If you go to Paris take with you a sorry for himself man with a crocked back and who is using a stick..... Traffic will stop and let him take his time crossing busy roads.....folk will hold open doors...
If your house guest hurts his back so badly that he has to shuffle around with the help of a stick don't do what I did for three days.....and let him just shuffle....every time he lifts the stick the...
....I think I've done it! Found a way to stop Golden Balls, my brother, pulling my leg with his wicked sense of humour. I have a hall wall full of photographs of family from the year dot until...
...to one of the Halloween threads..but it's a bit special.... After lots of lovely and clever visitors my last was unusual. A teen...early teens....being taken around our little estate by his mum in...
We're having a wonderful Halloween......lots of kids in great costumes but there's a problem..... When I slowly open the door and make creaking noises as I expose the witch in the hall with the...
As I said on Emmie's thread I shall be finding TV programmes for winter evenings.... Sat down with a glass of red to go through the far too many channels we have to find something of interest and came...
...an evening with Henning Wehn.....if you can get to see him live do......his even handed take on Brexit is fantastic....pity he can't be sorting out the mess...... :-)
When my brother was born he was, according to our Mum, wearing wings and a halo....huge eyes and black curly hair......no question which one of us she was going to spoil and it wasn't that redhead...
...settle a bit of fun banter between me and our old caretaker......
Painting.....do you buy cheap brushes and bin them after the job is done or really good brushes and look after them well?...
If the electricity pylon in the field over the back is going to explode...three times...as Dave is gazing out of the window....in a world of his own.....do not be standing behind him holding four of a...
....when you can sit on the patio on a mid October night in a little strappy top and skimpy shorts watching the trees blowing sideways in the very warm and wild wind....... Anyway, Dave seems happy...
Another DIY SOS.....Trying to catch these when I can now and the ones I have watched have made me quite tearful.... Imagine being in hospital for five years because your family home can't accommodate...
I have an oil painting of Lake Louise by this artist.....we got chatting up a mountain as she was painting it and it is signed with a message for me. Looking around paintings like this sell for...
I went to the loo in MK Theatre yesterday.....fantastic toilets and no queues for the ladies! As I bolted the door strange noises came from the next cubicle.....some quite loud and sweary. Oh ***!...
....Warhorse again! This time at MK Theatre....I do love that place. A fantastic production which still makes me cry and leap to my feet at the end. Partly the story and partly today because of where...
Dave and I have to mix and match our furniture between two homes....one here and one in Ireland..... Now, I hate red.....pillar box red not red hair of course....probably because I grew up listening...
....night in Ireland......evening in a fun, buzzy Irish pub......pint of proper Guinness. Tucking up now in a B&B in Kildare run by the best hostess imaginable.....she is beyond kind and...
I'll have to work hard to do this..... We are staying in a lovely little place attached to the owners'cottage....a lovely couple who have two nice dogs. If they go out even for a day they have a...
We are in a lovely little cottage miles up a winding track overlooking the sea...... I'm happy with my wine, knitting and the view but Dave decided we would go into little town for what he thought was...
