Gosh it's February already and I am way behind updating my blog. I meant to write just after Christmas then things happened and I never found the time to get stuck in! Time just seems to slip by so quickly and more so when you get older! Still here I am and I would like to wish you all a very belated happy New Year. That said, I will turn 75 this year and... um... well I just cannot find the answer as to where all the last 74 years have gone! Still I am blessed that I am still here to tell the tale (have I mentioned this before somewhere in this blog...). And, I have my darling grandsons who light up my life big time. Talking about grandsons, my son rang me this morning still full of cold which he developed over the past few days, and he sounded dreadful. His wife works weekends so he has the job of looking after their four sons. When I left him yesterday afternoon after he returned home from work, he looked under the weather....
Has autumn really arrived early, I asked myself this morning, walking through the park on my way to town. The strong wind was behind me and almost lifted me along the pathway. It was a mix of brilliant sunshine for one minute, then seconds later, clouds so dark that it looked like a downpour was going to break out at any moment. My thoughts were, how is fall on the horizon so soon? I mean, it was hot and sultry just a few weeks back; where did the summer go? Come to that, why is 2025 rapidly speeding past like a car on a racing track? There are orange and red berries already appearing on hedgerows . On looking around, people were back in coats or thicker tops; gone were the strappy vest tops and bare midriffs; well, bare midriffs on the younger ladies, I lost my midriff in my late sixties, and I have no idea where it went! Trees are beginning to lose their leaves, and the signs are evident; the last of the summer has drifted away for...