Update.

 A quick update - and I will turn the comments off.

Lots and lots of tests later the verdict is (mostly) in.  

I have cancer.  On Thursday I will be having a radical hysterectomy.  If, as is more than possible, it has spread, whatever else has been affected will also be removed.

The question of chemotherapy/radiation will be decided after the surgery when the extent of the damage is better known.

In the interim I am busy having yet more tests and filling out mountains of apparently essential paperwork.  Not helped by my email server having hissy fits.  I hope to be back sooner rather than later.

Thank you for your support. 

Words for Wednesday 2/7/2025

This meme was started by Delores a long time ago. Computer issues led her to bow out for a while. The meme was too much fun to let go, and now Words for Wednesday is provided by a number of people and has become a movable feast.

Essentially the aim is to encourage us to write. Each week we are given a choice of prompts: which can be words, phrases, music or an image. What we do with those prompts is up to us: a short story, prose, a song, a poem, or treating them with ignore... We can use some or all of the prompts, and mixing and matching is encouraged.


Some of us put our creation in comments on the post, and others post on their own blog. I would really like it if as many people as possible joined into this fun meme, which includes cheering on the other participants. If you are posting on your own blog - let me know so that I, and other participants, can come along and applaud. And huge thanks to those of you who come back, sometimes time after time to cheer other contributors on.



Huge thanks to Hilary Melton-Butcher for providing the prompts last month. The prompts will be here again this month and are provided by Charlotte (MotherOwl).


An additional prompt from Charlotte (MotherOwl) is her colour of the month to use (or not) in your take on the prompts. The colour for July is"Writing Pleasure Purple"











This week's prompts are:

• Ferry
• Determined
• Box
• Convey
• Paste
• First

And/or

• Family
• Astonish
• Obtain
• Avoid
• Magnificent

Have fun.


The news from yesterday's specialist appointment was not good. I will be absent for a while (hopefully from next week) for surgery and treatment. I will schedule the posts for the rest of the month and they will still appear.

Sunday Selections #826

Sunday Selections was originally brought to us by Kim, of Frogpondsrock, as an ongoing meme where participants could post previously unused photos languishing in their files. Huge thanks to Cie who gave me this wonderful Sunday Selections image. 

The meme was then continued by River at Drifting through life.  Sadly she has now stepped aside (though she will join us some weeks), and I have accepted the mantle.  

 

The rules are so simple as to be almost non-existent.  Post some photos under the title Sunday Selections and link back to me. Sorry I still haven't succeeded in working out how to do a blog hop. Clicking on any of the photos will make them embiggen.

 

 I usually run with a theme. Today I am going to show you different facets of last Sunday.

 

As is usual my day started early with a soft and gentle dawn.

 

 The temperatures were not gentle.  It was -7C/19.4 F.  So naturally I went out to blow bubbles.

 

  I had a wonderful time and loved seeing the shells the bubbles left behind when they finally burst.  

 

When I finally came in I was greeted by this female King Parrot near the front door.

 

 I came in because chilly weather is not kind to camera batteries and discovered I had been outside for an hour (and the temperatures were still firmly in the negative.  I know, I am not entirely sane.

 

And at the other end of the day (which was a little warmer) the sunset was spectacular so I rushed out again.

 

 I hope you find colour and joy in your week(s) too.

Thank you for your good wishes for next week's doctor's appointment.  I am really hoping for answers and a time frame for action. 

Words for Wednesday 25/6/2025

This meme was started by Delores a long time ago.  Computer issues led her to bow out for a while.  The meme was too much fun to let go, and now Words for Wednesday is provided by a number of people and has become a movable feast. 

Essentially the aim is to encourage us to write.  Each week we are given a choice of prompts: which can be words, phrases, music or an image.   What we do with those prompts is up to us:  a short story, prose, a song, a poem, or treating them with ignore...  We can use some or all of the prompts, and mixing and matching is encouraged. 

 

Some of us put our creation in comments on the post, and others post on their own blog.  I would really like it if as many people as possible joined into this fun meme, which includes cheering on the other participants.  If you are posting on your own blog - let me know so that I, and other participants, can come along and applaud.  And huge thanks to those of you who come back, sometimes time after time to cheer other contributors on.

 

Huge thanks to David M. Gascoigne for providing the prompts last month. The prompts will be here again this month and are provided by Hilary Melton-Butcher . 

 

An additional prompt from Charlotte (MotherOwl) is her colour of the month to use (or not) in your take on the prompts.  In honour of her yellow irises surviving the drought in her Frog pond, the colour of June is "Surviving Iris Yellow"

 

This week's prompts are:

• Purposeful      
• Solar    
• Hog     
• Trail     
• Discouraging

 

And/or

 

• Chute      
•  Punt      
• Oval      
• Records         
• Patient

She has also been very generous and given us some additional words to play with.

 

• Hinders     
•  Origin     
•  Camping     
• Wrinkle    
• Sprout

 

 Have fun.

 

Huge thanks to Hilary for testing us this month.  The prompts will be here again next month but are being provided by  Charlotte (MotherOwl).

 

If, as appears likely, I am absent for some of the month I will schedule the posts and they will still appear.