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Gosh it’s hot. I’m glad I found that long cotton skirt in the charity shop! Cat took me to another little shopping centre yesterday where there were lots more charity shops. I was hoping I might ...

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I am staying with my daughter in Cardiff. Her partner is away visiting his family in Spain. It couldn’t be more different here from my cottage in the country. She lives in a flat over a pharmacy ...

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We had a lovely afternoon last Sunday visiting an open garden in the grounds of a small manor house near here. The gardens are in two parts, those beside the house and a big lakeside garden acros...

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We had a really frustrating day on Sunday. We had planned to visit our daughter and her partner in Cardiff. I haven’t seen her since January so was really looking forward to it. We set off in goo...

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I can’t believe it’s almost 3 months since my last entry. There has been quite a lot going on. We had a weekend away visiting friends and relatives in late April and then a trip to Amsterdam in e...

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This morning there was a near total eclipse over the UK. Here it was about 86%. I wish I had known about it earlier as I didn’t have time to buy some special glasses but it was still quite an exp...

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Today is our 39th wedding anniversary. We had originally planned to go out for lunch but Hubby has been ill with a bad cold that has gone to his chest and he didn’t feel up to a meal out so we we...

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I’ve just started reading The Kite Runner. I’ve seen the movie a couple of times but not read the book before although I did read Khaled Hosseini’s book A Thousand Splendid Suns a year or two ago...

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I’m feeling rather fed up at the moment. This week was a relatively free week and I made a lot of plans. Nothing special, just jobs around the house that I wanted to get on with, like sorting out...

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I watched Mamma Mia on TV yet again last week. I’ve lost count of the amount of times I’ve seen it. It’s on TV a lot and each time I say no, I won’t watch again as I only saw it a few months back...

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What a storm that was last night! We had planned to go to an open mic in Abergavenny but decided against because of the wind. I woke about 6am to go to the bathroom and lay awake feeling quite wo...

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The New Year is here and for us it started well with a visit to see Cat and David in Cardiff in their new flat. It’s a very smart place, much better than their last one. No broken washbasins or h...

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My son is moving out today. It’s not the first time. He left a few years back but had to come home when his landlord sold the house and he couldn’t find anywhere else. He stayed here and saved e...

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I’m not writing entries here nearly as much as I would like to. It’s partly that my concentration is often really bad from withdrawing from the tranquilizers I’m finding writing more difficult. O...

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It's over a month since I wrote an entry! Coming off the tranquilizers is going reasonably well. The doctor has given me a liquid equivalent so that it is easier to reduce by a small amount. I s...

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One of my hobbies is genealogy. I really enjoy finding out about my ancestors, the way they lived and the places they lived in. I've always had this interest, but progress was slow until the Inte...

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Just as life was going well and I was starting to really enjoy the summer my doctor has made a decision which is really hard. I've been on tranquilizers since a few months after I got married. At...

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On Tuesday Hubby and I enjoyed a fantastic evening at a local folk club. It’s held at a pub in Longtown, a village a few miles from here. I used to love going to folk clubs in the 60s and 70s but...

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A week last Monday Hubby and I went to Cardiff, first to visit our daughter and in the evening to a concert by The Seekers. The Seekers were my favourite group in the 60s and I have loved and per...

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I have just been watching an interview on This Morning with a woman who took in her best friend's 2 boys after the friend was killed in an accident and her husband died of cancer. It was a very t...

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That was a very nice family Easter Sunday. We couldn’t go out for a drive because it rained so we spent the day watching a little TV, doing a few odd jobs and, of course eating some chocolate! I ...

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It looks as if I caught a bug of some kind over the weekend when we were away. I don't think it's a cold as I don't have a runny nose but I feel shivery and achy and have a bit of a cough. Perhap...

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We had a lovely weekend. On Saturday we went to the spring meeting of our John Denver club. It is always lovely to meet old friends and make new ones, have a good singalong and raise some money f...

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Today is Mother's Day, or Mothering Sunday to give it it's original title. My daughter sent me some special sweets, orange creams mmmm! my eldest son has just given me an orchid, he gives me one ...

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Seventeen years ago this evening, March 18 1997, I went to my last John Denver concert. I went with my husband and 9 year old son. Nowadays our son insists that we dragged him there kicking and s...

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