...and she's fantastic. This morning, I’d been awoken by yowling about 30 seconds before Soot the nearly 20 year old cat got let into my bedroom, and my head was sat on until some time I forgot because I got up and washed my hair and tried to make it reasonably curly before being re … Continue reading The birthday of my mother…

Soot the 19 ½ year old cat got me up at 5:40 AM via loud meowing, and the sky was really really grey. A bit of variation was developing one hour later, and he was on my bed, light was coming from the room my Uncle was staying in (he’s a fantastic and very cuddly … Continue reading A day in the Marsh with Uncle…

It was 3°C and there was thick frost covering everything outside at 7:20 AM when I was up and about, could hear the fire being re-laid, and there was ice on my windows. I tried to warm my toes up a bit, then my right thigh began to be used as a cat pillow, and … Continue reading A chilly walk in Warwickshire (requiring wellies)…

It was 7.30am when the street lamps turned themselves off today– and 10°C outside with a pink tinge in the sky, and I’d done diary entries (I write up my notes into a diary - it gives me a chance to review them and fill in any gaps) for the last couple of days and … Continue reading The events of an early 2023 Spring day…

It was very cloudy but a reasonable temperature when we arrived in London at 11.15am on this very memorable day...(not only documented by me - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/26/time-is-now-thousands-march-in-london-for-urgent-climate-action)...my Oyster card needed topping up, then by 11.25am we were on a Bakerloo line train – and it was rather packed and required the usual excellent balancing ability to … Continue reading The Time Is Now march in London (26th June 2019)

I cuddled Soot the nearly 20 year old cat until we set off in the car at 10.03am this morning, the sun was out and it was 8°C; and there was a stop at the shop down the road (where there was an unbelievable amount of alcohol - some in big skull shaped bottles, and … Continue reading A few seasonal photos… And the first Heritage Seed Library volunteering of 2023:

Despite the temperatures on this day, Mum and I had decided to head out - and once out and about, we drove past the lake at Ryton Pools, which was partially frozen and seagulls were stood on the ice, petrol was 155.9p/L and diesel was 179.9p/L at a Shell garage, and the local pet shop … Continue reading A wintery day out in December…

After a morning of making biscuits – which ended up as biscuit balls due to the exceptionally gooey dough I was dealing with… ...I dressed myself for a walk into town (due to needing to collect a hairbrush that wasn’t in the completely disintegrated and unusable state mine was), and at 2.20pm, it was 2 … Continue reading A few more Christmas observations…

It was drizzling at 7.42am – when the hens got up (unenthusiastically), Soot the cat was on my bed at that point, and I grabbed some crayons from downstairs and went and sat up there with him and did some colouring of a Christmas card I’d made for my mum. I kept colouring, Soot wedged … Continue reading Christmas observations in the town & some local volunteering …

This was a little while ago now, but a very memorable trip - and this day started off with a look around a market in the town of Ptonsk – where all sorts of things were for sale, including enormous flowers, bunches of flowers, jumpers, lots of net curtains, socks, jeans, corsets, washing powder, 20 … Continue reading An expedition exploring Poland – with a few friends…