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Oh BUZZ, life doesn't get any easier does it! Your poor shoulder, your ex neighbours and now this. My thoughts are with you, but thoughts don't help much do they when you are cleaning up. Then MARIE, I can't imagine anything worse than sitting wondering if a tornado is going to hit. I'm so glad you are okay and JACKIE, I…
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Hi PHOEBE, no I haven't finished the book, it's a rather big one, but the interesting thing is that as I flew to Canada in 1973 I might well have passed the author flying the other way. It turns out he was born in Des Moines, Iowa, and I think LIN is from that area. Funny old world isn't it. The other reason I haven't…
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Now this is interesting (for me anyway) the book I'm about to read by Bill Bryson is by a chap who didn't emigrate TO the Americas like me, but did the opposite! He emigrated to the UK around the time I was arriving here! (On the Mayflower?) He was born in the mid west states! I've only read the first paragraph, but like…
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So wonderful to read about your very happy Christmas's! Mine was near on perfect too. I was over at my youngest sons and they decided to give the poor turkey a break this year. We had the most tender roast beef, roasted carrots, parsnips, beets, potatoes etc, succulent gravy and the piece de resistance Marks glorious,…
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Me too Phoebe, hopefully back to sleep. Got exactly 2 hours. Have a good day everyone, Anne.
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Some time with family tomorrow, and some downtime for me just doing what I like to do - doodling. Must get to the art store for more felt tip pens! I've got an idea for a new year card. It might work, it might not, but I'll have fun trying. JACKIE, mm, mm, the brandy soaked fruit looks delicious. Shall you sneak a little…
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Dear girls, this may not turn out so please bear with me, because I did try. It's how I imagine me at the age of 3 with our cat, waiting for Santa Claus, old fashioned bedstead and all! CHRISTMAS EVE: MAY ALL YOUR HOPES AND WISHES COME TRUE, AND A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS, A VERY HAPPY YULETIDE! Your friend, Anne. ❤️
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PHOEBE, I have such a warped sense of humour that I hope you will forgive me. Did you realize that my soldier boy is guarding my mincepies from marauding Phoebes. Lin remarked he wouldn't have much guarding to do, lol. By the way, if you could step through the TV to enter the Downton Abbey world, you would be sure to have…
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THE FOLLOWING IS ESPECIALLY FOR PHOEBE. MINCEPIES! Evil laughter, cackle, cackle! Excuse my warped sense of humour love! Merry Christmas!
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Dear LIN, you are a wonderful, warm hearted lady, and you must be aware that you are much wanted and appreciated by this group. Christmas can be the best of times and the worst of times, especially if people we once loved and who cherished us are no longer with us. I have silently wondered how you would manage this…
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Today is definitely odd. It will be 12 deg C this afternoon and here's me in summer pants and short sleeved shirt making mincepies for Christmas. Mikes just been with gifts for us all and little Cinders and I actually walked her down the street dressed like this! It's sort of scary. The snapdragons in particular are in…
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Good morning. Just been reading the comments and yes BUZZ, I'll give Mark another clip around the ear on your behalf. Actually I was thinking maybe his comment about me needing a guide dog rather than a toy poodle maybe isn't such a frivolous remark after all. I'm just seeing myself trotting off to the grocery store…
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Ditto, Sandy, Anne
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Dear PATSY, you are such a loving mom and it saddens me that your loving kindness is thrown in your face. I can only suggest tough love although it will be hard on you. I wonder what would happen if you didn't show up for once, no gifts and no goodies, and you didn't phone them either. Let them contact you in other words.…
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Whoops, HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARCELLA FOR THE 15th. Better late than never. Anne.
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Set alight with brandy and brought into the dining room with short lived blue flames, well you can't get more Christmassy than that! Tomorrow is my youngest grandsons 23rd birthday and I've been invited for dinner where I wouldn't be surprised to see apple pie! I've spent every birthday so far with this grandson so I am…
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No Patsy, no apple pie for the Christmas feast, we'll be having Mary Jo's wonderful home made traditional Christmas plum pudding and home made brandy sauce for dessert. The same pudding that Bob Cratchitt's wife steamed in "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens. Here they are after the first steam and are now maturing…
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Nope JACKIE, it's gloomy, rainy and foggy here! The floor looks gorgeous, and I love your sofa in the kind of colours I love, I haven't seen anything like that here, BUT even more, I love the little boy snoozing on it. You have inspired me, at the moment I stress, to have a go at painting my place come stay at home…
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It looks lovely and cosy PATSY! I wish Tabitha was still here to cause havoc with my old fashioned tree! Anyway, a gloomy Sunday afternoon at Anne's. Cinders the exuberant pup will be over on Friday to disrupt things.
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Hi PATSY, re uncluttered homes. in my case don't be fooled by photos! You should see my kitchen when I bake! Fortunately not too often these days, what with trying to keep the pounds at bay etc. You should see my back room when I get creative. Paint and brushes and sheets covering the carpet because I'm just as messy…
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I will try and post the picture of my solid wood, very plain, Mennonite table. It really does suit my very old fashioned kitchen better than the old, round teak table. You can just about see my moms very old pine table in the back room where I "try" to become the next Turner. I'm praying it won't come out enormous girls,…
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Love your Santa Lin. Very nice. Also the splattered floor, now THERES a nice modern painting, if you can rip it up; it should fetch thousands in a modern art gallery! Seriously though, love your Santa! Tis the season for meeting new people. On my lone afternoon walk yesterday I met a really nice lady who was collecting…
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Yes I did chuck out the small round teak table PHOEBE. I put it out the night before garbage pick up and somehow during the night it "walked". I did keep the 4 chairs though. They're in the basement. The Mennonite table was marked down, but it does suit the old house better. I also have my Moms very ancient pine kitchen…
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Mmm, I forgot to weigh myself this morning as well, and refuse to do so on a full stomach having just consumed a copious bowl of oatmeal and a "dribbling" of maple syrup after my morning amble. JACKIE, so busy, but now you can enjoy the fun of hunting for a lovely solid antique table and chairs! It's a super hobby isn't…
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Hi SHIRLEY, I'm tremendously lucky to still keep in touch with my childhood friends, most of whom I met at the age of five at school. Dawn and her husband John, her twin died in Australia alas, June, Noreen, Wendy, all now widowed, and Margaret and her husband Gordon. The years just melt away when we write. 75 years,…
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PHOEBE, I'm so glad Honey found Okie. The same thing happened to us once. We were travelling to see my parents and brought Thelly with us because we had only just moved into a house 200 miles away, and knew no one or found somewhere to leave him. My husband of the day stopped the car in the middle of nowhere, can't…
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Great health news Marie, Anne
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Just going for my morning walk, I'm a little late this morning, so switched things around a bit and logged in first. Anyway, BUZZ I'm really impressed by the photo of you and the eyebrows! Most impressive and very natural looking. Thanks for letting us see how nice they are. Good morning everybody. ❤️ Anne.
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I'm interested in PATSYS comments re inappropriate remarks BUZZ. My friend was married to a wonderful gentleman (a real gentleman in the fullest sense of the word) but as he aged this other side came out, mainly in the form of singing loudly, bawdy English rugby songs. Those of us who knew the old Bill simply ignored him,…
