Burnt lunch anyone?

Household tip:

If you set a timer on your mobile phone to remind you to turn the chicken you are frying make sure the volume isn't on mute.

Unless you like black chicken.

Time for tennis

It's Wimbledon time!

I've been watching lots and lots and lots of tennis.

Of course I support Andy but I also really like Nadal, Federer and Djokovic so I had rather mixed feelings at the start but now it's all sorted though in a sad sort of way.

Go Roger!

And can Johanna beat Venus? I really hope so.

Bit of an update

So what's happening in my life?

Health-wise I am doing well - have been managing to do a bit more and even done a little bit of driving!

J is back home for the summer - yay!

P has been really busy with work and various other activities - too busy really.

My older niece has just finished uni with an excellent degree. She and my brother visited the other night and it was great to see them.

Church going well.

Mavis came home from hospital but she hasn't been quite the same since, in fact things have been quite difficult with Mavis, at times very difficult really.

That's all for now.

Back again

Sorry, I have been absent for a while. Sometimes it just sort of happens - I get out of the blogging habit.

So three months have gone by and it is really hard to believe all that's happened in our nation in that time: Westminster Bridge, Manchester, London Bridge, Finsbury Park, Grenfell Tower... So many times I have watched or read the news and wept. It all just seems so senseless.

But I am aware that there are countries where these sort of things are a daily occurrence which is a really sobering thought.

And last time I blogged we had what seemed to be a stable government but now...

Out for lunch

Today was a bit rainy at times. Went out to lunch with friend from previous church - Welsh Rarebit and Lemon Cake - yum (and no dinner) and a nice long chat.

And pretty flowers.

A hint of spring

Back a lot better, cough almost gone and today it has felt like spring is in the air. In fact it was so sunny I suggested to P that we went for a walk (use the term loosely) by a river. Had a lovely time. Saw an egret, a cormorant, oyster catchers, black headed gulls, a lesser black backed gull, greenshanks, a dunlin and a sanderling. Plus lots of swans. I am always a bit nervous of swans cos my dad used to tell me they could break my arm but these ones seemed tame enough. A woman was feeding them biscuits and shouting out to her friend that they liked them. Don't think I would feed a swan biscuits. I'd eat them myself. (Just joking).

Talking of which I have a new app on my phone which helps you give up things. It tells you how long since you had whatever it is and plots a graph showing how long you manage between each time you fail. This does actually work to some extent for me - several times I have had a desperate sugar/chocolate urge then thought how close I was to chalking up another day on my graph and managed to keep going. Yay.

 As well as the birds we met several interesting dogs and their owners and a man on the beach picking up litter. Wheelchair a bit muddy and a shame we didn't find a coffee shop but it was nice to get out today.