Author Archives: Kathie

Why I spend time at Facebook

Someone at a forum I belong to asked why people spent so much time at ‘wastebook’. He couldn’t see any benefit.  I used to think that way once… and thought it was something for only the young people. My views … Continue reading

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It’s been a year now

Well, we’ve been in our new year a whole year now. Where has that time gone?  Not only that but our grandson is almost a year old too. And Graham is drawing closer to retiring, just a couple of years … Continue reading

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Got a new hobby site

Can’t help myself really. I’ll blame it on Mel this time round.  She took me to the most interesting place a couple of weeks ago.  Cafe, nursery and formal gardens all wrapped into one. It’s called Cloudehill.  She was saying … Continue reading

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Disorganised Fire Evacuation

Took Mel and Oliver to Fountaingate to pick up her machine and we planned to look at a couple other shops first. When we arrived we could see black smoke coming from other side of shopping centre but couldn’t tell … Continue reading

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Friday night, a cosy fire and great company

Last night was so relaxing.  Friday nights are starting to become quite different now we live here in the country.  Well, it’s a suburb in the country – as country as we’ll get without being miles away from anything. Winter … Continue reading

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My blog is back!

You wouldn’t believe the week I’ve had – this blog crashed and I don’t know why it happened. Seems something got added into the control panel that stopped php working and rendered the blog invisible.  Taken me days to find … Continue reading

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Five for Friday–Things That Made Me Smile

I saw this post at Footprints as a result of Aspiring Mum blog and thought I’d join in.  The idea is to post 5 things that have happened this week that made you smile. Family time together around the fireplace … Continue reading

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Long weekend yay!

woo hoo!  A 3 day weekend! What are you going to do with it – those of you who get to have it? I know our US readers recently had a long weekend just a week or two ago I … Continue reading

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I needed all the facts first please…

I’ve been outside for probably nearly 2 hours monitoring and putting out a fire. I had a guy and his wife come here today to cut up fallen branches and he lopped a dead tree too. He offered to burn … Continue reading

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I’ve come out of hibernation

Well, that’s what it feel like.  For well over a year I’ve not gone to business events or meetings, attended church events, and only occasionally gone to church when Graham has felt up to it. Even then there were some … Continue reading

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