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  • When I’m upset…

    I now lead a simple life and ‘upset’ is not something I encounter very often. Large or small ‘upsets’ are not good for my heart so I try not to let them interfere. A Consultant said to me recently “You know your body very...
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  • What to do?

    I drew back the heavy curtains and opened the blinds to a bright white world clothed in frost. All of a sudden I gasped in horror. The beauty of nature was spoiled by its alter ego when I spied the trail of bloody footprints. They passed the full length...
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  • Step up to the Plate

    As the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver draw to a close today and we are fired up with the amazing stamina, skill and talent of the participants, I share a story that came to me the other day by email: Two Choices What would you do?….you make the...
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  • A Little Niggle

    When I first embraced blogging, I had a Blogger Blog. After a year or so I was moved over to WordPress and a have stayed with them since then. My old posts were relocated to the new base and anyone who landed on an old early post link found themselves...
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  • Strutting her stuff

    Last Wednesday was the appointed day and we arrived in good time joining in line with the others waiting to perform. A shuttered door was raised and the lights changed from red to green when it was time to enter. It was a large warehouse type building...
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  • Do you have a daughter?

    God’s cake… Sometimes we wonder, ‘What did I do to deserve this?’ or ‘Why did God have to do this to me?’ Here is a wonderful explanation! A daughter is telling her Mother how everything is going wrong, she’s...
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  • Friday

    Friday was pay day when I first joined the land of the workers. We stood in line to get our reward: £6 14s 0d (after deductions) counted into my hot ice cold hands, I then had to sign a big sheet to show that I got the money. I handed over half of it...
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  • Maybe

    Maynard sent me this edited copy of one of my photos. To blog you need words and today I have few. I was outdoors this afternoon cleaning the inside of my car. It was wonderful to be out there in the fresh air, able to clamber in and out and up and down...
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  • Just because

    Just because… You are not in full time employment, doesn’t mean you don’t need to eat. You are on a diet, doesn’t mean you cannot peruse the menu. You are alone, doesn’t mean you are lonely It is Sunday, does not mean the sun will shine. If the sun don...
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  • Caricatures

    A few weeks ago there was talk of caricatures. Baino way down under in Sydney was the first to strike. She digitally played with one of my Podcasting photos from way back. Right now I am unable to turn my hand to the original. GM by Baino Then moving...
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  • Hello

    I hope you have a good day. Any plans? I am busy with running repairs so I will be back at 3pm for a rest and a good read. See you then.
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  • Sleep

    What is it, and do we need it? I feel I need sleep, but nature thinks otherwise. I have tried reading listening to the radio getting up and making a warm drink doing chores None of this seems to help so I have resigned myself to just resting in the dark...
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  • I’m wearing my PJs!

    Well I am alone and within my own four walls. If you were around here in October you will have seen them. Earlier this week notices were put up in Tescos supermarket at St Mellons in Wales saying: “To avoid causing offence or embarrassment to others...
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  • Staying in bed

    I think I will stay in bed today. Dum de dum de dum….. . . . Where is room service? . . . Ah well, It was a nice idea, but I am starving, Maybe tonight I will bring a picnic to bed for my breakfast. What do you think?
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  • Sane or insane

    Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy. ~ Nora Ephron, novelist Now you know why I laugh at myself all the time.
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