Everything!

Posted on February 7, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Anxiety, break, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1841, Future, Holiday, Life, Memories, Silence, Thoughts, Time3 Comments

Do you need a break? From what?

For those that follow my blog you will know I’ve been going through a couple of bad years. I really want things to stop going wrong. I feel like the universe is jumping up and down on my head. I’d like a break. That’s just a few days where I can relax and recover.

Holidays, that’s a word I don’t think I will hear in the future. I have ‘leisure time’ but that’s just sitting being bored because I don’t have anything I can do or want to do. I’ve spent years looking after someone and I’d love to have that responsibility back. The silence is deep sometimes. Thinking is not a ‘break’. We would talk and chat, breaking that silence with serious thoughts or silly humour. I could always make him laugh.. There is no laughter now.

Snow due

Posted on February 7, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged City, Driving, Forecast, Ice, Life, Sleet, Snow, vehicles, Weather, weather warning2 Comments

The last lot of snow fell a few weeks ago, now here is a threat of more. The forecast is for wet weather coming up from the south hitting cold air in the north. Wherever it clashes we will get the snow.

There is also the risk of ice, and possibly heavy sleet and high winds. Oh what fun. I’m staying in and snuggling if I can. We live in a city and don’t get things too bad. But even so we can sometimes get gridlocked as there are a lot of bottlenecks in the road system. It once took me three hours to dive home two miles due to abandoned vehicles.

Hospital

Posted on February 6, 2024 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged biopsy, Black and white cat, Cat, Health, Help, Life, NHS, Rest, results, Support, Tuxedo cat9 Comments

Long afternoon at the hospital, had to have scans and a biopsy. Now I’ve got to wait a couple of weeks for the result. Got home and look who is keeping me company? Sitting next to me like a sentinel.

I don’t know what the outcome will be, but I have three cats that need me. I intend to recover from whatever I’ve got. I’m grumpy and stubborn enough to look after myself. And I have my little friends for company.

I also have a brilliant lot of friends who have helped and supported me. I would have struggled without them. I’m thankful everyday for their help. Feeling a bit overwhelmed. X

Bluebell memory

Posted on February 6, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged bluebell woods, Boat, Lake, Life, mud, Rode hall, Sailing, Staffordshire, Stoke-on trent, Walk, Westport lake4 Comments

One spring a few years ago we went to Rode Hall in Staffordshire and walked round the bluebell filled woods. Hubby took his little red motorboat to try and sail it on the lake but there is not a safe place to launch it from, so I took this photo of him looking longingly at the lake, boat in the bag next to him.

He did sail his boats on the smaller of the two lakes at Westport later in the year. One day he sailed it and it ran out of power a few feet out from the shore. He tried to pull it back in with a broken branch. It drifted further out! So he took his shoes off, rolled up his trousers and waded out! As he clambered out with the boat his legs up to his knees were covered in black mud. We didn’t have a towel so he had to sit on a couple of carrier bags in the car. The mud was very smelly so we drove home with the windows wide open! He was always adventurous bless him X

Deaths

Posted on February 4, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Anxiety, Art, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1838, Death, Life, Memory, Sadness16 Comments

How do significant life events or the passage of time influence your perspective on life?

When someone close dies you realise how fragile life is. They can be there one day and gone the next. You then realise the same can be the situation for yourself.

I’m changing my perspective on life, I am not so blasé about it. It’s become precious to me and I want to hold on to it with both hands. I’m not exactly scared of dying, but life is far too interesting to give up on it yet. I’m a very stubborn person and I love a lot of people. They have helped me immensely in the last few months and I owe a lot to them.

I also want to try and enjoy art again. There must be something more I can do. There are lots of ideas in my mind that I would like to get out. I can’t control everything, and sometimes I am very anxious about things, I feel like I am a bit of a recluse now. Easier to hide. But I need to challenge myself and live.

Purse found!

Posted on February 4, 2024 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Black and white cat, Cat, Found, Friend, Grateful, Happy, Life, Lost, purse, Tuxedo catLeave a comment

My friend went for a walk today and stopped off at the ice-cream van where I lost my purse last week. And guess what? It was there! I spoke to the van driver over the phone and he was happy to give it my friend (she was with me last week). Even better, the money is still in it! She’s going to drop it off later. For once I feel things might be on the turn with my luck!

Low sky

Posted on February 4, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged anemometer, Life, Photography, Pink, Sky, Sunset, Time, Weather, weather StationLeave a comment

Outside our back door this evening. The sky looked pinker than this to my eyes, but I have to go with what the camera shows. Out anemometer on the weather station was spinning round merrily in the gusty wind (it was almost a dark and stormy evening!) it’s not linked in with the station in the house as the batteries are dead! I do like the salmon pink sky. I wish we lived on the sunny side of the hill.

Beautiful girl

Posted on February 4, 2024 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Black and white cat, Darkness, gratitude, grey skies, Life, Sadness, Thinking, Tuxedo cat2 Comments

The sweetest girl at just came to sit next to me. She’s now on the back of my chair keeping warm above the radiator.

I’m fed up of grey days and early sunsets, drizzling rain and sadness. I think about writing gratitudes again. I have health worries that I need investigating. I need to stop hiding in the house, but sometimes it’s easier to stay inside. BUT at least I have my sweet cats for company. They are companion animals. They help.

Teasles

Posted on February 4, 2024February 4, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Environment, Life, Nature, Plant, Staffordshire wildlife Trust, Teasel, Wildlife, Wildlifetrusts.orgLeave a comment

The brown, oval, spiky seed heads of the teasel are a familiar sight in all kinds of habitats, from grassland to waste ground. They are visited by goldfinches and other birds, so make good garden plants. (from wildlifetrusts.org)

These were photographed at Westport lake yesterday.

Mossy

Posted on February 3, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Environment, Fungus, Green, Group, Life, Moss, Nature, Photo, Stoke-on trent, Westport lake2 Comments

I joined a moss appreciation group recently. I’ve taken a few photos but I’ve not come across anything as spectacular as some of the members post. You can just see a reddish orange cup shape in the bottom right quarter of this photo. I think its a type of fungus?

Here’s a closer look. Can you identify it?

I like the idea of eccentric groups of people adding information and images to the Internet. That’s what makes it interesting.

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Life