I found these pics on my friend's Facebook page. It certainly was a beautiful place to live.
Monday, October 31, 2016
Sunday, October 9, 2016
This manifesto suits me!
It's good to know they're a friendly lot where you live, Frank. We'll wait till Winifred puts a comment.
The nails idea was a stupid one - not that I didn't know it already! The polish only lasted a couple of days and now I have to buy some remover. Serves me right. People with fancy nails obviously don't do much!
The photo and wise words at the top suit me perfectly. I do live very simply, but must be the world's worst time manager. The trouble is, every time you do something, it brings something else. Make a mug of coffee - wash up the mug. Make bread - sweep up the crumbs. Wash and hang the clothes on the line - iron and/or put everything away. Live and breathe in the living room - dust, vacuum, wash the floor, empty the bins. Invite family for dinner - pack, then unpack the dishwasher and put things away. Join Ancestry.com - communicate with dozens of cousins who pop out of the woodwork. Teach English - prepare lessons AND clean the house from top to bottom. Go to bed at night - wash the sheets.
I shouldn't complain - the other option is be dead :-((
The photo and wise words at the top suit me perfectly. I do live very simply, but must be the world's worst time manager. The trouble is, every time you do something, it brings something else. Make a mug of coffee - wash up the mug. Make bread - sweep up the crumbs. Wash and hang the clothes on the line - iron and/or put everything away. Live and breathe in the living room - dust, vacuum, wash the floor, empty the bins. Invite family for dinner - pack, then unpack the dishwasher and put things away. Join Ancestry.com - communicate with dozens of cousins who pop out of the woodwork. Teach English - prepare lessons AND clean the house from top to bottom. Go to bed at night - wash the sheets.
I shouldn't complain - the other option is be dead :-((
Thursday, October 6, 2016
The things people - I - do
The other day a woman of similar vintage to myself and I started chatting in a cafe and she proudly showed me her fingernails, which had just been professionally manicured and varnished. Up to that point I'd always considered this the ultimate in self-indulgence and thought it was the last thing I'd ever do. But...I rushed off to find out for myself, arthritic gnarled old fingers and age-spotted hands and all!!!
Can't say I enjoyed the experience, especially not with a male doing it. I chose a lavender-grey colour from the thousands on the shelves. Now I'm afraid to do most things in case I scratch the shiny surface.
Winifred, I have heard that British people don't tend to chat to strangers, and there is now a fad for people to wear a badge or something indicating they would like to. Is this true? I talk to anybody and everybody and have always done so. My mother always did, and so do most of the people I know. Is it really not the thing to do in UK?
Yes, Lina and I did have a lovely day. We don't know what those gorgeous purple flowers are. I just asked google and I think you're right - they do look like anemones!
Can't say I enjoyed the experience, especially not with a male doing it. I chose a lavender-grey colour from the thousands on the shelves. Now I'm afraid to do most things in case I scratch the shiny surface.
Winifred, I have heard that British people don't tend to chat to strangers, and there is now a fad for people to wear a badge or something indicating they would like to. Is this true? I talk to anybody and everybody and have always done so. My mother always did, and so do most of the people I know. Is it really not the thing to do in UK?
Yes, Lina and I did have a lovely day. We don't know what those gorgeous purple flowers are. I just asked google and I think you're right - they do look like anemones!
Sunday, October 2, 2016
Lina came for lunch
Have you ever seen such magnificent flowers! Lina brought them, plus lots of other goodies, when she came to lunch yesterday.
I was very pleased to read your comments, Winifred, as it seems like ages since I'd heard from you. Good to know Roy is happy with his days at the hospice. Reminds me of when my dear mother was in the same situation, in 1998.
We're all back to normal here, with the family home from Japan. It's the middle of our Term 3 holidays, so Emma and Hugo have had a big break from school, though Emma did go to school in Japan for a few days.
I was very pleased to read your comments, Winifred, as it seems like ages since I'd heard from you. Good to know Roy is happy with his days at the hospice. Reminds me of when my dear mother was in the same situation, in 1998.
We're all back to normal here, with the family home from Japan. It's the middle of our Term 3 holidays, so Emma and Hugo have had a big break from school, though Emma did go to school in Japan for a few days.
Sunday, September 25, 2016
It's been six weeks since I wrote anything!
I don't know where time goes, but out of the weeks I didn't post, I think I slept day and night for three, because of the flu, which has now become bronchitis.
A few days after Philip got back from his father's memorial service in LA, he and the family flew off to Japan. Within a few days he was back alone, wanting to sleep in his own bed as he, like me, had the flu. Apparently it's widespread and goes on for weeks. I had been vaccinated but not Philip. It didn't do me any good. The rest of the family will be home next week.
I found this brush turkey in the backyard a few days ago and managed to get some pics. I checked google and they seem to be everywhere right now, annoying gardeners by digging up everything in sight to build their mounds. This one didn't stay very long, and, as far as I could see, did no harm.
A few days after Philip got back from his father's memorial service in LA, he and the family flew off to Japan. Within a few days he was back alone, wanting to sleep in his own bed as he, like me, had the flu. Apparently it's widespread and goes on for weeks. I had been vaccinated but not Philip. It didn't do me any good. The rest of the family will be home next week.
I found this brush turkey in the backyard a few days ago and managed to get some pics. I checked google and they seem to be everywhere right now, annoying gardeners by digging up everything in sight to build their mounds. This one didn't stay very long, and, as far as I could see, did no harm.
Wednesday, August 10, 2016
View out the window
Philip was at his father's bedside when he died on 11 August, aged 69, in a Hollywood hospital. Philip is helping his stepmother sort things out, staying in her apartment. He sent this shot this morning of a film crew out the front.
I did it!
Oh, you lucky people! Here's my first closeup of a piece of flaky skin!! Yuk, do you say? It's a bit dark - seems I forgot to put the under light on. But I'm getting there...Since I studied biology in high school I've been interested in tiny creepy crawlies and bits of dead stuff, so now I'm able to examine every bit of fluff and flea to my heart's content.
Just had my first session in the gym, with a trainer. I loved it, so will go every week from now on, even though it means missing my aquarobics session, which I love as well.
Just had my first session in the gym, with a trainer. I loved it, so will go every week from now on, even though it means missing my aquarobics session, which I love as well.
Aha! That's better - a nicely lit flake of skin.
Tuesday, August 9, 2016
Sorry for the big gap
It's more than a month since I've blogged. Life is so busy I can't keep up with myself and, if I'm not flat-out doing things, I'm sleeping. During the cold winter months Muffy has been very cuddly and I spend hours each day with her on my lap. I just figured out how to take photos on the iPad, so have been photographing everything that moves! Also everything that doesn't move, as I am now the possessor of a USB microscope. (Haven't quite figured out yet how to get one of those magnified images on here, so breathe a sigh of relief - for the moment!)
Sad news. Just a few weeks ago, Jean-Robert, Philip's father, rang to say he'd been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Within a few days, he'd had a stroke. Philip flew to his bedside in LA, where he lives, and stayed 10 days. Two days ago we had news that he's developed pneumonia. Philip is in the air now, on his way to LA again.
Sad news. Just a few weeks ago, Jean-Robert, Philip's father, rang to say he'd been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Within a few days, he'd had a stroke. Philip flew to his bedside in LA, where he lives, and stayed 10 days. Two days ago we had news that he's developed pneumonia. Philip is in the air now, on his way to LA again.
Wednesday, July 6, 2016
Why do we do it?
Every time I go to a restaurant I wish I had stayed home. They're always noisy and crowded, the food mediocre and the hygiene standards don't bear thinking about.
This morning I took myself off to a restaurant in Hornsby mall, located between a recent fatal stabbing and a police shooting. I sat on the balcony and was nearly blown away by a gale, which knocked most things off the tables.
The service was atrocious, the sandwich pretty ordinary and the coffee came first, before the sandwich arrived. And I nearly froze to death.
Nobody to blame but myself. The moral of the story is:
EAT AT HOME!
This morning I took myself off to a restaurant in Hornsby mall, located between a recent fatal stabbing and a police shooting. I sat on the balcony and was nearly blown away by a gale, which knocked most things off the tables.
The service was atrocious, the sandwich pretty ordinary and the coffee came first, before the sandwich arrived. And I nearly froze to death.
Nobody to blame but myself. The moral of the story is:
EAT AT HOME!
Sunday, July 3, 2016
I should have been a cat
For years and years I had trouble sleeping, now, since a change of medication, just the opposite. I sleep an average of 11 hours a night and, whenever I can, sleep during the day as well. At the ripe old age of 73, I still haven't worked out how to live!
Sometimes I think it's because I do so much that I'm always tired. I don't know whether to just let myself sleep, or try to force myself to stay awake and keep going.
Recently I've been rivetted (riveted ?) to Radio 4 every night, with all the shenanigans in UK, and now, with yesterday's election here in Australia, we've got our own! Goodness me, politicians need to be thick-skinned! Why would anybody take it on?
Winifred, it would be so nice if you could pop in and try some of my homemade bread with a cuppa. You, too, Frank.
I now have a new computer, as the old one was wearing out. Philip has transferred my files over. He's magnified both the ordinary monitor and the big one I have, as my eye sight ain't what it used to be. My TV gave up the ghost, too, a couple of days ago and yesterday he bought me a new one and installed it for me. I'm still fighting a losing battle with emails - today's total is 2,843. (That's just the ordinary ones - not counting the social ones or the other ones, the name of which escapes me.)
Sometimes I think it's because I do so much that I'm always tired. I don't know whether to just let myself sleep, or try to force myself to stay awake and keep going.
Recently I've been rivetted (riveted ?) to Radio 4 every night, with all the shenanigans in UK, and now, with yesterday's election here in Australia, we've got our own! Goodness me, politicians need to be thick-skinned! Why would anybody take it on?
Winifred, it would be so nice if you could pop in and try some of my homemade bread with a cuppa. You, too, Frank.
I now have a new computer, as the old one was wearing out. Philip has transferred my files over. He's magnified both the ordinary monitor and the big one I have, as my eye sight ain't what it used to be. My TV gave up the ghost, too, a couple of days ago and yesterday he bought me a new one and installed it for me. I'm still fighting a losing battle with emails - today's total is 2,843. (That's just the ordinary ones - not counting the social ones or the other ones, the name of which escapes me.)
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