My eldest niece is a teenager now - and is always entertaining. She's always pulling faces and being dramatic, and often makes me laugh with her quick humour ( Read more... )

Now these (the goals) are different from New Year's resolutions! I don't particularly like New Year's resolutions though I do delight in starting things at the starts of a week/month/year or on significant dates.

Work*

* All hobbies, really, but if you get enough of them it starts to feel a lot like 'work'.Manage this better. I'm a ( Read more... )

Went off to my book-friend Sue's place for a long (long, long) lunch on New Year's Day. As well as lounging around in her back yard eating our lunch we took a tour of her book shelves and I borrowed a pile of 'recommended' titles by authors I wanted to try.

And here are the books:


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Today (Boxing Day) we celebrated our 25th Wedding Anniversary. (We've been together longer - about 30 years - but the concept of first date anniversaries is not well supported ( Read more... )

It's the start of my 'Year of Being 50' (modelled after my husband's very successful 'Year of Turning 60). The very start. My 50th birthday. Born at 6.20am 50 years ago. My mum's not here to celebrate with me as she died 10 years ago - very much 'to the day'. But I still have my dad and my brother, my husband and my brother's family. And my ( Read more... )

I find I refer to my LJ quite often for notes on what I have bought for the garden and what was planted where and when, so I suppose I'd better keep it a little more up-to-date. :o)

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I sent a couple of photos to Gary in Darwin today - of my lunch! He does all the cooking in the house and the "what Jane eats when he's not there" question is always a difficult one.

Brussel sprouts and a fish burger on an English muffin.


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The photographic evidence!


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Not quite sure why my 'to do' list for while Gary is away in Aussie got the title it did but for a few days nothing has been crossed off it as I've had a bit of a crisis to deal with (which I'm going to pop in a backdated post ( Read more... )

Wheee! I wait all year for the ginko leaves to yellow and fall at the house on the corner. Sadly they came down overnight in the storm and so are a bit water damaged otherwise I might have bought a few buckets-full home to sprinkle around the hedgehog house.


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