Chilly? Just a trifle. Our central heating boiler is playing up. We have a Man coming to fix it (our former landlady had a stream of little Men who came to fix different things…and no, not those kind of little men, and definitely not wearing green either). I have counted blessings as a way to calm …
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Do it yourself board games
Here’s a good use of winter afternoons – board games. We had lunch with friends today, and, aided by a good stew, a couple of kittens in the background and a nice fire, a little board gaming ensued. I found myself observing us a couple of times in the afternoon. This is part of what …
Jog my memory
Now if memory jogging counted as exercise, I’d be well away…Currently trying to house several years’ worth of photos. There’s a certain amount of memory jogging taking place, as I try to remember what order things happened in, which year we visited whom, and so on. Inevitably, you get drawn into the subject matter even …
I am read…
It’s not quite “I am loved, I am loved…” But a friend who I catch up with on Facebook, and who lives a long way away, told me that she’d been reading my blog. And she liked it! Hurrah for those little encouragements friends can bring. I’d been tiring a bit of Facebook recently – …
My bus runneth over
Most frequent text message? ‘Now on bus on way home’. Or cup on way home. Predictive text is all very well, but given the number of times I send the same message, you’d think it would predict the right word, eh? Having now had a mobile for maybe a bit over a year, I am …