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Not a lot to say really - apart from the fact that the lounge window is open until I go to bed and the window is open in my bedroom too!!! All the time. It's lovely having fresh air to breathe in while I go to sleep. It's 7.30pm and it's still 22C which is amazing, considering it's taken a long time…
13 days ago / 11 visits / 5 comments
Well the temperatures have risen a little - it's now 16C which is way so much cooler than a lot of other places, but we were warmer in the winter than others, so I suppose we have to be thankful for small mercies. It was lovely with a bright blue sky and the sun poured in the lounge bay windows. It…
4 weeks ago / 13 visits / 4 comments
I must admit that it is definitely getting warmer over here - not the kind of high temps that other parts of Europe seem to be getting. Our temps are around 17C (63F) which aren't that great compared to the late 30'sF (100F) that some of you have been experiencing. I'd like it a little bit warmer, b…
5 weeks ago / 16 visits / 7 comments
Well Mandi went back to Turkey about 2 hours ago and I will miss her so much. We've had a wonderful time with her here. I've been spoiled by her cooking me all the meals and getting me coffee regularly. So now I have to do the cooking myself and remember to get coffee!! She says she's coming back at…
6 weeks ago / 19 visits / 8 comments
I am getting so excited, my daughter, Mandi, who I haven't see in person for almost 3 years is at last coming over to see me.!!!! I can hardly believe it. She feels the same and says that she can't wait to have a "mummy" hug!!!! The last time I saw her was when I came back from Turkey on 20th June 2…
2 months ago / 41 visits / 17 comments / 2 people like
It was a wonderful surprise when Tony called me and told me he was coming up to see me. He'll come up to see Mandi when she's back, but he just wanted to come up to see me, as it'd been a long time since he'd been up. Well it was wonderful seeing him and we chatted for ages and then I sort of, asked…
2 months ago / 21 visits / 9 comments / 2 people like
Well I've noticed a little black cat who seems to think it's his garden now - and comes up most days and just relaxes. Apparently he belongs to one of my other neighbours, and he has two other siblings to play with, but he seems to be a loner, and comes up here on his own. Very pretty little thing.…
2 months ago / 19 visits / 5 comments
Well it's going to be Easter this weekend, a time when the Spring is supposed to be half way through and the temperatures warm - what's happened this year, is that the temperatures have plummited and is crawling along in the 40F's or should I say 6C!!!! It's ridiculous - with the cost of the electri…
2 months ago / 36 visits / 10 comments / 1 person likes
Well today I awoke to blue skies!!! What a difference it makes.You really want to get up and seize the day! Just outside my bedroom window is the cherry tree - and this is what I could see!! I couldn't believe it - the winter had seemed to stay around so long, I almost couldn't remember it being wa…
2 months ago / 14 visits / 4 comments
Last time I wrote on here, it was lovely and warm - I'd even been able to have the lounge window open to let in fresh air. Now today the temperature had dropped to 6C - ridiculous, what's going on? Mandi said that their weather in Turkey wasn't much better neither. Apparently she says that it's stil…
2 months ago / 16 visits / 4 comments
It was a gorgeous sunny day - warm with a little wind. I walked outside the kitchen and just stopped and I couldn't hear anything - just the odd little bird song, but otherwise - silence. I decided to come into my lounge and actually open the window - the last time was around October - that's over 5…
3 months ago / 24 visits / 5 comments
I decided to experiment with a new way of colouring the moulds with a liquid colour instead of the powder colours. I'm pleasantly pleased with the outcome, and it also doesn't use as much resin as the other types. I had purchased some stars moulds, which surprised me when they came - they were so sm…
3 months ago / 23 visits / 7 comments
I'm still in the throes of making jewellry and I must admit it's keeping me sane (well sort of....) because I'm busy all the time and therefore not too concerned about being on my own all the time. Emily hasn't been for two weeks, because she wore herself out looking after her grandson, 4 children,…
3 months ago / 22 visits / 4 comments
Well today it was a mild day and with a bit of sun. My neighbour came round yesterday and told me that as he walked down my driveway, he saw all the lovely primroses were out. That decided it - I said that as soon as it was dry and sunny-ish, I was going to go up the drive to see for myself. Well th…
3 months ago / 21 visits / 5 comments
I heard the dreadful news this morning, when his daughter, Ellen, called me to tell me that he had passed at 4.10am today. I hadn't written about his illness here before, because I wasn't sure how long he had. He suffered from pancreatic cancer, which had travelled to his liver and his bowels. He w…
3 months ago / 55 visits / 13 comments