Category Archives: Personal

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!

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Happy Birthday, Mr Devine!!! For your birthday I am giving you a Nice Man in Knitwear! I am sure you will be delighted. I promise I will not leave him hanging on your blog for long.
I see that Mr Devine has also taken a picture of the night sky for his most recent post. This is interesting symmetry as I too popped out into the darkness last night to capture the stars on my camera, especially for Mr Devine! I know he likes stars.

Bizarrely this effort looks incredibly similar to a previous birthday post back in 2018 where I tried to pass off black paper as the night sky! Everyone was fooled!! But the one today is real!! I am getting more authentic in my very old age.

One of the reasons I want to learn how to use my posh camera is that I want to take a genuinely good picture of the stars – maybe by this time next year I’ll manage it.

Have a great day, Mr Devine!!

Daffs!

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When is Easter? Whatever, or whenever, I have a classic Easter pic freshly snapped on my iPhone this morning. Yep, the posh, expensive camera is still languishing in a drawer – though I have powered the battery and reset the date, so that’s progress.

One Four All

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I will have a go at Mr Devine’s smashing idea of posting 4 pictures in the hope that it will prompt me to post more often. Unfortunately, I have a hissy fit when trying to post pictures on Blogger, so WordPress it is. Apologies for that.

A collage!! I made a collage!!

This is not THE big pink bush, but a different pink bush that flowers earlier in the year.

Barney has grown! He still has aspirations of becoming a Great Dane.

AND, another collage!!!

Blimey, this almost makes it look like I’ve been busy.

For The Birthday Boy…

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Happy Birthday, Mr Devine!
For your birthday I bring you a post of dog proportions – I know you will be thrilled! So here is a picture of my new dog, Barney, and he’s actually a lot bigger than he looks and is finally giving me a moment to update my blog.

And talking of writing blog posts – I am struggling with Blogspot. I have tried, but I find it awkward and clunky and I don’t have the will to fight with it, so apologies for my update here.
Yep, that’s all my brain can manage!

Sxx

The Truth is…..

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…..that I think I have Covid again, and I feel dog rough, so I am away to the sofa for a week to read books and watch Downton Abbey – this treatment seemed to help last time.

Also, I am searching for a book I read in the early 90’s, though it might not have been written then. I can’t remember the author, nor the title. It was about a young girl who was evacuated during WW2 to a farm in the countryside. She’s a sweet kid but gets the wrong end of the stick about everything, thus making it an amusing tale as she passes on misunderstood observations, and meddles in the love life of an older farm girl. Anyhow it’s driving me potty that I can’t remember the author’s name!

Right, I am away to my sick sofa!!

A Seamy Tale of Cheap Love After 7pm….

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I made this….

Collage-private-eye-RDSmith

Yes, I have collaged my favourite Private Eye clipping featuring the seamy affair between Mr R D Smith and his part-time love, Mrs Kelly, stitched together and exposed via the media of misprints and classified ads. I haven’t made a collage for almost a year, so I’m pleased that I tried. I’m not altogether happy with the result, but I framed it all the same…

framed collage

This photo isn’t so much about the collage, it’s about the rain running down the window pane. Yep, whilst the rest of the UK basks in glorious sunshine the rain still finds Devon. And what is this nonsense about a heat warning for the whole country from Monday???? The temperatures here are forecast to get no higher than 23C on Wednesday – which is normal.

I finish with my ear worm of the week – I thank Jon for this as he unwittingly put it in my head. This is the short version…

Next Week:- Joy rushed to the oven. “I do believe my buns are on fire” she cried.