Life with cats, and other things…
14th February 2025 . The prospect of abandoning the anti-depression and anti-anxiety medications I'd been prescribed for many years did not in itself trouble me. Indeed, I welcomed the idea of severing my dependence on drugs which I likely would not have agreed to in the first place, if I'd had any notion of becoming … Continue reading Anxiety relief
1st July 2024 . On the way to Bennington....to buy a new washer/dryer. That was the easy part. . We immediately chose what we wanted, for once the least expensive set on display. Previously, I had a reputation for infallibly zeroing in on the most expensive item. So that was good. . We went this … Continue reading Procrastinating
17th May 2024 . Our neighbour's cherry trees are in bloom and today I persuaded my camera to take a photograph, which yesterday it was reluctant to. . But by the time we got to the end of the road, it returned to sulking. It could be said that I am intolerant of devices which … Continue reading Out of focus
29th January 2024 After so many grey days, this very brief glimpse of blue got me quite excited, but it seems we must be patient until Saturday, which reportedly will begin an extended period of clear skies. With snow on the ground, the absence of sunshine is actually not a bad thing. Even on a … Continue reading Not again!
20th April 2023 My kind of nursery! The quiet kind. It isn't that I don't like small children, you understand. It's that they tend to scream upon noticing me. Can't think why. I don't terrify animals. Domestic ones anyway. There is one possibility. Sometimes when I catch sight of my face in a mirror, I … Continue reading Further adventures…
1911/13th April 2022 A couple of nights ago, when I was photographing the lovely evening sky, I heard the call of geese and was able to capture them as they flew south. A split second later, they changed their flight plan and were suddenly heading back the way they had come. While I've seen modern … Continue reading Impressions
For once a dove got first dibs on breakfast and she was not about to share, flapping her wings at the squirrel She did allow a sparrow to share. "What's poor squirrel to do, missus?" "Carrots aren't my thing." Don't worry. He won't starve. And neither will they! Everyone knows I feed the birds and … Continue reading Can’t we just share?
Lovely morning star, How beautiful you are. I fell out of my bed To gaze at you instead. Sunrise and morning star, Very best way, by far, To mark the end of night, And start my day off right. But then it fell apart...... It's one of those days That ends in a haze Of … Continue reading Lovely morning star…
It is said that you get what you wish for. Personally, I have my doubts about that and although I did say, yesterday, that I like thunderstorms, I didn't actually ask for one to arrive. ................. I feel I ought not to be writing about frivolous things, when the country is going up in smoke. … Continue reading Don’t be old in the USA