We were really shocked, and sad, when we looked out of our back window today.  Our next door neighbour is having an extension built on the side of his house.  It’s a corner house and he has a very large back garden, which extends around the side, so we can see that a side extension [...]

Here it is – My new iMac!
It’s my birthday on Sunday so this couldn’t have been timed any better.

I waited until today, so I could get some daylight photos – Who was I kidding?  It’s so dark and miserable that I had to use a flash anyway!  That did NOT dampen my mood any.  [...]

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Thank you all for your kind words and well wishes.  I am feeling much better now.  I still have an annoying cough but even that is improving at last.  It was a very persistent virus!  Everybody I know that’s had it, in one form or another,  has had it for about a month.
Second bit
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You may well ask where I’ve been lately.  The answer would be “Precisely nowhere”  I am still coughing for England, not sleeping at night because of the coughing – even though I am sleeping (or not) sitting up.  I’m going through tissues faster than I would like, because we are STILL snowed in, with no [...]

We are knee deep in snow here.  At least when you are the height of Mo and I, it’s knee deep.  It looks beautiful, though I am aware it has brought with it absolute mayhem on the roads, railways and airports.  It looks beautiful here in Yorkshire.  I am so sad because I would have [...]

Boxing day Mo and I went for a trip out, so I could try my new lens.  On the way home we were chatting as usual.
Mo: “There’s a film on TV this afternoon you’ll like.”
Babs: “Oh, what?”
Mo: *“The Gromits film.”
Babs: “Oh they (the animators) are so clever, just like the ……”
Mo:  “The Pigeon film.”
Babs:  “Nooo!  [...]