Tag Archives: frustration

We’re psychic or what?

You know where I’m going with this don’t you (see previous post). Yep, we rang the pharmacy at 3.30. ‘No sir, I’m sorry but we haven’t received your prescription yet.’ It’s chucking it down outside, so we don yellows (all … Continue reading

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Mad Monday: 12th March 2018

It started out as a normal day. Hubby got up first, then me after sending a text to my nephew wishing him a happy birthday. Things started to go downhill when I weighed myself and then got in the shower. … Continue reading

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Knock On Effect (The early hours)

To continue: We had a plan today, insomuch as I was going to keep Maggie out of Hubby’s way whilst he did some more varnishing along the corridor which would get brushed with fur if she so much as looked … Continue reading

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Cheesed off

It has been just one of those days, and now when all I want to do is relax with my Blog, the marina’s wifi is screwing me around. It has taken over half an hour to get in, and to … Continue reading

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The Good Samaritan

Keeping the rhythm, he propelled himself forward down the road. Rolling, wheeling, puffing. His arms ached, his hands were sore and he was breathless. He wished he hadn’t come out today, but he was a regular and knew he’d be missed … Continue reading

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Cross Saturday

This will be short as I’m having all sorts of problems with my blog today. Everything is taking  S  O    L  O  N  G, it’s like trying to wade through some giant trifle in snow shoes. Then when it … Continue reading

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I haven’t got time for this

Or the patience either. Somebody, or some bodies, have been tinkering behind the scenes at WP and now it is taking AN AGE for things to post, load, read and identify let alone log in. Then the screen starts rolling … Continue reading

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Blogging Out

Any excuse to get out of the washing up. We are both sitting supping coffee doing our blogwork, having checked our emails and the weather.

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Here’s something I prepared earlier

They say a poor workman always blames his tools, and to some extent that’s true, but one thing I find annoying is when I do ABSOLUTELY NOTHING and it all goes pear-shaped. I have recently noticed that WordPress have yet … Continue reading

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Live small, live tidy

“Space, the final frontier. To boldly go where no man has been before”. Cue music. Though we haven’t done any real voyages yet, Space is…… well, missing! Alice had it right when she found the ‘drink me’ bottle and shrank. … Continue reading

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