Peninsula (Song Lyric Sunday + Blogtober #24)
There was really nothing in, what I thought was, my eclectic music taste to meet with today’s prompt. So last night I took a tour around YouTube, waking up this […]
Weekly Smile – (TTC #755 & Blogtober #18)
We are well over half-way through the Whole30 reset diet and … I suspect that my food intolerances are for those that are included in the ‘can have’ list – […]
I’m a Memory (Song Lyric Sunday + Blogtober #17)
Willy Nelson is one of the most recognised artists in country music. He was one of the main figures of outlaw country, a subgenre of country music that developed in the […]
Weekly Smile – (TTC #748 & Blogtober #11)
It is day 11 of the Whole30 change of diet. That means we are beyond a third of the way through the no alcohol, (aka red wine) restrictions. Only 19 […]
Games People Play (Song Lyric Sunday + Blogtober #10)
I have chosen Games People Play, not only to link to the prompt words for Song Lyric Sunday but to Blogtober 2021 too. I have been a bit wayward in […]
Caboodle – (weekend writing prompt #229)
Boyfriend and I have had the Doctor’s finger wag recently; so decided to help ourselves resist Big Pharma; with a 30-day challenge to reset our dietary consumption. We had not […]
Weekly Smile – (3TC #713)
It’s not been a good year for produce from the garden. I guess; Spring came too early, too much rain this Summer, definitely not enough bees? I’m no expert in […]
Weekly Smile – (3TC #706)
Today, I got to see Lydia for the second time this trip from Georgia to her Mother’s home in sleepy old Weymouth. It’s been 17 years since she went back […]
Weekly Smile – (3TC #699)
We’ve been on our hols – the first one since the Rugby World Cup in Japan 2019 – such bliss even though I am now sat in the front of […]
Weekly Smile – (3TC #685)
Phewee! I missed last week’s smile; I simply didn’t have time for so much as a wry grin! Boyfriend and I have been on the last few laps of several […]
Weekly Smile – (3TC #672)
I’m a day late writing my weekly smile because, yesterday we went shopping for the long mused over motorhome. Boyfriend and I have got to that age where, two-man tenting […]
Weekly Smile – (3TC #664)
Huge smile yesterday and a fair few chuckles during the first half of The Duke’s Theatre Company and its adaptation of Romeo and Juliet. This is the first independent theatre […]
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 […]