D-d et al are away for the weekend as it is Nain's birthday. Nain being Welsh for Grandmother, and the grandmother in question being the NYM's - and today she is 100 :)

So I am on cat-sitting duty. Today Tegi decided this meant the cat sits on the cat-sitter...


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This week has not been as organised as planned - on Tuesday I managed to slip, with my good leg, on a piece of clear plastic I had knocked onto the kitchen floor myself. As I tried not to fall I managed to twist the arthritic left knee ( Read more... )

Finally, after two years and around 63,500 words, this story has an end!

Going Home (to a place we’ve never been before.)
Chapter Twenty-Three - To Melian - and Beyond!
Word count=2,900
Rating 15
Beta'd as usual by the inimitable speakr2customrs

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Last night we had more children visiting than ever before I think. I reckon altogether around 70 -80! They were mainly in groups of three or four and I began to think we must be bussing them in ( Read more... )

As it's half term NYK2 spent yesterday at our house so we could do the prep for Hop-tu-Naa together ( Read more... )

On Saturday I went to a fascinating talk organised by the WI. The subject was Childhood on the Isle of Man in the Eighteenth Century. I am writing some of it down here so that I remember it ( Read more... )

I have finished the jumper for D-d for Christmas. It is not really displayed to its advantage, but it was difficult to find a good place to take the picture. Now to start on a slightly different one for her husband.


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I promised northernsnokatw a picture of my new glasses as she has also just got new ones.


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This is almost the end of Going Home. There will be an epilogue sometime in the next few weeks - and then I start something new for November. A hint about that - you may have noticed Glorfindel has not been around in this story since the first chapter...

But here is

Going Home (to a place we’ve never been before.) Chapter Twenty Two; Now ( Read more... )

Yesterday was Messy Church day. Our theme was a harvest one of'Giving thanks for God's creation'. I used a book called God's Very Colourful Creation for the story and we took our ideas from that. You can see what the book is like - this is one of the pages..


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