Monthly Archive: April, 2023

So, the Buffer thing not auto-posting may have been just a glitch on the day. Yesterday, when I checked, everything had posted normally and there was no warning message in my WP dashboard. Fingers crossed it works for at least a bit longer. The birds are going bonkers in our garden and we added another species to our list this...

It was grey and dismal at 6:30 yesterday morning when the dog woke me up to let him out, and also a bit damp so I didn’t hold out much hope for hanging out any washing. The poet was also up shortly afterwards, as he had a long drive ‘ovver th’ill’ (across the Pennines, ‘over the hill’) to Manchester. I...

We woke up yesterday to the sad news that a musican friend of our had passed away. We don’t know the circumstances, but we do know he’d been poorly and even in hospital recently. Even so, it was still a bit of a shock. He was a lovely bloke, one of the good ones, and he will be sadly missed....

We had a bit of a relaxed weekend, but we were perhaps a bit too relaxed. The plan was to go and do the shopping and then go for my x-ray. But by the time we were ready to go out, we only had time to go straight to the hospital, dropping the poet’s old desktop off at Son #2’s...

Once again the animals allowed us to sleep through and on Friday we didn’t wake up until 8am! The poet had to get up and dash around because he had a morning filled with meetings. Because Friday was a bit of a faff day for me, I had a far more leisurely start. When I did finally make it to...

The animals managed to let us sleep until 7am yesterday. Either they both slept all the way through too, or we were just so dead to the world we didn’t hear them. I always seem to have half an ear open in any case. But Wednesday night I slept like a log. It didn’t mean I got up any earlier,...

I seem to be finally heading in the right direction getting work back on track. My diary is much more streamlined and there is a lot more of my own work in there.  Saying that… I had a very late start on Wednesday due to first the cat waking me up (throwing up!) and then the dog keeping me awake...

I was going to try and squeeze in a blog yesterday, between appointments, but then thought I may as well try and get a day ahead again. So I’m writing about yesterday today. We had a bit of a mad start to the day with the poet getting up late for work and having to rearrange two of his plans...

On Friday I did a lot of faff work, but I also got back into the groove for regular work again. Once the faff was out of the way, I did the weekly scan and backup, and then I worked on this week’s diary. I had an x-ray appointment to make and I had to send our unavailable dates to my...

It’s been a strange week, during which I’ve not done a lot of work. Hardly any, in fact. In fact, I’ve hardly done anything at all, let alone any work. We had a quiet Easter weekend, and I took ALL of it off. I don’t remember everything we did, it’s a bit of a blur. But I’ll do my best....

My mom and dad were married in 1954, the day before my mom’s 20th birthday. Something happened to the photographs taken on the day, though, and they had a lot of them retaken in a back garden. I don’t know if the photograph above is one from the actual day or if it was part of the retakes. Either way,...