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Welcome to my blog. I'm an erratic blogger - sometimes I write loads and sometimes I disappear for days on end. I write about anything that comes to mind - sometimes about life, sometimes about marriage, sometimes about food and sometimes just about things that have wound me up! I have no comments because I need no-one's opinion on my life - mine is the only opinion that counts.

I'm married to Tim (delivery driver and gorgeous musician), have 2 daughters, live on the south coast of the UK and have 2 aging cats (Mo-mo and Hemmingway). I love reading, yoga, crafts, baking, daft old comedies, music and teaching.

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Monday, July 28, 2008

Dramatic

After a couple of days of blinding sunshine and intense heat, we've just been plummeted into darkness (not totally dark you understand!) It's that sort of darkness that says a storm is coming. Don't you just love that sort of dramatic change in the weather? I find it quite exciting and sexy *smiles* What I'm enjoying is the coolness after the (almost) unbearable heat we've been experiencing.

Not having a big, cooked dinner tonight - just cold chicken (left over from last nights dinner), salad and warm bread. It's so nice to have something like that during this weather. Also going to relax and eat it watching the Proms on tv - Beethoven tonight.

Been making another short video today - this time of my dear old cat Mo. He barely moves these days and is refusing catfood, the only things he seems to like are cold chicken and ham. He still purrs and will rub his head on you (you'll see him do this to me at the end of the film *smiles*) so we're letting him be. He's so doddery and feeble though that if he stops eating altogether and seems terribly unhappy then I think it might be time to say goodbye. He's a funny old thing though, he's been at a point where I thought "this is it" so many times that he seems like he'll go on forever. I know he won't, it just seems that way sometimes. Anyway, I made the video so I got something to remember him by (along with the hundreds of photos!) - in this I'm feeding him with ham.

Sunday, July 20, 2008

Proms

Wow! I've gone blog-post-bloody-mad today! What can I say?..... it's Sunday.

I'm not much of a telly addict, there are a few things which I adore and will ALWAYS watch (sometimes much to Tim's distress ... I'm thinking, Are You Being Served here) such as Spring/Autumnwatch, the Blackadder series, Goodnight Sweetheart, history documentaries and so on. The Proms is one such thing.

Obviously, I got into this because Tim was into it and we've watched it every year since we got together. Some years it's been brilliant and other years it's been a bit forgetable (or annoying, in the case of the jolly uplifting 9th Symphony by Beethoven getting cancelled last year!)

I haven't really had chance to study what is going to be on this year but Tim tells me that there is going to be the Miraculous Mandarin (Bartók). Oh! I was overjoyed - this was last on years ago (when I was pregnant with Rosie in fact) and I didn't take much notice of the music (shame on me!) but I adored the shadow puppets that went with it *big grin*

Alas! This year, no puppets!! NO PUPPETS! What's the point of the Miraculous Mandarin with no puppets?! Pah! The odd shadow puppets acting out the rather sordid story just soooo make it! *grumble, grumble*

Anyway, opening night of the Proms was ok (although there have been better years). Presenters are now stuck in a slightly bland "News at 10" style room which I don't think is quite right because they seem a bit separated from the action. Most of the music was nice but spoiled a bit by the rather long and noisy organ solo piece ... the title of which eludes me.

Looking forward to the rest of the season thought ... odd to think that by the time it finishes we'll be into early autumn.