"Your life is an occasion. Rise to it"

Karmacat

You did! And now I'm watching a little doggy run about with a tennis ball, and a baby too .... its great!

Erm ... I have to go do some work ..... need to do a bit more before I relax for the evening. I'll see you later this weekend - thanks for everything!

Lula-Hula

Hello Karma,

glad all is good with you, I love your photos - just photobucket for me, dont 'do' facebook & my internet time is either here or ebay

Hope you have a good potter outside tomorrow, will be trying some of that here too if the weather permits... If not, then I'll be wandering the halls of MSE

gilligansyle

Love the chat about the sixties and seventies clothes. I remember being really proud of my hotpants, and wore them with boots, shiny white pull on things. I thought I was soooo marvellous.

My mum had what was called a 'tunic suit' with a psychedelic top and plain trousers, and often wore the top on its own. She must have been at least 35!!!

MatyMoo

I always had to be different, my favourite hotpants were genuine lederhosen :rotfl:

youareallhelpingme

Love the pics - the artistic outdoor one is great, a real captured moment! The ballet one - didn't know legs were supposed to go that high .

My only memory of ballet was getting locked in the toilets .

taxi73

those are lovely photos KC...

Karmacat

Awww, thanks peeps! I'd temporarily forgotten about putting them up, so thats nice to come back to

Well, I don't know what the forecasters are doing, but there's a *lot* of rain and cloud here right now, no way I'm going out there right now, so like Lula, I'm haunting the MSE halls I was just reading about women's pension age - with the recent changes as well, it'll be almost ten years before I get any pension dosh - under the old rules, I'd only be less than four years away, sigh ....

Still, onwards and upwards and all that. I had a bit of a revelation yesterday, actually - realising how happy I felt to be coming home to this house. I don't need to struggle to find the extra money to get a detached house. The neighbours through the party wall are *really* noisy, tbh - but 95% of the time, its the kind of noise that makes me smile - doggies happy to have the family home, or the visiting granddaughter (aged 2) running about shrieking .... I can live with that. And I was thinking of the rellies in Norfolk that we enjoyed seeing so much last year - they live in exactly this sort of house, but the lives they lead, including the holidays they have, are fantastic, exactly what I'd want if I could pick and choose. So, this is my house for the foreseeable future, and for the rest of it, the rest of it is about making my *life* how I want it to be. Realistic priorities and all that - that was certainly helped along by the pension news this morning

In spite of that, it *is* still raining, the ground will be sodden, even if it stops raining, I won't be able to do what I was planning - so outside work, if its possible, will be limited to the front - bagging old leaves to decompose slowly, a little tiny bit of saw work to get that tree down, that sort of thing.

Ooh, and I just saw - at the side of the house was a little tree that I thought was a hazel - then the hazel at the back started up and I realised the side-tree wasn't. Found out yesterday, as its started blooming - its a forsythia! **very** badly pruned, it will need help, but its definitely a forsythia, which I adore, so :T:T:T to the side garden!

gilligansyle

I feel so envious when people identify stuff, trees are just that to me, trees. There are green ones, lighter green ones etc. I'm sure, if pushed I could name a few, but have a terrible memory for that sort of stuff. Enjoy your day.

Lula-Hula

Morning all,

'tis wet here & I'm just 'watching' the garden at the moment .

I can see Connie & Victoria & as I ran past them yesterday on the way to the compost bin, I saw that the buds looked a little bigger than last week. I'm hoping that means they're settling in & not plotting a suicide pact.

I kinda love a rainy saturday on MSE just pottering about, wandering in & out of peoples diaries ... drinking coffee & eating toast

If it makes you feel any better KC; I have another 25 years before I can expect a pension.

Oh how we laughed :rotfl:

Karmacat

Lula-Hula wrote: »

Morning all,
Morning :hello:

'tis wet here & I'm just 'watching' the garden at the moment .

I can see Connie & Victoria & as I ran past them yesterday on the way to the compost bin, I saw that the buds looked a little bigger than last week. I'm hoping that means they're settling in & not plotting a suicide pact.
What are you like :rotfl: seriously, it sounds a good sign.

I kinda love a rainy saturday on MSE just pottering about, wandering in & out of peoples diaries ... drinking coffee & eating toast
Toast! I have that gluten free bread! I could have toast and marmalade!

If it makes you feel any better KC; I have another 25 years before I can expect a pension.

Oh how we laughed :rotfl:

But you're 15 years younger than I am, in that case. Which is pants on so many levels I'm not going there! Its the unexpectedness in my near future I'm wingeing about, tbh - but now I'm settling here, I'll find ways to deal - "worst case" is that I rent the house out and go live in a campervan. Difficult, hey :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Gill - don't feel bad! Compared to most of my family (and compared to Wol, who is a genius with plants) I know very little. Since I bought my first house in 87, I've always had a garden, of whatever size, and however badly I've kept it, I've had to do something. I'm looking forward to the bluebells coming out - there are some spectacular forest walks round here.