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I live with my husband, John, younger son, Tony & 2 cats in a village in South Herefordshire UK. Our elder son, Chris, is in Hereford and our daughter, Cat, in Cardiff. I love writing short stories and poetry, am working on my autobiography. Also love music, play guitar and sing, enjoy gardening, family history and travel when I can. We bought our cottage for the view 36 years ago. It's in a terrace of five, part way up a hill overlooking the village, the Black Mountains & the Golden Valley.
Tout comprendre, c’est tout pardonner. - To understand all is to forgive all.
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Walking in Granddad's footsteps in The View from the Terrace
Last weekend we went down to Pendine Sands in South Wales for 3 days. Pendine has a wonderful long sandy beach and is the place where the British Land Speed Records were held in the 1920s. It has...
A meeting with an old friend, and reflections on growing older. in The View from the Terrace
On Friday I enjoyed a lovely afternoon with Jill, an old school friend, in Leominster. She still lives in my hometown of Shrewsbury and from time to time we arrange to meet at different towns. Al...
Vertigo! in The View from the Terrace
I saw the doctor last week about the dizziness and she said I have something called Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo. It’s caused by small calcium crystals in the inner ear moving to the wron...
A weekend of flowers, music and godesses in The View from the Terrace
For the last few days I have been having dizzy spells. It started on Friday afternoon. We went away overnight and, when we arrived at the Travelodge, I bent down to get something from the floor o...
Well well well in The View from the Terrace
And so the heat goes on. We did have a few cooler days and the sky clouded over just in time to ruin the lunar eclipse! but today it is sweltering again. We are hoping to visit a local safari par...
Rain at last! in The View from the Terrace
It finally rained today! it was pouring down for about 4 hours. I’ve never been so happy to see rain, it’s so good to be cool through the day, and to be able to breathe, and to discover that my c...
Hubby’s choir are having a barbecue this evening, partners are invited but I didn’t go as I have had a threatening migraine all day. I’ve been holding off taking a migraine tablet as, if I don’t ...
Children in The View from the Terrace
The children from next door just came round to say they had knocked their ball into our garden. I told them they could come and get it and they said they had a quick look but couldn’t find it. I’...
Not quite so hot in The View from the Terrace
It has been a little cooler for two days and it finally rained yesterday, the first time in weeks. Today it is heating up again. This summer is heading for the record books. I managed to persuade...
Hot!!! in The View from the Terrace
It’s still incredibly hot. They are saying it’s the hottest summer since 1976. That was the year I swam in the Thames because the queue for the swimming pool was around the block. I was thinking ...
Our local manor house. in The View from the Terrace
It’s hot! and I mean hot. Tony has just come back from Tenerife and he thinks it is hotter here than it was there. I have just been sitting outside with a my coffee. It’s 8.30 pm and it’s the fir...
That's life in The View from the Terrace
My first entry this month. I have been having a bad run with my migraines lately. I had a really bad one on Thurday and had to use an injection. That hasn’t happened for several months. We have b...
Caerhays - Cornwall holiday part 2 in The View from the Terrace
At last I am able to get back to writing about and putting up photos of our trip to Cornwall. The second day of our holiday was a special day because we visited the gardens at Caerhays Castle whe...
A busy two weeks in The View from the Terrace
We have been doing so much lately that I have got really behind with my entries. I also hope to write and post more photos about the holiday in Cornwall, but first these last 2 weeks. On the 12th...
Last week the May Fair came to Hereford. When we first moved here we were amazed by this carnival that happens right in the middle of the city. Traffic in the city centre is banned and the street...
Enjoying the spring weather in The View from the Terrace
Spring has returned and we are having another heat wave. I have been in the garden pruning the fuchsia and forsythia and making a start on the weeds which suddenly appeared and then grew furiousl...
Child of the Springtime in Poetry
I have been thinking for some time of starting a separate book here for some of my poems. Sunday was my daughter Cat’s birthday so she has been in my thoughts over the past few days and it seems ...
A visit to Cornwall in The View from the Terrace
We have been away for just over a week with very limited internet access so I have a lot of catching up to do with my reading. I will get to everyone eventually, so please bear with me! We had a ...
Why do I listen? in The View from the Terrace
I went to a branch meeting for my voluntary job yesterday evening. I drove there and back by myself. It’s the first time I’ve driven alone after dark for months. For just over a year I have been ...
Is Grandma really Grandma? in The View from the Terrace
A few weeks ago I went on to one of my favourite genealogy sites and noticed they had started a new global family tree. The plan is that thousands of different trees will be combined to form one ...
Poppies in The View from the Terrace
I’m glad Prosebox is not closing after all, but I wish I had known that before going back to Open Diary and paying for a year’s subscription! I’m usually much slower getting things organised but ...
The beast is back! in The View from the Terrace
After a week of spring like weather we are back to winter. The overnight snowfall was as heavy as that of earlier this month, though the consistency is different, and it does seem to be already ...
Cabin Fever in The View from the Terrace
Tony is thoroughly bored with being cooped up here because of the snow. There is no way he can get his car out. His girlfriend, Justeen, keeps ringing and saying how lonely she is. These modern y...
Snowed in in The View from the Terrace
Yesterday The Beast from the East met Storm Emma coming up from Southern Europe. We are right on the edge of the red weather warning that was issued for South Wales. At 9pm Chris arrived. He live...
Crazy weather in The View from the Terrace
The Beast from the East, as the tabloids are calling this weather, has arrived. Yesterday the met office issued a red warning for Scotland, only the second time one has been issued. Today that ha...
