Author: Mike

Dosen’t time fly when you are having fun!!!! We are off to Athens tomorrow. I am really looking forward to it! We will be there until Sun. Dave will be working Thurs. and Fri. but will have the eves and Sat. with me. No, the snow which was forcast didn’t bring England to her knees…

What was I saying about the weather? Last Wednesday night/Thursday morning, half the country came to a full stop. Why? Because of a couple of inches of snow!!!!! What a joke! Well, I thought so but a lot of the people stuck in cars for 11 hours didn’t think so! Where do we live? Has…

Yesterday we set records with the temperature, it was 14oC here and sunny. Today, the highest it got was 10oC and it is freezing now with a strong north wind finding all the cracks in this house!!! We have builders here, they took the roof off the garage today and put a new one on.…

Today we had a pheasant visit us in the garden, he spent a couple of hours wandering about and eating the bird seed the tiny birds had dropped on the floor. Yes, I got a photo of him. It was beautiful to see one so close. The sun shone today and I walked up the…

Thought I had better update this. I have been busy trying to get on top of my e-mail. We had some cold (-5°C), but sunny weather for a week. That was a lovely change, but we appear to be back with the rain now!!!! It is starting! I have joined a group at the church…

We had a great Christmas and New Year with Mum and Dad in Reading. Christina seemed to enjoy herself, we certainly loved having her with us for our first Christmas back in England in 20 years! C. had to return to Canada on the 30th Dec. so she could see the New Year in with…

I guess it has been awhile since I last updated. I had a recurrence of illness – my operation became infected inside and I had to take antibiotics for 10 days to clear it. That put paid to the rest of the Christmas shopping as I had to rest because it was sore. Of course…

Did I tell you about the robin? The other day I was sat in the t.v. room which has a huge patio door in it and this beautiful English robin perched on the plastic table temporarily stored on the patio outside the door. he cocked his head at me and then hopped right up to…

The worst thing about this operation business is not being able to drive. I am starting to get cabin fever even though I can walk, I really enjoy driving where ever I want. However I am improving daily and feel great. I have even cooked, I made cottage pie from scratch yesterday and today I…

O.K. O.K. I was wrong again!!!! Dave hadn’t put the Christmas decorations in the loft. He had just put them in different boxes in a different room, so was able to find them. Not that I have done much with them!!! I am trying to tidy rooms so that some decorations can go up but…