Yes, yet another university reunion, this one back at Warwick. It was supposed to happen 3 years ago – 50 years since we went up – but the pandemic got in the way so it became this year, (just over) 50 years since we graduated. A friend (well, I assume we are friends) gave me…
Category: Grumpy Old Woman
Exmoor – “Walking and Sightseeing” V
The last day – guess what – there was a problem with my packed lunch! The bag holding it collapsed and there were no blueberry bars so they replaced it with a peanut bar (which I wouldn’t accept – I hate peanuts). The manager was there for once and he got a new bag but…
Too big a number!
A friend says it is just a number, but…… Psalm 90 v.10 (King James) “The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.” Or if you prefer…
Too many kittens?
First there was Rufus. He has grown into a (quite handsome) cat. Then there was Taffy, who has also grown into a (quite furry) cat. She got a friend – Toffee – and he is all black. Are they really friends or do they just live in the same house? Now there is Dobby –…
Wildlife!
In my garden some of the “wildlife” is very unwelcome. The slugs or snails have been eating my petunias and salvia. Then the squirrels have been eating the flower buds of a rose and the clematis. I have yet to have any flowers that have managed to come out on either. On the other hand,…
Collect a treadmill
I was about to go out one morning and my nephew phoned – very unusual. Would I pick up a treadmill for him? (I assume it was something from e-bay or something.) Sounded simple enough (and maybe I wasn’t really thinking clearly) so I said yes. Then I started to get the texts….. The…
Hibernate…..
OK, so I can’t actually hibernate but I have been feeling like doing so! This is because like many others I have been indoors, trying to keep warm and finding things to do. It snowed a bit on Tuesday but it all disappeared again on Wednesday then on Thursday it snowed again, gently at first,…
Get Shingles
This started with a pain on my right side on a Monday afternoon/evening which I assumed would go away overnight – as many things do. It didn’t. So I gave it another night then phoned the doctors on the Wednesday and they phoned back. After discussing it they said come in at about 3.30, which…
Have 3 things cancelled in one week!
I am starting to think that it is me…….. Monday, a friend cancelled our dog walk and lunch as her grandson had broken both collar bones and she was going to be needed as support and help for both her daughter and grandson. Tuesday, at choir, we were told that the end of term concert was cancelled…
Stop listening to “The Archers”
Yup – I have given up The Archers! I did wean myself off gradually, but it didn’t take long – less than a week, I think. So what has made me stop listening to The Archers? I suspect it is the new editor. The characters seem to have all changed and be acting in ways…