Tag Archives: The Life 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 – Floors and Fathers

In the ongoing marathon that is renovating a house that you live in, we finally got the floor laid. Or at least started to. This is the floor for the new kitchen and family room which is part original house, part extension. The extension we believe was put on the house around 1970. In preparation,ContinueContinue reading “Last Week – Floors and Fathers”

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 – 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..”

Last Week – Vertigo & Vinted

Last week, the vertigo episodes which have been absence for a good few months, returned with a vengeance. I could sort of feel it coming, I felt hot, suddenly thirsty and then I went. The floor came up to the side of my face, luckily there was something to hold onto, while I got myselfContinueContinue reading “Last Week – Vertigo & Vinted”

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”