Weekly Smile – (3TC #650)
The first week of July sees my birthday. It’s been hiding; nay overshadowed by the Euro Footfall and the Wimbledon finals. 😊 Hey ho! It is the birthday before the […]
Weekly Smile – (3TC #650)
Yay! Boyfriend and I got to got to a wedding, this week. We’ve been waiting a while. Like all weddings taking place at the moment it, too, should have been […]
Weekly Smile – (3TC #643)
Tis a bitter sweet day, with the cremation of the other Mrs McHarrie. This week has been one of fond memories, digging out a broach she bought me to pin […]
Weekly Smile – (3TC #636)
Dear me! It has been a year; two broken hips, (Mum’s not mine) a cracked rib, a broken finger (mine not Mum’s) and a missing cat (adopted). I am now […]
Weekly Smile – (3TC #629)
I missed last week’s weekly smile, indeed, I confess, it is two week’s since I posted any blog. So this week I have a lot of smiles to report, some […]
Weekly Smile – (3TC #615)
Yay! Every once in a while something that you have been in the habit of doing, comes to fruition. I can’t remember, exactly, how long ago I started collecting £2 […]
Weekly Smile – (3TC #608)
Dear Dad It’s a year ago this morning that you left us. Although, you may well have thought we’d left you sooner. It was difficult to let you know how […]
Weekly Smile – (3TC #601)
It’s been quite a week. First off, last Saturday, we all dressed up for the Streetwise HR Christmas party! To be fair … it isn’t Christmas and it was a […]
Weekly Smile – (3TC #594)
I stayed with my Mother the whole of last week, thankful that whilst her recovery is nowhere near as simple as last time, her hip is beginning to mend. Between […]
Weekly Smile – (3TC #587)
Willow, Mum’s hearing dog is now back home and so am I, as it is my turn to keep an eye out for her, Mum that is, whilst she recovers […]
Weekly Smile – (3TC #580)
The weekly smile goes to Willow, my Mother’s adorable hearing dog. She has joined our household, just for a while, whilst Mum recovers from a second fall and hip operation, […]
Weekly Smile – (3TC #573)
I don’t know whether it’s anything to do with the second phase of lockdown, lift off but all of my projects seem to be drawing to an end … at […]
Weekly Smile – (3TC #566)
Meet Skadi – the monster disguised in pretty pussy cat’s clothing. Yesterday, I saw her diligently staring at the compost bin, for ages. I had a little chuckle. I knew […]
Sunday – (Song Lyric Sunday)
Sunday is the opening track to Heathen, which marked the return of producer Tony Visconti, who’d co-produced many of Bowie’s classic albums in the 1970s. Visconti recalled to Uncut magazine June 2008 about […]
Weekly Smile – (3TC #559)
Since lockdown last year, Boyfriend and I have been working on the garden, I can’t believe how much we have got done on this adventure and … how much ‘still’ […]
Flowers In The Window – (Song Lyric Sunday)
I love this song by Travis – the video is such a happy place too. I was first introduced the their music when their second album The Man Who was […]
Yay! Weekly Smile – (3TC #552)
Yay! We are feeling a tad smug – last Sunday we arranged with our best friends to meet up on Thursday. The first day that we could possibly, now that […]
Weekly Smile – (3TC #545)
Sláinte – Boyfriend and I are getting in a groove now! So far this year, we’ve done Burn’s Night, St Valentine’s, St David’s and then, last week, we celebrated St […]
Weekly Smile – (3TC #538)
If you have been following my Weekly Smile journal – you’ll know that last week was spent with my mother; her having been discharged from hospital with a newly pinned […]
Weekly Smile – (3TC #531)
I am a bit late today, because I have been looking after my dear old Mum! She came out of hospital on Friday, having had her left hip pinned back […]
Weekly Smile – (3TC #524)
What a lovely start to the weekend, the glorious Snow Moon that seemed close enough to touch on Friday night and then that superb Sahara sunrise. Both boded well for […]
Weekly Smile – (3TC #517)
This week’s smile is a tad double-edged, bitter-sweet you might say. I finally got Dad’s estate sorted, as his executor, and distributed it, according to his wishes. For those of […]
Weekly Smile – (3TC #510)
It’s been a lovely week. Lots of smiles to report. Boyfriend’s boy went to see his matrilineal kin for a couple of days before he headed back to sea on […]
Possess – (Weekend Writing Prompt #196)
Name the attributes, Were you a Superhero … You’d like to possess? (11-Word Senryu) Prompt inspired by Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt #196
新年快乐 / 新年快樂
Friday is film night in front of the box, The takeaway is less of a flummox With quite a full flagon And “Kiss of the Dragon”, Tonight we welcome the […]
Weekly Smile – (3TC #503)
We’ve been clad in our working clothes most of the week, doing our level best to get a few more of those chores struck off my list of things to […]
Gargantuan – (Weekend Writing Prompt #195)
Since the start of lockdown we’ve been amassing too much rubbish. There are three men who live in this house with me, at the moment, and none is very neat, […]
Weekly Smile – (3TC #496)
Remember last week, how I was hoping, optimistically, amongst other things, that the ensuite shower would be fixed? It wasn’t; and the plumber came back this morning for the third […]
Weekly Smile – (3TC #489)
Last week, if I am honest, there wasn’t too much to smile about; there was an awful lot of angst one way or another. What’s more, whilst most of the […]
Weekly Smile – (3TC #447)
On this spot in January 2021 – nothing amazing happened, it was a week of crossing off a whole load of little easy peasy jobs that so needed doing. Like […]
Tenacious – (Weekly Writing Prompt #190)
Be tenacious, doubt the sceptics, That say that your aim is worth nix – They don’t know how vital your role … In the context of your end goal. […]
