Sunday 30 March 2008

Spring Cometh?

A most successful Easter in France with the most excelled assistance at the railway stations and Southampton airport, both ways. It was a joy [as far as it can be travelling these days]
to do the trip which is usually full of stress. It was all great fun, and having taken a friend of much the same age as myself, we were able to do things together and so take the pressure off the family. The worst part I now find is packing and unpacking! Also having a lot of trouble with tooth brushes and toothpaste. Nine times out of ten the bristles are on a trendy twisted side of the handle so it is hit and miss with the paste. Then the paste rushes out of the rotten plastic tube, the result is most in the basin and little on the brush and the tube finished in record time. The next tube I shall try piercing the metal cover left when the cap is unscrewed, and hopefully it will come out like a snail.
Cat was prowling round the bath and on hind legs was peering in. Supposing she wanted the usual drink I lifted her on to the side but still she kept looking in, so I carefully pushed her and to ny suprise she clung to me with open claws. Then to my horror found that I had not let the water out from the day before! Poor kitty she got a fright and wet cold feet.

Wednesday 19 March 2008

Easter

Happy Easter to any readers of my blog! I shall continue in April when I hope Spring weather will really have come as we appear to be back in winter, even the fur hat has had to reappear.

Friday 14 March 2008

racing

Now the winds and high tides have hopefully gone,and the exciteing racing from Cheltenham over, just a few words for the blog.

Apparently last April a law was passed stating that a bus must stop at every stop where there is a person waiting carrying a white stick, and call out the no. of the bus. I suppose I should have known this as I am sent from time to time a Getting About magazine, but it is so long winded , like the masses of forms one gets sent and questionaires, I throw them away! Its rather like Big Brother on paper, somewhere there is an awful little gremlin, being paid a bomb and probably expenses undeclared, who knows all ones assets, how our rooms are decorated and the clothes one wears and so much more!

Friday 7 March 2008

installing broadband

Great excitement getting broad band, and it took quite a while getting it sorted on my software! Now I can get into the Net without that guilty feeling of running up my telephone bill even more. But I still find it often difficult to understand the jargon and think I must get some help from the whizzkids in the familly!
Cat is spending a lot of time in the bath waiting for me to run a splash of cold water. Perhaps she is lacking some vitamin or is sensing me getting ready to go to France for Easter, because on hearing rustling of paper I discovered her in the bag of Easter Eggs! Luckily I found her before she had torn off the paper. It had been quite a performance getting these eggs as I had decided to get them from a special shop in Chelsea. This meant catching the usual and only bus -the 22, to Beaufort St. at Worlds End [where there is a Moravian burial ground all buried standing upright!] The road makes a sharp bend to the left and stops, so I know I have arrived. But this time I checked that I was right because as I stepped off there seemed to be a vast open space. Slight panic as there did not seem to be a pavement! Then a man and wheelbarrow appeared and he explained the whole block had been raised to the ground! and he helped me to the crossing. I arrived at the shop by its delicious smell. After having purchased very expensive chocks and complained about the shops and cafes that had gone, I asked how far down the road was the bus stop . The assistant insisted on taking me along herself. People really are so kind. and so full of free tasting she helped me back on the 22. It was freezing and I was glad to be back home.