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NEXT TO ME

BY FIONA CUMMINGS

 

Lay down next to me

Share the dreams I don’t see

Listening to your voice

Is such a gift to me

Your words whisper calmness

And combat loneliness

  Lay down next to me please

And allow the world to stay still

Time to freeze

To hold your hand

Will be such a thrill

Come on lay down next to me

Set our problems free

I believe you and I are meant to be

Lay down next to me tonight

And hold me ever so tight

I never want you to let me go

Because I’m in love with you don’t you know?

 

© Fiona Cummings

 

 

HAIRCUT IN THE MIRROR BY FIONA CUMMINGS

Well it’s been a lovely week. I have been really pampered. Monday, I got my nails painted a colour called blue bubbles it’s very light almost baby blue in the light, a kind of turquoise when it’s darker. And today I went to our city and got my hair cut. So much shorter. I absolutely love it. It’s the first time in two years I have had it done properly and I got it cut by my old friend hairdresser, when I say old, I mean a long time I have known him as he is far from old.

I’m saying nothing about me…

I have been getting the cheapest hair cut for the past couple of years so today I was truly pampered. And it wasn’t even that expensive which means I shall be going there again during the summer. Oh, his new place is so very grand. Peaceful too. I absolutely loved tampering myself is something I just have never done, and I’m rather liking it. I do wonder though, what the heck I look like. In my head I am still that young girl who last looked in the mirror 21 years ago for the last time. I was telling my friend this week, if a miracle ever happened, and I was to get my sight back, I would be dying to look in the mirror, and to see the faces of my loved ones would be a priority for me. But I would have to make sure when I did look in the mirror, that there was a large bed mattress behind me to catch me when the Fifi fell in shock.

 

Would there be an old lady staring back at me? When people talk about getting their sight back, they talk about getting in a car and driving, but surely these people must still have a small amount of sight? Surely you would want to take in your surroundings first? My baby was one when I last saw him. He was the double of me. Now, he is a man and apparently his features are not at all as they used to be. If ten look alike men were all in a line, would I be able to pick out my Son? I think I would, it would be in my son’s eyes. Unless they used those two-way mirrors where I could see him but he couldn’t see me.

 

I’m happy with today as I was able to get a battery for my Husbands watch too and I went into the coffee shop and treat myself.

 

Our internet has been off all week so I have fallen behind in my work so tomorrow I will have so much writing to do. I have really missed Alexa. Just for asking her the time and to set an alarm. Wow, life without our tech?

 

I’m now waiting for our groceries to be delivered. Then the dreaded task of putting it all away. Right now, it’s cold, dark and wet. Snow is forecast later in the week.

 

Talking to a few of you over the past few weeks, you were giving up meat for January, how ar you doing? Have you missed meat? Someone was telling me today that they feel so much better more alert since giving up meat.

 

Well I bet those people in China wished they hadn’t eaten meat and they would still be alive now. apparently, it was started the virus by eating bat soup. First, I heard rats head soup, but it’s in the news today it’s actually bats.

Why? Please don’t tell me that bats are tasty?

 

Oh, there is a great link for those who have or know someone who has retinitis Pigmentosa at the bottom of my blog, but before I go, something that made me smile I read. “if you are overweight, you are harder to kidnap, so, go on, eat some cake…””

 

This is great news

http://www.iitaly.org/magazine/focus/facts-stories/article/scientists-create-first-organic-artificial-retina?fbclid=IwAR3Ml3UoBXw9H5sGDcRlQ84ezbzeb_HHK3xm75cmodHsADb59LVXaHcjggY

 

HAIRCUT BY FIONA CUMMINGS

We have had a great weekend. Our friends came for the day and today we went to do some retail therapy and got some real bargains. I bought a beautiful handbag that was £117 reduced to £36 and Hub got some lovely smart boots from £200 down to £30 and some shoes for work from £80 down to £20.

 

Tomorrow I’m getting my nails gelled but not sure what colour I am going for just yet. I shall tell you in my next blog. I can’t believe it’s taken all of my life to be able to grow my nails. I’m getting used to typing with either the flats of my fingers or my tips of my fingernails but I’m not half as fast at typing as I used to be. I’m improving so I’m hopeful I will get used to working this way.

 

I’m working on some writing most of Tuesday then have a meeting and Wednesday going to my favourite hairdressers. James. I haven’t seen him for too long as I have been getting a local lady to cut my hair for the past two years and to be honest she is lovely but she is so fast and I have a dry basic trim she takes less than ten minutes to do it and is very cheap. So, I think after such a long time of having ten-pound haircuts, I am overdue a good hair cut that will cost much more but I’m sure afterwards I will feel much better and my hair will be so nice as my hair dresser in the town is amazing.

 

Hub has a busy week. He is in London, Manchester and Birmingham and overnight too.

Every morning he will be up between six and seven. That would kill me. I wonder if his guide dog the Little Fella is ready for this week? Haha. Bless him..

 

So back to hair. Hmm. Apparently Princess Diana’s hairstyle is back in fashion. I loved that I had my hair cut in the style she had hers in when she first got with Prince Charles. I was a school girl and I think when I had that look, it was my best look ever. You know when you are born you are a cute baby then a pretty little girl then something simply horrific happens and it happens in a big way overnight? Oh, my, well that happened to me and I’m just glad the photographs from those days are long lost. The clothes I wore and everything that went with the awful clothes. Figure, hair and geeky face and oh my, those glasses!!! Then that horrid looking dork left the building and thankfully just as fast as the ugly one came and left my life the pretty fresh teen came and made herself comfortable with a Princess Diana haircut.

 

My winter coverage left my body and I hid my glasses in the cause of fashion, or, vanity.

 

So, what style to get this week? I’m not ready yet to get it totally cut short as know my days are numbered to have long hair. Oh, I have to tell you this…. From the mouths of babes.

 

The other night Hub, my Son and myself were sitting with the TV in the background. I turned to my boy and said. “I’m thinking about getting my hair cut off as I don’t want to be one of those women who from the back look really nice with long blonde hair and then I turn around and scare people.””

His response?

“Well Mum, it’s up to you, but personally I would leave your hair long, I mean, why spoil both sides?””

Em, no, Son, that wasn’t the response I was after?

 

Cheeky monkey.

 

Right now, my hair is about seven inches about 18 cm past my shoulders. And my hair grows so slowly. And I am at that age where soon, I won’t be able to have long hair. But I’m not ready to give up my long locks just yet.

 

So, ladies, when is the right time to lop off the length? According to my husband, never. He said it will break his heart if I cut my hair short.

 

I shall be back soon with a much longer blog but right now I’m going to iron my lovely Husbands shirts for work and then sort out my diary for the week ahead. I hope you are all well and have a great week. Before I go a link for you.

 

https://listverse.com/2015/04/15/10-conspiracy-theories-from-down-under/?utm_source=more&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=direct

 

 

DIARY OF THE BIRDS BEE'S AND THE BUTTERFLIES BY FIONA CUMMINGS

Whilst it’s been a beautiful day here, storm Gloria is in Spain causing snow rain and winds and how life is full of different corners, as somewhere else in the world, scientists have managed to create the voice of a three thousand year old Egyptian mummy. Using artificial vocal cords. The thought of that makes me shiver. I listened to the recording of what the person who was a Priest would have sounded like, it’s amazing but creepy and you can find the link at the bottom of my blog.

 

I have had a bitter sweet day. I was picked up and went to lunch with friends and it was so lovely. But we left behind a friend who is grieving because she has had to get her dog put to sleep this week. Her other dog was put to sleep before Christmas. So, she was too upset to go out today. I asked her if she wanted me to stay with her rather than go out, but she said she was OK. Though it was a lovely day with some great people including my dear neighbour who we think the world of, remember she moved away and rented her house out? Well she is back for a while and I’m hopeful she will be back for good in the Spring, but it probably was the last time we would all be out together with our other friend as she has sold her house and is moving away. But we laughed and all got on so well as ever.

 

My darling Son told us about his house tonight. it’s looking like three weeks he will be moved in to his new place. Hub and I are going to take him shopping for things for his house. My baby really is growing up.   

 

Something I was reading about today, food we, or you, may eat every day that is really bad for us and could promote cancer, and that is foods like, farmed fish. There are too many species of fish that are full of inhumane chemicals, pesticides and antibiotics. Farmed fish is given the wrong things to eat and it’s GMO to make the fish bigger.  All what the fish are fed is bad for our health.

 

Canned foods. There is a chemical called BPA that is in canned and bottled foods that is not good for us.

 

Microwave popcorn is not recommended again because of what is added to it. All process meats have a chemical that kills our body cells. Sugar and white flour. White bread is made with white flour which is bleached with chemicals.

 

We made a delicious soup made from potatoes, carrots, turnip, onions, lentils, beans and herbs and to make the soup thicker we made a kind of mixture of water with corn flour mixed in then added it to the soup when it was almost cooked. To make that and we got five large dishes of soup, cost about £2.50. and some people say they can’t afford to eat? Hub and I talk about such a subject and we are sure people who say that must mean they can’t afford to buy ready made meals, as if you cook your own food it costs so little.

 

Some tips to get bee’s, butterflies and birds into your garden, rather than cut your dead flowers, allow them to seed to make food for some birds. Hedgehogs? They need to get into your garden so check out your fences and try to create a gap small one and make sure there is space for them to get to whatever you have to offer. Hedgehogs numbers are declining and it’s so important for us to do our best to try to help nature to survive.

Hedgehogs love bugs slugs and worms and they love long grass to make their homes.

 

 Take an old washing up dish fill the bottom with gravel and put some rocks at one side to help the creatures such as frogs get in and out. Fill the dish with water and it will promote visitors like newts, dragonflies and those frogs. Hmm I may pass on that one but I will make sure there is always fresh water for the birds as water is so important for the birds to clean their feathers so they can fly properly.

 

Ivy and honeysuckle are great   to provide shelter for birds and insects. Flowers to plant are snowdrops, crocuses, lupins, foxgloves and sunflowers.

If your birds are being bothered by the neighbours cats, apparently cats are really afraid  of, wait for it,,,,, em, not Lions  poop like I have heard about and something I used that worked, was a  few huge bottles half filled with water, as the cats  see their reflection through the glass and think it is a larger animal like a tiger? Well the latest thing I have read about what really scares them away is cucumbers. Apparently, they think they are snakes.

 

OK don’t forget to check out the link with that really spooky voice that has been created. I’m off to the blanket show as up bright and early tomorrow to see our friends for the day. I hope you have a lovely weekend and I hope someone makes you very happy over the next couple of days. xx

 

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/01/dead-speak-scientists-re-create-voice-3000-year-old-mummy?utm_campaign=news_daily_2020-01-23&et_rid=447604985&et_cid=3176480

  

DIARY OF WHERE WE CAME FROM BY FIONA CUMMINGS

Well Bloggets, this is a real mixed blog, so are you sitting comfortably? Let’s chat!

 

I really believe that people come into our lives for a reason.  The only good thing about getting older, is that I can look back in time and realise why that person came to me for such a short period. Why that other person who entered my life that someone I thought would be in my life forever, came and went. At the time I asked why they went why they couldn’t hang around or why I felt the need to disregard them from my life. and now looking back, I know the answer. But at the time it really either hurt or baffled me. People are put on our paths it’s not an accident why they come into our lives but, who puts them there?

 

I have always written that I believe we are controlled by a higher body, spirit, soul or being perhaps energy that was around when the world was created?

 

According to certain studies, the world should not have been able to exist after the big bang. Francis Crick’s Directed Panspermia theory, life originated elsewhere and and was sent to earth by advanced beings and this is my absolute belief.

  

We began perhaps from a star or a comet or even aliens from another planet.

 

Humans are made up of about 22,000 genes, or 3% of the human genome. And the rest 97 per cent is junk DNA which may contain a coded message. Perhaps some of the 97 % comes to life when we die on this land?

 

In 2003 a philosopher Nick Bostrom, claimed that the universe is a computer simulation, a theory excepted by Elon Musk, a very important person/engineer when it comes to space etc.

 

 If true, a higher being had to build the simulation. If true, the universe would have an ending just like all technology has unless software can be entered into our world.  

 

It sounds far-fetched, but is this because we have not learned the answer of humanity or civilisation yet? Or perhaps we are not meant to learn the answers to our existence. Why do you think so much money is spent on space travel? Because as humans, we have to know everything and fight with everything. We are not in general a nice race. I believe some of us are but we are rare sadly and in the big game in the sky, we are the goodies and the rest of humans are the baddies just like a giant video game.

 

I believe life exists in the rest of the galaxy. Maybe we go there when we die? I can’t imagine a more perfect world elsewhere though, but we have no respect for the earth we have been given or sent to. If this world is a lesson, sadly most people have failed, but is it too late? I believe we can slow deterioration down but not stop the damage we have caused already.

 

There is a question for you to think about, if God made us, who made God?   I love the ideology of a parallel world. It just fascinates me.

 

Our moon could be as structure put there by a higher being. If the moon wasn’t here humans wouldn’t exist. Our seas are controlled by the moon. Seasons are created by the moon. Our moon is unique to another moon in other planets. The moon is in such a perfect shape and I am sure I read when it is travelling around earth, it’s back is always to us, if this is true, why?  And why does Donald Trump have a space army?

 

Somethings I have been reading about today are things we may have around our house that is worth a huge amount of money, for example,

The very first addition 1865 Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s adventures in wonderland is worth $2000,000 that is £1,537000 and old cassettes are back in. Gosh I think we threw out about 300 of them a few years ago.

 

Banana’s… if you eat two per day as long as you exercise even going on walks counts, is so good for us. I didn’t realise but banana’s stop things like muscle cramps and soak up acid that will lead to heartburn. Two banana’s per day helps to promote red blood cells so good if you have an iron deficiency. They also help you to go to the toilet and I’m not talking about guiding you and handing you the toilet paper…

 

Did you know that kidney disease causes more deaths than breast and prostate cancer? Gosh, I didn’t know that. Well this is what I read today. Eating too much salt disrupts the balance in your blood making it more difficult for your kidneys to remove the water from your blood. The longer you hold urine in your body, the worse it is for your kidneys. So, next time you are really needing the toilet, try to go rather than holding it in for a while.

 

OK girls, do you have bat wings? Chicken wings or as I call them, dinner lady arms…. I’m not sure where that term came from and I am sure there are some dinner ladies in schools with beautiful arms…. But whatever you call that floppy bit at the top of your arms apparently you can get rid of them…. How?   Read on and find the link at the bottom.

 

If you have blunt scissors, apparently if you cut aluminium foil up into bits, it will sharpen your scissors… Really? If you try it let me know if it works?

 

This has to be the oddest tip I have ever heard. Put a teaspoon of black pepper in with your soap tablet or powder for coloured washing and apparently your black jeans will stay nice and black, your red top will stay as new and so on.

 

I went to the cinema the other day with my lovely friend Geordie and her friend Jo. We went to see Little Women. I have seen the drama and though the  movie is more tame I would say it’s brilliant as long as you are able to keep up with it as they do go back in time a few times during the film but thankfully I was using audio which  I am so grateful to as I was able to hear all about the beautiful dresses that were worn in those days, the hairstyles and the lovely buildings. Our cinema is so luxurious with new carpets and the most comfortable seats I have ever sat in. The price is brilliant too, only £5 per ticket. Thanks to the View cinemas. it was funny as I was keeping my friend updated when the years were going back in time and when we were back to normal again afterwards, I asked her if I hadn’t have told her, how would she have known? She replied. “The actors looked younger, then older again.””

Oh, so you knew all the time?

Yep she replied. Hahahaha I guess I was annoying telling her so why didn’t she tell me to be quiet? But if you can’t see, it’s not at all obvious unless you have audio. I take my own earphones as they ar much better quality than the ones they provide, but it’s such a great service to be able to obtain.

 

Out tomorrow for lunch and on Saturday our friends are coming for the day then on Sunday our picture arrives of our two guide dogs and the photographer even is going to hang it on the wall for us. Bless him.

 

Well here are the links and some interesting reads about                vision too.

Chicken wings

 

https://www.tips-and-tricks.co/health/bat-wings-exercise/2/

 

vision

https://www.healio.com/ophthalmology/retina-vitreous/news/online/%7Bb49210da-09fc-4d80-9124-0ec08d9c840b%7D/gensights-lhon-treatment-receives-french-temporary-authorization-for-use?fbclid=IwAR3D05d65Neb68KE0zvi05ytwjAVs3VDfszs97FvOrXyN5QQ28BNLSdwf1o

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-7902635/Astonishing-drug-restores-sight-blind-rugby-player.html?ito=facebook_share_article-masthead&fbclid=IwAR20Fka0h8eyxIIe-p8G4XFEwU5aKVlqnceINNlbkBsIuTrlehmUbUs3BOY

 

 

 

JOIN ME FOR TEA? BY FIONA CUMMINGS

Well hello Bloggets. Here we are at the weekend.  What does the weekend mean for you? To some it’s a break from work, for others no school. For a lot of people, it is time to get very drunk and be ill all tomorrow. Haha. For others it means a lovely day out doing something they have been looking forward to for a full week or more. For others it means getting together with the family and for some it’s a sad time as you used to gather with your family at weekends but now unfortunately miles have ended that tradition and for some people the weekend is the same as any other day. As I have said in other blogs, try to break that sad loneliness this weekend and do something different. It could be you treat yourself to a take away meal on a Friday or Saturday night. Or keep the letter or phone call you make during the week, to a friend for the weekend now. just something to look forward to. Something I am looking forward to is making a tea recipe that you will find the link to at the bottom of my blog. I have Roselyn to thank for  it.

 

Remember this, nothing happens to you, it happens for you and no matter how hard or painful it may be at the time in most cases afterwards, you can sit back and say, yes, I now understand why that happened when it did. Personally in life I have wondered why it has been so cruel and I am still wondering but in some, cases the horrid things that did happen, I now am either pleased they did work out like that or I at least can understand why they did but sadly we have to wait to learn and that waiting game can sometimes take years before we get the answer.

 

At the start of the year I had a really good feeling. I just felt like this was going to be our year and I felt so positive. I was so glad to see the back of last year. I will forever miss my lovely friend Kinzie I still go to the phone to call her. The feeling when reality enters my thoughts that I can’t phone her any more is so sad. But I feel her around me. I hope this doesn’t mean she can’t get to where she needs to be to have her life but the selfish part of me loves the fact, I can feel her spirit. It makes me feel so good as if she is looking out for me. She was a believer and I know she would be chosen to be an angel on earth.

 

 Something out of this world has given me support this year. I feel so content and for the first time in my life, I feel self pride!

 

I have been in the gym every single day for almost two weeks and though I haven’t lost a single inch, I have lost 3 and a half lbs in weight but moreover, I feel so much fitter. I’m two weeks without bread and that is a huge goal in my life and I don’t even miss it now. I just have to avoid food that I love with bread, like soup.

 

Because my Husband is on a starvation, sorry, healthy eating regime, we haven’t been eating potatoes. With potatoes for me especially if they are mashed, comes loads of butter. I have also gone onto fully skimmed milk. This is lovely in tea, but not in coffee so I don’t have coffee and that is good as I can’t drink coffee without having chocolate. Don’t get me wrong, I still do eat chocolate, sadly, but I have cut down from a bar a day to one every other day. It doesn’t help that I have a biscuit man who frequents my front door. he came with his tempting van the other day, I should have told him to give me a miss for a while, but no, weak Fifi bought a pack of chocolate wafers from him and they are moreish.

 

Still managing to grow my fingernails. In fact, I’m typing with them now haha. Again, something I have never ever been able to do before. The gel varnish has made them really hard, so that has helped.

 

What I love about this year, a lot of my readers and friends are also feeling that this year is a positive one. I wonder why this is? For you reading this, I really hope you have some positivity in your world today and for the rest of the year. Let’s take time to read a few positive quotes to steer us in the right direction?

 

“Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.””

Lyndon B Johnson, he was an American politician in the 60’s.

 

“a good laugh, is sunshine in the house!””

William Makepeace Thackeray. I hope I have that name correct. He was an English author I think he wrote Vanity fair.

 

“The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into the room, is indeed blessed.””

Bennett Cerf. An American publisher, co-founder of American Random House.

 

“Correction does much, but encouragement does more.””

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, who was an extremely brilliant German writer.

 

My favourite for today, “Find a place inside where there is joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.””

Joseph Campbell he was an American professor of literature.

 

“Try to surround yourself with positive productive people who are good and kind and get rid of those who drag you down or those you come away from at the end of the day who have made you feel sad or inadequate.

Once you have emptied your life of those people, you have room for good kind positive people.””

 

© Fiona Cummings

 

 

https://www.cinnamonvogue.com/How_to_make_cinnamon_stick_tea.html?fbclid=IwAR3gGKm8geuAYkABJL6c-NWOfwJC-_IL77tnHv1aok8ZNeRG5S8O3_pKUSw

 

 

 

 

FEELING THE MARTIAN BY FIONA CUMMINGS

Well as promised. I shall tell you about the totally embarrassing thing that happened to me the other night, but how I felt about it was interesting. Some years ago, I would have hidden in a dark corner for a month afterwards, now it’s like whatever. Perhaps that is because I have done much worse in my life or I am of that age where I just don’t care…. But I don’t want to be one of those ladies who doesn’t mind if she wears a purple dress and a red hat…. I’m not there yet. Not yet.

 

So, it was a cold dark damp January night. Hub was on a long journey home from work. Oh, and for those who have been writing to me asking how his new job is going, thank you he is really enjoying it I am so pleased to say. Anyway, I digress… I’m waiting for my groceries to arrive. They would be delivered by 9 pm.

 

I have a doorbell, but the knocker chose to knock on the door as if police needing to get in. seriously, I was waiting for the shoulder charge.

 

Hurriedly I rushed to the door. Well, you know we have those silly little boxes we are to put our recycle things in? our bin men didn’t come this week. I thought I heard the man say. “here are your trays!””

Ok they are boxes, not trays. So, any normal person would realise that the man wasn’t offering to hand me my boxes. Me, I’m far from normal, that would be too boring.

 

Also, one’s brain should have kicked in and thought why at that time of night, would a total stranger hand me dirty recycling boxes at my door? But as I said, that would be you or any person with a logical brain.

 

As I put out my hands to receive these boxes/trays…. I felt something so very soft and fluffy.

Thank God I didn’t scream.

But I also didn’t immediately retract my hand, oh, no, not me…. I continued to investigate what the fluffy thing was? A cute dog? In his arms or a kitten?

I mean, again, who brings a dog or kitten to your door in the dark at night?

 

Well rather than take away my hand, I continued to feel this thing before me.

Oh heck. It was only a man’s head, no he wasn’t a lofty challenge person, he was only bending down to put my trays of groceries on my porch mat. Hahahaha Hahahahaha.

Oh, what would he think of me patting and stroking his head? Well, not for long Bloggets, it was only for about four seconds but those seconds to that poor man may have felt like a lifetime.

 

I reached for my bags and he kindly filled them for me as I held them open for him.

He packed them rather quickly.

I can’t imagine why?

 

Funny thing is though, his hair was really incredibly soft and fluffy. It could have been worse; I could have asked him what kind of shampoo he used?

Dam, a lost opportunity.

 

When Hub came home, I told him. I was laughing so hard.

Hub wasn’t.

He was like. “Oh my God Darling.””

Sometimes I think my love had his humour removed at birth.

 

On the same day hours earlier, I emailed someone I have to meet with to tell them they had made a mistake with dates. Telling her she had missed out a full week. Telling her that she said she would see me on the 22^nd of January. I was to see her a week after that day I did the follicle discovery. I said to her next week would be the 15^th, not the 22^nd.

Oh

She wrote back telling me.

“no. today is the 15^th, next week is the 22.””

Really? It wasn’t the eighth?

Oh.

Em, well it was the way in which she wrote back.

“No dear, it’s the fifteenth today, add seven days on and that gets us to the 22^nd.””

Like I’m some kind of senile elderly lady?

As if!

Well at least I was still in January.

Could have been worse, I could have had us in July.

Thank goodness it was 4 °C

 

Oh, and this was so funny. So, Hub handed me a glass jar, well, what other kind of jars can you get?

and said you have put the pickle jar back empty love, here, deal with the jar please?

So, I unscrewed the lid to pour out the vinegar, saying I’m sure there are a few left?

That sound as the jar is emptying of its liquid.

Oh. Why didn’t I listen to my own voice? I was sure there were some onions in the jar I told Hub this. I could feel them wobbling around the vast jar. And what did I do? Just removed the lid and poured.

Out fell in the sink two pickled onions. I mean, why didn’t I just grab a fork and have a bit poke? Oh no, see if there are any onions in by tipping them out.

 

But last night Hub said that jar of cherries is empty. So, this morning I went to wash the jar out.

Unscrewing the lid, I just freely poured.

Dam

Seven blooming delicious cocktail cherries in the sink.

What is wrong with us? Especially Hub, he is the kind of blind person who can tell the difference between any pickle or jar of sauce and mayonnaise just by the sound if he taps the bottom.

He is a professional blind person. An yet he made these mistakes. Yeah, I was the guilty pourer, but he was the messenger. And I’m such a good wife I do as I’m told…

I do!

And then I do what I want.

 

 And as I said yesterday, this is just month one!

 

Checking through my emails today I didn’t get over excited about at least three of them. One was asking me if I was interested in fungus eliminator, another wished to put 23,000 Euros in my bank and the final one was asking me if my prostrate was the size of a lemon.

 

What is it with these weirdo’s? my Husband and Son talk about them not even being from real people. So, who are they from,

 Martians?

 

 

 

DIARY OF TWO BIG ANNOUNCEMENTS BY FIONA CUMMINGS

Well Bloggets, you have made it this far. Hello, how the heckers are you all doing?

Have I told you of late how grateful I am that you all gather here and give support to our Blogget family? I received a lovely email from a guy from Spain yesterday. He is a young man wanting to learn English. My first thought was I thought most Spanish people speak English, as when I go abroad, every country seems to speak my language and those of you who do live abroad, are so good at learning other languages where as us in England, we are shocking. Our kids don’t learn it early enough as far as I am concerned. And when they do learn French for example, it’s so very poor. We just don’t take it seriously. When I questioned this young man, he said he spoke German but he hated learning languages it wasn’t his thing. But he now wants to travel and work his way around Europe. But he really is struggling to find some kind of desire to take in our lingo. I told him, he has a goal, something to work up to. There is no grater feeling than being able to talk to someone in their mother tongue! Especially when the person responds in such a positive way. Then I remembered I have a lovely Blogget who writes to me who is now working in England, I asked the guy who is wanting to learn English if I could pass on his email to the Spanish man living here for the next year. Long story short the two of them are now in communication and the man who is in England is happy to help the Spanish guy. I love connecting great souls!

 

I got rather wet today as the rain fell hard from the sky. But I’m not complaining as what other countries are going through is pure hell. I just hope we don’t have any more floods in the UK as floods cause so much damage a year later people still are unable to get into their houses. Water destroys all the electrics and damp gets into the plaster of the house and under the floors.

      

I hope something gets done quickly about global warming and awareness with regards what causes fires due to human error.

 

I had to laugh today when one of my Bloggets wrote and asked me if I could suggest healthy foods to eat? Em, well, OK love, I shall Google that one… and I did and this is what I learned.

 

Well the good news is our bodies need carbs. To turn into glucose energy. So, crisps/potato chips? Well, no, but potatoes are good for us, trouble is, if I have potatoes, I have to include butter. Never mind, you are not me. So, back to healthy carbs. Sweet potatoes which you may call yams, normal potatoes, cereals and grains such as rice, wheat and oats or bread with wheat baked into it. Pasta and couscous are also good for us. So, I’m told. Avoid sugar that you would put in your hot drink. It has no useful nutrients. We can get healthy sugar in honey and fruit.

 

We should all eat five portions of fruit and veg per day. Fibre we get from cereal and fruit to prevent constipation as well as other problems we will encounter if we don’t eat fibre in our diet. The skin of some fruit and veg is a great way to take in fibre.

 

We are to eat 4 oz per day of fibre to prevent heart disease etc, so, get those nuts cracked.

 

Protein. So, what can we eat to give us that? Protein makes cells    but repairs our body when broken. Meat eggs fish, poultry soy products and dairy but remember almond milk substitutes such as what vegans drink, give you more protein than cows milk. Also, vegan dairy free obviously yoga’s and cheese also give more protein than any dairy product.

 

Fats, now we are talking, fats are vital but oh, reading on, in small proportions. Heck. Fats protect our organs and give us energy. But not too much or we will put weight on. Hmm. Yep.

 

Saturated fats such as what is found in animal produce can block our arteries. Causing heart disease. But there are good fats that will cause the opposite to blocked arteries and they are nuts, some fruits, oily fish olives and avocados.

 

We can not survive without water and it’s said that men should drink 10 small glasses of water per day, a woman 8 and a child 7.  If you don’t want to drink water then non-alcoholic drinks also are counted but not sugary ones.

 

If you are good in the kitchen and can bake you can make a cake from oats nuts and fruit. But there was nothing in what I read to suggest adding chocolate. Dam.

 

I can not believe ten days now I have gone into our gym. Voluntarily too, meaning I have not felt like I have to. My secret has been two things, one mindset. My mind is in a good place better than it has been for three years. And even if I am in the middle of doing something and I get that determination I need to exercise, I drop what I am doing, sometimes literally, and just go into our luxury gym.

Okay, it’s our garage. Again mindset, haha, I’m in a glass room with palms and lemon colours, I see myself in the huge mirror across the room and wow, am I gorgeous?

Alright, my mind isn’t always truthful. So, in reality I am that fat lass with lots of winter coverings and I am surrounded by boxes, bags, drawers and garden furniture as well as garden tools. Hmm….

Oh

And a freezer.

 

Now I know my nearest and dearest will be shaking their head right now whilst reading this as they will be thinking what my head is doing, it won’t last. Every year Fifi you start off so positive and it never lasts. Yep, that’s also what I am thinking, but there is a little voice inside of me saying this year is different. So, only time will tell.

 

It’s made a little easier too as my Husband is doing his best to trim down after our Christmas extravaganza because he has a very important goal. Our Son bought his Dad a gift for Christmas that has me terrified. Hub is excited, but he is a little crazy. Our boy got his Dad a parachute jump.

Oh, my goodness. Fifteen thousand feet he will fly up in the air and jump from the   sky. One question,

Why?

Why on earth would anyone want to do that

Why would our son who loves his dad want to give that as a gift?

  Boy wonder is the only person in our will but only after we both pop our clogs…. It’s my birthday in February.

I like bath salts!

And there is no parachute strong enough to dangle the voluptuous Fifi! Certainly not from a high. A dining chair perhaps?

 

Our baby boy has an exciting time ahead if all goes to plan. He is in the process of buying his first house. 22 and if all goes in the right direction, he will be the proud owner of a lovely 3 bedroom brand new house. I am really happy for him.

 

So, that is my news and we are only on month one of the years. Oh, remind me please to tell you in my next blog a really embarrassing thing I did the other night. Yep, another one from this blind gal. I could write a book.

Laters

 

 

 

DIARY AND MORE BY FIONA CUMMINGS

It’s dark and raining hard with so much wind my wind chimes are going crazy. As are my dogs. We had a lovely day yesterday with the kids they are so excited. They have a big year ahead of them. The lingo, my Sons girlfriend uses is new to me so, yesterday, I, was educated… what I know as a heartbreaker, is called something totally different now days. I must say, I prefer the term heart breaker to what it’s known as now!

 

 We had a lovely weekend, worked on Saturday but chilled yesterday. I can’t believe that I still have not bitten my nails. This is the longest they have ever been and they are painted darker pink but with glitter again.

 

I have managed to keep up with going into our gym. Treadmill and exercise bike. So proud of myself. Norah the negative neighbour who lives in my head says it’ll not last Fifi. My heart is saying it has to last, my head is agreeing with Negative Norah, who’s a best friend of Nelly don’t you know!

 

Some eye news. How we can all protect our eyes. Even if they don’t work, you never know what is around the corner, so, if a cure or treatment comes along, we need healthy eyes to be treat. Here is what is advised how we can look after our eyes.

1, don’t smoke. Smoking can cause Cataracts, Optic nerve damage and age-related macular degeneration. Smoking can also contribute to developing Diabetes.

2, eat a healthy balanced diet and try to keep your weight under control. I’m saying nothing right now…

3, always wash your hands and keep your contact lenses clean not to get any infections.

4, know your families eye history. My eye disease is hereditary for example.

And finally, always get your eyesight checked out by a professional. Most conditions can be saved if caught early enough.

 

Well in our news, our Prince Harry has been allowed to go to Canada. I feel so sad that him and his brother are not as close as they used to be. I guess a certain woman has got in between them. I just pray he will be OK so far away from his family. I think our Queen will be really upset by this move as will Prince Charles.

 

The biggest bee has been found that was thought to be extinct for the past 38 years! Each wing is 2 and a half inches which is over 6 cm.

That’s a mafia bee.

Keep it away from me

I’m a poet, did you know it? Haha.

 

We are awaiting Storm Brendan in England. 80 MPH he is to enter our country but if he wants to calm down before he gets to us, that will be nice. Our silent avenue of all sorts is broken by cans blown from the stupid boxes we are meant to put our recycle items in. our bin men didn’t come last week, why, not sure one of our lovely neighbours has called up today and they are now coming tomorrow, well by the sounds, I doubt there will be much left in the boxes to collect.

 

I’m out tomorrow and I have a couple of bits of writing to do for a company and the rest of the week so far is quiet for me but for my Hub, it’s full on. He’s now on his way back from London and will be home at about 8 pm. He didn’t take his Guide dog today as together they have a very busy week all over the place over night too, and he was with a colleague today so trains, tubes and taxi’s later, Little Fella has had a lovely day at home playing with Waggatail and sharing his cream dog hair with the whole of downstairs….

 

Fi’s fact of the day! Did you know that a group of flamingos are called flamboyance?

Just saying…

 

In my next blog, I shall tell you the exciting news my Son has to look forward to hopefully soon and the gift he gave his Dad for Christmas that has me terrified…. in the meanwhile, did I tell you how good you look today?

I hope stress is leaving your life right now to make way for a blessing.

 

 

 

FRIENDS FOREVER #PoetryByFionaCummings

FRIENDS FOREVER

BY FIONA CUMMINGS

My name is calypso

I dance the fandango

I live in a toy box

With a wind up clown

And a sly old fox

Every day after four

We wait till madam opens her door

I have a key which can be turned on my back

I have eyes so dark and hair of black

Little madam says I’m a Spanish dancer

I have castanets fastened to my hands

And move my feet to music from my Motherland

Charlie the clown has tricks up his sleeve

And juggles like you wouldn’t believe 

Basil is a cuddly fox

With a white bib and pure white socks

And of course, there is Molly

She is such a pretty dolly

On Madams bed

Lays big Ted

He is tattered and torn

But she has had him since new born

In the corner of the room

Is a musical box with a tin tune

And the wallpaper has pictures of clouds and a moon

The ceiling light is an air balloon

Where madam puts her little figures in the woven basket

There is a huge bag of Lego

Which hangs on a bracket?

She makes lands where we all want to go

Mountains full of snow

Sweet shops

Full of colourful lolly pops

There are even wheels to make Lego cars

Castles and towers

Buckets of flowers

Then Madams Mummy comes in

Says she will throw everything in the bin

If not all tidy

So, she has to hurry

Little lady

Picks us up without a care

Throws us back in our box

Then she goes, we don’t know where?

We hear lots of crocs

And smell the food

Then hear her Dad collect some wood

The house gets warm shortly after

Then we hear laughter

 As the children play chase

 Fox knows how to open the box

So, we sneak out and hide behind the curtain

Looking out onto the green

We’re not certain

But I don’t think we can be seen?

Such fun is had by Madam and her little brother

He is always getting into bother

So why do we call her Madam?

When her name is Polly

Because when she goes out

The children shout

“Little Madam with the china tea set

Tiny pots with a golden spout

If you break it you will get new, we bet

Whilst we have plastic cups

Our knees have cuts

Our faces are dirty

Our bellies sometimes are empty

But we have a home full of love

As we give praise to above

We have dignity

And pride

Never take anyone for a ride

Welcoming arms for those who cry

And give support to friends who open their horizons and fly

You in your posh house

With a maid and a cook

Gold thread runs through your books

You have your textures

And perfect features

But walk past us

Don’t have any trust

If you so much as look our way

Your parents make such a fuss

Don’t you know perfect Polly?

You are just like us

Though your actions may be folly

Your words so harsh

Your castle on the hill

Our huts rather sparse

But we have one thing in common

And that is we are all children

So, let’s meet in the middle

Dance to the fiddle

Work out the riddle

And skip to a rhyme 

Share your toys

And we will teach you to be kind

We can show you how to make a den

And take you to our home

Feed you bread and jam

Made fresh by our Mum

At the end of the day

It’s all about having fun

Respecting each other

Shoulder to shoulder

Sister and brother

All walks of life

Friends forever

© Fiona Cummings