Sabrina-Belle ⋅ 78 ⋅
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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Summer is coming to an end in The View from the Terrace
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 in The View from the Terrace
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 in The View from the Terrace
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....
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 in The View from the Terrace
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 in The View from the Terrace
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 in The View from the Terrace
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 in The View from the Terrace
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 in The View from the Terrace
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 in The View from the Terrace
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 in The View from the Terrace
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 in The View from the Terrace
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 in The View from the Terrace
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 in The View from the Terrace
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 in The View from the Terrace
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 ...
Hot weather, charity shops and gardening. in The View from the Terrace
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 ...
Visiting my daughter in Cardiff in The View from the Terrace
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 ...
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...
A disappointing day in The View from the Terrace
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...
A visit to the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam in The View from the Terrace
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...
Eclipse in The View from the Terrace
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...
Our 39th wedding anniversary in The View from the Terrace
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...
The Kite Runner in The View from the Terrace
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...
Fed up with being unwell in The View from the Terrace
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...
Slipping Through my Fingers in The View from the Terrace
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...
