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Normally I don't find time to watch a complete film, because I always seem to be doing something which means I can't follow a film properly. Well for some reason or other, I'd recorded Captain Phillips with Tom Hanks in the title role. I usually love

Well they had no choice really, because whatever was killing a lot of the cats, it was outside, so they brought the remaining two kittens indoors. At least Pippi (_Alfie's brother) was still okay and the kittens were his siblings, so he didn't mind them.

This is just going to be a short one. We've had very high winds - almost up to 90mph gusts and one of its gusts took my roof off the outside porch!!! Unfortunately while it was obviously tugging at the roof, it scratched against the wall and so I've got

Mandi had to go back to the hospital for a check up and to have biopsies done on her lymph nodes. Well she went up on Wednesday and came back on Thursday. She had the results and she's CLEAR!!!!! The doctors had got all the cancer lumps out and the

As you know the other day was my big 70th birthday, although I felt depressed enough just being aware of how old I am, but as Mickey pointed out to me last night, after I had my big sub-arachnoid haemorrhage, every year is a bonus to me and that's quite

Well today Ann took me to the doctors to have my dressing changed. The joy of that was that the nurses decided I didn't have to have any dressings any more, all I had to do was wear these compression stockings every day. That's fine by me, the only thing

This is a question I've been asking myself for ages now. I honestly don't know where the day goes. I seem to be going non-stop all day doing something or other, and before I know it - it's night-time and I haven't even thought about supper. So it's a mad

I honestly don't know what I've done to deserve having the neighbours I have. Yesterday Richard came round to help me sort out the spare lounge. He's realised that I'm not going to be able to return to sleeping upstairs in my bedroom anymore because I

Do you remember I had decided to make some oven gloves for Ann and Yvonne for an extra little Christmas pressie? Then what with one thing and another, I didn't get round to making two pairs, due to unforseen circumstances, I ended up having to give just

Well folks I've finished another soft toy for my next door neighbour. Her husband Richard is the one who comes round and sorts out things for me - and I'd already given him a giraffe because it was his favourite animal. I felt awful that I hadn't given

Not huge swathes or amounts of snow - but snow nevertheless. This part of the West Country rarely has any amount of snow - the last time was in 2011 and the year before that!!!!! So to see snow here, means I just have to video it!!!!! Mind you with

Hiya - the reason I haven't written much lately is because not a lot has happened here in this part of the UK. Well a lot has happened, but not to me!!! We did have some snow - You can see that we did actually have a little amount - 3" was the total

This is ridiculous - the snow had gone - the sun even visited us for about 30 minutes the other day and it's over half way through March, so why on earth would I expect the damn white stuff to come back? Where I live - it's a very temperate climes. It's

Just a quickie - had a lovely message from Mandi saying that she's booked a flight for Wednesday, landing in Gatwick at 4pm. She'll get a bus to Exeter and a friend of hers will pick her up from the bus station there and bring her home!! I can hardly

Hiya, I thought I'd better explain now, that I won't be on here for very long because not only will I have Mandi here, but I have one of my late brother's friends staying here too. I've known him for over 40 years and he was my brother's best friend. He's

Oh it's so good to see her. It was a very emotional meeting to start with. She came in floods of tears - she's been keeping her pain and emotions in check for months now - but as soon as she saw me - she cried for nearly an hour. Poor girl. She's home

Well at long last the weather has warmed up somewhat. Shall we just say - it's warmed up enough not to need the halogen fire on and the radiator is only on for a couple of hours in the evening!!! No hot water bottle needed neither. So it will be great

The cherry blossom has come out altogether, and with the blue sky above it, it really stands out. There was an overcast sky today with a bit of a wind and I could see confetti blowing across my garden. I just hope the blue sky will return tomorrow because

This is just going to be a quick blog, because I just don't have the time to do a long one. I am feeling very tired, I think it's because I'm just not used to having someone here with me all the time. Although Mandi does more for me, I still feel

I've just finished chatting to Pearl and she wanted me to thank you all for your wonderful birthday wishes. She wished she could answer them herself, but her eyesight is so bad at the moment that she can't see to write, nor actually read your messages

This time of year the lilac trees are having a great time, showing off with their wonderful blooms. The white lilac is very pungent and luckily I have many trees dotted here and there in the garden and driveway - the paler purple lilac isn't so common -

Sorry - no blog for days and then two in one day - a bit like a bus eh? I thought I'd shown you my apple blossom, of which I'm extremely proud, but I found that I hadn't. This year it's beautiful, but there again it's obvious that I'd say that!!!! I'm

Well today dawned with a beautifully clear blue sky. It was still very cold though which defies belief. How come it's in the middle of May and it's still very cold. I'm tired of wearing my thermal vest, I didn't expect this to happen by this time. I

I had a white rose bush in a flower pot on my kitchen window sill but it wasn't doing very much really. In fact these last two years, I've only had one flower show in the winter time. I got a bit fed up but did wonder if it was a bit too lanky. There was

Typical - we were going to cut the lawn yesterday, but neither of us felt well enough to do so, so we promised to do it today - it's been raining all day!!!!!!!!!! The first rain we've had for a week. We couldn't do it on Monday because we had visitors,

Yep I'm still in the land of the living. I have no intention of popping my clogs just yet. I am very grateful to our Mickey for keeping you up to date. The doctors aren't sure yet of what exactly is wrong with me. They are bandying around chronic heart

Hi folks, I'm back home at last!!!!! The doctors finally decided on a diagnosis - I have COPD with borderline diabetes, and low iron. They say my heart failure is still a possibility but were so pleased with how I progressed that that diagnosis is put on

Have a great day today Mickey. You have been my very dear best friend for over 10 years now and I am so lucky to have you in my life....... Happy birthday sweetie x xxx

Apparently my movements outside aren't as good as they used to be. My vertigo isn't very good and walking outside with just a walking stick to steady me isn't enough. So I tend not to go outside because I feel as if I'm going to fall. Well when I was in

True to form - this year's seagull chicks have fallen off the roof! The difference this year is that two of them did it! I've called the chicks "Winking", "Blinking" and "Nod " as there are three of them this year. Now I didn't hear Winking land on the

Tony, my son, has finished his first year in College. He'd worked for Her Majesty' s Custom & Excise for 25 years and had to accept redundancy when the office was moved about 100 miles away. So he decided he wanted extra certificates to be able to

Hiya folks, sorry I haven't been on here for a while but I've been trying to get to know my new computer laptop, also I'm still trying to work with both hands not working as they should. When I was in hospital, they put many canulars in both hands to

At long last all three chicks are off the roof, but they are still wandering around the garden - mostly in Ann and Peter's garden because they don't have any animals to worry about - much to Ann's consternation because they poop everywhere, especially on

Mandi has some gorgeous cats in her home - they were provided by a stray cat we've called Annie, because "mum" is Annie in Turkish. She brought them round with their other siblings about 8 months ago, unfortunately the other kitties didn't survive because

Hiya folks....... I know I shouldn't moan, because everyone is suffering this year. We've been extremely lucky compared to some other areas in this country. We've been around 8 to 10 degrees cooler than the South East, but we have hardly had any rain

Hiya folks, I've just realised how lax I've been in writing my blogs. To be honest, I just haven't had much spare time, yet I wonder what I've been doing to take up so much time!!!! For the last few weeks I've had a visitor. An old friend of my brother

These last couple of weeks have been so busy with visits to hospitals etc that I've just come home sometimes and collapsed in a semi-wet heap on the couch, not really wanting to move anywhere!!!! I now have a complete week with nothing penned in, so it

Yesterday Tony and his team won 3 out of 4 categories for their films. He's studying film making, and all that making a film entails. During the summer holidays (from the College) he worked with a tv film company. He is hoping that he will be offered a

Well the last two days have been glorious, in that we've had wonderful clear bright blue skies, warm in the sun, but it's colder now especially out of the warmth of the sun. Next door has a lovely rowan tree, they'd hacked it back a couple of years ago

My cleaner, Emily, cleaned my ceiling lights in my lounge two weeks ago, and I remember how pleased I was with being able to look up to the ceiling with the lights on and not see damn cobwebs!!! So you can imagine how miffed I was when I looked up the

Apparently after this coming weekend, we are starting to go into wintry conditions!!! Well it's going to get colder anyway. Today has been a lovely sunny day - not sunbathing weather, but certainly mild and delightful. Emily, I don't like to call her my

A few people have mentioned that the plant in my bathroom is rather big - well yes I suppose it is, but it's been there in the window for around 15 years now, and so I'm used to it. I think it's called a weeping fig. I must admit though - it is rather

Yesterday was a lovely day, mild but sunny and so I opened my lounge window to get some fresh air in and I noticed a rather large mushroom smack in the middle of the grass!!! I couldn't believe it - so I thought I'd investigate and promptly went out

While I was sorting out things yesterday, I came across a piece of paper with some very interesting (well I thought they were) facts - I'd obviously thought they were good enough to write down on the paper!!! 1) The pressure exerted by a rat's jaw is

Ann, my neighbour/friend, took me to the dentist yesterday for a check-up and when I came out, she suggested we went for a quick run just to see how things are. I was shocked when we went to Westward Ho! - I hadn't been there for many months and the

The other day I looked up and saw this beautiful kitty looking in..... Not seen it before and I just loved its markings. I've decided it's a "she" because she is too pretty to be a "he" cat. I told it I wasn't going to open the window and he just

Where Mandi lives in Turkey, is full of tourists in the summer, but then it's just the villagers at the rest of the time. Mandi and Dogan are well known for being cat friendly in the village, so someone decided to leave a tiny kitten for them!!!! It's

Bideford new bridge from the quayside. Thought you might like this Pam.

The other day Ann, my neighbour, told me that her her son's wife, Rhiannon, was due to give birth to their first child any day now. Well you know how I feel about making soft toys? Lately I haven't had my mojo going, to encourage me to start sewing

Well this afternoon I was sitting on my couch, doing some more sewing when a movement outside caught my eye. I realised that a squirrel was out in my garden - now this is quite a rare treat so I watched it for all of 20 seconds when it shot off into the

I thought I'd make a little chick for the baby, so he/she can hold it while he/she is tiny. I do so enjoy making soft toys, but apparently my grandchildren are too old to want soft toys!!!!!!! It's small enough for the baby to hold whilst he/she is

I'm sorry I've been so lax in writing here lately - but I'm busy making presents for Christmas and I've been trying new skills. I'm making tote bags for my neighbours - well the female ones!!! - I've never made bags before - so this is a new venture for

As I've already mentioned - today is my son's 49th birthday! I don't feel old enough to have a son who's almost 50!!!!!! I know I am - because the memory of his birth is still strong in my mind. I can remember being ready to give birth for 17 hours and

I think I mentioned that I'm making presents for my neighbours, I've already got them chocolates, wine, scarves etc, have finished the necklaces, but now I'm making the girls tote bags!!! I've never made these bags before - and I'm relying on tutorials

Well the tree is up and the presents wrapped. I have been very fortunate to have the tree decorated by Emily. I wrapped the presents up, thankfully I can still do that. There are presents for my neighbours and for the family. As I'm not going

I do hope you all had a great time, of some sort or other. I enjoyed Christmas Day because I was on my own and it was lovely and quiet and it meant I had an extra day to get ready for the visit of my son and grandchildren. Mandi and Dogan celebrated