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September 26, 2010 06:54AM
So much for my regular blogging again. I keep thinking about it, then can’t be arsed. Which shows I must be much happier or much lazier. I like to think it’s the former. And, of course, I have my photo blog, which covers quite a few day to day things. I’m even getting behind in that, though.
I’m not going to try and do a catch up, but I will just detail a few current bits. Jez is better – both legs are fine and she can happily walk for 2 ½ hours. Max, on the other hand, has some sort of soft tissue injury in his shoulder, which has been hanging around for nearly a year now. The vet recently X-rayed him and confirmed that there isn’t anything wrong with his joints, so we just have to rest him – 20 minute or so lead walks for 3 months. We’re only 2 weeks in and already it seems to be dragging on. I thought we’d got over all this. So now the dogs have to be walked separately.
As for me, I’ve been having more and more trouble with the big toe on my left foot. It, and my other toes hurt a lot at times, especially after about an hour’s walking. I saw a consultant in June and he confirmed it’s a bunion. It won’t get better and will only get worse. So I’ve made the decision to have it operated on. I go for my pre-med on Thursday. I’m told the operation is likely to be 4-5 weeks after that. It will be day surgery, most probably just under a local, even though they are going to cut out chunks of bone from my big toe in order to straighten it. Then I have to rest for another 6-8 weeks – no dog walking from what I can make out.
Recently I’ve been watching a programme on the BBC called The Great British Bake Off, which was a baking competition. It’s inspired me to start baking again, and I’ve bought the book from the series. I’ve had some successes (like the stem ginger biscuits which are simply yummy), and some failures (my rock cakes went flat like cookies the other day for some reason). But I’m quite enjoying it.
I’m thinking of volunteering to help out with a charity – someone must have need of my skills. As usual though, I’m scared of the commitment. But as Chris says, if I don’t like it I can always stop since I’m simply volunteering. There are two branches of Save the Children locally so I’m thinking of applying to them. They do a lot of good work and now I can’t donate as much money it would be good to think that I could at least do something to help.
I’m going to leave it there for now. I need to decide where to post this - I’m running the same blog on 3 different sites at the moment. I may just limit myself to Bowienet and Wordpress and drop Blogspot, but I’ll see. It’s posting the photos in this blog that are the pain. If I can just cross refer to my photo blog then that will make life a lot easier. But it may make this blog a lot more boring.
Time to drink my coffee now. I’m waiting for Chris to bring Jez back from her morning walk so that I can take Max out.
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May 19, 2010 01:19PM
Although I still intend to continue with this blog, I've got a new photo blog: Pictures From Everyday Life.
Here's what I say in the About bit on the blog...
"I have been blogging for several years now and normally include quite a lot of photographs in my blog. I thought that it would be nice to start a photo blog though. The photos in these pages will not necessarily be high quality, although some of them might be. Rather they will be of things that I see as I go about my normal day. On occasions the subject matter will be of something that catches my eye and that I want to photograph. In most cases though the photos will be more by way of snaps, where the important thing is the subject matter that I want to comment on or simply a record of things that are going on in my life.
I am not a professional photographer (as will become apparent), and I’m not even sure that you could call me an amateur photographer. I have been taking photos since I was 4 years old and do so because I enjoy it. I have never been to classes on photography and do not belong to a photographic society (mainly because I do not feel I am good enough). I do take inspiration from books and from looking at others’ photos, though, and as a result feel that my photography has improved over the past few years. If you would like to see more of my photos they can be found on Flickr where I post as Julia Livesey.
A bit about me: I am in my 50s and live in Poole, Dorset (UK) with my husband and 2 dogs. I took early retirement when I was made redundant in 2007 so theoretically have plenty of spare time on my hands. The dogs seem to take up an inordinate amount of that spare time, however. I walk them at least once a day, so there will be a lot of photos from our walks.
I hope that you enjoy looking at my Photo blog."
Please feel free to take a look at it. You can find it here:
Pictures From Everyday Life
I'd be grateful for any feedback.
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April 11, 2010 07:11AM
So much for my regular blogging! This morning Chris has taken the dogs out as there is footie on this afternoon. I was planning to sit and read The Guardian Magazine from yesterday, but then remembered that I hadn’t written anything in ages, so here I am sitting at the table writing.
We’ve been having another spell of fine weather these past few days (after even more heavy rain for a couple of weeks). It’s been lovely walking the dogs in the sun. I’m in short sleeved T-shirts. Max gets very hot very quickly. In fact, he woke me up at 1.30am this morning panting heavily. I had the window shut as Jez was on the bed with us, but had to open it. Which meant she woke up and started barking. But at least Max stopped panting!
I’ve been busy in the garden this week. I’ve dug the two largest beds over and have put in a few new plants. I’ve got the two smaller beds left to do. I’ve also attempted to re-seed the lawn (or should I say large area of mud with patches of grass growing on it). A combination of a very wet winter, dogs and workmen have all conspired to ruin my lawn. I’m not sure how well the seed will grow, especially with dogs wandering all over it.
The big news from the last month is that we’ve booked a holiday (well, I’ve booked a holiday). We are off to South Devon, a place called Bolberry Down near Hope Cove, for a week at the beginning of May. You can see the details here . It will be interesting to see how the dogs cope – and how we cope with taking the dogs away. I can’t bring myself to put them in kennels (let alone afford to) though. I think they’ve both had enough of that from their RSPCA days. Of course, Jez was with her siblings and really too young for it to have any impact on her (she actually loves going back there). But they told me Max hated it. I’m trying to work out how we can actually fit everything in the car, as the dogs take up the whole boot area and Chris can fill a car when he goes away for a weekend, let alone a week. We need to fit in 2 big bags of our stuff, 2 throws for the furniture, 2 duvets for the dogs, dogs towels, our towels, laptop, Wii (yes, we’re taking that), cameras & tripod, dog food and bowls, leads, harnesses, at least some food for us… the list goes on. And we’ve only got a small hatchback. I want to buy a roofbox, but the only make that will fit our car is Thule, which is expensive (almost as much as the cost of the cottage for the week), and Chris is dead against it.
On Easter Sunday we went over to lunch at Dad’s. We had Roast Lamb, which I love but never cook as Chris doesn’t like it (Dad cooked Chris a pork chop).
We all had Easter Eggs, including the dogs.
And I really like this photo of Jez and my Dad.
The following day I walked to Upton Country Park as there was a craft show on there. I managed to get my cousin a birthday present for the end of this month (as was the plan), but also got a really nice freshwater pearl and amethyst necklace for Pat’s 90th birthday in September, as well as a necklace & earrings for me. It was the start of the nice weather, so I got a few nice shots of flowers in the gardens.
I’ve also been taking some photos of birds in the garden while I’ve been digging - well, mainly photos of the robin. I’m told that our European robins are different to the US robins, although they are all part of the same family. Ours are much smaller and look much cuter. I must remember to buy Christmas cards with robins on for my US friends this year!
And I mustn’t forget the blackbird.
Well, I think that will do for today. It will take me ages to resize and upload these photos and get them into this blog, so I’d better get started.
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