Archie, having reached his 15th birthday started to go downhill a bit. His bowel movements became a bit uncontrolled and he couldn’t always manage overnight. His joints became worse and he found himself sitting down unexpectedly, more often. His owner eventually made the decision, with the vet, that it would be better to put him…
Category: Things to do
Go on holiday to Shropshire
Another walking holiday; same company (hf holidays) as usual but different location. I decided to go by train as that only involved one change and was probably about the same cost as petrol for the journey and the road route seemed quite complicated when I looked it up. Perhaps I should invest in a sat…
“Celebrate” the Magna Carta
As “we” have the best preserved copy of the Magna Carta and on June 15th it was 800 years since it was signed, there have been celebrations in the city. I can’t really imagine why. King John appealed to the pope and tore it up within 3 months and most of it is now totally…
More Knitting
A friend suggested that we got together to make a “Cosy for Christmas” – which is a sort of dressing gown made from knitted squares. I think we only started in November and as we needed either 79 or 112 squares we started knitting hard. It soon became apparent that we wouldn’t be able to…
Celebrate Archie’s Birthday
Archie was 15 – I am told that is 105 in dog years. He got six cards – not bad for a dog. He also got lots of presents – mostly treats of various sorts…….. The one from his “cousins” Phoebe and Rollo (spaniels) was a voucher and with that he got a new collar,…
Choir changes.
The last six months have seen big changes at choir. I suppose it really started before that – after Easter last year -when the venue moved from a place to which I could walk, to a hall about a 15 minute drive away. This is also a bit cold and bare and not as pleasant…
Celebrate a Birthday!
Celebrating my birthday? Not what that I normally do, but as I was 21 (x3!) this year, I thought that for a change I would do something. I am not that keen on parties and my house is too small for one anyway so I had a different idea and sent out these invitations. Birthday!…
Taking dogs for walks
I don’t have a dog of my own – I am out too much and they have to be walked (at least once) every day so are too much of a tie. The dog in my brother’s family, Sasha, is also extremely badly behaved – out of the house, even though she is lovely inside….
Meet up with university friends
This year we met up in Kings Lynn. I left on the Thursday and went to stay with one friend at her new house in Hitchin. Very nice it is too, even if there are rather a lot of stairs! We had an excellent meal out in the town in the evening. Friday morning we…
Go on a slug hunt
The slugs (and snails) have decimated my garden this year. They ate 3 of the 6 plants I bought for my new rockery, the flowers and then the leaves from the red and white dahlia I bought, most of my salad leaves, some of my radishes, the tops of all my carrots (actual carrot, not…