I bought some daffodils today. They have filled two slim
vases. Spring is on it’s way though the wind is wild and the rain keeps coming.
Last night BW took Wagga for a walk in the woods, I say last
night it was almost four in the afternoon. It had rained most of the day the
day before it was slightly snowing here so I dreaded the dirty beasty that
would come back especially after I had just cleaned all the floors with potions
and lotions! She was OK though, but that may have something to do with the fact
that he took her into a pub afterwards… Cringe dot com. If she was dirty, he said it’s OK it was a
dog friendly pub… ahha? And? Still if she was dirty?
But hopefully they
didn’t have carpets a lot of dog friendly pubs around here don’t have carpets.
Same old same old day today. Terrible eye pain only one eye
today and only one kind of pain. The kind I usually get, a pointy boot kicking
my eyeball.
Waggatail and I went to the chemist before, I was scared in case
there was ice as obviously I don’t know I’m about to stand onto it until it’s
too late, and either there wasn’t any or we were just lucky. It was a fresh day
and the cars was as noisy as always, I can’t wait to move out of the noise. The
traffic has become dreadful around here since they turned office blocks into
flats/apartments. As that is what we are now calling them in England. America
and other countries had apartments, we had flats… now they are more and more
often being called apartments… sounds too business for my likens mind you,
flats! I may be wrong I normally am, but I heard the word comes from the old English
word Flett, meaning floor, so, probably because it is flat as in all rooms are
on the same floor. Originally, I think they were built in England for the
working class but since we have changed the name flat to apartment, gosh, they
have become so expensive, of course still you can buy the old kind of flats for
little money, but now days they are building luxurious apartments. The City I live
in charged for a new apartment last year over £1,000000 and a few streets away
from me a block of offices were turned into apartments, no garage, no garden
and not nice views as they were build in an industrial estate, and they wanted
£200,000 for two small bedrooms. So, one million pounds is about one million,
three hundred and seventy-seven US Dollars and £200,000 in Dollars is about $275,000
New houses are being built all over the place I wish they
would build communities rather than just rows and rows of houses. Like a
hairdresser, post office, bank, grocery shop, chemist and schools. Then people would get that old communal
feeling back rather than being like strangers and having to drive everywhere.
Hub and I were watching a TV program last night about
elderly people in our country and we should be ashamed of ourselves. We are
lucky to have such organisations like (AGE CONCERN) but in general I do fear
out of sight out of mind. People are being put in homes and because they are
old they are treat in my opinion like children or there is something wrong with
their brain, not because their brain may not be as sharp or work in the same
way, but as if they are not worth making an effort for.
Our homes offer things like (The day room) where once a week
there may be Bingo to play or a craft day where they are given things that you
would give your three-year-old or they will have a music day where they are
given tambourines to bash… would they have done that at forty? Would the people
in charge want to spend their days doing that?
Other countries have things like in or out, depending the
weather swimming pools. Games rooms art rooms where they can do sophisticated
work. Exorcize classes and days out. My dearest sweet friend and Blogget from
South Africa told me lately she went to a afternoon tea party, people set
tables up with their finest china and bring their home-made food for all to
enjoy. I have written before about in Tennessee/America, how their shopping
centres have tables set out with different board games on for anyone to sit and
play a game. How lovely is that? I’m scared stiff of getting old. Hub and I have
one child and the thought of our BW caring for us is scary firstly why should
he secondly, he won’t have time and thirdly, well, I wouldn’t want him to do so…
yeah, may taking care of our garden or doing odd jobs fine, but full care if we
are to need it? So, we will possibly anyway, end up in a home and what there is
to offer is not good here. I even heard of one home refusing a husband and wife
to share a room…. That is our crazy country when we are talking about bringing
back NHS unisex wards. Can you imagine? Recuperating from an operation laying
next to a man if you are a woman? Oh, no, that is going back too many years.
Personally speaking.
Thinking, some people
have a cheek, don’t they? Like telling people it’s their birthday a week
before, three days before their day, then two days earlier and adding that they
don’t mind if they get gifts early? An observation.
Just saying…
People also have a cheek reversing into our drive. I can’t
see, but I can hear. Would they do that if I had sight? Again, just saying.
I’m meeting with school friends in a week Hub and I are
going on the train. Their poor house will have six guide dogs in it. Gosh, mine
struggles with two. Five out of six are well behaved but number six? Hmm. They say
they match the dogs with the owners. And number six owner is a pain in the
derriere! He certainly talks from it, and no, he isn’t my friend… I can’t stand
him. But I love the others…
So, what’s in our news today? Let’s take a gander.
At last England and France seem to be making friends… We
sadly have had a love hate relationship with France and they have with us and I
never understood why because we love to go there and they love to come here.
But now I guess they need us and we need them for Brexit. They are lending us
the Bayeux Tapestry and in return? Haha, we are offering 44 million pounds for
border security. Gosh, that is an expensive piece of art work!!! Just joking of
course, but it is a strange swap… personally I love France and when we have
been on three occasions to the South of France I have loved the people too. But
like North and South Korea and the Olympics? Oh, my it’s too cheesy. OK, try to
make friends that’s good, but to walk with the same flag almost holding hands…
is too quick and too corny. I mean, NK was threatening SK not too long ago.
Like, weeks.
In Berkshire/UK, a wolf has escaped from a sanctuary. I pray
they will catch it without killing it.
Gales hit the UK and thousands are without power.
Who want’s to be a Millionaire presenter Chris Tarrant aged
now 71, oh, my, we are all getting old, he used to look young, mind you I’m
talking about when I had sight almost twenty years ago, a lot can happen in
twenty years… I keep forgetting it’s been that long, of course he will be 71
now. anyway, I digress, he was arrested after being caught at his mansion after
driving away from a pub as the staff called the Police he was sent to court and
today he was given a 12-month driving ban and fined £6,000 but, if he goes on a
course, he can be driving again in nine months… It’s said staff of the pub (The Bladebone Inn)
were concerned after seeing Tarrant walk towards his Mercedes after buying four
brandy and ports. Well why did they not stop him from driving away? I doubt he
will be going in there anymore.
OK, that’s about it for now but until later take care laugh
and love. X
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