Memos, Mail, Me

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Monday has arrived again all too quickly!

A new harness for Katie arrived in the post this week, I am finding it difficult to keep altering the size of her harness when she wears a coat due to arthritis in my hands so the solution and a bit extravagant was to buy another one.  Here she is keeping guard while I look for a geocache in her new purple harness:

This weekend I returned to Colliers Way for another walk along the route of the railway from Frome to Radstock, I enjoy these walks as they are mostly flat.   We arrived early and found it is well used by joggers in the morning, it was lovely being out in the sunshine after all the rain we have had. 

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Memos , Mail, Me

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Well it was a birthday weekend for us, Katie had her 4th birthday on Saturday so it was a weekend of lots of squeaks, she loves squeaky toys and had three new ones!  I think her jaw was aching from spending so much time making the toys squeak.  Here she is opening one of her presents:

We went for a walk on Saturday and found a few geocaches, we went to an area where I used to walk my dogs when I was a teenager so it was a trip down memory lane for me.

I went out all dressed up for a cold morning but it got warmer as the morning went on so I was peeling off the layers as we walked along, it was good to be saying goodbye to the colder days and to see the new growth and spring flowers.

No exciting mail for me this week.

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Mail, Memos, Me

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Another weekend when we have stayed home due to the weather.  The temperature has not risen above freezing with a strong east and then a north-east wind.  Katie and I have had some bracing (but not long) walks.  We woke up to a little snow on Saturday but although we had snow flurries all day it soon disappeared.

So any interesting post this week?  Yes, in the post last week arrived a magazine that I subscribe to - I get the subscription with my Tesco club card coupons so it doesn't cost me anything except the money I would have spent anyway, I usually buy all my petrol with my Tesco card.

The magazine is full of spring items - so good to read on the cold winter days, I like the variety in the magazine with articles on gardening, baking, wildlife and craft.


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Mail, Memos, Me on Monday

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So something exciting arrived in the post this week!  After many months of internet problems with it dropping out several times a day and many phone calls to BT they finally decided it was the Hub that was faulty and have sent me a new one:

It was all set up and I have had no problems since, today they rang to ask if all was ok and I was pleased to be able to say yes.  It will be such a relief as it often stopped working as things do when I was doing important things and it became very frustrating.

The weekend was cold and wet and I had no car as it had gone for MOT repairs so a stay at home weekend watching recorded programs, knitting, processing photos for printing and just generally relaxing.

This photo sums up our weekend:

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Mail, Memos, Me: Monday

I didn't post last week for the start of Sian's new meme for 2017, it's called Mail, Memos, Me - as I had not received any interesting mail in the preceding week.

This week has not been very exciting either:

Yes it is time to get my eyes tested although I don't go to Boots anymore as the branch closed down in my town they still send me reminders, Tesco have sent me coupons for items I never buy and probably never will!   The other letter means the car tax is due, along with the car tax is the dreaded MOT (for non UK readers the MOT is a test to make sure the car is safe and roadworthy).  So the car has had its pre-MOT, it need some work but nothing too expensive.  

Maybe this week I will receive something exciting, maybe not, we will see. 

This weekend Katie and I went of for another trip to the village of Mells, I like going there as there are plenty of places to walk and best of all a lovely cafe for after the walk.  I introduced some friends to the village in the autumn so I am sure we will be visiting again together.  

It was frosty but the sunshine was warm, perfect walking weather.

Memorandum Monday

Happy New Year to all my readers!

So a New Year has begun.  I haven't quite got into the excitement of new plans or anything yet.  I have been unwell since Christmas, mostly fatigue (part of the fibro I have) and now I have a cold!  I certainly hope 2017 will be better than last year, it was quite a difficult year for me.

I don't make resolutions so I cannot break them!

Christmas was busy this year, my daughter and her partner came to stay for 5 days the week before Christmas, we had a family get together while they were here, Christmas day was spent with my son and his girlfriend.  Yesterday I drove to the airport in the pouring rain to drop off my son who has gone to Spain for a week.

Thanks go to Sian for hosting Memorandum Monday all through last year.