I have been trying for months to buy some new blouses (several had become rags and had to be thrown out). I prefer cotton or linen, but have been unable to find any I liked. I also needed new trousers as one pair had a hole and another was getting very thin. The other day,…
Category: Musings
Weird….
I made this set over 2 or 3 years, finishing last year (see Feb 2023 “A matching set”) I have worn them quite a bit this year in the cold weather and at first people I knew said how much they liked them, but now people in cafes, shops and even when I am walking…
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…
Cat or Dog?
This was one of my Christmas presents. I was convinced it was a dog, but all my friends said it was a cat – but they were the friends with kittens, so they were biased! It’s tail was much too short for any cat. I agree that it’s whiskers were more cat-like, though. He actually…
Mild winter or Global Warming?
Or maybe global warming leading to a mild winter? It has certainly had a weird effect in my garden. I had a rose out on 1st January. It wasn’t perfect but it was fully out. This one, from the same rose bush, was open in the middle of January. Also in the middle of January…
Pheasant
What is this landing on my fence? A nice plump pheasant! I wonder where it came from? I looked out of my window at lunch time and there it was. I think it must be slightly off track, because there are houses all round…….. Perhaps it has escaped the guns (the shooting season is over…
Have a bad week…..
Last week generally was not very good….. Well, Monday was OK, I think – just normal! Tuesday, choir went really badly. I couldn’t pick up or do anything right. It was only afterwards that I realised that the altos had overlapped the second sopranos and I had one of the loudest of those behind me…
Butterfly
A butterfly took up residence on my bedroom floor, so I had to step over it and hoover round it! It first appeared on the curtains in my study. No idea where it came from or how it got in. The next day it appeared on my bedroom windowsill sunning itself, but by the evening…
Twenty-one minutes?!
A young friend visited this week – well, he is 33, but I consider that young. And I have known him since he was born, on and off, so that makes him young to me. I seem to have quite a few friends that age – how odd…. Anyway, I bought a treacle tart from…