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MrNuts has been channeling his inner Helen with a kit I bought him for Christmas, fresh mozzarella for lunch 😋 and he left the kitchen clean & tidy 😘
ReplyDeleteWell done Mr Nuts!
DeleteInteresting to see + learn. I nearly bought similar for a family member, but decided against it, as to would it produce a tasty cheese.
DeleteI look forward to hearing as to how it was.
MiriamJanuary 13, 2024 at 4:14 PM
ReplyDeleteHow lovely that the days are starting to lengthen again.
I so prefer natural daylight than artificial lighting in the afternoons.
It is such a relief, despite the cold ❄️
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JaniceJanuary 14, 2024 at 12:14 AM
I'm glad the light is coming back too. I have 2 camellia bushes beginning to flower and another in full flower. I am not sure whether the frost and ice we had has done them any good though. A friend who moved to Finland back in the summer has her garden covered in deep snow which can last from November to March, it is dark by 3pm, and the temperature at present is minus 28, and her daily exercise is shovelling snow off the garden path to the road. Rather her than me, but she has lived there before and knew what to expect. She says houses are built to withstand the cold, and people dress in very warm clothing when they go out.
It is good to see the longer days, but are flowers are a bit confused, we have some daffodils in bud, one small clump of snowdrops (I’m sure we had more last year) and the hellebores still in bud.
ReplyDeleteThe thing in our garden that makes us smile most at the moment is the pair or pheasants that run up when they see us through the window & wait to be fed.
My bulbs are hardly showing above the ground yet...perhaps these have become too waterlogged. Even my tubs are not showing much...
DeleteMy 🐈⬛ keeps me smiling, as is so mischievous and a real character...
DeleteI know when she wants fresh water, as she just decides to sit in the bath!!
What a weirdo she is..but then it takes one, to know one..😹
My snowdrops and crocuses are peeping through now. The cyclamens, hellebores and winter heathers are flowering as well. Always cheers me up at this time of year as well as the lengthening days.
DeleteWhat a surprise this morning - road, pavements + cars were covered in a light covering of snow, which then froze!
ReplyDeleteIt is winter so perhaps not too unexpected.
Keep Warm and most importantly, healthy + safe, all here.
Miriam - my cat , Puss, comes and tells me. He then leads me to the bathroom and climbs into the bath waiting for me to turn the tap on. It has to be the merest trickle, which he stares at for an endless amount of time before stretching his neck to drink.
ReplyDeleteHeard a strangled barking sound while contemplating my back garden, working out where we go with it next. It was too quiet for the strange, microscopic bald creature with the bulging eyes that the new neighbours assure me is a dog, but then I saw it was a fox, scurrying about frantically searching for an exit. It ignored me completely, the cheeky thing, although it was being closely monitored (but from a safe distance on the shed roof) by my little friend Coco, who reminds me so much of Miriam's Pusscat, Bonnie.
ReplyDeleteMy pusscat was as you know, a rescue cat aged 5yrs (approx) at the time. I knew that she had lived in a flat but nothing more.
ReplyDeleteThis winter, which is her 2nd with me, is so different. She has learnt that jigsaws are great to play with as I'm trying to do one, plus has learnt what fun empty boxes are!
I daren't mention knitting..😆
I had not realised that she was an older cat Miriam, I thought you had got a kitten. My Puss in boots was about five or six when I got him, and he has changed a great deal since he has been with me too. It took a long time, several years before he started to be affectionate and that is increasing all the time now.
DeleteIt sounds as if she knows she is loved and has made herself truly at home. Well done, Miriam.
ReplyDeleteThird morning waking up to snow. Luckily not very much on any day, but today was different in that it has been so cold that in the areas with no sun, it is still lying and now freezing.
ReplyDeleteSnow is quite unusual for me.
Glad I did the s/market shop yesterday but I still had to clear + de-ice the car midmorning.
Must say, a complete half aisle was just Easter Eggs. 🙀😨
At least veg. was fresh and good value, so stocked up. Got a huge red cabbage for 80p, which will be done with apple, red onion, nutmeg, cider, red wine vinegar and cranberries (left over from Christmas in freezer).
This will last for days + days!
I find that most cabbages but especially red have this magical ability to expand during preparation and cooking, I suppose because the leaves are tightly packed, one small red cabbage when oven cooked the way I like will produce enough portions to last a year as I am the only one in the family who eats it..
DeleteWe , too , woke up to snow. Just a covering. Took eldest dog for a circuit of the park in her new red boots. Was admired by everyone!! Got them to stop her slipping on laminate flooring really as her back end sometimes goes as she gets up. She’s marvellous for 14 1/2.
ReplyDeleteIt's just snowed here yet again! Not expected at all, and roads + cars are covered once more.
DeleteI love the sound of the red boots - classy but so helpful for your dogs well-being. 🐶 😃
DeleteAHA, progress with the neighbour: on Tuesday it was too much too cold to fumble with the chain that secured my elderly double gates so I was heaving my wheelie bin up the steps to the front gate. He left off de-icing the monster van and came to help me.
ReplyDeleteThis morning their vehicles were the opposite way round to usual, with the monster outside their house and her mini outside mine. As my window is well below the road level, it meant I could see the sky.
I cautiously asked if it made any difference to him if they were this way round because it was better for me. He thought it perfectly reasonable that if I don't get out much I should need to be able to see out, so in future the monster will be parked outside their house instead.
Result!
No snow down here in Hampshire,just heavy frost and an awful lot of helicopters, I assume doing night time training. Are any of the other Hampshire cohort noticing the same?
ReplyDeleteIt’s odd KP but I can’t say I have been hearing the helicopters which is unusual if they are on
Deletenight flight training. I don’t mind and can even feel comforted by it he drone 🙃 but our friends who’s home is in fields not far from RAF Odiham certainly do!
Interestingly, the frost was harder at 9pm than at 7.30am when I was out watching the morning cavalcade of airport arrivals.
ReplyDeleteNo helicopters though
Sorry, 9AM, IE after breakfast.
ReplyDeleteA Cheshire West person here again.
ReplyDeleteAlthough a lovely crisp winter and sunny day, all the snow + ice has not yet melted. Half of my back lawn, along with the pavements + parts of the road which did not get any direct sun, are still white!
Now the weather warnings are for another awful storm with high winds + rain.
Another lovely but cold day here in East Cheshire. We made the most of it with a visit to Quarry Bank before the weather changes at the weekend, I love walking in the woods by the river there. We also made our usual visit to say hello to the ancient beech tree.
ReplyDeleteLove Quarry Bank and all its surrounds. A lovely place to visit. ❤️
DeleteCheshire West to Cheshire East - has your green garden recycling container fee, gone up like mine?
DeleteNo option but to pay it, but why is this now an extra cost?
DeleteYes Mriam, we now have to pay for our green bin collection. It's because the council is very short of money as are many others.
DeleteIn answer to you query above KP, about helicopters. Yes, we get a lot of chinooks from Odiham flying over us. They have an agreement with a big landowner very close to here, to allow night time training landings and takeoffs in his fields opposite us. Ever since we have lived here we have had very low flying Chinooks over head, they make the china on my shelves rattle! The Parish Council wrote to the commander at Odiham complaining that residents in our village were being disturbed.
ReplyDeletei was very cross about this because we are the most affected and didn’t want to complain because we knew how important the training is. We enjoy seeing them so close up.
Mrs. P. that sounds very daunting. When is your op booked in for? I don't remember when you injured your ankle, was it before Christmas? You must be in a great level of pain, but still getting on. Good luck with with it all, hope you get help with the cinnamon trust, they do great work.
ReplyDeleteWhat is the Cinnamon Trust? I have tried to found out what it is, but just get blocked.
DeleteThe Cinnamon trust based in Cornwall seeks to look after the dogs of older people when they become frail or unwell, by providing volunteers to walk the dogs and support the elderly person to keep their companion.
DeleteWhen my mother became increasingly unwell with Progressive Supra Nuclear Palsy, her dog picked up on her erratic symptoms and became very distressed as a result. I took her to Cornwall to the Cinnamon Trust home for elderly dogs which is a bungalow out on the moor where all the elderly dogs live in comfort with sofas and beds and nurses to look after them. Within a few weeks she was re homed with a lady and happily walking on Hayle sands daily with a new pack of dogs.
Mistral, I don’t have a date for surgery. It might well be another year yet. But because I’m on the list now, the process is rolling I suppose.
I hope that your preparations go well Mrs P, it will make such a difference when you have your operation.
ReplyDeleteMrs P. You have kept things quiet.
ReplyDeleteLike so many others, I wish you well and whatever is offered to you accept it!
I was surprised to hear your new home has terraces and steps.
For some reason I thought it was at total ground-level...
Do keep all here updated as I for one, care and want to know how things progress. 🥰
Hopefully family members will come and help you with post-op care..
DeleteThe very best of luck Mrs P. Maybe you can use the 6 weeks to catch up with all the books you don't normally have time to read. The vicar here who had long covid was introduced to crystal ( sometimes called diamond) art by her physiotherapist. You buy a kit (and can pick up sale price ones on amazon or ebay) and stick on these little resin crystals to make impressive sparkly pictures. Easy to do and apparently quite meditative. The vicar couldn't work for months, and still gets tired easily, and was cheesed off, but she made a number of these craft pictures and contributed them for sale at the church Christmas wreath festival. The ones with Christmas robins on had sold before we got there but I bought a nice Peter Rabbit and family one for my little grandson to look at. I have never tried it but have just seen a nice Tree of Life one in the online January sales.
ReplyDeleteYour op recovery will certainly have its challenges Mrs P. I am surprised you are not being offered either a convalescent placement or a care package as you live alone. Mr R’s Orthopaedic Consultant will not operate (in his case on knees) in any capacity unless the patient will have live in support at home for a minimum of 2 weeks and when at one point Mr R had to have his replacement completely taken out and a spacer fitted filled with antibiotics for 6 weeks had I not been here he would have to have stayed in hospital for that period of time (even though he is an Aries too 🤣)
ReplyDeleteWith your determination I’m sure you will overcome as you always do, best of luck. We will be here to give our virtual support should you need it!
Different surgeons, different health authorities Lady R.
DeleteIn Gloucestershire I was told that ‘ we don’t do ankle replacements here in the UK as we are not very good at it ‘ so I reluctantly agreed to have ankle fusion. But here in Taunton there is a surgeon who has pioneered this surgery having been for a time in Australia. A year ago I chose to have another steroid injection, which of course I had to wait months for. The pain relief lasted for three weeks to the hour !
If one has too many of these injections it compromises the outcome of the surgery, so I’ve now been on the surgical list since December.
I am not in great pain all of the time but after any resting period my ankle ‘sticks’ and I hobble painfully. But once released by continuing to move I can walk easily. It’s at its worst at home because one doesn’t march around inside.
Marching is my ‘normal’ walking style and my walk defines my personality.
Miriam - yes I am on the ground floor of this building but the house itself is raised above the lane, the drive to what were once two small hotels is steep and rises above and to the side of the lane then there are steps up to a terrace which runs around the house and then further steps up to the front door.
So although I’m on the ground floor my large bay window is elevated some twenty feet above the lane below. At the back I have a flat terrace area, paved, then steps up to a raised area of the same size.
And all this is towards the bottom of a steep hill.
And I shall be very surprised if either of my daughters manage to even visit me. I brought them up to be independent women and to view their mother as an independent woman. Now in my senior years I am reaping the benefit of my child rearing views on independence as they view me as perfectly capable of looking after myself.
And no I’m not bitter, it is what it is !
Lady R thought people might find this program interesting, maybe the script writers will be watching for future plot lines?
ReplyDeleteLady RJanuary 20, 2024 at 10:46 PM
Monday 22/1 on ITV at 9pm a documentary called “ Born from the same stranger”
People born (like Henry) from anonymous donors search for blood relations 4 episodes in total containing some emotional stories. Think how many potential siblings you could have! Possible I guess even to have married one of them 🤔
Maybe KP you could post this on over pour chat blog too, just in case not spotted on here in time. Leave you to consider if appropriate.
A school friend of my daughter was the child of two women who used donated sperm from a fairly prolific donor thre is a documentary out there about his 20+ siblings. His mothers split up and met other partners so he ended up with 4 “mums” , 1 dad (absent) and multiple siblings. Modern Life!
Thank you for posting my post from other blog here as well KP - complete with my typos!
DeleteWell what a tale you have added into the mix, tracing family history is going to be on another level that’s for sure…….
It's going to get to the stage where people will have DNA tests before having children to make sure they aren't too closely related!
DeleteI too have spotted this programme, and also thought of Henry, as to what he might find out in future years.
DeleteI strangely read or heard a real-life story, about a husband + wife with two children, who did DNA tests just for fun.
The results were awful as it showed that they were half-siblings, but I can't recall how this actually came about....
This programme intrigues me and I will watch/record it, as I have always been fascinated about genetics, heredity conditions (from a medical aspect) and just familiar looks + tendencies, such as my Big Sis is the image of our Mother in so many ways.
To add my glaucoma condition could be inherited, along with my slightly higher tri-glyceride levels. The problem with me is that my true grand-mother, that is my Mum's birth mother, died at a very early age when mum was just 5 months old.
DeleteAs such, nothing is known about this person and her family, so goodness knows what might have been in the gene pool.
Oh well, I will keep taking the pulls and using my eye drops!
...pills obviously..😆
DeleteGood Luck All, with wind etc. overnight. My area now has an Amber warning, but hopefully my property should be OK 🫰
ReplyDeleteI would much prefer the snow + ice from last week along with the winter sunshine, than yet more rain + gales.
Pusscat was quite happy going out then but is hating the rain etc.
CC, my son tells me that this is already the case in Iceland, with a) a small population and b) surnames no help at all.
ReplyDeleteLaid in bed listening to the wind. It’s blowing a gale. Think it might have to be ear plugs and eye mask tonight.
ReplyDeleteHave started to decorate our kitchen. Haven’t touched it in the 2 1/2 years we’ve been here. Started stripping paint off the door jamb. I love paint stripping or wallpaper stripping. Basically I think I just like destroying things cos I like digging up the garden too. Anyway I’ve found why there are cracks round the wood of the surround. Previous owners have just applied silicon sealant to the jamb and stuck it on. Lazy way if you ask me. Will have to rectify this with a wood infill, glued and then Brad nail the lot. Oh well, will keep me busy whilst it’s rubbish weather outside.
Very impressive ptby! Are you both 1st class DIY people……
DeleteCertainly sounds like it.
DeleteI was too, once upon a time.
Now I wait for others to be paid to do it.
Or just put up with it as it is.
Haha. Lady R. I’m definitely not a first class DIYer. Do quite like decorating but have to be in the mood. Mr PtbY is useless. He’s the tea boy when I’m working.
DeleteI now do a Mrs P. in that I pay a bloke who does!
DeleteIf can't afford it, then it just doesn't happen...🤣
I still lie in bed and admire my perfectly hung wallpaper which I did on my own..yes it does need refreshing but it is fine for now...
Why would it need refreshing Miriam if it is still in good condition and you are enjoying admiring your hard work (or is it a case of after X years it should be changed which is what one is so often told) such as a kitchen 5 yrs old horrendous 😂 well mine is way past that but a classic style and I am still more than happy with it, so blow the advertisers.
Delete....aah but some pieces of wallpaper are "warping" for want of a better word, and are coming away from the wall, particularly around the radiator. These are brittle and although I have tried to stick back, it just cracked+ split.
DeleteI can live with it, well for now as after all only I see it...😆🤣
✔️ 🤣
Delete"Jocelyn" is now hitting - terrific high winds, which are far worse than just two days ago.
ReplyDeleteI had an interesting experience yesterday.
ReplyDeleteDuring the recent storms much sand has been blown eastwards along the extensive beach. Work had been going on for some weeks re arranging the rocks, which I assume has to be done from time to time and the diggers have now moved on to dealing with the sand which was piled so high in places that at certain exit points it was impossible to access them.
Now in the process of taking the sand back to the western end of the beach there was a long mound left diagonally across the part of the beach that I decided to walk across. It was not more than two feet high so did not strike me as insurmountable.
Two paces in my right leg disappeared up to my knee and I fell into the mound. I could feel my left foot disappearing into what was obviously wet sand below the surface and I was flat on my front and unable to move.
Lady sensing something amiss came to give me kisses.
My right boot was full of wet sand and as I tried to lift my foot it was coming out of my boot. Unusually there was no other person on that section of the beach and no one on the pavement above. I was actually calling out ‘ help’ for some moments, most unlike me.
Eventually with much careful manoeuvring I managed to extricate my legs and haul myself up. I wasn’t hurt in any way as it was all soft sand but my clothes were covered in wet sand and I had to strip off in the garden when I arrived home.
Restoring my boots is a job for today.
Mrs P what are we to do with you!!! You are far too adventurous for your own good 😊
DeleteI thought you are supposed to be taking care and doing special exercises with the aid of a frame prior to an ankle op - or have I got you muddled with another blogger?
I am feeling so very very sad today as I lost a wonderful brother in law yesterday. Much has been thrown at him in the last 2 years starting with a brain aneurysm being successfully coiled. Then last June a stroke which left him with peg feeding. He was a young 74 healthy eater and an intrepid walker alongside my (middle) sister. She being the one who lost her first husband in her and his 30’s and a son from an accident 9yrs later. About 15yrs ago she came through cancer and now her husband of 41yrs would have been 42yrs on the 4th Feb and 6 yrs her is lost to her. They were also the ones who moved and moved and for 2 yrs were on the IOW with dear Ev. Now In Lincolnshire having travelled a lot of the world, cruises on the 3 Queens ships etc but will be move in back this way to be near her daughter, grandchildren and great grandchildren and us!!!
ReplyDeleteOn the 6th Feb she will become a very chic 80yr old seeming more like a very young 70yr old.
I just needed to share this with you all as fresh hurt still abounds as it will for a while I know.
What a said situation. My thoughts are with you, your sisters + family. ❤️
DeleteMy very sincere condolences Lady R. I am so sorry for you and the rest of your family. These events are always very upsetting and difficult but I am sure you will be a rock for everyone to rest against.
DeleteMuch sympathy Lady R. He was too young to go.
DeleteLady R, I am so sorry. You are always the first to feel the pain with everybody else and this is such a huge grief for you and your sister. What more can I say, my heart goes out to you.
ReplyDeleteThank you all for your lovely words of caring and support they bring comfort 🥰
ReplyDeletePlease add my condolences to you and your family at this sad time Lady R.
DeleteMy thoughts are with you Lady R. 💐
DeleteLady R, I am very sorry to hear your sad news, I send my condolences and best wishes to you and your family xxx
ReplyDeletePtbY I wonder if you and Mr PtbY will be doing the same as me tomorrow at 9pm ?! Think it will be a nail biting finish. How can people, especially those who seem so nice, be so absolutely treacherous in the pursuit of their goal.
ReplyDeleteJanice, are you talking about The Traitors? I really love that programme.
DeleteYes I am indeed Mistral. Love the beautiful Scottish castle setting, the interplay of relationships, and trying to work out who will be murdered and who banished. It is surprising considering we the audience are let into the secret of who the traitors are how intense it still is. I read an online article yesterday about the clothes designer who chooses the clothes Claudia wears, almost a fashion show within a show, and showcasing lesser known smaller businesses. Apparently the red jumper with balloon sleeves sold out immediately after that episode, and the tartan jacket and skirt is helping repopularise tartan clothes.
DeleteI think if the young lad succeeds his young friend Mollie will feel the treachery quite badly.
Oh yes Janice. Mr PtbY starts a countdown at about 6 o’clock. Loving this series.
DeletePoor Molly…. She’s in for a shock when she finds out about Harry. Andrew was like a rabbit in the headlights at first but seems to have become a good traitor.
I want Jaz to win. He was onto Paul early on but no one would listen to him. Now it’s the same with Harry.
We turn onto bbc2 after for traitors uncloaked. When the banished/murdered find out who the traitors are it’s brilliant.
Rather like some of Claudia’s clothes. She had a lovely pink fair isle jumper on last night.
I agree PTBY, Jaz is my favourite too, balanced, calm, cnsidered, playing the long game.
DeleteYea we love The Traitors. Did not watch the first series but as soon as we started the second to give it a try we then binged series 1 🤗 Agree poor Mollie. Amazing how the results can be kept quiet for months !!
DeleteDear LadyR, I am so sorry to hear of the loss of your very much loved brother in law.
ReplyDeleteYou seem to have such a close family unit and all members will feel the loss so painfully. Your compassion shines through all you write.
Such kind comments Mrs P thank you so much for them.
DeleteThank goodness I have a pack of frozen peas plus one of mixed veg. in the freezer. I say this, due to the lack of available + fresh veggies which suit me, at the moment.
ReplyDeleteFarm Shop was a wash-out literally, and s/market was poor, as to quality + size. I knew that these were accepting lower grade produce. Although I truly appreciate the problems for the so many farmers + producers as to the recent weather problems, prices were still the same. A reduction of just 20p for some of these items eg very small Caulis, might have inticed me to buy.
I always want value for money, but then that's just me...🫨
I often bulk up meals with beans, be they butter, haricot or cannelini beans, along with celery, swede plus "el cheapo" tinned toms etc.
DeleteMy (temporary) picture is the official icon for Holocaust Remembrance Day which is tomorrow.
ReplyDeleteI shall be remembering the friends and relatives of my parents who suffered in the terrible events of World War 2. Some were in the concentration camps and some suffered exile from their home countries. I shall light a candle in my window at 8 pm tomorrow. We must never forget.
I saw an episode of The Repair Shop, when a person took in a book which was written by his grandfather in such a camp. This grandfather + grandmother survived, but all the rest of the family were gassed.
DeleteThe author also wrote a moving poem in this book and all who survived and were liberated, signed their names in this book (only 56 I think).
It was repaired beautifully and left me totaly sobbing 😭 as so heartfelt and upsetting.
My thoughts are with you AP.
Thank you Miriam, much appreciated. Anyone can light a candle tomorrow, in support of remembrance, you don’t have to be Jewish.
DeleteYes I also watched that particular Repair Shop too Miriam what terrible fates so many people suffered 😞
DeleteA candle it shall be Archerphile!
AP I also will light one with the true meaning.
DeleteWell that’s it The Traitors finished. Will not comment further at the moment in case anyone is still to catch up. A deserved win (for me) In TT “Uncloaked” the word “like” was definitely overused 🙄😂
ReplyDeleteI was yelling at the t.v.
DeleteThe overuse of LIKE drives me crazy.
DeleteYes, a worthy winner really.
We are going to start on the second series of Australian traitors…….not that we are obsessed or anything! lol.
I think they should have runner up type prizes. That last mission was really tough and in parts dangerous and they all deserved something for completing it.
DeleteMy son Chris told me to to watch the Traitors. He watches it with the girls and his wife. All good fun and happy to watch with 'my girls !' So I watched from episode 6 on Monday and was hooked! Usually I lie on the sofa and use my laptop or watch tv so I was able to watch Monday and Tuesday watching the past episodes ! I thought it was the winner too !
DeleteThen on Wednesday I watched Series 1 on Thursday and Friday ! Luckily Jon, apart from working at an office 9-5, goes out on Tues and Friday for a Games Club so I can watch in peace !
I will now be watching Aus and US version !
Also daughter and eldest son (and g/f) are arriving here on May 6 so I shall be hosting them for a couple of days ! Sad to say ex-husband lives in Cornwall and other grandparents moved to Wales so not much time with them - never mind, I have not seen my grandson for twenty years since he was 7 years old !
I have never watched Traitors for some unknown reason.
ReplyDeleteMy guilty pleasure at the moment is - the Masked Singer.
It so amuses me and is a good light-hearted Saturday night watch, well to me!
It is silly, yes but I do fnd it entertaining.
Then that is all that matters Miriam 🤗 I can’t imagine how the panel /viewer gather any clues as to who the masked singer is - so do tell have you guessed any and how?
DeleteOnly twice, but that was pure luck! Once was by the clues and once by the voice.
DeleteHaving watched the 1st episode of Born from the Same Stranger, this could well be Henry in a few years time.
ReplyDeleteIt was so interesting, but I felt many things should have remained anonymous for a lot of strong reasons.
I am still not sure as to just how much should be found out, even now.
January 21st 11.09am Mrs P I have only just picked up on the answer you gave to me (and Miriam)
ReplyDeleteregarding your ankle problem and the building in which you have your ground floor flat. An in depth and interesting post so thank you. Very descriptive I felt I was there and how fascinating to learn the building you inhabit was two small hotels…..
LadyR - 👍
DeleteMrs P. ditto. How many flats/apartments are there, as sounds so lovely.
DeleteThe building I live in has two G floor flats and two upper two story maisonettes. The other G floor flat has now been empty for a number of years.
DeleteThe other previous hotel next door is converted into three separate houses.
Why has the ground flat next to yours been empty so long Mrs P? As location wise etc I would have thought (like your own home) it would have been snapped up. In your “hotel” there are 4 homes…..
ReplyDeleteAll very fascinating to me - buildings being repurposed. Many years ago l had a flat in what had once been quite a grand family home (not very well converted unfortunately )but fascinating all the same mine was more in the servants part - which always lures me in. Huge back door and cellar also the back stairs to the bedroom and bathroom an under the main rather grand stairs cupboard and a huge round window in the toilet which had pulley ropes and a cistern with a pull chain 😅
There was a terrace at the back with steps sweeping down to a woodland once a very pristine garden.
OOOOH LadyR - you and me both !
DeleteI love buildings more than people - probably an uncomfortable thought for others perhaps. But buildings last longer and are often fascinating.
I love your description of your flat, please tell where was it ?
When my husband and I were first together and before the children came along, one of our favourite activities was exploring run down or abandoned buildings. There where still lots around in the sixties. One being the old TB hospital outside Ventnor on the IOW ( Ventnor is my spiritual home ) we trawled through the underground tunnel, now some sort of pirate theme exhibit I believe, and my daughter still has some of the laboratory glass that we helped ourselves to. Later in life my ex shared the same activity from time to time with his daughter.
The flat next door was I understand a holiday let for a number of years owned by an elderly woman. I don’t know for how long but I imagine she then became unable to manage the lettings. She eventually died and the property was passed to some distant relatives. They have been attempting to put the property back into use but sporadically and from a distance.
We understand that they live In Birmingham but visit only occasionally. Our management team send letters and emails but get no response from them. The garden to the flat is very seriously overgrown and encroaching onto mine, and the flat has been flooded at least once since I’ve been here.
My feeling is that the people who have inherited it do not have the will or the funds to do what is required to put it into order and then market it for sale. It continues to be a concern, but it seems that our hands are tied.
Mrs P. That sounds like the empty house which was by me for 3 years.
DeleteYou must recall my posts, as to the awful overgrown garden etc. and the unkonown as to what happened to the owners.
This property was finally sold, revamped and has now been let out, long term. Unfortunately the overgrown garden only had a "short back + sides"
It is interesting to see rose bushes growing up and appearing in the adjoining hedge, which is still overgrown on this property.
No doubt I will be paying again to neaten it up.
Mrs P. That other ground floor flat sounds so very enticing, but it will be well out of my price-range, particularly as to the works it will need.
DeleteI can but dream.
I do remember the empty house next to you Miriam.
DeleteIt must be a bugbear for any people.
You and I know the difficulties of the situation.
It is also sad for the property.
Houses need people inside them to become homes.
Mrs P unlike my middle sis (and others no doubt) I have never lived further away from the house I was born in than 12 miles 😂 The flat I described to you was in the outer part of Farnham Surrey. It has since been demolished with the name retained and quite a few houses and flats replaced it.
DeleteIf your neighbours relatives are not diy people and live away it’s a wonder they don’t just sell and take a reduced price….🤔
Wet and miserable weather here today. I've spent a lot of it stuck in front of the computer catching up on admin stuff. Hoping to get out for some fresh air tomorrow 🤞
ReplyDeleteMe too "CC East" from Cheshire West. It was one of those awful days - Grey, Gloomy and Miserable.
DeleteI needed lights on, to just do simple chores...
I got side-tracked.
ReplyDeleteI so enjoyed a programme on BBC4 last night - a Proms performance (introduced by Petrolac Trelawny), from 2015. It was music by Leonard Bernstein as to his stage shows.
It was a great watch, what with lovely performances by such talented singers plus so many well known songs/music.
Just right for me.
I am totally astounded as to my latest dual gas/electricity bill. I haven't changed my usage in any way and always use have the CH on as to when I need to, so to keep warm and cosy.
ReplyDeleteI was quite aghast to find that I am £149.50 in Credit!!
I am still bemused as to why, as I was in debt last July 🤷♀️
Please note, that I only post once a day with maybe one or two comments.
DeleteIt might appear that I am posting too often again 🫨
Lady R - I wonder if those replacement flats are where a friend of mine now lives, i believe on the outskirts of Farnham.
ReplyDeleteI envy people who are born and stay more or less in the same place.
Like Uncle Tom in T A.
Both my parents removed themselves from their family roots, though of course the war had quite a lot to do with that too, and my sister and I followed the pattern. My sister going as far as marrying an American and moving to live there. Though once back in the UK and divorced she has stayed within the same area of London for the following forty years. I have moved hither and yon, though spiritually my roots have stayed in London.
Mrs P “Brockhurst Lodge” Shortheath Road The Ridgeway Farnham. When I first moved to the market town I have now lived in for 42yrs (this May) I lived on The Ridgeway once again but not for the last 28yrs!!!
DeleteA lovely part of Surrey Lady R, Farnham and surrounds.
DeleteIt’s not where my friend lives.
I don’t know Farnham really, I’ve been twice both times to see my daughter, once to see her into her residential unit and then to her graduation ceremony, and I’ve not visited my friend since she moved to Farnham.
You must have seen many changes in the years since you first arrived.
I am not in Farnham now Mrs P but only 10 miles away. First of all I worked in the town from when I was 16yrs to 19yrs and returned to live there when I was married at 22yrs.and did so for 13yrs. It was considered to be quite an upmarket town in those days and in fact it was extremely nice with many individual family firms of which 3/4 are still trading!! A huge rebuild is currently going on as like a lot of areas it had gone to my mind a little down hill.
Delete(Mr R was born in this market down and although he has travelled quite widely he has never lived anywhere else in his 9 + decades 🤩)
I’ve always known Farnham to be more than a little up - market and believe it to still be so.
DeleteToday I went to get some paint. Crown kitchen paint. I am using up some old kitchen paint, had half a tub. So off I pop to BandM. No paint in sight. B and Q next…..they no longer sell crown paint. Try the Duluth centre they said. Tried both the deluxe and Johnson’s paint centres to finally be told “there is a crown decorating centre in the middle of town” it’s in a town 20 miles from us and I had no idea. Eventually got a 2.5litre tub. Couldn’t believe the price. Ended up getting it on someone’s account and getting £10 knocked off. I have applied for a discount membership card just in case I get the painting bug this year for another room.
ReplyDeleteYou used to be able to get a tin of paint, clap it on and it was a cheap method compared to wallpaper. Not any more.
I used to work for Raleigh Industries, (bikes, Nottingham), they used Crown for everything and I got into the habit of it. Lovely, good quality paint. You can get it from Homebase up here, but they are expensive anyway imo. I have been using B & Q own make, quite reasonable, good results, so will probably stick to it.
DeleteNo Farrow and Ball Bone on Bone ?
DeleteCrown now own farrow and ball I was told today.
DeleteI did not know that - interesting ptby. Mind with our situation decorating has not been nor will be an option right now, Sarnia will recall this. Just keep tidy and clean time together is the main thing 🥰
DeleteToo true Lady R. I hope Mr R is well at the moment?
DeleteMy go to paint was always Dulux, but that's perhaps due to, that I loved the "Dulux Dog". Aah the power of advertising.
DeleteI was never keen on painting and the part I hated most, was cleaning the brushes + rollers after. It always took ages + so messy.
Today, at last I had a good look around my garden. I know that there is a lot to be done, such as pruning roses, cutting back plants, pulling up plants that sadly are no more after a lot of both cold + wet spells, but I was still horrified as to what I found.
ReplyDeleteIn one word:- Weeds.
These are still so prolific and growing fast again. I don't know why these don't seem to have been affected by the very cold events.
As I could finally walk out onto the lawn again, the days are also now lengthening, and having paid for my new garden refuse bin permit (emptying to start at the end of February), I suddenly have the impetus to get out gardening again.
So very much to do.
I have snowdrops and some early crocii now in flower, and suddenly so many bulbs are now finally appearing quickly, though late this year.
Any other Jasper Fforde fans out there?
ReplyDeleteI've just finished Red Side Story. Well worth the wait. (Although it was planned as the third of a trilogy, I hope the third book doesn't take another 10 years!)
If you've read Shade of Grey (no, *not* the 50 shades ...) then get hold of the book now. Many (but not all) of your questions will be answered. But new ones will be posed ...
If you haven't read it, grab a copy and find out what you've been missing.
There again, it's pretty dark. Perhaps wait until after the current Ambridge storyline is resolved ...
Anyone watch the apprentice last night? I find it embarrassing to watch. How can people be so bloody useless?
ReplyDeleteMr PtbY thinks it’s funny. I had to leave the room through the task but, I couldn’t bear it. I like the boardroom bit but Alan Sugar doing the “jokes” does my head in.
We stopped watching it during the first series, didn't like the programme and Alan Sugar even less.
DeletePtby I was surprised to see a new series advertised it sounds as if it is continuing in comedy mode and for that reason I might watch the first episode. A shame really as certain programmes and this was one started really meaty and with pretty normal people seriously wanting to win for the right reason. Now most if not all contestants look like they have been
Deleteembalmed including their brains 😂
For the moment “The Traitors” transcends them all but in the end will most likely meet the same fate 😒
‼️Archerphile “Hampshire Hospital’s stand down from critical alert” as seen on local Google news page last evening - Phew. Obviously still asking for sensitive use of services.
ReplyDeleteA quick question if I may.
ReplyDeleteDoes any-one have any recommendations as to good radio listens.
I enjoy dramas, a good mystery but can't abide supernatural nor ghost stories.
Dombey + Son had left me cold,as has done McLevy.
There has to be something that I have missed.
I'm struggling to find some good listens as well Miriam. Like you I listen when I'm doing jobs around the house.
DeleteMiriam and CC - try pod casts ? Lots of interesting subjects though not necessarily entertaining.
DeleteAgatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express has been on 4 Extra this week. If you are quick you could catch up. I think there were 5 episodes which I listened to back to back whilst jigsawing. Otherwise it’s been a bit poor recently.
DeleteI’m not keen on podcasts myself. They always seem to be rather me, me, me, what I have done and aren’t I clever!
Forgot to say the Agatha Christie is listed under ‘Whodunnits’. There is an episode today which would give you access to the other episodes. I have also been listening to ‘Detective’ a rather old but interesting police drama series featuring RayBrooks. Individual half hour stories.
DeletePart of the problem for me is that I think that the Sounds app isn't the most user friendly that I've come across.
DeleteI find the Sounds app much easier than the BBC iPlayer. That gets me so frustrated because I can never find what I’m looking for and have to resort to the search page and try to type in the title which is very difficult without perfect vision!
DeleteOn Sounds I usually go to ‘search’ straight away and scroll down to ‘Drama’ which brings up plays, soaps etc in categories such as Crime, Historical etc.
Sadly what I am founding on Sounds these days, are many programmes that I have heard before, hence my question.
DeleteI have enjoyed some true crime podcasts, but there is only so many that can be listened to.
Occasionally I do find something different, but not that often, sadly.
Thanks for the replies and it is so appreciated.
To add, I spent ages a short while ago scrolling through Drama on Sounds.
DeleteI was surprised just how much I had already listened to, but I did download some programmes - it is 🫰that these will suit me.
Miriam…I listened to an Adam dalgleash yesterday which was quite good. Started murder on the orient express last night.
DeletePtbY. Sadly I have listened to these before, which is my dilemma..Thanks, though 😀
DeleteI watched last night a programme titled "The Day The Queen Died".
ReplyDeleteWhat memories it brought back and made me quite emotional.
It was focused on the events of that sad day, but also on the reporters/news readers who were on stand-by.
It was very interesting as to see how things unfolded, knowing what we do know.
What I found quite surreal was seeing reporters suddenly changing into black-ties, which were already in back trouser pockets, just in case.
I needed a tissue again, but sure exactly why.
Had a lovely day in the garden today. I've done some preparatory work on the veg beds and a bit of pruning. I've also had a sort out in the shed in preparation for potting up my 6 doz pelargonium cuttings. I'm feeling the effects now though!
ReplyDeleteMy day was in the kitchen.
DeleteI still have half-price electricity on Sunday from 11.00am until 4.00pm. As such all my washing was done, bread made + meals cooked for both now + to go into freezer.
I don't save a lot, but to me it is - why pay more than need to.
My Mum taught me well, as to how to economise in whatever way.
I’ve finally finished prepping kitchen today and got cut in with the colour. I was going to continue and get a full first coat on only to fine I didn’t have a flipping roller sleeve. Will get one tomorrow and crack on. Watched 6th Harry Potter film instead.
ReplyDeleteWhat sad news about Ian Lavender
ReplyDeleteIndeed Miriam. I didn’t realise he had had so many illnesses over the last number of years.
DeleteI have only heard that he has died, not any details. But it was quite a shock because he was younger than me. We still watch Dad’s Army regularly, so regularly that we know most of the scripts off by heart.
DeleteAP I often listen to episodes of this on R4ex, which I still enjoy even if like you, I know all the episodes by heart! It is an easy Sounds listen at about 8.00am, whilst up + about, getting breakfast and just need something light-hearted to listen to and not really concentrate on.
ReplyDeleteAwful news about the king.
ReplyDeleteSo! Prince Harry is on his way due to dad King Charles cancer diagnosis. You jumped ship too soon Harry “ok for you Wills you will always be needed the spare never unless in the (unlikely) event one after the other disasters should befall the main members and now they have…
ReplyDeleteAnd William is going to have a heavy workload, standing in for Charles, holding investitures, and looking after Kate, doing the school runs etc. Thank goodness he is the steady one of the brothers.
DeleteMy first thought was that Princess Ann and Prince Edward could help but of course they already have many commitments and younger royals like Beatrice and Eugenie have their own careers as well as children.
DeleteI just wish all the speculation would just stop. The Tabloids are having a field-day, which to me is in an unknown and unnatural way.
DeleteIt's only my personal view.
Suddenly the ‘ slimmed down ‘ RF - The Firm - envisaged by The King so short a time ago, is with us today without any fanfare.
ReplyDeletePerhaps this will be the start of a rapprochement of sorts.
Message for JANICE
ReplyDeleteYou may have heard Janice, but if not can I direct you to this weeks program with Michael Rosen Word of Mouth. He was discussing language dialects with a Philippino. ( sp ? ) man.
I wasn’t listening closely but immediately thought of how it would interest you.
Thank you Mrs P, I would be interested but can't seem to find it.
ReplyDeleteMabel speaks Masbateno, but most people understand Tagalog which is a kind of general language understood on most islands. Her relatives have been asking if she has been speaking and teaching Max Masbateno, but she has been very keen for him to understand and speak English well. I have said to her it won't confuse him to learn two languages , and have started saying Salamat as well when I say thank you to him. He is at that lovely stage of using 3 instead of 2 word sentences. In March they are going out to the Philippines for two months, my daughter as well for 2/ 3 weeks so she will at least be able to help entertain him on the outward very long journey. He is a lively toddler, almost two now, and soaking up information like a sponge so I am sure he will pick up a lot of Masbateno words playing with his little cousins. I have always taken being British for granted and the way Mabel respects Britain as a country and is determined her son will grow up British and have lots of opportunities is quite humbling and makes me realise why so many immigrants risk drowning to get here.
We brought our Small People up bilingual for about seven years.
DeleteI spoke English to them, OMiaS spoke French. The children tended to speak English but could understand and speak French (and once or twice corrected my accent when I spoke it!!)
It fizzled out when OMiaS stopped working as a languages teacher but they got a good grounding. Oldest Small Person in a Shoe is now a language teacher.
There are various models to use, we followed the suggestion that it is less confusing for a child when each parent sticks to one language. Worldwide, England is in a minority - most children grow up speaking at least two languages.
All the best to Mabel teaching Max Mastbateno.
What a horrible wet, windy + cold day. I had housework to do, but decided to finish my jigsaw instead!
ReplyDeleteIt was a lovely one to do, not too challenging but it did have it's tricky parts.
AP + others - if interested, it is by Otter House, titled "Peeping Through The Window".
That is a lovely jigsaw Miriam, the cat is like our Bella except she has a little white half moon on her chest. I am not a jigsaw person myself but always bought one for a good friend at Christmas and on her birthday, but she moved to Finland last summer and when I sent her a jigsaw this Christmas the postage was astronomical so we have agreed to just exchange either a calendar or a nice card in future. If we manage some time to get out there to visit that is the jigsaw I will take out for her.
DeleteHello Janice
DeleteI heard a different Word ofMouth this afternoon, so I think that what I heard last evening must have been a repeat of last weeks episode.
I do hope you can find it for you and Mabel to listen to.
The languages you mention was part of the discussion.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001vsdp
DeleteThanks for the recommendation, Mrs P. I shall listen to the series when I have finished catching up with 'Now You're Asking'.
Janice - it is the episode from 30th January - Word of Mouth Unequal English
DeleteThank you 🙂
DeleteJust listened to it. Very interesting, and they were quite right in saying it is American English spoken in the Philippines. I am hoping Max will grow up speaking British English but I expect it will be a mixture of both. Whenever we see a picture of a ladybird in a book he calls it a ladybug, and of course " Miss Rachel" which his mum sits him in front of when she wants some peace is, although educational and interesting for a little one, very much an American programme.
DeleteBy the time Mabel was school age they weren't forced to speak English the whole day but for some classes, especially English, they were taught in English and expected to only speak in English. As a result her English is excellent, and she speaks the language of her native island and also Tagalog which is a language understood by most islanders, and there is some Spanish mixed in with it because of the colonisation prior to the American colonisation. She is sometimes flummoxed by some of our expressions, things like "donkeys years", but is picking them up fast. I am waffling on now, but thank you Mrs P as I found it interesting.
Your welcome Janice. I must listen again, properly, to understand as I only had half an ear the first time.
DeleteTypical. My lovely garden bloke is coming tomorrow to cut down a large shrub in my front garden. His Dad is coming too, to scrub out the stumps + roots with a new machine. This is needed in preparation for getting the drive-way expanded and totally re-done later.
ReplyDeleteI don't think it will happen though, as I have a 24 hour warning for snow which looks like it might just happen!
I can but hope, but it's a job that can wait.
I put a message onto my local f/b community page as to query good, reliable local firms which also are not too costly, as to replacing drive-ways. I had some lovely replies, some I will follow up re getting quotes.
I have always spoken to my children and grandchildren in English as did my late husband. We spent some time in England and in America in the 1980s. Both my son and daughter acquired American accents but reverted to English when we returned to Italy. My grandchildren have English accents.
ReplyDeleteWhen my daughter lived in Singapore a friend of her son had an Irish father and Ukrainian mother. They lived in Germany for the first few years of his life. In Singapore they sent him to a French school. At the age of 6 he spoke English, Ukrainian, German and French.
ReplyDeleteThe following programme with Michael Rosen was about multi linguistic ability and how the different emotional attachment towards a persons native and adoptive tongue changes perception of what is said.
DeleteI do love this programme.
My granddaughters have always spoken to the father in English and their mother in Russian, and that was from birth. They lived in Vienna and although they attended an independant school, where most teachers were English or American, they had to learn German too.
DeleteNow in Frankfurt, again they are learning German and now Spanish !
Joining in with the language discussion - my two half English /half French grandsons have been bilingual since they first started to speak. The interesting thing is that they both have perfect accents in each language. They go to an International school where everything is taught in English but they have to take both English and French grammar and literature GCSE lessons. Now the younger one is learning Spanish too and apparently doing well. I think it is wonderful to have the facility of being able to speak and read in languages other than just English.
DeleteRe: language discussion - I recently returned from a long winter break to the Canaries and whilst there I took part in a few exercise classes. A Spanish mother and her young daughter were also on holiday there and joined in with us. They both spoke very good English and when asked about learning English, the Spanish mother said that from an early age she spoke Spanish, English and French within her family.
DeleteShe lived in northern Spain about 20Km from the Pyrenees.
I was envious of her ability to join in what was a mainly an English-speaking holiday activity.
Before I take a short break from here, I was happy today as my garden bloke arrived on time, even though it was sleeting at the time..
ReplyDeleteAnother great job superbly done and so reasonable.
Until I join in again - Stay safe and Take Care.
Fed up with us all Miriam 🙁 or just going to be a very busy 🐝
ReplyDeleteNot at all.
DeleteJust need a break now + again.
Busy weekend, as all 3 sisters will be meeting up together again for the first time since before the Pandemic. I will also be enjoying "sleep overs".
DeleteI am in charge of cakes, so it is a teabread and an apricot/apple/almond one.
Hope you really enjoy your big meet up Miriam.
DeleteThat’s good news Miriam have a great time 😀
DeleteHave a lovely and sisterly weekend Miriam
DeleteThat apricot/apple/almond cake sounds very moreish.
DeleteHope that you have a lovely weekend Miriam
DeleteJust had a lovely piece of news this evening - really cheered me up.
ReplyDeleteBoth Grandson and Granddaughter currently halfway through their PGCEs, have been offered permanent teaching jobs in September, in the schools where they are training.
Rosie to teach English in Leamington Spa, and Max to teach Geography here in Basingstoke.
A great start to the weekend. 😊
Congratulations all round Archerphile such splendid news but where have the years gone!
DeleteLovely news to make you proud ARCHERPHILE
DeleteGood news Archerfile, just what we need these days.
DeleteWhat lovely sunsets yesterday and today with pretty pastel shades of blue, turquoise, peach and pink. A friend of mine lives in a house on the side of a hill facing west and overlooking the Cheshire plain. She has some amazing sunset photos.
ReplyDeleteCrikey is everyone ok? Not that I have contributed recently. I will return later on with an update regarding all things Lady R. Popping out for a late lunch at local Garden Centre first and a ride around in the sunshine. The cold air will wake us up 🫣 but the sun is glorious.
ReplyDeleteBless you, Lady R. Yes, muddling along as usual. Lunch at the Garden Centre and a drive in the sunshine - lovely!
ReplyDeleteHad my cup of tea so back out into the sunshine now. Hope you had a lively ride in the sunshine Lady R.
ReplyDeleteMeant "lovely". Hope the ride was smooth not lively!
ReplyDeleteJanice - I wish the young ones who take their own lives could see the devastation felt by those left behind. I’m sure all this social media and instantaneous responses don’t help.
ReplyDeleteMost of us have ‘down periods’ but it’s how we can cope with them that matters.
I read somewhere that it is ‘a permanent solution to a temporary problem.’
Been a lovely bright day here. Actually got my kitchen window cleaned outside. Soon chills down though at tea time. Fire all laid ready to go.
ReplyDeleteTraitors fans!!
We just binged watched Australian traitors series 2 over the weekend. It was brilliant. It’s on bbc iPlayer.
Have watched the British and American Traitors, and have now just started the Australian series 1. The breakfast table always looks so scrumptious, would love to stay in a hotel like it.
DeleteAfter a fantastic catch-up with 3 sisters together again, all I can say is fun, laughter, too much food + wine, not much sleep...
ReplyDeleteWill crash out tonight!
🐈⬛ was so pleased to see me back after her time "home alone", but was totally fine.
To add - no time yet to catch up with all the news from others.
DeleteI look forward to this tomorrow 😃
Hello again everyone good to hear from you all. Sad news though of so many youngsters taking their lives and leaving such pain for those left behind too as Esscee has said.
ReplyDeleteWe enjoyed our lunch and then Mr R toured the outside space in his “chariot” ⭐️ so fast at times I thought it may well be “of fire” 🤣 A sunny ride back through the villages with snowdrops and a particularly lovely bank of daffodils in one of them. In this particular local region we have Mr Alan Tichmarsh and Mr Phil Spencer’s abodes and one can see why our area appeals. Had a nap on return food and driving I guess!
Family update feel free to pass‼️
My recently bereaved sister visited last week for her 80th birthday with her daughter and her partner
It was an emotional reunion of course but we had lunch at a hotel in town (that we had booked) and it also went well for Mr R so that was good. Even bearing her loss she looks amazing (nowhere near her age) she is slight in build and dresses so casually stylish not too young but certainly not an older lady. We talked of our childhood and some of our squabbles and laughed a lot at those so that helped. Friday she returned to Gainsborough but not before sorting a years rental on a lovely apartment not too far from her family and us. House will be left to sell Estate Agent keeping in touch with her and her son in Antigua who has same job there but with big houses on the books.
After the year she can reassess her options. For now and for all of us it is still about the grief of loss. A blessing we know for Jim to be relived of suffering but the pain of loss is so hard at times, I know she found yesterday a long day for now she is on her own completely but will be here early March. For her birthday I found online John Lewis a beautiful 2 layered presentation box of miniature aromatherapy oils to use in bath or shower each for a different emotional need, she has started to use and said the lavender and peppermint (states for support) was in her typing GORGEOUS. Also popped a box of Bach Rescue Remedy Stray in her bag. Being for the moment so far away I just need her to know we are doing a little something to say “we are with you”. She is ringing later tonight so look forward to that. I have rambled on apace but it helps to share I find so thank you to anyone that has born with me to the end of my missal 🙏🏼
It must be a great help for your sister knowing that she has such kind support Lady R.
DeleteSpray of course!!!
ReplyDeleteThat is such a good definition Esscee.
ReplyDeleteI thought your gifts were really thoughtful ones Lady R, and am sending you and your family much sympathy. I like Dr Bronner's liquid soaps, and use the lavender one at night for helping relax before sleep, and the citrus one during the day downstairs as an energising one. A friend who lost her husband at too young an age said in the first year she felt in a sort of daze, but it is now in the second year that it has really hit her that he isn't coming back.
ReplyDeleteVery thoughtful Lady R.
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