Hi again everyone I wonder whether I’ll be continuing this diary throughout the year or will it come to an end soon? Actually, I’m thinking that I might do one more at the end of April and possibly May, and then maybe continue the theme of the post as a
Lockdown Diaries – February 2021

Hi everyone Phew, bit of a challenging week last week as I was recovering from tripping and falling hard on my face, oops a daisy as they say. I was fine, albeit a bit shocked so no need to worry, but my neck is a bit stiff so haven’t done
Lockdown diaries – 31 January 2021 and more about African fashion

Hi everyone Here we are with another month done and dusted. I don’t know about you but I think this month has been one of the worst of this pandemic. We were all so pleased to move on from 2020 and most of us greeted the new year with delight,
Lockdown diaries – December 2020!

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 –
Lockdown diaries – 28th October 2020. What keeps you smiling?

Hi everyone And here we are, almost another month gone from this year. Are you finding that the weeks and months pass quickly? I am, and not sure why but the days do tend to blend in and merge together and there have been a couple of times when I
(Semi) lockdown diaries – 31 August 2020

It’s the end of the month again so here’s another round-up of thoughts on these unusual times. As you can see from the title of this post, I now see myself as being in a semi-lockdown situation, because I have moved a little on my hard-line position. Wearing a mask
Lockdown diaries – 27 July 2020

Hello again and, my word, another month has passed. Do you find the days going by quickly? I do. I have to say most of the time I’m busy with projects and the blog, and happy to be in contact with friends and family via FaceTime and WhatsApp. But every
Lockdown diaries – 29 June 2020

Hi everyone I wonder how long I’ll be doing a post at the end of the month on what is now my version of lockdown? Maybe for some time. We’re going to restart visiting family again, I hasten to add, in their respective gardens (which we stopped as there was
Is shopping going to change from traipsing around the shops to online?

Hello everyone The charity shop just around the corner from me has reopened, but have I gone in it? No, and I won’t until the number of UK cases and deaths per day go significantly down, as in, far, far further down than our government trumpets at its daily nonsensical
In the pink!

Hi everyone A big thank you to your response to my last post. Suffice to say the majority of you were in favour of this blog being able to say how it is – thanks again. Todays post is more about books and films that we are watching plus, of