Happy Christmas everybody

We wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and a Happy, HEALTHY New Year.  Particularly for our neighbours we hope for good health first and prosperity.

It is a lovely sunny day here in West Wales and quite mild.  I do hope it stays like this for our visitors.

John and I have exchanged some fairly modest gifts and we are having duck breast tonight.  The cats are having sardines, (if they want them, Catty can be highly suspicious of anything different, Small will eat anything and I mean anything)

Kim has chicken bits from last night and we are just going to go for a walk.  That is what she likes more than anything.

I want to take a photo of the  bronze coloured branches of the ash tree against the blue of the sky.  It is beautfiul in the sunshine. 

We cannot work out h0w to get the card out of the camera to print a photo.  My brother will be here on Thurs and he will know.

Next stop – 2008 !!!

Cold – isn’t it

It was -2 in the Conwil valley this afternoon coming home fom Carmarthen. There are huge icicles on the rocks where the water dripping off has frozen. The trees and fields are dusted white with frost and it’s cold.
I went to see M in hospital. She is in her eighties, in the Rehab ward and resisting getting up and getting dressed. If she doesn’t get her act together, she will not go home and end up in a care home. She says she wants to ‘go’ but I told her it doesn’t work like that. She looks quite well, but is really quite depressed. Old age can be so sad.
John dosed and checked the lambs this morning, trimmed their feet and cleaned their bums up ready for selling. They cannot go to market with dirty bums.
Small spent the morning assisting John and out again this afternoon so he is very tired tonight and stretched out on the sofa. The fire glows red and hot, we need it tonight. The wind chill here today must have been -5 or more.
The cats are having a tin of sardines for their Christmas dinner.
This time next week it will all be over, time goes so quickly.
Bye

What a help!

I’ve been wrapping presents, assisted by Small who sits on the scissors, the paper and the selotape. And then typing, assisted by Small trying to squirm around on my lap, in loving mode, giving purrs and kisses.
I’ve thrown him a scrunched up post-it which gets rid of him.
It’s very cold here, but a beautiful blue sky. I’m pleased with your new Russian army fur hat that I got from Saunau Army surplus. I probably look strange but – at least I’m cosy and warm.
The grass is frosty and J is very annoyed that a mole is throwing up heaps on the back lawn. this is very bad news. If they get in the shale beds where the fuchsias and azleas are they will ruin it. He is going to put some sort of deterrant down. I have hear that moth balls are good, if you can still get them. I would pour Jeyes fluid down but he hates the smell of that.
I hope it stays like this for Christmas but I don’t expect it will.

Looking forward

I’m looking forward to Christmas and to see my family. When my two brothers and I get together we always have lots of laughs. They like to play card games as well and unmfortunately Mark won’t be here the same time as J and M although he’ll see them for Friday morning. I expect brother J will want to go up or down the field in the LandRover.
At the moment it is a hard frost so everywhere is firm but if it rains at the weekend it will turn slippy.
Small does not seem to be taking much notice of the Christmas lights.
He had a gnaw on the new bread I made today. It’s difficult to know where to put everything. At Christmas when there is more food about he will have to stay in the Utility room.
He even takes things off the Rayburn – nothing is safe.
We won’t be able to have crisps or nuts on the table.
I will take a photo of him with my new camera and put it on here.
Bye

New story – Snowballs and snow

  It all started with a snowball.         Cassie was playing silly beggars with Ellie, throwing snow around, making snowballs and generally acting daft.  Well she was only twenty-three and for Ellie at four and a bit this was her first real snowfall.  So there they were, outside the house, making a snowman and the odd snowball.   The murky sky was tinged a sulphurous yellow and the snowflakes, falling thick and fast settled on the ground and their noses.  The air was very cold.

         Cassie, whilst bending over to pat the snowman had had a rather wet lump of snow stuffed down her neck by a giggling Ellie. 

         ‘Right, I’ll get you.’ She squashed up a large fistful of snow and threw it.

         Horror froze her bones, more than the snow ever could.  ‘Oh I’m so sorry.’  She stared in consternation, Ellie had jumped and it had hit the old man next door, squarely in his back.  She watched him stagger and grab the wall. 

         In the seconds she was saying, ‘Are you all right?  I’m so sorry.’  She moved, her feet slid out from under her on the ice and she landed with a sickening thump on her bottom.

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Read the rest by clicking “Snowballs and snow” under pages.

I’m back !!

Well, it seems that I am back in the land of the living.  For some strange, unknown reason the internet access came back so I must make the most of it.

Thank you to any loyal reader out there. 

All of a sudden Christmas is nearly upon us.  The weather has turned wintry cold although we are still on the warmer side here.  I am recovering from a cold and have missed all sorts of socialising. 

Our feline friend Small has grown, he tries to be a good boy but doesn’t always succeed.  There are toys strewn everywhere.  He has been very sweet when I was in bed ill, keeping me company and patting my face with his paw.  Catty could not understand why I was not in my proper place in the kitchen and gazed at me earnestly. 

I don’t think we’ll get rid of the lambs before Christmas now, the prices are still low. 

Met my friend H and had lunch in Morrisons in Carmarthen today.  The cafe was mostly full of elderlies  who know that the food there is good.  It is freshly cooked, hot and the sandwiches are very nice as well.  Some folk would say Morrisons? ugh! but everyone who has been in this one tends to go back. 

The staff in the store are pleasant and helpful, I had three assistants trying to find me duck breasts – all men.

I will organize a Christmas story…