Wednesday 31 August 2022
Quiet Day
Tuesday 30 August 2022
Panic Buying
Saturday 27 August 2022
On the Blink
Friday 26 August 2022
Ups and Downs
Wednesday 24 August 2022
Me and Washing Machines
Tuesday 23 August 2022
Washing Machine was Sick
Saturday 20 August 2022
Challenge Accepted
Thank you for all the amazing and kind comments. I feel completely hugged and it has been an amazing help to me over the last few weeks. Never underestimate the power of a kind comment. You really, seriously helped.
I'm not up to speed on blogs or much of anything today. However, I've been distracted by writing things. I've been reading a cosy mystery (not one of the Nancy Warren one's, Hazel, and apparently there's a new one out on 28th September) and I've got very frustrated. They killed somebody off wrong. It sounds silly, but I'm utterly annoyed that they wasted the awesome character and it didn't help the plot. I feel like stamping my feet.
I have a backlog of writing that I owe Three Furies, but then I'm going to write a cosy mystery and I'm going to make it work. I'm not saying that I can do things better than the writer. They certainly have a better work ethic than I have, and I know that there are gaps in my stuff. On the other hand, I feel for that wasted character.
I was so busy thinking about the poor thing that I tried putting seed in the suet pellet holder and the stuff went everywhere.
And the weed is, I think, one of the spurges, or euphorbias. I can make an argument for wood spurge. Here's a better pic, I think. It's a bit draughty out, so it was hard to get one that wasn't a blur.
I know this plant, which has been a regular weed since we moved in, and it does have the milky sap, though they have always been quite small.
The bathroom has had its first coat of paint on the windowframe. DH has put up a mirror and a small shelf and I have ordered from my friend eBay an inexpensive new lampshade. The current one is older than bear and it shows. I'll take pics when it's finished.
Now I feel so out of sorts because of that poor character, I'm off to get some writing done. Obviously I need to sort out the stuff for Three Furies, but then I can get that cosy mystery (my style) sorted out. I'll post my word count tomorrow.
Hugs and good health to all. Also, thank you. You have been a real support.
Friday 19 August 2022
Good News
According to the nurse, it's not cancer but dermatitis and they need to ask my GP to refer me to a dermatologist. As I've had no luck with my GP ever doing that, I'm not optimistic.
The bathroom is almost all finished now as well.
The whole business has given me a lot to think about. I'll be back tomorrow with a proper post, but I need to come here and say that you are all awesome and have been a real help and encouragement over the last however long. You made a positive difference.
Hugs and good health to all.
Wednesday 17 August 2022
Nothing Much
Tuesday 16 August 2022
Bathroom Continues
Monday 15 August 2022
Treading Water
Sunday 14 August 2022
It's All Fuchsia
Saturday 13 August 2022
Weather Continues Again
Friday 12 August 2022
Out of Sorts
And here is a quiz where you have to identify the food that the cats are dressed as. I have never seen so many felines plotting revenge in one place. I don't know what they're going to do, but it will be dreadful.
Thursday 11 August 2022
Weather Continues
Wednesday 10 August 2022
And It's Warm Again
Bless - thank you for your kind thoughts. I feel so supported and hugged.
Cherie - thank you. I'm sure it's all nothing, but unfortunately I have a well developed imagination. I really appreciate the kind thoughts.
Sharon - Thank you, I really appreciate all the good wishes, they help so much.
Athene - I think I may have to join the gym (grossly overweight and creaky as I am) because there are times I can't get into the shower as it's set over the bath. That will be a win-win, though, if I can get any fitter. I hope that bathroom fitting is going quicker for you.
Hazel - there are swathes of witches having cozy mysteries while knitting, cooking or being a make up artist. It seems to be a genre in itself. I may have read several, or several dozen. I admit nothing. And yes, I have a few ideas...
It's warming up again. I do not approve at all. Also, I've done very little. I cooked a chicken crown early in the morning and we had it cold with coleslaw and bread and butter for dinner. I may try a rice salad tomorrow. I'm making a decision that I'm not dashing about in this weather, especially with a half done bathroom.
I visited the nurse for the annual check up. It was ridiculously warm walking over there at 9am. On the other hand, I walked out of the house and over to the doctor's surgery. That is an achievement that I am not sure that I could have done a few years ago. I could always do stuff for bear, but not for me. But today I did it, so I'm taking it as a win. As I haven't taken a pic today, here's one I took some time ago.
This is from 13 August 2021. Things were a lot greener then.
I didn't get a pic of the crab apples on the way back. They are ripening nicely and the trees are loaded! I also picked up a new hoodie for bear as the one he had was too small. Bear is now wearing a man's medium. Which reminds me, I need to pick up a belt as I can't find the last one I got him. He may have the height of a medium man, but he doesn't yet have the width.
Hugs and good health to all.
Tuesday 9 August 2022
Not the Right Kind of Chaos
Monday 8 August 2022
Still Doing Okay
Friday 5 August 2022
Doing Okay
Wednesday 3 August 2022
Bathroom Continues
Tuesday 2 August 2022
I Took Pics
Monday 1 August 2022
You are all awesome!
I'm sorry I've been missing. I find out whether I need a biopsy or not on Friday, and on top of everything else, it's put me in a dark place. As anyone who follows my stuff will know, I have a ridiculously active imagination and it hasn't been doing me any favours.
The pigeons keep queuing on the roof ridge, looking subdued. Mind you, knowing pigeons, it's probably their two brain cells competing for third place. We have some roofers coming around to have a look at the pigeon flap. It's just one slate that has been dislodged, but it's on a stupidly high roof. Last time we had work on the roof done, it legally needed scaffolding. That makes it a lot more expensive, but not as expensive as a leaking roof.
And speaking of leaks, I was sitting in the study on Saturday with heavy duty headphones on, and I heard a tapping. Apparently, while the nice men were doing the work on the bathroom, they knocked the waste pipe of the sink in my room next door, which meant that the water was dropping into the living room ceiling. We had what looked like a huge blister dripping! The lovely plumber came out, even though it was Saturday night, and sorted it out.
The bathroom, for a variety of reasons, still isn't finished, even though it should have been done and dusted last Friday. I am desperate for a looooong shower and the security of a properly fixed toilet. Fingers crossed it will be done by Wednesday.
Bear is in a good place and currently trying to eat his own bodyweight in snacks. I'm expecting another growth spurt. He will tower over me soon!
The England team won the European Championship (Lionesses!) and Liverpool won the Charity Shield. Drink may have been taken.
Writing stuff - I submitted a series of pieces to Three Furies Press in June, and the third is out now here.
Hugs and good health to all.