Drifting through life

Welcome back to Sunday Selections. Begun way back in the mist of time by Kim of Frog Ponds Rock and now continued by me, with a drastic relaxation of rules. Originally meant for showcasing old photos lost on your files, never seeing the light of day, the meme has morphed into photos of your choice, new or old, good or not-so-good, anything you please, but nothing rude please. If you are participating, please leave me a comment so I can buzz along and have a look. Elephant's Child always participates, and her pictures are always worth seeing.  A few garden photos to begin with: my jades have put on  a better show than I expected, with the flowers lasting quite a long time here's a close-up in case you forgot how pretty these starry little flowers are my favourite wind spinner is more visible now the leaves have dropped from the trees, the little cups either side of the dragon catch the wind and as it spins the turning spiral makes the ball look like ...

The original Words for Wednesday was begun by Delores and eventually taken over by a moveable feast of participants when Delores had computer troubles. The aim of the words is to encourage us to write. A story, a poem, whatever comes to mind. If you are posting an entry on your own blog, please let us know so we can come along and read it. This month the words are supplied by me and can be found right here . This week's words are: 1. pitiless 2. circumstance 3. coffee 4. black 5. shimmer 6. bottles and/or: 1. reminded 2. sluice 3. blazing 4. fragment 5. routine 6. compartment Here is my story: The pitiless glare Bruce levelled at Andrea had her cringing back into the corner of the sofa. She managed to stammer, “I didn’t know he was in town. How could I possibly have known?” “So you’d have me believe this is circumstance ? You haven’t been communicating with any of the old crowd at all?” “No,” Andrea whined. “Not even once. But I don’t th...

so I got my computer support tray thingy, black plastic with a padded underside, and my laptop and sat up in bed reading blogs and comments.  Now I'm sleepy and want to put it all away, but Lola is curled up beside me, purring and almost asleep, with her head ON the edge of the tray.  What to do? Do I disturb her, put everything away and snuggle down? Or do I sit here with numb legs and hope I can doze off? Wait, she's moving...looking up at me and she's off the tray. I can put it all aside and snuggle down. Later today I have to go and make an appointment for her at the Vet, she needs her claws clipped and a mucky looking sore has appeared on her back just below the neck so I want that checked out. It seems to be spreading and I suspect it is mange or something similar. Fingers crossed it is something simple to fix.

The original Words for Wednesday was begun by Delores and eventually taken over by a moveable feast of participants when Delores had computer troubles. The aim of the words is to encourage us to write. A story, a poem, whatever comes to mind. If you are posting an entry on your own blog, please let us know so we can come along and read it. This month the words are supplied by ME!  and can be found right here . This week's words are: 1. pitiless 2. circumstance 3. coffee 4. black 5. shimmer 6. bottles and/or: 1. reminded 2. sluice 3. blazing 4. fragment 5. routine 6. compartment **let the creativity begin!**

Welcome back to Sunday Selections . Begun way back in the mist of time by Kim of Frog Ponds Rock and now continued by me, with a drastic relaxation of rules. Originally meant for showcasing old photos lost on your files, never seeing the light of day, the meme has morphed into photos of your choice, new or old, good or not-so-good, anything you please, but nothing rude please. If you are participating, please leave me a comment so I can buzz along and have a look. Elephant's Child always participates, and her pictures are always worth seeing. Today I'll introduce you to one of my favourite pieces of equipment, commonly called a clothes airer, I use it for drying things small enough to fit when the weather outside means I can't hang things on the backyard line. Which is most of the time because it's not nice out there where the sun rarely shines longer than an hour before being shadowed by the buildings. here she is, all folded up to fit nicely behind any...

The original Words for Wednesday was begun by Delores and eventually taken over by a moveable feast of participants when Delores had computer troubles. The aim of the words is to encourage us to write. A story, a poem, whatever comes to mind. If you are posting an entry on your own blog, please let us know so we can come along and read it. This month the words are supplied by Vest and can be found here . This week's words are: 1. dumped 2. welcome 3. incident 4. sounded 5. ended 6. unaware and/or: 1. moving 2. attended 3. responsible 4. smell 5. arrived 6. window Here is my story: Being dumped unceremoniously at the altar was the last straw, Jill decided. She’d had enough of this town and its cliquey inhabitants. She’d been unaware of Dan’s skirt-chasing shenanigans until the morning in the church when a mobile phone was handed to her. Dan, who sounded annoyingly cheerful, had told her he wouldn’t be there after all, having just arrived in...

July 25th 2017, a fter several weeks of saying there'd be no other cat, I only wanted Angel back,   I made the decision to collect Lola from the Animal Welfare Shelter.  Perhaps I should have stuck to my original 'no other cat' decision. Lola has settled in well, she is happy here, has put on weight and has a glossy coat and I like to pretend she loves me, but here is how she celebrated her one year anniversary:  Refused several types of food.  Ate dinner too fast then vomited it right back up, onto her newly washed fluffy blanket. Three bouts of diarrhea throughout the day and evening.  Fun times eh? *sigh*