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Showing posts with label Christmas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Christmas. Show all posts

Wednesday, 11 November 2015

Update, of sorts!!

I've not posted for a while.  Several reasons.  Been really busy, been on holiday and had too many things going around my head so I didn't know what to post!  I know hardly anyone reads this (if anyone does!! lol!) But I enjoy posting and looking back over my post.  It's helped me to sort thought, explain who I am and to help me to feel accepted in the world.  So I'm going to keep posting! lol!

Molly is well.  She's curled up on my lap snoozing after messing about trying to eat my foot!!!  She does that every so often, she'll pretend she's big and scary and bark at me then I ignore her and she growls and pretends to bite my foot.  Anyone watching through the window would think that she's a vicious dog attacking me!  She's not, she's a nutty pup who loves play fighting.  She's boisterous but if she really hurt anyone she'd be so upset!  I find it fun too.  We mess about and play fight then she falls asleep and I can to some work.  It's our routine I guess!  Strange but that's us!

View from Caravan!
We had an amazing holiday at Devon Cliffs.  The view was amazing as usual. That's the good thing about holidays on a cliff, wherever you are you look out to sea!  I spent hours watching fishing boats.  It was so relaxing and just what we all needed.

Molly on the beach
Molly loved the beach!!  She wasn't so keen on the waves! They didn't taste nice and they kept sneaking up on her so she tried to bark at them!  Hey, I never said she was sensible!  

It's one of the big advantages of going in October.  Dogs are allowed on the beach.  It was a very big, steep slope down to the beach, but I made it down there.  We had a lovely walk along the beach.  It was the end of October, but we were baking!  We were very lucky with the weather too.  It rained on the Friday night and Saturday but Sunday and Monday was really hot.  Mind you the rain didn't put us off.  We went for a walk between showers!

Finally, a decent shot of Steve!
Teri took some amazing pictures.  She really enjoyed wandering off with her camera and catching random shots.  She even managed to get a nice one of Steve!!! That's very hard to do!!

She got right up on the cliff and took shots of the Jurasic Coast line.  It's amazing to see and to be honest the only way you'd see it is by climbing to the top like she did or by boat.  There's no way down to sea on this side of the cliff.  What you can't see on this picture is the clay is so red the colour 'bleeds' into the sea and the whole coastline water is as red as the cliff.  It's beautiful to see.

My favourite shot was taken by chance!  Steve and I had popped out in the car on the last night there so Teri took Molly for a walk and took her camera for some final shots.  She managed to get the most amazing shot of the sea, sky and moon.  The blue of the sky could only of lasted a few minutes.  If she'd gone out any earlier or later she'd of missed it.  

The last night.
The blue looks like it could of been painted by angels.  The moon gently dabbed in by faries.  The land shaded by pixies.   If you can't tell I love it!  I'm going to get it printed on a canvas so I can put it on the wall.  Some times I look at a picture and feel it's special and this one is very special.

It was lovely to be home in our own beds but I loved being by the sea with amazing views to walk in.  If I won the lottery I'd buy a caravan down there and never leave!  It was a badly needed holiday for us all.  Hopefully next year it's the Isle of Man then the year after we'll go back to Devon Cliffs.  It's become a home away from home!

And it's back to the real world with a bang.  Lots of work to do, studying to do (btw got my exam result and I passed!!) and lots of driving Teri to and from college and work!  All her hard work has paid off and she's got a Christmas Temp job at Argos!  Here's hoping it helps her to find something permenant!

Well that's us.  Time to get sorted and prepare for THAT event at the end of December! x







Tuesday, 27 January 2015

Just the two of us!

Nice quiet day today.  Just Mol and me.  Steve is out, Teri's at school until 4 today.  So we've had a quiet morning, Mol slept on my lap while I did paperwork.  Well I say paperwork, it was phone calls and emails chasing up my student loan!  Great isn't it, I officially start my OU course on Saturday and I've still not got my student loan sorted!!!  The OU have been great and keep saying all they want is for me to keep them informed but I'm worried sick about it!  I hate things like this. Sooner its sorted the better!

Got as far as its being processed as we speak and gave up! Had lunch and went for a nice walk. another half a mile!!  I know it's no marathon but for me its a huge step!  I still need my walking frame and it takes me a while but I can just about do it.  Molly's good, she knows I can't walk as fast as Steve so stays beside me.  I'm listening to Stephen Fry on audible as we walk.  I've tried reading his book but as he admits at the start of it he's a word-smith and uses 50 words when he could use 5 so it is very heavy reading!  Listening is much better and I can do it anywhere!! lol!  I'm up to chapter 14 and gawd knows what people think! There's me with my frame and little terrier Molly and I'm bursting out with laughter or going 'OH!!!!'.  Oh well! I think they're use to the mad woman of Greenmeadow by now! 

I guess that's my last walk with Molly for a few days at least.  I'm off to the hospital tomorrow to have 2 teeth and 4 roots taken out.  It hurt like hell last time and that was 1 tooth and one root.  So I'm not looking forward to it.  I've got a new book (Well new to me, 14p of Amazon! lol!) 'Fallen Masters' by John Edward.  Read some of it yesterday and its really good.  I'm planning on resting up and reading when I feel I can.  

Oh and I'm off to get 2 new tattoos tomorrow morning!  My tattooist had a family emergency so had to cancel at Christmas so I've had my Christmas money sat waiting all month!! I'm hoping the tatts will help take my mind off things tomorrow.  I'm really not looking forward to it!

Molly is sound asleep on my lap again, so I think that's a good excuse to do some more reading!!

Bye x