Happy New Year

Wishing you all a very Happy and Healthy New Year.

Whatever it brings I hope it is Joy and Laughter .
Her are a few photo's of times gone by...

This is my Lake , it's wonderful Morning 

 When the Ice begins to melt it makes amazing   Pattern's.

This is my little Market town last Autumn .

These are my  two little Buddies.

Last but not least my lovely Lucy, sitting in my chair of course. 
She spotted a Duck outside the Window. 

Have a lovely week. :) 

A Shopping Trip....and a little bit more.

 This is Lucy my Lurcher 

Shopping,  that's as interesting as it get's. 

Well mum where have you been.
Food shopping to be exact just an ordinary Monday , at my local Supermarket.  After trailing round for an hour , mission accomplished. Packed it away in the boot of my car .
Thought I would pop back in store for a take away Costa Coffee , really needed Cuppa.

There she was beautiful Bubbles as I found out later what her name was.  Yes it was a  Greyhound , my weakness  as some of you may know. A weary looking guy in a wheel chair wanted quite frankly a dog sitter , while he was doing his food shop. I do it for you I promptly volunteered , I couldn't resist those big brown eye's looking up at me.  
I stood I sat and patted her , took for a short toilet run. Drank my lovely coffee feeling a little better after that much needed drink. Waiting and I can tell you the people you meet in that one hour is quite amazing.  Yes an Hour you heard right...but I didn't mind really. Two friends of mine I hadn't seen for almost three years , a good looking guy took a shine to her and we chatted for 20 mins at least.

Finally he showed up and offered me a coffee , but I politely refused thanking him. As I had more errands to run. Bye Bubbles it was fun and a pleasure .   You may say that was my good deed for the day, But in fact it made my day, but hey that's just me I suppose.

Here are some Pictures from my Garden  through August  to Oct  this year .
It has been a great time for the Roses , Red Hot Pokers and the Orchard  also, giving a few varieties of Apples. The Ducks on my Lake  are always a pleasure to observe through the Summer months.
 That is a Christmas Cacti   which is doing just fine. It brings a bit of color in October , it is now fully bloomed.  

Have a Good week and enjoy each day as it comes.

Spring Blooms

This is a Wonderful time of year everything springs to life. They lay dormant over the Winter, and then colour blooms start to appear. The top yellow looks like a Buttercup, although I'm not sure. 

 Doesn't time fly by I have been keeping up reading your blogs, at least. 

A Long Tailed-Tit for the first time here I will admit, started nesting in The small prickly bush outside the living room window. 

The Pansies were almost dead , well I thought over winter. So I pulled off all the dead bits hanging down and in a matter of weeks. Plenty of water and sunshine they are blooming lovely.

I will post some more later of my lovely pond area, but still have a lot of tidying up to do down there 

before the Daffodils die off .

Hope you are all well and the weather has been good to you. Here in Cornwall we

have had a glorious week. 

It's staying dry but will cool down to 13c to 15c this weekend.

Catch you later take care. 

Chilly here , well it is Winter..

I love the Frost far better than all that rain we've had here of late. ..Blue skies and very cold. 

Above is the  new Patio , you can see part of it. The strange  little tree in the top center , is a Christmas tree which is 5 years old and has never been brought back  indoors. Doing well by all accounts. I decided to place lights on it , as it has pride of place. 

There will be a lot of work to do out there come March or so.

Am I looking forward to it, well not really with my sore hip. Will just have to look and maybe think about it ha! 

Meeting up with my dear Lady friend she is 95 years old this year. She is lucky really as she still gets out and about. But she does need an arm to hang on to. Having two daughter's is a blessing , so I am sure she glad of that. 

That's it for now a flying visit and just to say Hello. Enjoy your Week.  

The Joy of Indoor Cacti , oh and Lucy...

These are my indoor flowers at present
The White Gardener is the hardest flower to keep going, the right temperature , light and water. It was given to me for my Birthday two years ago, and have struggles to keep it happy. The fragrance is so sweet and I breath on it lightly to help it along it's way. The 3rd picture down.

The top Cacti blooms for 48 hours only and is so beautiful when it does.

I have had the Pink Cacti a number of years and is just starting to Bloom. So each day it is lovely to see a fresh flower there.

Lucy what a lovely Honk you have , looking sooo relaxed Ha.

It's a rather Dull day here slight drizzle in the air , and getting darker by the minute.
My red begonia is still doing well in the hanging basket. Also my winter pansies hanging baskets are doing well. It's good to see some flowers this time of year.

Enjoy your week need to catch up now and have a lovely day.

September

brings  chillier evenings and cool morning' s. But days here are still very pleasant ,  
Looking over to Dartmoor on a misty morning , from my kitchen window. Is  Quite Lovely.

It was lovely when I had Lucy  stay in the posh dog kennels this year. This gorgeous  Great Dane was next door in the large running pen.  What a fine fellow he is a youngster at about 4 years old. This picture tells it all. 
When I visit my sister this is where Lucy stays , it's a  really lovely place. Wouldn't put her anywhere else. 

It has indeed been a beautiful Summer this year so lots of garden adventures for the her  . Lucy is very good as long as she has a ball  in her mouth she's as good as gold. 

Quite a few rabbits here , they tend to come out early evening well 3 to be exact. The garden is big enough so they don't nosh on my flower bed. By then Lucy is inside the house ha! 

The Cob nut tree is doing even better this year , picked quite a few bowls . Apples doing well with  three or four different varieties.
So have baked apple crumble and Pie , lovely. 
Fresh cream or custard anyone? 

Have a good week and enjoy everyday. Just catching up on your posts. Bye for now.

Meeting up for Coffee....

As my friend wasn't feeling too good of late she rang to tell me she couldn't make it for our Lunch out. But to pop over for a coffee and a chat very soon. This is the Lady that is 94 years old . I met her 12 years ago working in a charity shop. We hit it off very quickly..and soon found out we had a lot in common. 
So we had coffee and homemade drizzle cake , we laughed and had a hearty chat.  She said as much as I love my family , she has two daughter's. It's so good to chat to to someone other than family, at times. 

August has been a wash out dull and wet day's , so just before the gloomy forecast I took a picture of my Red Hot Pokers. As you can see they are doing really great this year. 

Back in June I found a box of flower seeds , mostly out of date. 
I picked out the Marigolds , and scattered them over my front patch just under the Window., Just literally threw them  there and walked off. Well here are  the results ..

Never give up :) 

Off to catch up on your posts now , have a great week.