed of "slowly"

Just to say that I probably won't be on here much, because Mandi is here for two weeks and she's going to not only take me out, but she's also going to try and get me upstairs! That is the plan anyway and even if I have to crawl up those damn things,

Hiya folks - again - yep I know I said that I wouldn't be writing much on here whilst Mandi is here, but I've got a lot to say............ The weather today has been a mixture of rain, wind and then sunshine. When the sunshine came out, I wanted to just

I've been having to wash up as far and down as far ever since the middle of December because I couldn't manage the stairs to the bathroom. Well as you know Mandi is here for a quick visit and it's been her great mission to get me to conquer the stairs and

Well folks, Mandi has returned to her home with her hubby in Turkey - where did those two weeks go? It seemed that she'd only just arrived but then she was gone!!! I miss her terribly, which is why I haven't been on here much. Still good news prevails and

Today has been full of surprises............. apart from the previous things I did, as described in my previous blog, I've had two extra visitors today. First a lovely looking black and white cat came a couple of days ago and has re-visited me every say

I don't know about you, but I really cannot remember a year like this one. Since the 2016 appeared, so many wonderful well known people have died. It was almost like one every day. Today we say goodbye to a wonderful comedienne, Victoria Wood. I had no

You know I was having the time of my life making smoothies - well I somehow managed to muck it up and it died a death!!!!!!!!!! Hence my new one arrived this morning and it's much bigger and it also grinds and chops as well as blends - so now I'm going

It was such a lovely day today that I thought a trip out would be in order, so I drove to Instow beach. It was quiet to start with but then gradually the crowds appeared. As luck would have it the only car parking space happened to be directly in front of

I felt quite good today, so I thought it would be fine for me to have a good stroll down the driveway - the wind is still exceedingly cold, so I didn't want to be silly and risk a cold, I managed to walk down the drive to the road and back up again!! It's

Well I'd written this article almost to the end, when sod's law came into being and it decided to go off the computer. I hadn't saved it, because I wasn't expecting it to do that - hmmm - don't seem to be having much luck with technology lately I'm

I've come across another incredible artist called Heather Rooney who does wonderful true to life drawings. Here's a link to one of her videos as she shows you the making of one of her pictures - it's absolutely fascinating.... youtu.be/_W8itSwiOi4

This afternoon I nipped out to the supermarket to get some stuff for Mandi. Our friend Sharon is going out to see Mandi in just under 2 weeks and she's very kindly offered to take anything Mandi wants that she can't get in Turkey. So she wanted some

I'll start off with the bad news first - yesterday my daughter's fish, Flip, who I've been looking after for a couple of years now, has done his last flip. I found him at the bottom of his tank yesterday morning still as can be - not even a flick of his

I think this is one of the best ones that have been done - youtu.be/B7sggjEBnZg

Today has been a beautiful day and I was going to go out to the beach, but then I remembered that it's Friday 13th and didn't want to tempt fate, so I just walked around the garden instead and I'm so glad I did........ First though I wanted to go

I've not grown an amaryllis before, I've seen them in other peoples' houses and have always admired them. Well Yvonne, my neighbour, gave me one in a box with pot and compost last year and I planted it and it just grew small leaves and nothing much else.

I don't know if it can be called "quietly" if you could only hear the swearing etc going on in my head, it's probably very loud. My old computer gave up the ghost as you know, and I can only go into it in safe mode, which means no access to the

When I went to Westward Ho! the other day I forgot to mention that the old house on the Tors, that I've taken loads of photos of before, was up for auction that day. I thought I'd have another quick look, because not knowing who would eventually buy it, I

Hells teeth, I'm 68 years of age and you'd honestly think that I was old enough to learn from my mistakes - but NO - I went and overdid things again to the detriment of my back.............. I decided to change my sheets on my own, well everyone else was

My amaryllis is just growing and growing and is about to open up its buds. I can hardly wait to see what glorious colours it will be. There's a red tinge but also a sort of creamy tinge, so who knows..... The pictures above show what the flower

The amaryllis has opened its flowers! I went into the kitchen this morning and to my delight I saw the big beautiful plant had opened its flowers. As you can see it's going to be gorgeous. A beautiful flower with the colours blending into each other

The other day it was gorgeous weather - sunny and warm - so how could I not nip to the beach eh? As I drove to Instow, I noticed the tide was coming in and also that I could park along the road about half way between Bideford and Instow, alongside the

After so many years of my daughter being very unhappy, to see her bubbling with excitement and that wonderful glow that covers her whenever she's with her husband, Dogan, just fills me with such delight. Now she's got a job, has her own car and life is

My neighbour Yvonne treated me to an afternoon out to a Royal Horticultural Society garden near our town, called Rosemoor House. I've wanted to go there to see the gardens for many years now, but as I've become more unable to walk, I thought I'd never get

I had a visitor the other day - Lotti. Yvonne [Evie] has a gorgeous little Burmese cat called Lotti and she is very adventurous. Now Evie lives at the bottom of my garden - not IN my garden, but in a gorgeous bungalow situated at the other side of my

Friends may come and friends may go, but you are of that kind that I'm honoured to know........ The grey hairs upon your head are like the icing on the cake.... The wrinkles by your eyes highlight the twinkle that they make.... Your smile, my

These last few days the weather hasn't been very nice, with rain interspersing with the odd sunny spell, but today, even though the wind was quite strong, it was cold. I thought I'd better cut the lawn before more rain came - which is supposed to be

Well the weather has been quite contrary lately - rain and cloudy nearly all the day and then when it's too damn late to go anywhere, the blue sky comes and it's gorgeous and sunny - it's enough to make you cry. We've had some glorious sunsets but the

Well I had hoped that the seagulls would find somewhere else to roost and not in amongst my chimneys - I mean the neighbours had managed to put a plaster cast owl with shiny eyes up on the roof, but the seagulls have totally ignored it. I found out the

Young Cecil/Cecilia [well can you think of another name?] is still on the porch roof, with his frantic parents shouting down to him. Pippin and Boo are scared of going out through the cat flap because the seagulls fly down near them, dive bombing them. So

At long last Cecil/Cecilia has flown his "nest". He'd spent the last 5 days on my back porch roof - and obviously done his "business" on it too!!! What an awful mess, it's transparent corrugated plastic, so I can see everything - great. Anyway I was

Hi folks, sorry I haven't been on here for a while, but time seems to fly by and I just haven't found enough time to come on here. So I'm going to tell you about my venture out yesterday to Instow beach. For the first time in many days, the day had blue

This is just a short one though - so don't despair. When I was out on my lawn the other day, rescuing Boo from the seagulls who'd decided she needed to be divebombed - poor little thing, I saw that growing through the hedge against the wall, were loads of

I saw this video this morning and I thought it was a lovely man being kind to a tiny lamb. Hope you enjoy it too. youtu.be/fUFj2d9HC7c

Poor Mandi, 45 years old and she has chicken pox!!! Even though she had it when she was a child, because her immune system is all over the place, she was perfect for picking up the virus. Some woman brought her 3 children to Turkey a couple of weeks ago

Well it's half way, almost, through July and I'm able to write that it's a nice sunny day - for a change!!!! There is still a cold wind, so to sit in the shade is not the best of things to do. The wind is strong enough to make the washing blow all over

A new Simon's Cat video - oh I've done this with my cats. youtu.be/izbry0qk8LU

Yesterday we had the highest recorded temperatures in the country - in Bideford - I mean they actually mentioned us!!! It was clocked at 32C / 95F or so. Now considering we were languishing in temperatures of 17C and struggling to get to 18C, it was quite

This is so inspiring - a new trailer for the UK team for the Paralympics youtu.be/IocLkk3aYlk

Hi folks, sorry I've not been on here for a while, but it's been raining every day since I was last on and therefore I've not been out and about. Today however, we had about 20 minutes of sunshine, so I just opened the window and took some photos of the

A couple of years ago I discovered a wonderful bush growing just in the corner of my driveway. The flowers were so small and for a quick look they looked as if they were just fuzzy little pink flowers. Well I took a couple of photos then and was so

Well at long last the rains had eased up and a lovely sunny day [well some of it was sunny] was promised. I took the car out for a quick trip to Westward Ho!. I did debate on whether to pop over to Instow, but I thought you'd all seen enough pictures of

Well the wind was warm and the clouds had decided to disappear, I'd just finished my spaghetti bolognese and there was nothing to stop me from getting into the car and driving to the beach to catch a decent sunset. Okay we've had many sunsets since I've

I know I've mentioned this several times, but I really am inordinately lucky to have such terrific neighbours. The other day Peter came over to cut my grass and while he was at it, he'd brought his hedge cutter to do the hedge. I was so relieved because

Yep it's raining again - with very strong gusts of wind too. They did warn us yesterday that this would happen, and they were right!!!! Wow that makes a change. The temperatures have dropped too - it's now around 17C/64F whereas from Monday through to

Sorry I haven't been on here much these last couple of days folks, but I seem to be busy, busy, busy. Can't see what I've actually achieved though - but the days seem to be whizzing past quickly. Tomorrow I have a nice day planned - Joyce and Richard

I seem to be always apologising for being away from here lately - I am really sorry but I've been a bit of a social butterfly lately!! My new neighbours held a party on Saturday and it's not the kind of thing I do, I went to their "new home party"

Hiya folks, sorry I've not been on here very often, but to be honest there wasn't anything going on in my neck of the woods and so I had nothing to report. Well it's just over 3 weeks til I go over to Turkey for my annual trip to see Mandi and Dogan.

Wow - nothing for 10 days and now 2 blogs in one go - aren't I kind? LOL!!! Yesterday we actually had some sunshine for the first time in over a week - well I think they call it sunny intervals!! While we were blessed with a couple of hours of sunny

Olympic Chuckles Here are the top nine comments made by NBC sports commentators during the Olympics that they would like to take back: 1. Weightlifting commentator:'This is Gregorieva from Bulgaria. I saw her snatch this morning during her warm

Hi folks, sorry I've not been on for a while, but other things have been going on and I just haven't had time to pop in. Sorry again. Can you believe it, I'm off to Turkey in just over 2 weeks!!! It was only yesterday, I'm sure, that I was saying I was

Well I had the go ahead from Tony last night, that I was allowed to state that I am now a Nana. The children have been living with Tony and Stevie for 3 weeks now, and they are going for full adoption as we speak.... These are Josh and Chloe. Josh is 5

This had me giggling for ages - the commentary of the men watching this from a nearby office is hysterical..... youtu.be/1Z1lzbVnVx0 I do hope you all enjoy it too....

Hiya folks, sorry I've been absent for a while, but I go away in a couple of days, and so there's an awful amount to do and I'm all on my own, so some things take longer than expected........... Anyway just wanted to tell you the mishap I had on

In the spring I discovered some packets of seeds with nothing on the front of the packets saying what they were and as Ann had a lovely bit of free space in her garden, I offered them to her. She took them and planted them in the corner of the raised

Hiya - I didn't think I'd be able to write to you all so soon but everyone is out and I've got time to chat.... Mandi has gone to work, as has Dogan and Sharon has just popped out to see a friend - won't be long before they're back though, so I thought

I've just caught this on the news - it's so lovely.... youtu.be/ch-sxElzF3A

I have a laser that I play with Pippin and he loves running around after it, but I never thought of other animals loving them too - youtu.be/Lb5QVudIttQ

Hi folks, just popping in to say hello and show you some more piccies of my holiday - it's great - I'm already turning a nice shade of brown and I've still got 3 more weeks!! These last couple of days we've just chilled at the beach by my son-in-law's

Yesterday we had strong winds - great in a way because it kept things cool. With temperatures still in the early 30'sC - around high 90'sF - it was too hot to sit in the sun, but with the wind of yesterday it was great. Now here's where things went a tad

As it was Sharon's last evening, we went out for a meal. One of Mandi's work friends was co-owner of a restaurant and we'd been promised we'd be "looked after"!! So not having eaten anything all day in anticipation of a good fill-up we started off to the

Mandi wanted to show me her favourite view - a sight you see when you come from the airport. As soon as she sees this - she knows that she's home.... I really don't know why she wants to live here - do you?????? I mean it's not as if it's

Well I must admit that having a car has certainly opened the area wide and I can now appreciate how beautiful this area is.... The other day, Mandi and I went for a drive around the area. She wanted to show me roughly where she has to go when she

I'm not going home with much of a suntan!!! As Dogan is not working because of his hand, we've not been to the beach to sunbathe, as he doesn't like doing that!!! So we've been sightseeing instead. The other day we decided to see a lovely neighbouring

When Mandi goes to work, I stay in the house. I don't need to go to the beach every day and yesterday Dogan had nipped out to see some friends whilst she was at work, so I thought I'd go round the back of the house, because I'd noticed some lovely purple

Hi folks, this is really just a quickie as I am leaving Turkey tomorrow and I have to pack etc. I've had a wonderful time here and the last few weeks have just flown by. With Mandi having a car, I've managed to see so much more of this wonderful country

Well I'm back home now and talk about a shock to the system!!!!! The temperatures here are hovering around 9C [48F] whereas last week and three weeks before that, I was languishing in temps of 30C [90F] to around 35C [100F] and so it's no wonder that the

Well I've been home now for almost 2 weeks and I'm still full of this damn cold. I haven't been outside since I've been home because it's just not worth my while making this any worse because it's so cold back here in comparison to the temperatures I

Sorry that I haven't been on here for a long time, but the damn cold was driving me mad, also I hadn't done anything special or worth writing about, so that didn't help. The main reason though, was a strange one to many of you - I couldn't type because of

I really admire talent and this young girl, called Heather Rooney has it in bucket fulls. Just watch how a plain piece of paper becomes a wonderful drawing......... youtu.be/WZwmWluCVMg I do hope you enjoy this...

I've been listening to the weather forecasters and they seem to be scaring us with threats of a very cold winter to come. Well I've decided to keep my radiator on all the time which keeps the lounge nice and warm. I've had a good look at my electric bill

This Serbian artist has a wonderful talent for anamorphic 3D artwork... youtu.be/wU5GxXIhTy0 I hope you like this too.

Sorry I haven't been on here lately but apart from having computer problems I'm also trying to make some soft toys for my grandchildren . I've now got a new computer - a Samsung Tab3. it's a fantastic little bit of equipment but I'm desperate to finish

Well yesterday I finally finished the penguins. I'm not as pleased with them as I'd hoped but I didn't have a pattern nor instructions, so they're not too bad. I've since bought some new patterns and I have plenty of material so my grandchildren will

Last year I only managed to get my Christmas tree up in my lounge but if you remember, I became very ill and never managed to put the lights nor decorations on it. So I'm one step further this year - not only have I put the tree up, there are lights and

I have just completed a tiny chick for my neighbour's newest grandchild. It's only 3" tall - how hard can it be? B*%#¥y hard! It was so fiddly, being so tiny. Also I had to rethink how to make it. I first chose a lovely faux fabric in cream. I ended