Just a few minutes.

I'm guessing that we all have a few little jobs hanging over us to do that only takes a few minutes, but we just can't get around to doing them.? Well that's certainly me. I think the problem is that I look at them as a whole and not one at a time. So this week I decided to do one each day.

And I have, first there were some new knicks I'd bought from M&S, the same as I'd bought a while ago and they're too loose. I didn't realise how loose, till we went out walking on the prom and they kept slipping down, to the extent that I had to stop and with Dh trying to cover me, I slipped them off and popped them in my bag! So a little tuck sewn in each side seam at the waist was all they needed. I did two and have had the other two waiting for those couple of stitches for months, but now they are done!

The bedroom chair had grown cardis and bits, the odd bit of packing from where I had bought something and kept it, because it might come in useful, it had become my 'Chair-robe' again! And was  mountain of clothes, dresses worn once and may be ok to wear again before washing,,, All sorted and put away and the packing in the recycle, took less than 5 minutes!

Some tops flung on the spare bed waiting to be sorted.......should it be a charity shop; cotton cut up for quilting; or dusters? This did take a while, because I had to decide, and then having thought if they were good cotton, cut into reasonable sized pieces to go in my fabric store.. And then folding the good ones neatly for the charity shop, the rest, binned. Do I want dusters?? No!  I buy sets because I like the colours!

The other little job is quite big. I bought a dress because I liked the bright lime yellow colour, but it was sleeveless. I thought it would be ok even with my old looking arms, but the scaring on my right arm shows it and it is horrible.. It was a bit long, so I cut off the bottom frill and cut out two short sleeves, quite a big job. I have the sleeves all cut, and one tacked in place and it looks ok. All I have to do is the other one, but it seems such a big job. Then I'll have to get out my sewing machine, can I do it before the summer ends? I don't know, wait and see. When it's done there'll be a photo, but don't hold your breath! I might have just worn it with a cotton bolero. but that went to the charity shop! Its true you never need something till you've chucked it.. 

Chrisxx

Hot!

 The new Eastern Prom, super for walking if you're a bit doddery and hate paving slabs like me. We walked along here yesterday although hot,  we were out before it was too warm.         

It's near to where I grew up as a child and I always get a whoosh of memories remembering those days, when my friends and I played here.

To me it seems like only the other day sometimes,  and then others years ago! How many children of today play on the beach without an adult supervising them?

But it was pleasant walking and there were quite a few people around. We met two  friends from our SW group and had a lovely chat with them, but didn't join them for coffee, because we'd had one earlier and even a de-caff one can be an irritant, to my iffy bladder.

And another deterrent was it was at Sidoli's who have the most delicious ice cream so a definite place to swerve!

It was nice to get out and it did me good socialising.. all this too hot weather is keeping us inside, it worse than lock down! How are you managing in the heat?

Chrisxx

Upside down!!

 A big thank you to everyone who commented on that last post, it was just a test to see if some bloggers could still access my blog without being warned of bugs. My laptop has been scanned and it's completely covered, but appreciate some people aren't able to access my blog. Joy had a similar problem a while ago (retired teacher) and it righted itself.. machines???

But moving on, my life seems to be upside down at the moment, I go to bed yawning and lie there wide awake. I wake feeling tired and am shattered and sluggish.  An aqueous cream I've used for years, instead of shower jell and soap has started to irritate my skin, so annoying, so now I have to find something else instead. My hair with a natural wave has gone curlier and unmanageable! But these are still looking good.

I stopped having my hair styled a while ago, its such a nuisance to set aside a morning each week, just to have my hair washed and styled. I manage quite well one handed and with a good cut it looks fine. So can I be bothered to have it styled weekly again?

The very hot weather has returned and I don't like it, I hate the rain and I'm complaining about the sun! I'm just a crotchety old woman!

Some of our cosmos have turned out doubles and the bees love them.

This is our favourite flower bed at the moment, just love those white Shasta daisies, the blue Asters and that red Dahlia with

 the pink rose. 

At least the garden seems to be growing and looking beautiful every day, thank you garden and my gardener, Dh, in his 'Keep Calm I'm a Gardener' tee shirt!

Chrisxx

Not mine but so good worth posting,

 Alice Grayson was supposed to bake a cake for her church’s bake sale, but she forgot until the morning of the event. In a rush, she whipped up an angel food cake, but the center collapsed. Desperate to make it look presentable, she stuffed a roll of toilet paper into the center and covered it with icing. It looked perfect!

She told her daughter to buy the cake at the sale before anyone else could. But when her daughter arrived, the cake had already been sold. Alice was mortified, imagining the horror of someone discovering the toilet paper inside.

The punchline? At a fancy luncheon the next day, the cake was served as dessert—and the snobby hostess proudly claimed she had baked it herself. Alice just smiled and thought, “God is good.”

I thought this was so funny.

Chrisxx

Blog problems

 I am not posting for a day or two while Dh tries to sort out what's wrong

Chrisxx

I'd never have thought that!

There hasn't been seating outside Costa for weeks and we've missed it. We always sat outside with Nell, because dogs weren't allowed inside. These days they are welcome, and some days there are several inside, all quiet and wolfing down their puppacinos!!

There was scaffolding up for quite a while, we assumed it was to allow the flats above to be painted. But the scaffolding came down last week and still no seats.

When we were there on Wednesday, we asked were they going to put seats outside again? Jodi who seems to be in charge told us, they were waiting for a firm to clean the awning of gull and pigeon droppings! The scaffolding had been there, so that the poop mess could be cleaned off the building. Evidently the firm contracted to do this had been booked last summer but still hadn't done the awning! 

So one of the problems of being in a seaside town.. Opposite Costa is the old Coop building, now a Pound Shop and they have a hole in the side of their roof overhang and we watch the pigeons fly in and out.

Our dawn chorus at 5 ish is the squawking of gulls!

Isn't the Costa building grand? I think it might have been a bank!

Chrisxx

19 Years and the Girls came too!!

We had this song sung by Dh's twin daughters on our wedding day 29th July 2006. It was a beautiful day and went absolutely perfectly.

The sun shone and I planned it with my best friend's help and we had a wonderful day. After the ceremony, with our 26 guests we sat down to a delicious meal in a restaurant we'd booked in Brentwood.  

I hadn't arranged to have any floral table displays, but my friend convinced me we should. So I went back to the flower shop, three days before the wedding and they were delighted to do them. I left it all up to them and they did us proud. 

I was very surprised and delighted, because they took the flowers to the restaurant, and with the restaurant staff set up all the tables with the beautiful displays. It was amazing, more than I could have hoped for. 

We ourselves,  enjoyed every minute and later our guests joined us at my house in Billericay for the evening, food by Mr Waitrose and a cake by 'him' too. We spent our wedding night there and the next day at 5:30am a taxi took us and the 'girls' (the twins) to the airport where we flew to America. 

Yes, we had a honeymoon with 16 year old twins, ummmm ?? They did have their own room! But apart for America I wouldn't change one thing. It was a perfect day and I married the best man in the world!!

And here we are still very happy 19 years later.

Chrisxx

Thank you,

Thank you for all the messages re:- not being able to access my blog by some people, nice to  know but it doesn't sort it out. 

My IT expert, aka Dh, has checked our anti virus and all is ok.. so I don't know how I can help. 

But nice to know I am still in the blogging world because where else could I post this.......,LOL

Chrisxx

What did I say?

 Thank goodness for this....

I don't know what I've done but I've lost some bloggers that always  used to leave a comment, but no more? I've visited their blogs and left comments, but none from them?

Did I say something they didn't like, or are my posts boring or is it their tastes have changed? Should I apologize or just move on?

Move on I guess, we are all different with different view points and beliefs. What ever I think you should be true to yourself and beliefs.

I have some one who keeps asking me to be 'friends' on FB,  but she blasphemes and I don't like that, so I give her a swerve.. and a blog I've  always read, which was interesting, but her language is 'ripe' so I've stopped visiting that blog. 

I've dropped writing every day, because not a lot has been happening, I'm not going to write about an 'incident' in my life and end it with 'and then I woke up!' Just the sort of ending my year 3 class would write! I'm a better blogger and writer than that I hope?

Today is our last Welsh session, thank goodness because being up showered and breakfasted by 9:30 on a Monday morning has been very hard.. and we've signed up for next year with the same Tutor and at the same time, well we decided it got us going for the week!

Will I ever be able to speak Welsh fluently? I don't know, 'ond dw i eisiau siarad Cymraig felli bydda i dal i ceisio!'

Chrisxx

Yes it is a holiday town

 You know you live in a seaside holiday town, when you have to stop for a line of donkeys lead by a pied ball pony as they cross the road in front of you. 

We weren't fast enough with a camera but they came out of a lane and crossed quite a busy road. All trotting happily behind each other with out a rope between them. They are the beach donkeys and well looked after

They live here in a stable with the field full of buttercups that we frequently pass on our way home from town.

To any one who might suggest that it's cruel to have them giving rides on a hot beach, they do have a shelter to be out of the sun and they look extremely healthy and well looked after. 

The owners have times when you can visit their stables and help feed, care and brush them, for a few pounds. And if you wanted you could help muck out their stables. There are even Christmas visits arranged which are proving quite popular.  When there was carol singing in town, there were two donkeys there looking very Christmassy.

They are very much the face of Porthcawl. When my granddaughter was small, a ride on a donkey was all she ever wanted. 

Chrisxx