Lists

Horse post repair!!!

My first day of holiday was today
At 9am I sat at the kitchen table and made my list for the week
A to do list
The first hour, I sipped at my bucket of coffee and made four list headings which I added words to when they entered my head. This took two hours, three cups of coffee ,one play for today, downloaded from radio 4 and a nasty moment when Albert knocked the hind leg off my pottery horse!!!
I was pleased as punch with my lists when finished even though it wasn't comprehensive

Finance.                Home.                  People.                 Misc.

Registration.         Clear drive.          Nando.                 Mary haircut
Bills.                     Back Garden.       Polly.                    Strim Field
(Numerous.           Car brakes.          Gorgeous Dave.   Daily bike rides
Lines re                 Paint Hall.            Eleanor                Paint bookcase
different bills).      Lino in bathrm.    Ben/Ruth.            Start making Chess set
Sell old bike.         Clear shed.           Colin                   Box set BroadChurch and Killing Eve                     
                              Clean garden shed.                           Sell unwanted crap
                              Paint back of cottage                        Get Grandfather clock working
                              Repair gutter.                                    Flowers          

Each line has a box drawn after it and by the end of the morning I had already ticked six off, which included selling my ex husband's bike which he had left unclaimed in the kitchen shed for the past two years!
The money paid for my nursing reregistration, Mary's Haircut and a new pair of shoes for me!!!!
Result!!!
I met my Uruguay friend Nando and had tea and long chats in the grounds of the hotel he runs.
Spanish speakers swear in a musical way , especially when they say fuck .....( which is pronounced Fook)
It makes me giggle

I bought flowers for the cottage and was home by seven
I ticked off three more boxes after I'd got through the door

I love ticking those boxes !!!

A Head On A Shoulder

I grew up with parents that never showed physical affection
I was never hugged as a child.
I remember one moment at my grandmother's funeral where my mother rested her head onto my father's shoulder
The gesture was slightly awkward and just that little bit sad in its rarity

The recent photo of Prince Charles and William was anything but awkward
It is warm and comfortable and with Charles in the subservient role, it is rather a moving study of father and son.
A father who has finally found a way to show his feelings

Buddy

I've taken the dogs to the beach
Had turkey salad
And Cut the lawn

I also revisited this short movie from the Netherlands, which is a very nuanced study of a gay relationship that is almost over.

I had a HIV test  20 months ago

I did it alone 

Corrupting AleHouse

I've worked in a team since I was eighteen

That's 40 years all told man and boy

I'm a good team player

And I understand the dynamics at play

But I do understand when you need a break from work

And I need my break from work.

I left work yesterday with a gift from my friend Ben.

Ben is a rare breed, he's a hands on academic nurse. A nurse who has taught at the university as well as wiped bottoms on the shop floor. 

His gift was a bottle of homemade beer from his  corrupting Ale House brand which features a hairy fat naked man on the label ! 

I wonder where he got the inspiration for that ?

Ben wrote me a note on my birthday which said " I'm so pleased that you have come into our lives ! happy Birthday " 

It moved me greatly

I've shopped today and hired a professional carpet cleaner
The cottage is pristine and tomorrow I can plan my time off with no distractions of filthy carpets and doggy smelling cushions and throws.

John The Dogs

I love this photo 

It was sent to me tonight from Facebook 

" remember this? It said!"

And I did 

Me, Winnie and my old dogs William , George and Meg

All having a lie in a couple of years ago 

Winnie looks mighty proud does she not?

So do I 

I miss my lost dogs

I've always missed them all 

16

It's 21.17 pm

My first major sit down 

Dotty is busy licking my feet back into some normality

I have 16 days off 

16!!!!!!!

Enjoy

Oh don't you love blogger!!!!!!

You write a heartfelt piece of prose which receives perhaps 5 comments 

Then bang out a bit if shiteabout a cheap cushion that looks like a big minnow 

And bam!!! 40 comments stat!!!!

Go figure 

Love it......

I've just finished work . The hospice is a bit fraught as we have covid amongst the staff, but protocols have been followed rigorously so it's hey ho , best foot forward.

I'm working all tomorrow too.

So dearhearts , I am going to leave you with this video

It's a bloody delight.

It really is

A Spanish bride is surprised by her husband after he has organised that her students deliver his wedding ring, and the camera captures two delightfully sweet people without any words or further explainations .....

With all the shit going on in the world 

Please....just enjoy it , for what it is  

It's just lovely 

Impulse Cushion

I'm slightly obsessed with cushions
It's a well known fact
Ok cushions come fifth in my obsession stakes
( behind Scotch Eggs, The Walking Dead, Chris Pratt, and my dogs) 
But the obsession is there

Here is my latest cushion bought from Lidl yesterday

How good is that?
A FISH CUSHION!!!!!!
Fabulous !!
I'm at work Thursday and Friday long days this week
It's a bit stressful .....
I will tell you about that laters if I can