After a day of grey skies and rain yesterday, this morning the sun shone and the sky was blue. I’m keeping my eye on the chestnut tree at the side of Lytham Hall and waiting for it to show its full autumn glory, so there may be more pictures similar to these.
Got the last 2 pieces of the travel jigsaw sorted. Southport to London and Paris to Irun (Northern Spain). It’s 234 miles approx from Southport to London and 500 miles approx from Paris to Irun, and guess what? The English bit of the journey is going to cost almost exactly twice as much as the…
Gosh, it has been a busy few days. Nana and Grandad got back from their holidays to find that their taxi home from Manchester had broken down. Nana said Grandad used some very bad words, but they got home eventually. Nana said her flat felt like a laundry on Wednesday and Thursday, but luckily I…
Latest medical update: PSA is 1.59 and everyone is reasonably happy with that. Potassium is 3.3 which is low, but no lower than it has been for the last 6 years apart from the 2 occasions in recent weeks when I was on potassium supplements, but my GP isn’t happy and I have to see…
We are finally back in France. Brittany to be precise, and we have found that we love it just as much as we always have. It’s a bit cloudy this morning with a threat of a little rain, so, Heather’s painting and I’m blogging again. (At last ! I hear you all cry). Travelled down…
Martin Mere – Mere Sands Wood One of (the only?) problems with moving has been that I have struggled a bit to find a group of people to “hang out” with, as the youngsters say. In Southport we were both very attached to our church and had a group of friends there who we saw…
Just watched our Prime Minister’s press conference, strangely not really full of jokes but full of: Truss being decisive, but apparently definitely NOT sacking the Chancellor who has apparently shown his patriotism by resigning. Truss forgetting that the chronic lack of growth in the UK has been presided over by her party since 2010 Truss…