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Like a jumble sale - really.August 09 Sunday - a day of rest?Supposedly, but not this one. It started well with a bit of a lie in even, but from putting me feet over the edge of the bed to writing this it feels as though I have been working my way through a tornado. What started as me looking in the garage for a stored away handbag tuned into a full scale clear out. Yes, regular readers of this blog, another clear out. Where does it all come from? And how do people live minimalist lives? I'm thinking that I might take a vow of poverty like the nuns so I can't accumulate rubbish. Although knowing me, I would possibly end up with a build up of used habits, not that I don't have a bundle of the other sort anyway.
Well it's all away for now, I could have continued but frankly I was pretty much to the point of dislacing the stuff I didn't know what to do with, when I should have been removing it totally. There's always next time!
July 30 On the desperate edge of some impulse!Some impulse, but I'm not yet sure what. - But, by the time I get around to actually being on the edge of it, it will no longer be an impulse, it will be a much thought out idea. The thing is I'm really not that much good at being impulsive, I get the urge to be, but then the realisation kicks in that I will have to live wiith the reality of the impulse, and so I carefully think through all of the impulsive options instead. Boring aren't I? One of these days I will go mad and do something extraordinarily whacky and suprise myself....or maybe I would do well to have a think about that.
July 26 A sad dayThis afternoon our dear little Betsy dog died, up until a few weeks ago she had no idea that she was an ancient of 17, she still had a spring in her step and a great appetite for life. She was a feisty liitle dog who gave us years of pleasure and amusement. We got her in 1996 from a rescue centre, she was already an adult dog and a very serious little mutt to boot. Poor Betsy had no idea what it was to be a family dog, she just did her own thing and was almost aloof, then she found tummy tickles and regular meals and oodles of love and over time she came to see her loving family as being her absolute right, and into it she gave her own love and trust in equal measure. We will miss you so much little doggie. XXX July 25 I WILL go to the ball!The 'bairn' and her dad are having a pumpkin race. They are now the size of electric light bulbs and seem to be expanding daily. It is really nice to have something planted in the garden that you can nearly watch growing, to my mind the thing against gardening is the slow progression of anything planted, the tedious wait, then when the jolly thing does grow, so do a million weeds around it. I could never see the theraputic value of the garden. It's just a frustrating hotch potch of tedium which turns into a raging torrent of weeds. And we all know what weeds mean, weeds mean WORK!
Had the best email ever from my novice emailing sister the other evening. I had sent her a link to something I thought might interest her and she replied with a thank you and a comment on her day:- 'G came for lunch and I did three dogs feet'. It's important to say that my sister is a trained dog groomer, not a Korean chef. She will soon learn where everything is on the keyboard. ie punctuation marks. May 20 9 months!9 months and time for a human baby to have been conceived and born, 9 months since I wrote a single thing on here. I am contrite! I have looked in on the blog scene now and again during this time but never could get my thoughts together to write anything. How I used to manage to write almost every day I really don't know.
I was prompted to write this after feebly trying to explain to a friend this afternoon what blogging is. It sounds trite to just say that it is all things to all men, but I think that best sums it up.
Maybe I will be back soon, maybe not!
August 16 Saturday shoppingASDA have just cheated me out of my 3 for £10 wines! I'm hopping. I order online because otherwise we seem to be humping huge amounts of dog and cat food not to mention cat litter around the store, also, I get (usually) exactly what I want and am less tempted, as wandering around virtual aisles doesn't have the same draw somehow as being in the shop. I usually order 3 bottles of wine on the 3 for 10 each week and this week there was a very nice South African Shiraz usually £6.12 a bottle on the special...so I ordered 3. It was out of stock wasn't it so they sent a substitute, charging as per their price promise on substitutions, no more than the price of the one ordered. Unfortunatly, on this occasion, the the Shiraz they have sent is not on offer and so I have been charged the £18.36....Fume!!! Really I should call them in the hope that they will be generous and discount me next time, though I doubt it.
'The bairn' and the bo are in Tokyo and getting wet then getting sunstroke in equal measure. 39c suddenly turns to rain that actually hurts so I'm told in a text. Ah! what a shame (not). I'm sure they are fitting in as much as they can and hopefully there will be lots of pics, not to mention video as she has taken hers dad's camcorder.
Take care, 'the dad's' doing his Ken Hom pork with cashew nuts this evening and no doubt we will wash it down with a bottle of the not 3 for 10 wine.
Toodle oo. August 08 Aren't PC's dead good when they work?I'm really beginning to think that this PC is coming to the end of it's days. It really went to bits a few months ago and I had it overhauled for £80, really I should have taken it back because there was very little difference when I got it home. So I put up with it's bad behaviour for a while longer, having to reboot it in safe mode every time it crashed until I found Tony, who came to the house, took it to bits and spent 2 hours messing on until it worked like new. Now it's up to it's tricks again. I do all my sweeps and scans every day but it is crashing again. My biggest fear is losing all the photo's, so I have spent the past 3 days making CD roms to ensure nothing gets lost.
Well it's been a mad dash around for nice things for 'the bairn' to take away on holiday. She finishes her job as a civil servant today, then next Wednesday she and Joe fly off to Tokyo for a week then on to Hong Kong for another week. Needless to say she had nothing to wear! When she returns she starts her new job as a Learning mentor (think that's the title) at a local Comprehensive school with the intention of getting a years experience under her belt to go on to do her PGCE. She swore she would never be a teacher, and I think she was absolutly right no to go straight into it after she finished her masters degree, only because she was 'not sure' and teaching now is such a stressful job, you really do HAVE to be SURE to do it well, and she now seems dead keen. Anyway I wish them a lovely holiday, she deserves it, she has had a tough few years which she has come through well.
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