life update – The Frank Journals

Last Week: Midsummer and Monsoons

The floor is down. The difference it makes – no more rubbish yellow lino and crap bland carpet. Now grey slate tiles, easy to clean, sort of soft in colour, bringing the 3 living spaces together and just over half the downstairs floor complete. I want the whole of downstairs flooring in place before Christmas.ContinueContinue reading “Last Week: Midsummer and Monsoons”

Last Week….work, sleep, refill, repeat

In a week that was completely dominated by Phillip Schofield, a drama of many truths all of which appearing to have varying degrees of reality, nothing much has happened. I was sort of waiting for it to happen, the crash. I knew it would because I had been booming so the bust had to comeContinueContinue reading “Last Week….work, sleep, refill, repeat”

Last Week: Beach, Birthdays & Bucket Lists

What a week, that started on the beach, crammed in not one, but two birthday celebrations and ended up with a big fat tick next to a bucket list item. Beach walking is one of my favourite things to do. While any beach walk is a gift, I love an empty (or near empty) beach,ContinueContinue reading “Last Week: Beach, Birthdays & Bucket Lists”

Last Week – Nursing, Nails and the start of the fiftieths..

I was asked to talk about my experience of nursing and what I advise I would give to a newly qualified nurse at a meeting, as a delayed response to international nurses day. I was under the impression it was a no choice request & there would be several of us speaking but turns out,ContinueContinue reading “Last Week – Nursing, Nails and the start of the fiftieths..”

Polling days and coronations..

This week………….. First of the many May bank holidays, took a hike up a big hill to find some bluebells. Found some white ones and discovered the difference between native bluebells and Spanish ones. These being native because of the way they droop over. White bluebells being relatively rare – 1 in 10,000. At theContinueContinue reading “Polling days and coronations..”

The Dark Months

First quarter of the year, bleaker than usual but also uplifting in unexpected ways. The complete emotional exhaustion of Dads funeral, the relief of finally being allowed to complete the paperwork giving way to overwhelming bleakness of grief, watching the world go back to its rhythm while I am adrift, tiptoeing round my childhood homeContinueContinue reading “The Dark Months”

July 22 – Heatwaves and Resignations

It’s been hot. Beyond hot, hot like it’s never been before – literally. So hot that we had to close all the blinds to stop the sun getting in. So hot, that to sleep is an impossibility and to move uses up all your energy. I can’t cope in the heat – this is whyContinueContinue reading “July 22 – Heatwaves and Resignations”

June 2022 – Jubilee, builders & Heatwaves

So the Queen marks 75 years as monarch and we get 2 days off. In the interest of transparency, it’s fair to say I am not much of a monarchist. I am sure they are all super nice, I love the history of it all, I just don’t quite get why one family should haveContinueContinue reading “June 2022 – Jubilee, builders & Heatwaves”

May 2022

May largely consisted of dancing in fields and renovation dramas, sprinkled with the first beach walk in forever and the very last ever zometa infusion. Bearded Theory – The Woodland First festival since lockdown lifted, booked in 2019 before covid was a thing. And it was fab. It didn’t rain, I danced to old favouritesContinueContinue reading “May 2022”