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The Black Mountains
When I looked through my window this morning I noticed that the larger trees in the distance have shed all of their leaves now and we can see the Black Mountains again. When we bought this place ...
Our holiday in Cornwall
I haven’t written anything yet about our holiday in Cornwall so I thought I would do that today. It is just over a month now since we drove down on September 26 and arrived late afternoon in brig...
The view from my window
It’s a beautiful sunny autumn day today and quite warm too. I woke with one of my migraines so I am still resting in bed. From the bedroom window the autumn colours are looking glorious. From my ...
Catching up
I seem to have spent most of this week catching up with things after our holiday. We arrived back late afternoon Sunday. Tony was out and the dishwasher was half full of dirty plates and dishes a...
Goodbye to a good friend
On Sunday we arrived home after a week’s holiday in Cornwall. We had a great time with glorious weather, the best week of the summer, sunshine every day. While I was there I received some sad new...
Cat and David's Tenerife Holiday
Yesterday we drove down to Cardiff to take Billie Jean home. Cat and David have been in Tenerife for 2 weeks and we have really enjoyed having the dog here, even though the cats were wary at firs...
A rewarding and productive day
After several days of bad weather and also 3 days running waking with a migraine, I was really happy to wake yesterday morning feeling well and pain free and to see that the sun was shining. I sp...
Steam train
I was just outside getting the washing in when a steam train went by. I love living next to a railway and seeing the trains pass and wondering where they are going to and what the people on them ...
The long and winding road
Tony and Hubby brought home Tony’s new car OK on Saturday. I’m not sure if they used the sat nav. It led us a merry dance in Cardiff last week. I thought it was odd when it told us to take the th...
More car problems
I can’t believe it, we have had more car problems! Hubby brought home our new car on Wednesday. On Thursday we drove to Cardiff to collect Cat’s dog who we are having while they go to Tenerife. Y...
Summer is coming to an end
The leaves on the forsythia are starting to turn gold. I noticed it a few days ago. It is still August, just, and I can’t believe that summer is coming to an end. We have had so little hot weathe...
Car problems
Our new car has packed up. Well, it wasn’t a new car, just a new to us car, quite old really but seemed a good buy at the time. Two days before our visit to Amsterdam our last car developed probl...
Feeling fed up
I’m feeling a bit fed up and stressed today. I’ve been getting a lot of migraines and also the bad weather gets me down. I started getting more migraines after our trip to Amsterdam in early May....
Last Saturday in Shrewsbury Town and on the River Severn
It seems to have been raining on and off ever since we came home from Shrewsbury last week. Yesterday there was one hell of a storm, the rain was tipping down. Thank goodness last Saturday was ...
Shrewsbury Flower Show
On Friday we drove up to my hometown of Shrewsbury for our annual visit to the flower show there. I always get quite emotional when I visit. Although we left over 50 years ago when I was in my ea...
Survey
I liked this survey so I decided to do it - A. What are your favorite smells? You may think I am mad but I love the smell of steam engines; I guess it takes me back to my childhood. Apart from th...
Moving on
Chris, our eldest son, came to visit this evening. I haven’t seen him for 5 weeks so it was good to catch up. He told us that his house purchase is finally complete so he and Jethro are property ...
Home again
Well, I’m home. I finally got back late Wednesday evening. I’ve been catching up on the cleaning as I don’t think Hubby and Tony have done very much! I’ve also been spending time in my garden wh...
Shopping and time travel
We went into the city yesterday. Neither of us are very good at getting out early so we go on Thurdays which is late night opening. We had a late lunch at a lovely little vegetarian restaurent in...
Collecting the post
Yesterday morning I went round to the pharmacy to collect the post. Cat and David can’t have their post delivered to the door as they haven’t worked out a way that is secure The back gate to the ...
Making Cat's Garden
It was my mother’s birthday yesterday. She would have been 108 which is a scary thought! We had a lovely day helping Cat to make a little garden in the space behind her flat. Cat lives above a ph...
Charity shops and spending too much
Although I’m missing my garden and my country views while staying with Cat in the city, I really am loving being close to so many charity shops. There are more within walking distance of this fla...
Goodbye Val Doonican and Dr Zhivago
It is getting more often that I look at the news and find someone I have loved has died. Just over 2 weeks ago it was Val Doonican whose show I watched for years in the 60s, 70s and early 80s. I ...
Wimbledon over the years and Chris's birthday
Isn’t it strange how we women turn into our mothers over time. I have this vivid memory of coming home from school when I was 12. My dad had retired early the previous year for health reasons. It...
Still very hot and seagull attack
Last night was very hot. I needed the window wide open in the bedroom and some students nearby were having a very loud party. I thought I would have trouble getting to sleep but I didn’t. I must ...
Book Description
I live in a terraced cottage on a hillside in South Herefordshire, UK. We are just in England but from our windows we have a view of the Black Mountains which are in Wales. I live with my husband, 2 grown up sons and 4 cats, we also have a daughter who lives with her boyfriend in South Wales.
I don’t have good health but I do voluntary work on a crisis helpline. I love writing. I write poetry and have written a book about my childhood growing up in a pub in Shrewsbury which I am hoping to get published.
I love music. I sing and play guitar and enjoy entertaining, though I don’t get to do that so much as before my health got bad. My other interests are psychology, the environment, history, gardening, genealogy and travel.
Because of my health I am home a lot and this is my view from the terrace..
