Its colder today and it's sleeting and trying to snow.
The village looks bleak in this kind of daytime as for the most part you cant see the pools of lights and the lit fires from the road outside the huddles of houses on the side of the Gop.
At dusk and beyond, the home lights always look more cosy.
This morning I've completed some mandatory training, priced a professional birthday cake up and taken Mary for an ear check up at the vets. She's still itching her 600£ surgery site and the vet's shoulder shrug cost me a further 20£ and petrol costs.....at least they had the good grace to blush a bit!
Such is life.
When I got home the weather deteriorated a bit and so before lighting the fire I fed Irene her daily treat of sour bread . The postman arrived when I was still on the field, he waved impatiently for me to come over he had a large parcel of postcards and a box for me to sign for.
"A pressie from Hawaii" he shouted into the wind "I wish I was there !"
The village looks bleak in this kind of daytime as for the most part you cant see the pools of lights and the lit fires from the road outside the huddles of houses on the side of the Gop.
At dusk and beyond, the home lights always look more cosy.
This morning I've completed some mandatory training, priced a professional birthday cake up and taken Mary for an ear check up at the vets. She's still itching her 600£ surgery site and the vet's shoulder shrug cost me a further 20£ and petrol costs.....at least they had the good grace to blush a bit!
Such is life.
When I got home the weather deteriorated a bit and so before lighting the fire I fed Irene her daily treat of sour bread . The postman arrived when I was still on the field, he waved impatiently for me to come over he had a large parcel of postcards and a box for me to sign for.
"A pressie from Hawaii" he shouted into the wind "I wish I was there !"
Not everything that is pushed through my letterbox has a positive connotation.
Yesterday I received a speeding fine for 100£.
I cant really afford such a sum!
The mobile camera that caught me was hidden away at the bottom of a local hill in a semi rural spot and although I was doing 36 miles an hour a few feet into a 30 miles an hour zone I got charged.
ok, ok hands up, I did break the law and so I should not be bleating, but it does smack, just a little of a money making scheme, especially as the alternative offer of a "speed awareness course" could be taken up at the knock down cost of £92 !
Anyhow, I wont bang on , especially as I have just learnt that I have to fork out an additional 400£ for an up to date pension forcast document for the divorce lawyers!!!
Divorce is a fucking expensive do!
Divorce is a fucking expensive do!
Pay up and shut Up John!
Luckily the rest of my post has proved to be a delight.....40 cards today, and a delightful gift from Lorna in Hawaii (thank you dearheart).
I've been amazed at the artistry of the entries
a needle work postcard!
fabulous
I'm loving looking at all the cards you have received from all round the world - Amazing
ReplyDeleteIf you pay the fine quickly is it not reduced to £60? Love the cards.
ReplyDeleteSays not on the fine letter just 100£
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DeleteI am not quite sure I like the tone of this reply,
DeleteI suspect this is troll work but I will leave it for the time being.
DeleteI changed my mind
DeleteDid like to know more about you John you can always message me on google hangout messenger at bishopgarcia101@gmail.com
DeleteDo you get points if you pay the full fine? If so, taking the speed awareness course is the way to go.
ReplyDeleteLove the needlework postcard.
Traveller
Three points yes
DeleteThought as much. My partner got caught last year. Attending the speed awareness to avoid the points. Thought the course was very good.
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You are much adored far and wide :)
ReplyDeleteTee here x
DeleteTee hee x
DeleteThe Idaho one is old, I've seen it since I was a kid 60 years ago. Brings back memories, though. As to speeding, a general rule here in the US is if you're within 5-6 mph of the limit they won't stop you.
ReplyDeleteThat's what I thought here mike......obviously not! Grrrrrrrrrrr
DeleteLooks like mine won't be the only one from Missouri - I see a St. Louis card! Love the fabric cards! It used to be a thing to exchange quilted cards.
ReplyDeleteThe American, Canadian and Pacific Cards are coming in to day
Delete7 to 10 days to your part of the world from America.
DeleteYay! You got mine! I did go to Grant’s house. It was cute!
ReplyDeleteThe needlework ones are FANTASTIC. WHOA.
Especial mention Batman and th beefcake pose, of course.
I’d be smarting from that fine, too. Hate speed traps.
XoXo
I'm just having a moan
DeleteWhoa, what a huge response from everywhere. Those are amazing.
ReplyDeleteJudging them will require a stiff gin
DeleteThese postcards are wonderful. And quilted ones, too! What creative people! Jerry has recently received TWO tickets by mail. One for speeding. One for going down our friend's private street in the city (which we didn't know had gone private). The fine were 100 euros, but if he paid within a certain number of days, they were only 50 euros. A much better deal than you were offered.
ReplyDeleteI think ours is a fixed fine of 100£ seeing that the course is 92 £ there would be no inventive
DeleteApplause to Lorna. What a wonderful gift and what a splendid piece of Art!
ReplyDeleteI was tickled by both
Deletewhat are you going to do with all these postcards?
ReplyDeleteI'm making an art wall in my new office xx
DeleteGreat postcards ...... how many have you got now John ?
ReplyDeleteI was done for speeding about five years ago and chose to go on the Speed Awareness course to avoid the points. It was really good .... no one said that we’d been naughty and it reminded us about many things that get forgotten over the years. After three years they take you off the speeding register. Worth doing I thought. XXXX
You have to pay to go on the course now.....
DeleteI understand .... another £92 at this point of the proceedings is not top of your list ! XXXX
DeleteWonderful cards. I have made sewn paper postcards but not quilted.
ReplyDeleteFabulous !
cheers, parsnip
The last one is so apt! :)
ReplyDeleteWhen it rains it pours - vet bills and fines - and post cards!!! What a wonderful assortment from all over the world. The first two are really remarkable! And the last one so apt, as Simone says.
ReplyDeleteThe quilted cards are works of art, whoever made them is very talented.
ReplyDeleteThe ticket my husband got for not coming to a full jerk stop at a stop sign four years ago still smarts, especially, he says, as the officer was still in diapers when he (hubs) learned to drive!
ReplyDeleteSo many delightful postcards today! Too bad about the speeding ticket. That sucks.
ReplyDeleteA very interesting set of cards today. I have studied them all.
ReplyDeleteI'm still loving them
DeleteLove the first two. Pleased to see one of mine today. Surprised my first ones took two days then the next a week. Maybe my next one tomorrow.
ReplyDeleteI got done in the exact same way, small millage over, on a steep hill with hidden camera and I felt the same. This is money making rather than tackle real problems. It sucks! It is usually reduced to £60 if you pay straight away but it was a couple of years ago so maybe it has changed since then.
Still loving the postcards. I think this is your best competition ever! A wall of cards would be great.
A wall of best wishes
DeleteBoo to all the expenses. 400 pounds for a pension forecast? -- I hope it's gilt edged at least.
ReplyDeleteBut yay for all the delightful cards, whether paper or cloth!
I've had wooden ones too
DeleteI missed that
DeleteHe’s going to get part of your pension?😫😫😫😫😫
ReplyDeleteI hope not
DeletePraying for you it happened to me.
DeleteAnd the ex husband got a new wife 12 years younger who looks like me.
More and more amazing, delightful, funny, beautiful, and entertaining postcards! Being a quilter, I love the quilted ones But I didn't aspire to making one.
ReplyDeleteAlas, the slow boat still hasn't yet docked with my tardy card. It was mailed nearly 2 weeks ago.
Hugs!
It'll come xx
DeleteMy mother in law hated my replacement so she paid for my divorce, bless her.
ReplyDeleteBloody hell..... I'm on my own
DeleteI paid his lawyer's fees in the divorce (didn't have to) because he didn't have the money as it cut into his drinking/buying rounds money! Ditto the notary's fees which he was supposed to pay 50% of when I bought him out of the house. Still it was money well spent!
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ReplyDeleteLovely cards John, I like the dogs on the red sofa 🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸
ReplyDeleteI've been enjoying it all. At choir tonight, a lady in the Alto section said she'd got me one!
DeleteRefuse to go down. Shame you didn't get that advice a bit earlier.
ReplyDeleteOuch x
DeleteI got a speeding ticket last year and attended the awareness course - it was one afternoon and cost me about £90 but it saved me getting 3 points and my car insurance getting loaded.
ReplyDeleteYes.....it's a day out! And expensive one but a day out xxxx
DeleteHi john never commented before. Shouldn’t the nhs give you a forecast for free there is a website you can do your own. Speed awareness courses are fine. Preserving points .cheers
ReplyDeletelove your blog had to read the archives.
Yes you get a frèe one before you retired but if you need one. O et a year later you need to pay. I retired in a year and a half ago
DeleteLovely cards again John - see just how many blog friends are on your side. Sorry about all the money worries - I am the same at the moment - every job I have done on the bungalow uncovers half a dozen more jobs desperate to be done. We must keep telling ourselves that one day we shall look back on it all from a position where it is all over and things are back to normal. xx
ReplyDeleteThe trick is not to look
DeleteSigh on the drain on your already tightened purse. All of the drains.
ReplyDeleteLoving your cards.
I just needed a moan
DeleteRemove the zero....you just need a man
DeleteAdd a rich
DeleteI need a rich man
That fabric card is fantastic work!
ReplyDeleteLong live cards...and posties!!
Change your name to something famous and flog your mutton. Just look at the attention I have received in the past 24 hours from some of your adoring audience. Lucrative and Easy. My middle names.
ReplyDeleteMavis you are a legend in your lifetime
DeletePs go to bed
DeleteYes Mother. Are you coming?
DeleteNaughty
DeleteI had to Google "flog your mutton". Frankly, I'm still confused.
DeleteTHAT'S a royal pain in the arse! And only 6 mph over too!
ReplyDeleteWuppertal in Germany is twinned with my home town Jarrow! I barely went to school but when I did I learnt the most random of things 😊
ReplyDeleteHello John you don't need a rich man you need and deserve the right man who loves you and I hope that the time will come when this happens and you can look back at the past without feeling pain x It's all in a lifetime that's what I keep telling myself x I am going into Coventry to look for a post card tomorrow so brace yourself for either a pictorial delight of our Cathedral or a slightly cheeky representation of lady Godiver and peeping Tom x hugs x
ReplyDeleteI was joking about the rich man.....I just want security and a bit of peace x
DeleteThe needlework post card is stunning!
ReplyDeleteIt is fun to see where your blog readers are all from and I especially like seeing fellow US citizens :)
We are all here for the scotch eggs and banter. Cheers!
No scotch eggs post card as yet
DeleteLovely set of cards today especially the quilted ones also love the Terriers. It never rains but it pours bills I mean.
ReplyDeleteIrene looks cosy! Your personalised cards are amazing. You've some talented followers!
ReplyDeleteAh the woes of divorce. Mine cost me $15,000. I could have done it much cheaper if my ex-wife hadn't tried to get so much money from me for spousal support. But it is over now and I am in a better place. Sorry about the speeding ticket. That kind of stuff happens in the USA too..
ReplyDeleteMick.....I just need to suck it up
DeleteShould have come to bed :))
DeleteBed Mavis bed!
DeleteThose speed cameras have been declared illegal in most venues in this country.
ReplyDeleteLoving the postcards 😀
ReplyDeleteTry to hang on to your pension, you've earned it. I'm sure Chris has one of equal if not greater value, if he hasn't that's his bad planning and not something you should be penalised for.
Has the vet suggested any food changes or eliminations for Mary’s ear problems?
ReplyDeleteNo can you Lisa?
DeleteHi, John: So happy you got the bits and bobs from Hawaii. I was at the store looking for a postcard, and then I saw a bunch of stuff that I thought you might enjoy. As I mentioned in the postcard, I love, love, love your blog, and wish you were my neighbor (but not in Wales for me -- too cold). The postman asked me where Wales was when I brought the box to the post office, and I told him it was part of the United Kingdom. Hey, I guessed correctly!!
ReplyDeleteI'm going back to Wales on Sunday for my brother's funeral and suggested to my youngest son that he rent a car when he flies in to Manchester. He wasn't too worried about driving on the left BUT didn't know what paperwork he would have to show at the England/Wales border!!! I just laughed but of course even though he has a British passport he has never lived there - just so you know, there isn't a hard border, no customs officers no nothing (except usually a wall of rain as you drive into Wales)!
DeleteWe sat up in bed this morning discussing your pension, do you think we need to get out more?
ReplyDeleteI asked Hubs an ex IFA why you had to pay £400 to get a forecast? He explained it to me, and said you would probably be getting a forecast of the Prof’s pension to keep things fair.
Like so many John, we are thinking of you and wishing you well.
LX
Pay for the course - if you don't they'll put your insurance costs up and that will hurt even more.
ReplyDeleteYes, go on the speeding course. You don't need to tell the insurance company (unless it is the one that on renewal asks specifically in which case you change insurers). My wife had to go on one (she was doing 37) and came back saying it had been interesting and that actually she'd rather enjoyed it. We are both now retraining ourselves to stick rigorously to the limits (no more 40 means 50).
ReplyDeleteBingo Darlin .... you got my card!
ReplyDeleteTry giving doggie Mary some yogurt in her food..... it just might give her ear a good balance of flora. Give it a month and its cheaper than the bloody Vets!
Wow -- you have received a huge quantity of cards! I love the fabric one. That definitely gets extra credit!
ReplyDeleteWonderful set of cards!
ReplyDeleteNice collection!
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