1. I'm just about to head off on a weekend with my eldest daughter (10) for a mothers and daughters activity weekend. It's raining but the wellies are packed! Hoping I survive!
2. Head a tiny 3 week old baby this morning - gorgeous remembering new life - so small and perfect!
3. Had a delivery of some amazing biscuits from a friend - special.
Have a good weekend all, despite all the hard.
Clare x
Clare, wishes for a lovely birthday weekend. So glad for good news the scans revealed. Will look for Kefalonia on map.
SussexOvarian, your garden sounds lovely! You mentioned that comfrey makes good plant feed. Maggie said it stinks when rotting. We used comfrey poutices on small wounds or sores on the horses' legs. It has been years since the horses were with us. I don't know if this is done now.
3Things:
1) Headache free day ( I know it is not over, but am being "positive")
2) Cat " helped"with yoga.Hubby was sure she intended to help; I was of a different opinion, but he was so amused I did not protest.
3) Collared doves calling.
Good evening!
I hope you have a happy, happy birthday Clare.
And Lin, I know I shouldn’t but I couldn’t help it. Thankful for making me laugh with your comment about being unable to maintain an anxious state for long.
I’ve had a lovely day but I feel unaccountably uneasy and sad. I think I’m tired of being brave, strong and an inspiration, which I did a lot of today. It seemed to be what people wanted of me.
So my three good things
1. Reading the three good things from the last day or so.
2. Feeling safe here to admit to how I’m really feeling. I would really like to cry
3. A swim, a bit of yoga and nice lunch with friends
xx
its hard having to be positive all the time. My work friends would go have a 'toilet cry' when they had had a rough day, that way they could do it private but the girls knew that they needed a bit of support.
Its only 730 but my day has started really well. I'm having a cuppa outside
Calli and my hair look extactly the same this morning - very big and wild
And when Calli woke up she asked 'are you ok mummy?' I love hearing her making sentences.
Have a lovely bank holiday weekend all
Julie x
Oh Daloni
I want to give you a big, big hug and say cry cry cry. If you’re like me once you’ve done that you’ll feel better and I say to myself ‘ OK, that’s enough, now get on with it’ and I do something I’ve been meaning to do even if it’s just sitting doing the shredding that’s piled up and I can do even when I’m tired.
I find it hard always keeping ‘a face on’ for the children. It does become quite a habit. But we understand and are here for you when cracks happen as you have been for us.
My 3 things for yesterday
1 My youngest daughter, granddaughter and I went to a garden centre for a cuppa. Usually that’s all she wants to do but at last she has become interested in gardening! So she was walking round taking photos of plants she liked and hoped to buy once she’s cleared her jungle!
2 On the same vein, she wrote a list and one plant was ’dranium’ I thought she meant geranium but she was thinking of delphinium. Made me laugh.
3 Happy to hear your news Claire. It gives us all hope. I hope you have a lovely birthday.
XX
I'm reading this on the train in my way back from London where I've had such a lovely time it's nice to read of holidays and bike rides and gardens as well as the human side which just every now and then can't quite keep up the show. We are all human
Good things
1. Meeting and getting to know my new grandson which is the most wonderful thing
2. Enjoyed a day at Chelsea Flower Show yesterday in the sunshine with my hubby. All inspired to attack the garden when I get home
3. Appointment confirmed for a second opinion on 5th June so not long to wait
Hi!
I enjoyed the Chelsea Flower Show on the tv!
My three good things from yesterday
1. My daughter drove us up to Norwich from Kent to stay with friends. It was so nice to relax on the back seat, listening to a good audiobook and crochet a Harry Potter en route, especially as I had chemo on Tuesday
2. A lovely day of chatting, napping and playing games
3. We had a fabulous supper of miso roasted aubergine with sticky rice
Daloni supper sounds delicious.
Well Chelsea inspired me a little bit.....
3 Good Things
I managed to get half of my tubs and planters sorted before running out of compost. Garden looking lovely with Wisteria, Alliums and Aquilega coming into there own.
Lovely lunch yesterday with my goddaughter on her birthday
Looking forward to a gentle game of tennis this morning with friends if only the rain will stay away. It's looking a bit dodgy.
Polly
This blackbird/Thrush stared to build the nest in the entrance to our shed a couple of weeks ago. I managed to install a small cctv camera about the same time.We watched during construction and then as she spent increasing hours sitting on it. Having been away we were delighted to find on our return she had laid at least one egg. We will keep monitoring and will update as things progress.
Hi Titus, that is lovely. I do love to see the birds. A number of years ago I had blackbirds nesting in the garden. They were obviously first timers, the nest wasn’t in the best of places, too low, easy for all the neighbourhood cats etc. I put out plenty of mealworms for them to feed their young and really worried over them. Once they started leaving their nest I lost count of the number of times I saw the adults squawking on the wall and getting agitated because of their young and the cats who were stalking them. I used to keep picking the young ones up and rescuing them. Eventually they lost all the young and built a new nest elsewhere. Ever time they lost one I felt terrible. Even after all that I would still love to see the birds nesting again in my new garden.
Thank you for sharing these pictures.
love and hugs
Maggie xx
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