Back to blogging!! We'll see.

I'm starting my blog today with a photo of my little fur baby Chewie who was sadly involved in a traffic accident at the beginning of January.  He was the sweetest, funniest little cat and just adorable but heartbreaking when I had to let him go.  I have some wonderful photos and happy little memories of this kitty. My grandson took the first three photos (at the end of the page) at Christmas and they are just so Chewie. The last photo was taken when he was quite young and just loved hiding in boxes or bags.  I'd searched for ages for him and then saw his tail sticking out of the bag and had to take a photo. 

Not really sure what else I'm going to write about today but just want to really get back into blogging.  I keep a daily diary but don't get to write in it every day and then spend time doing a catch up. So - here I am on a Wednesday morning, looking out at the grey skies of Lichfield. 

The building behind my home is in the process of being renovated and there's a huge crane up alongside the building obviously dropping some materials on the roof top.  The building has been there for a number of years but just recently changed hands.  They fitted some guard rails to the top of the building that looked nice but oh boy, come sunshine and there was such a glare from the posts as the sun hit it.  It was dreadful and hurt the eyes, so much so that when I was in the kitchen I had to close the blinds as it really was hurting my eyes.  I sent an email to the company explaining that come Summer I would not be able to even sit in the garden with the glare, they really do shine like a beacon and I am almost blinded. I don't know if it was the same for other homes but I had a lovely reply back and they have said they will perhaps paint the posts and in the meantime they have lowered them so the glare is not as bad. 

To be honest I'm not even sure I've got anything particularly blog worthy to write about, I do, from time to time, update my Blessed Honeycombs blog, not so much the others, but we'll see how it goes.

I'm loving bible journalling at the moment and spend a few hours adding notes, pictures and drawings to my bible.  I'm no artist but it's nice to have a go.

I haven't been to the library for several years and have just started going back.  Reading a book on The Bible for Grown Ups at the minute but it's taking me a while to get into it.  I've lots of Christian books I've not started reading yet and maybe I should start on some of those first but it was nice getting back into the library.  I also use their computers for researching my family tree and printing pages out as my printer doesn't work. 

So not a lot of interesting news but it's a start and who knows maybe it won't be Christmas before I blog again.

Have a blessed day.

 13th March 2024

Two birthdays and a wedding

So, here we are, May already and some warmer days coming I hope. Its been a busy couple of months with birthdays and weddings, none of them mine. 

My grandson Tom had a birthday in March which he enjoyed and we had a lovely meal at the Blockhouse to celebrate.

My grandaughter Livvy celebrated her birthday at Miller and Carter where we had another lovely meal. 

Then friends wedding. It was a beautiful day and the bride looked stunning but I was too far away to get a good photo as I was helping on the screens at church but here's a few.

Lots of other things going on, my son tore his achilles heel and has been back and forth to hospital but hopefully he'll be out of the boot he's had to wear very soon.  

I then had a chest infection and that brings me upto date. I'm nearing the end of a course of antibiotics so hopefully chest will be clear soon and I'll get some energy back and get back to blogging more often. 

Christmas at the Cathedral

It seems such a long time since Christmas but I thought "hey why not add some pics of the Cathedral. It always looks nice and they have the charity tree festival where schools and businesses decorate Christmas trees and the public choose a winner"; so here they are although I can't seem to enlarge some of them.



 

An April morning

Wow, it never ceases to amaze me how time seems to fly and I promised myself I would blog more regularly. Clearly, I didn't but here I am today, full of cold, been coughing for a week and sneezing last few days but thankful I am testing negative for covid and feeling much better than yesterday. 

A lovely April morning today that brought the sun, rain, hail and a rather cold wind so thought I'd share some of the lovely spring pics I took at the beginning of the month.

Another lovely April morning  when the park looked so pretty with all the new planting of flowers. The birds were enjoying the sunshine and singing in the trees. It was very mild and so different from today. I love our English weather.

Lockdown pics

Pictures from around the city on my daily walks during lockdown

 

And kitty came too

Took a little walk to the park the other day but kitty decided he'd like to come too. He got a little spooked and decided he didn't like it much so I ended up having to turn back. It's been beautiful weather over the last few weeks.

Life in general

I mentioned over on my Blessed Honeycombs page what is happening in our country and indeed all over the world with Covid19 the spread of the Corona virus.
Our country is in lockdown, shops are closed apart from supermarkets. There is social distancing and we are allowed out of our homes only once a day for exercise and essential shopping. There are queues at the supermarket with a 2 mtr distance from the person in front of you and only 5 or so people are allowed in at a time.

I've had a bit of an emotional week this week. No idea why but it started after the country came together and clapped for our NHS workers. My son is a paramedic and my daughter in law is a nurse. It was such an emotional time and I have to admit I cried as I stood on my doorstep applauding the wonderful work they all do but for the rest of the week and this week I have been tearful. Slightest thing sets me off, even my one bit of exercise walking round the local park. It was so very very quiet but beautiful. I think spring is my most favourite time of the year. I love to see the buds appearing on the trees and the flowers blossoming, so beautiful.
I have a new phone and can't fathom out how to post a picture. When I do I'll share some.