I wasn’t exactly the first in the queue, but just after lunch on Monday I was in my local charity shop and wow, did it feel great to be back. It was also very safe as there was only one other person in the shop apart from the manager, which
I’ll be 75 next birthday (in June) and I often think along the lines of How.Did.That.Happen, this ageing thing? Because it creeps up on you and then boom, it’s there! I’ve said this before, that when I was 40 I thought no different to a 30-yr-old, same when I was
Hello everyone There will be more about this at the end of the month but today (Monday 29th March) some of the severe restrictions we’ve been living under since Christmas are being removed, and we can now visit other people and sit in their gardens – three cheers to that! I
It’s mid-March, which is about the time we get very mixed weather here in the UK. Sometimes it’s freezing and when I read of other bloggers who live in the northern hemisphere having temperatures reaching 70F (that’s 21C to us and a warm mid-Summer’s temperature) I just marvel as it’s
Hello everyone Not much to report this week apart from we’re now wearing masks outside at all times and not just for going into a shop. It’s interesting. We’re doing this because of the new variant that originated here and the fact that there are so many cases currently in
Hi everyone Hope you’re continuing to be OK, safe and well. We’re fine and doing the same old stuff and just hanging in there until we get our vaccine, which in the UK seems to be a bit of a post-code lottery with some areas streets ahead in the numbers
Hi everyone How’s life treating you? It was really cold (for the UK) last week and I wrapped up and layered with thick woollen tops, thick leggings plus a woollen skirt and socks, and I wore my outdoor furry boots indoors as our flat is hard to keep warm. The
Hello everyone Hope you all had a reasonable Christmas. We did but having opted out of a big gathering last year I will never do that again. although as you know it was just as well as Christmas Day 2019 was when my cold appeared, which led on to –
Hello everyone This is a short post wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year and gosh, don’t we all want that! I am restraining myself and won’t say too much about the circumstances in the UK but the situation isn’t brilliant, what with so many people being told,
Hi everyone Maybe I should be doing this post next week, but deciding what to wear on Christmas Day is a perennial dilemma. There are so many articles and blogs telling one what to wear and it seems no different this year. And of course there’s always the Christmas jumper