It was a lovely weekend ... especially in that we actually had some lovely weather to go with it.  As I type this it is pouring with rain.  Still, as someone who only has tubs ona patio the rain is good, after the warmth & sun ( Read more... )

Today is a clear memory of waiting up very late at night ... and being with "someone" (it was a neighbour) while looking out of a bedroom window waiting for dad to come home ... to tell me if I had a baby brother or sister.  Nick was born at 8.30 and they let Dad go back to visit them as Mum was not doing well (although they were both able to say ( Read more... )

... and happy birthday to my brother Nick!!

2 If you could redo today, what one thing would you do differently?

Actually nothing - I am still resting lots, and wouldn't do anything different with today

I didn't really update to end 2017, and have promised myself I will do better.  So ignoring Christmas (Jiffy and I got soaked walking to see Mum & Dad's graves); Boxing Day that I spent with Nick & Family (and won the game of Star Wars Monopoly); I will head straight into 2018 ( Read more... )

Off work again this week. Saw another GP (as mine is on holiday). This doc is actually a good friend of my brother, although I find him hard to get on with! However he is a good doc, and gave me a diagnosis of continued virus affecting my asthma - with an overall diagnosis over the last 2 months of "Unfortunate-itis" !! He has sent me for a ( Read more... )

I seem to have spent the last few weeks dipping in and out ... terrible ( Read more... )

Some of you who have known me some time know that Nick caused me a major heartache about a year ago. Well over the last year he has actually admitted that he is suffering from depression. So much so that he is actually signed off work at present ( Read more... )

I have this week off, and although there is lots I should be doing, I am going to take the advice of an amazing friend and rest more than work. In some ways it feels so wrong, but then I think of yesterday morning when I didn't wake up till gone 10am. For the first time in 3 years I haven't been tuned into my phone, and for the first time ever I ( Read more... )

This morning Dad and I listened to a double CD of hymns, and Dad wnted me to sing ... shows what a strong person he is if he can cope with that!!!  By then it was lunch, and they got a small amount of soup into him, as well as a small scoop of chocolate mousse ( Read more... )

Happy Birthday jen_nsync_landl ... hope you are having a good day.

Yesterday Brenda sent me a link to this photo .... her 5 boys, she said.  They are on holiday, so it seems as if they are enjoying family time together.


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