...I Have A Great Life...

ouside temp:  25c
hot hot hot

...I've just come in from sitting in the garden in the glorious sunshine thinking about how great my life is...

I have a job that I really love, working with people I really get along with - there are bad days of course, sometimes M E G A bad days but we get through them by working together

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I have two loving boys - who are both in their twenties - who phone, text, facebook every week & keep me involved in their lives

...I suspect there are a lot of mums out there who can't say that...

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A N D, most importantly of all I have a husband of more than thirty years who loves the bones of me

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YEP!  I Have A Great Life 

--  A Great Life Indeed  --

...Happy Father's Day, Dad...

outside temp:  17c
wet-wet-wet

It's Father's Day here in the UK & I've just tried to phone my dad to say: 

 'Hi & Happy Father's Day, Dad'

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but he didn't answer his phone again today - he rarely does these days, to be honest - he's in a home as he has Alzheimer's and has lost touch with reality 

--  I know this, but I keep trying to convince myself that I'm wrong  --

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When we were kids, Father's Day use to pass pretty much unnoticed - some of us would make or buy a card but there wasn't any celebration to speak of...mum & dad didn't do that sort of thing...they barely acknowledged their own birthdays & wedding anniversaries, let alone Father Day.

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But today, I just wanted him to answer the phone so that I could say.

 'Hi & Happy Father's Day, Dad'

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...10 Things I Really H A T E...

outside temp:  21c
sunny but breezy

...10 Things I Really H A T E...

SPORT: 
--  all things sporty or remotely connected with sport  -- 
bats - balls - sport tv - clothing & don't even get me started on award shows - all that false praise -


RATS:
--  this includes anything that I consider to be rat-like --
mice - hamsters - guinea pigs  -  they are all ratty things to me


ASPARAGUS & AVOCADO:
-- PUKE PUKE PUKE -- 
just thinking about eating these makes me want to heave


BT:
--  now that REALLY is a huge hate  --
I could go on & on about how crap their 'customer service' is  - but I'll just say it again
I  H A T E  BT


RIPE BANANAS:
--  just can't stand the smell & taste of ripe bananas  --
but give me a really firm almost green one & I'll happily munch (or should that be crunch) away


NOISY KIDS:
--  don't you just hate other peoples noisy, unruly kids when you're out & about?  --
...especially if you are trying to have a pleasant meal...  I just want to go over and tell them to behave  -  perhaps more of us should do just that


LICKING:
--  I absolutely, blooming hate licking, drooling and spitting  (I know that's really three hates but they all involve the mouth, don't they?)  --
makes no difference to me whether it's human or animal  -  it's all under the cringe banner for me


GARDENING:
--  don't get me wrong - I L O V E a well-kept bright garden  --
I just don't want to be personally involved in creating it  -  just as well Dave R E A L L Y loves it, then :D


TEA:
-- yep, the great English cuppa!  --
I stopped drinking it when I was fourteen and have drunk black coffee without sugar ever since -  mind you it has got stronger & stronger over the years
...but hey!  a girl's got to have a vice or two, hasn't she?...


HEIGHTS:
--I don't do heights  - never, ever even been in a loft, let alone a tree house --
I once got as high as the third rung on a ladder though  :0)

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