Cooking for one

Posted on December 17, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Cooking, cooking for two, Energy, Food, Learning, Microwave, portions, Single, Time, timing2 Comments

Snack or meal? Trying to remember I need to eat vegetables as well as carbs, stuff I bought for my hubby has sat in the fridge for a couple of weeks. I didn’t want to cook. Easier to just buy cheap takeaway food. But that’s not good.

My portion sizes are still for two. So I will have to cook, then freeze or chill half of it. I guess it’s less energy to cook once and maybe microwave half of it later? Trouble is food still takes the same time to cook even if I halve the amounts… Life is a pain, but I must keep goingn

Stuck in Wales

Posted on December 17, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged bad luck, Breakdown, breakdown service, Car, clutch, Life, Now, Repair, Stuck, Wales2 Comments

My sister is broken down in a car in Wales, her clutch has gone. She’s been waiting for the breakdown service for about four hours! They keep saying they are sending someone but it’s getting late, and cold. Why they advertise a service when they can leave someone on their own late at night. So of course I’m worried about her. I will keep ringing her back until I know she is safe. I cannot go to her because she is about eighty miles away in a town I don’t know. So if you read this please just send her good wishes. X

Blue sky

Posted on December 16, 2023 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Clutter?, dragon fly, Flowers, Sky, too much stuff, tree of life, Wire weaving, Ygdrasil2 Comments

I have these hanging in my window. The top one is Ygdrasil, (not sure of the spelling), the tree of life. I don’t look at it very often but with the blue sky it was more visible. I do seem to collect a lot of stuff. The house is full of clutter. Some of it has got to go. But not these. The bottom one is flowers and a dragonfly. Both made by my talented wire weaving friend D.

Facebook just restricted me!

Posted on December 16, 2023 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged against Facebook community standards!, Angry, ban, Grief, spam, unhelpful, Upset10 Comments

Why? I didn’t follow community standards! I can’t see how to object or explain myself, we are ruled by AI!

What? I’m on it too much, I might be adding spam!

All I did was ask when people want to celebrate my hubbys life.

I asked people to say day or night. Lots of people have commented and I was either pressing love or like to their comments.

Now I’m not allowed back for 1 hour!

So if you are grieving don’t talk to people on Facebook. They clearly don’t like it. I’m angry and upset.

Flowers

Posted on December 16, 2023 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Art, Flowers, Life, Loss, Memory, Photo, Poem, Poetry, remember, symmetrical2 Comments

They give you flowers

To salve your loss

To show they care.

I feel so grateful

To be remembered

But the need of a vase

Can be a problem.

I found one at last.

Flowers setted

Rejoyce in their beauty

He came to me

Posted on December 16, 2023 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Comfort, Dream, Gone, Hubby, Imagination, Life, Memory, running footsteps, Time2 Comments

I just woke up from a dream. I was in the street and I heard footsteps clattering up behind me. I turned and it was my hubby. Hair blowing behind him, his jacket flapping. He said a couple of words, something like ‘I’m here’? But then I woke up.

It’s not much of a story, but it was comforting. The thought that he is around somewhere, even if its just in my imagination made me feel better.

Glass

Posted on December 15, 2023 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Bubbles, Collection, Colours, Glass, Gold leaf, Memories, paper weight, silver leaf, thirty years agoLeave a comment

Glass ball with bubbles of air in it. I’m a bit of a collector of glass paperweights. I started collecting about thirty years ago when I got two with gold and silver leaf embedded in them. My latest one was a few weeks ago when I bought a apple shaped one with glass spirals. Given my current situation I don’t think I will be buying any more.

Manchester

Posted on December 15, 2023 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Buses, City, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2153, Late night, Life, Manchester, Memories, one way, Train6 Comments

What cities do you want to visit?

I haven’t been to Manchester for years. I like it because it is a cultural centre. Galleries and Theatres and museums. But traffic is difficult. All the routes I used to know have changed. There are more bus lanes and priorities have changed. I got stuck in the city centre about five years ago. We had to turn round in a one way street and follow a bus lane to get out! Luckily I wasn’t fined.

Other problems include the train service, our last train from Manchester is always too early. You can’t stay for a drink after a theatre visit, there is no way to travel unless you take the car, and with carbon taxes it’s not possible to drive into the city centre in a pre millennium car.

Meteors

Posted on December 15, 2023 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged asteroid, castor, Comet, Gemini, Meteor, Meteorites, Night, pollux, shooting stars, zogiac5 Comments

If it’s clear tonight you might catch the end of the gemini meteor shower! There might be up to 100 meteors (shooting stars) an hour. They are grains of dust the size of a grain of sand burning up in the atmosphere. Bigger pieces can appear as fireballs. They are the remains of dust particles from a comet or asteroid. The Geminids are named after the sign of the zodiac they seem to come from. Gemini (the stars are castor and pollux). Bigger pieces that land are known as meteorites and can be worth a lot of money.

From Google :

Meteor showers tend to be associated with a particular space body; in the case of the Geminids, the source is an asteroid or space rock known as 3200 Phaethon. Every December, Earth runs into the stream of debris the asteroid leaves behind, bringing a new wave of crumbs into our atmosphere that shine as shooting stars.

So if you look out tonight I hope you see the shooting stars x

Wheelie bin news

Posted on December 14, 2023December 14, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Anxiety, garden gate, knocked over, Police, Problems, Road, Scary?, Wheelie bin, Worry2 Comments

I got home from choir practice and found one of my wheelie bins tipped up in the road (it’s normally by the gate into the garden). I put it back because it was a hazard being in the road. I’m not tall enough to see over the gate easily and as it was dark I am not going in the garden.

I checked my cctv camera and there was a flicker of light like a torch about 15 minutes after I went out, but no visible people. I’m not sure if anyone came in. Going to look in the morning. I did have a named police officer so I’ve emailed him with the bit of video. This place seems less safe now.