When I was a dewy eyed teenager I asked my mother how she met my dad. I expected a description of their eyes meeting across a crowded room! Nah! They both came from farming families. "I took my cow to his bull," she replied.

My recently widowed sister's dishwasher has packed up and, as she had the dishwasher for a considerable number of years, I suggested that she write to the manufacturer asking for a refund! I wrote a letter in which my sister took advice from a Mr NOAH on the subject of water management, a subject on which he had vast experience, and also made ( Read more... )

Sproglet made her pancake dish. Yay! It was delicious . . . . and I didn't have to cook! Double yay!! Plus I didn't have to wait for my pancakes or be the last to get served.

It's not been a brilliant start to the New Year. In fact the Old Year went out with slump too. When bad news comes upon you so fast it takes your breath away. I'm so angry because he's a good bloke, kind, thinks of others all you could wish for in a person really but it's all to no avail. He's gone from walking two miles a day to having a few weeks ( Read more... )

Lovely to see her friends again and they were carrying a rather large box of assorted craft items too! Sproglet told me what she wanted me to make with one of the balls of wool and, as it was rather late, she went to bed. The next morning the finished item, only a headband with a bow not a complete wardrobe, was placed on her craft table for her ( Read more... )

Years ago I gave up drinking (to excess as I'm now down to a sherry at Christmas)! Tick

A month ago I gave up smoking (after fifty odd years)! Tick

That leaves me with sex and breathing on the list. I wonder which one I'll give up first?

Mr W is soon to be seventy. Of course I asked what sort of present he wanted. He replied that he quite fancied a robust garden shredder. I haven't told Sproglet of his wishes just yet as she was terrified when I requested a large carving knife and a garden scythe for one of my birthdays! As she is well aware of the ferocious temper her 'dear. ( Read more... )

When I worked in the local Education Office, eons ago, I got to see a variety of people who came for grant forms, advice and a vast amount of complaints. I always tried to be polite to the latter and one way I found was to correctly identify the person making the complaint. As some were in the habit of complaining at the drop of a hat this didn't ( Read more... )

Mr W has very kindly picked me a bowl of blackberries from the garden. Yes, I know I should be grateful but I can't stand blackberries! Mr W on the other hand adores them. Back in the day, when I was daft enough to do such things, he used to love all the blackberry jams and jellies I used to make. Unfortunately, other people liked them too so he ( Read more... )

I witnessed my near neighbour's form for her and it wasn't a will. This was a 'Do not resuscitate' form as she's terrified that should she start to go blue and start gasping for breath when her eldest daughter is visiting then said daughter will immediately attempt to give her CPR, send her husband out to find the nearest defibrillator and call ( Read more... )