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Episode 324: Taking Advantage. — May 12, 2015

Episode 324: Taking Advantage.

On one of the last visits to my dad, he was enjoying watching the birds that were feeding off the seeds that he and my step-mother had laid out for them in the bird feeder.

Miss Hap seemed quite enchanted by it as well so we decided to buy one when we got back. We hung it on a special pole with a water bath and little table type thing on it, and waited for the birds to come.

Over the last couple of years we have some regular visitors of starlings, a little robin and our favourite, Mr Tubbs, who occasionally brings his wife with him for dinner (I am not quite sure what he is, but he is quite chunky).

Our little dog Roxy, used to like to go out and bark at them to scare them off but has since given up on that, as she knows she has no hope of catching them. What she does instead is to wait for them to drop bits on the ground (Mr Grump quite often puts out large chunks of bread that has gone stale) and gobble them up.

We have a few trees to the back and side of us, and when we looked out one day, we found that we had an unexpected visitor. He fancied a bit of lunch and liked what we had on offer, so he settled himself down at the table to tuck in!

Episode 323: Ronovan Writes Weekly Haiku Poetry Prompt Challenge #44: Charge & Lovers — May 11, 2015

Episode 323: Ronovan Writes Weekly Haiku Poetry Prompt Challenge #44: Charge & Lovers

Its time for Ronovan’s weekly haiku challenge again and the words to incorporate this time are ‘charge’ and ‘lovers’. I like the sound of these!

Here is my attempt.

Love For Hire

“How much do you charge,

I’m in need of a lover?

Please say you are cheap! ”

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Episode 322: A Tough Old Bird! — May 10, 2015

Episode 322: A Tough Old Bird!

As it is International Mother’s day today, I thought that I would share a story about my mum despite the fact that we celebrated our Mother’s Day in March.

About 12 years ago, just before my own daughter was born,(I was about 6 months pregnant), I had moved back in with my mum and step-dad. They were both about 70 years old at the time. Anyway I had gone off to work as usual (I worked in an office then) and about halfway through the day I had a call at work telling me that mum had a bad fall and was in hospital.

Luckily the hospital was only a five-minute drive away so I went straight to see her as soon as I could. She looked dreadful, and was obviously in quite a bit of pain. It had turned out that mum was pottering about in the kitchen that morning, and my step-dad had some jobs he had to do, so he went out.

Apparently there was a bit of water on the kitchen floor which mum didn’t see. She skidded in it and went down with a bang on the floor. Unusually, my step-dad was out for longer than normal as he had also called in to see one of my sisters. When he came back Mum was on her hands and knees in the kitchen where she had been for 3 hours.

She is rather well-covered is my mum and my step-dad couldn’t get her up, coupled with that she was in a tremendous amount of pain. An ambulance was called, mum and Len (my step-dad) went to the hospital where it transpired Mum had broken her hip and would require surgery.

She didn’t actually get operated on until the evening after she was admitted for one reason or another, but she never complained at all. When she came home, initially she would use a wheelchair which either Len or I would bump about, carting her around until she could walk, which actually was not that long afterward.

Three months later I gave birth to my daughter and when I came home the next day with precious little bundle, mum was there helping me to bathe her and give me bits of advice.

Unfortunately. I was taken ill myself when my daughter was 2 days old, and I went back into hospital with my daughter, and was there for a week. During this time poor and mum and Len came up every day, wheeling me out for a cigarette and bringing me in home-cooked food (I have always been greedy)!

Despite Mum still waddling unevenly, with her healing hip, she still managed to make the effort to come and see me and make sure me and my daughter were ok.

She is nearly 83 and still hobbling about looking after herself. She is one tough old bird!

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Episode 181: Never ‘Just A Mum’ —

Episode 181: Never ‘Just A Mum’

Just wanted to wish a Happy Mother’s Day to all of you who are celebrating today.

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I wrote this poem last year, but thought it would be perfect for  Mother’s day and good to re-share it for those that haven’t seen it before.

Oh, and of course, you can also find this poem in my new book ‘Rhymes of the Times. which is now available on Amazon and Kindle!

Happy Mother’s Day for all those that are celebrating it today 🙂

 

You wake up constantly through the night

To each and every cry

You soothe, you feed, you  keep them clean

Then croon a lullaby

You take their hand as they take a step

Your face is filled with joy

You sing, you dance, you muck about

With your precious girls and boys

You nurse them when they are poorly

You kiss them when they weep

You fret, you stress, and you can’t relax

Until they are fast asleep

They sometimes drive you crazy

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Episode 321: RIP ‘You Sexy Thing!’ — May 9, 2015

Episode 321: RIP ‘You Sexy Thing!’

I might have mentioned on more than on occasion that I am a huge fan of the music of yesteryear, namely the 70s and 80s. I was therefore really saddened to hear of the death of Errol Brown, the lead singer of ‘Hot Chocolate’ a few days ago.

Who hasn’t pranced around to the stains of ‘You Sexy Thing.’ thinking it was written about them? Considering it was their best-selling hit and even featured in the film ‘The Full Monty’ (brilliant film), it was amazing to think that it originally started off as a ‘B’ side to another of their records, in the 1970s.

I remember being transfixed watching Errol, as he always seemed to wear rather. ahem, tight trousers which I am sure helped him along when he needed to hit the high notes. He also never seemed to age, looking and sounding the same 30 years after he first started out.

What I also liked about ‘Hot Chocolate’ was the fact that their music got us up dancing (I use that term loosely when it comes to me, but I always had a go) to hits such as ‘Every 1s A Winner’, ‘You Sexy Thing’ and ‘So You Win Again’ to name but a few.

On the flip side, I have been known to have shed a tear to ‘Emma’ and ‘I’ll Put You Together Again.’ They were an extremely versatile group, and Errol was responsible for writing many of their songs.

Although I am sad that Errol is no longer with us, I am grateful that he has left a legacy of such fantastic music behind that will continue to be enjoyed.

Episode 320: A Shock Result! — May 8, 2015

Episode 320: A Shock Result!

Now the Election is over

I am feeling rather bereft

Apart from the Prime Minister

All of the other main leaders have left!

What a shock the results were

Poor old Lib Dems lost out

UKIP didn’t do a lot better

And Labour suffered a rout!

So Cleggy got his comeuppance

For going back on his word

UKIP’s voters were useless

And Labour’s chances absurd!

The Scots all put their foot down

And voted for their own SNP

Nicola Sturgeon is happy

To win every seat there, bar three

So British Politics are changing

At the moment only one thing is clear

That Dave Cameron is running the country

For the others it’s all ended in tears!

Free-For-All Friday: #9 —

Free-For-All Friday: #9

It’s Friday already. which means that it is time for me to share some more wonderful posts with you that I have discovered over the last week. I have tried to choose a variety of posts from all types of blogs. It goes without saying, that all of them are worth checking out.

Nutsrok Linda never fails to amaze me with stories about her crazy family! The fact that she is such a brilliant story-teller and is so funny as well, really adds to my enjoyment.

Vashti Quiroz-Vega This post caught my eye as I am really getting into Haiku writing, and I thought both of these offerings were brilliant in totally different ways.

Homemade Naturally Now although I like  to have a go at sewing from time to time, I am not that good. However, I saw this, and loved it, and am actually tempted to have a go at it as it does look quite simple.

Fourth Generation Farmgirl This is an inspirational post that shows what you can achieve with a lot of determination and perseverance.The follow-on post is the culmination of this, and the end result is stunning.

I Refuse To Follow Your Blog This post made me laugh! I love the way he writes, getting his point across in a humorous way. It works for me 🙂

Smorgasbord – Variety Is The Spice of Life I just had to include this one as I didn’t stop laughing throughout the whole post. That is no mean feat at the moment either!

Wild Daffodil I loved this post. We take many things for granted and don’t often see the beauty in nature. This shows just how lucky we are to have such beauty surrounding us.

I am sure you will enjoy these as much as I did.

Episode 319: Who Will Win?… Take Your Pick! — May 7, 2015

Episode 319: Who Will Win?… Take Your Pick!

As it is the General Election today, where we can decide who is going to govern our country for the next five years, the politicians have done all they can now to convince us to vote for them. I have already voted, preferring to do mine by post, and I await the results with anticipation that the party I voted for will be successful.

In the meantime, I thought it would be a bit of fun, if I gave you my personal opinions on the main contenders. I am not going to go into their policies or anything like that as that is not what my blog is about. No, I am going to describe what impression I get of their personalities.

David Cameron – Conservative. Ah good old Dave. He is the ex-public schoolboy who likes to think he is a ‘man of the people.’  Recently he invited a news reporter into his kitchen at home where he was awkwardly chopping up veg for a salad. He had assembled his long-suffering family around the dinner table, so it all looked very cosy. 

I do think he tries hard, but he doesn’t seem to get it quite right, Bless him. He has had a series of blunders and cock ups that don’t help. Last year whilst out visiting a pub with his family, he ended up leaving his daughter behind!; he has also left a bright red ministerial box on a train complete with key in the lock; he has admitted he doesn’t even know how much a loaf of bread costs as he uses a bread maker at home. It does make you wonder how he can run the country when he has such a bad memory!

Ed Milliband – Labour. Ed has been referred to as ‘Mr Weird’ but to me he is a bit of a non-entity. He does not seem to speak with any conviction and when challenged, has been lost for words on occasion. Added to that, he does seem to be very awkward and accident prone.

Now, I am clumsy I know, but I am not trying to inspire confidence in people, and convince them that am capable of running our country, Last week during a live debate, poor old Ed looked a bit uncomfortable, then right at the end, managed to trip over the stage. Another time for some reason he thought it would be a great idea to munch on a bacon sandwich complete with ketchup, Needless to say the press were there and he got in a hell of a mess with it! Can we trust him to run the country without breaking it?!

Nick Clegg – Liberal Democrat  As affable as he is, Nick is always going to be 2nd best. I can’t ever see him as Prime Minister, not for his want of trying though. He was pretty happy to ‘get into bed’ with the Conservatives and would have no qualms about doing the same with Labour.

He has also got into a bit of bother by going back on his promises. All in all, Nick comes across to me as a bit of a tart. He doesn’t care who he goes with as long as there is something in it for him. I am not sure where his loyalty would lie if he ran the country.

Nigel Farrage – UKIP  Nige is a kind of ‘salt of the earth’ type bloke. He likes a cig and a pint, and whenever you see him. he seems to be in the pub. He gives the impression of not taking life too seriously, cracking jokes, pulling faces and acting the fool. However, he too has dropped a few clangers.

He has said that he does not like it when people speak in foreign languages on trains despite his wife and children speaking German! Plus he thinks breastfeeding mothers should ‘sit in a corner’ and not make it too obvious. Mostly Nigel has had to try to defend his fellow members as they have dropped him in it many times, with their remarks that he had tried to defend, only to make matters worse!  I wonder what would happen if he were to run the country!

Episode 318: Wacky Word Wednesday! — May 6, 2015

Episode 318: Wacky Word Wednesday!

As I am now lamenting the end of the Blogging From A-Z Challenge and the fun I had finding words that appealed to me, I have decided that I will do a post on a Wednesday highlighting a weird, wacky or wonderful word. I am kicking off with a great-sounding word today……..

Cantankerous. This word is the crabby and crotchety, crusty and cross old codger that likes to moan and whinge about everything. He is grumpy and grouchy, miserable and morose. His ill-tempered and irritable demeanour makes him snappy and sour.

Or what about the sullen and short-tempered child, cranky and quarrelsome, who will not be pacified?  They are prickly and petulant, obstinate and onery, not to mention fractious and  downright foul!

A bit like me when I get hungry really!

Episode 317: One-Liner Wednesday. —

Episode 317: One-Liner Wednesday.

Life is short. Smile while you still have teeth!

This post was inspired by LindaGHill

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