Ekkkkk almost a month ....

Ooops almost a month since I've updated my blog. Real life seems to have overtaken my online life, almost completely these days. Not that I'm complaining of course, far from it. So many years of my life has pretty much been spent online due to me not being able get out and about under my own steam.

But this last 6 months since I met Jim, my life has turned round completely, and every bit of it for the better. My days are full of love and laughter now. Even the most mundane things seem to become fun, with no effort from either of us. In fact only the other night, Jim was lying in bed and started chuckling away to himself, when I asked him what he was laughing at, he simply said " I was thinking of the fun we have together ". What a lovely thing for your partner to say to you ....long may it last.

Often our trips to town are brightened by buskers in the town center. A couple of weeks ago we saw a brilliant band playing samba music, we could have spent all day there listening to them, they were that good. There was also a flash mob in Lancaster about a week ago, this is where people appear to randomly start singing, it is of course all preplanned, but the general public don't know. Luckily someone videoed it. To listen to the beautiful rendition of The Messiah they did, click this link >> Lancaster Flashmob Messiah

Often on the way back from town, we come home via either the canal or the river, and as we always have the camera with us, we often get some nice shots, some of which I've included below.

This is the samba band, the guy on the far right was bouncing around the whole time he was playing, he so obviously enjoyed his music.



The next 4 photo's are of things we have seen on our wanders.









Lastly a photo of me, wrapped up against the terrible weather we've been having lately, with a rainbow above me :)

Birthday fun and busy days

A couple of weekends ago was my birthday, Jim came down from Lancashire and family and friends came up from the Midlands for 4 days. On my actual birthday we went up into the mountains and I actually managed to get to the bottom of a waterfall I've wanted to get close to ever since I moved to Wales almost 10 yrs ago. We started off on the Saturday night by all drinking rather a lot, and singing our heads off. We had a brilliant time, and the party went on till the early hours of Sunday morning. Martin had brought his laptop and a set of good speakers so I think I can safely say we made quite a lot of noise. It wasn't until the next morning, that I realised my elderly neighbour hadn't gone away to South Wales as we thought ....ooooops. The next day we went off go carting, the following day was another day at different go carting track followed by some fishing.I had the biggest catch of the day .... a supermarket wire basket, I was gutted I thought I'd caught a big fish !!! Jims met all but one of my kids now, and he's still with me, so they couldn't have scared him too much lol.

On the Tuesday every set off home, including Jim. However it was only going to be a short time apart for Jim and I, as I was travelling up to Lancaster again. This time I wanted to take my mobility scooter and also some of my glass, my art stuff and a load of other bits and bobs. So we decided the easiest way to do this was to hire van, which Jim's daughter Rachel kindly offered to drive for us. All went very smoothly and we made the trip in good time. The only hiccup was when Jim tried to install a wireless card in my pc, it just didn't want to have it, after a couple of hours, he finally got it to recognise his pc and all was well again.

Now I've got my scooter here, this means Jim and I can go out exploring, Lancaster being a city caters for scooters much better. So I got the chance to see the weir on the River Lune which is 2 mins away from Jim's house. What a beautiful spot, the amount of bird life was amazing, we also went into the city centre, and even though I normally don't like shopping, I have to say I thoroughly enjoyed myself. Today we went for a wander along the canal which is about 10 mins from Jim's house, yet again I really enjoyed myself, it's been years since I've been able to do this. The photo's this time are a mixture of my birthday, family and some of the things I've seen since I've been at Jim's.

Best made plans and all that

With the best will in the world, the delay in writing my blog wasn't actually my fault this time ..... well not directly !! After having a fantastic week in Lancaster with my fella Jim, and meeting two of his lovely girls and some of his grand kids.I suddenly started feeling unwell. Expecting to be able to shrug off whatever had struck me down in a couple of days, I ignored it as I usually do. In this case that wasn't the best idea at all. I became really poorly and a kidney infection was diagnosed and antibiotics prescribed.

At one point I hadn't eaten for almost a week, had such a high temperature I thought I was cold when I was in fact burning up, and visa versa. When the antibiotics didn't seem to be working, both Jim and I were getting pretty worried, I decided I needed to get home and see my own doctor. With a lot of effort from my son Ben, he managed to get one of my other sons Dan to come up from the Midlands to Lancaster and brought me and Jim back to Anglesey, and an appointment was swiftly made for me at my doctors. She agreed with the previous diagnosis but said that she was going to give me another antibiotic as sometimes some infections become immune to them.

Another two days of tablets and I was still really ill, I couldn't eat or drink anything, and I had visions of me ending up in hospital. Then finally they started to take effect and I was able to eat and drink something at last. Even now the infection has gone, I'm still feeling very tired and haven't got any energy. But that will sort itself out given time I'm sure.

I honestly don't know how I would have coped without my lovely Jim. He was there constantly for me, and nothing was too much trouble, so I want to publicly say a huge thank you Jim, love you loads.

Once I was well on the mend, we decided a breath of fresh air would do me the world of good, and for once the weather was on our side. So we set off to the nearest beach that I can get to on my scooter and Jim cooked us breakfast on the beach. We enjoyed ourselves so much we decided as the weather was holding we'd go off on another trek the following day too. This time we headed down to Menai Bridge, taking the scenic route. I'm ashamed to say that Jim is already more familiar with pretty ways to get to places than I am !! We had a 5 mile round trip in the end, and on the way saw some amazing fungi, a view of Menai Bridge that I hadn't seen before and had lunch at the pier this time.

One thing that has become more apparent on these two jaunts is how bad Anglesey's footpaths are for the disabled !! So maybe Anglesey Council should forget putting speed humps that they've got funding for and spend it on something that REALLY needs doing !!! On a couple of occasions Jim had to literally bump my scooter down off a path because I couldn't ride the scooter down. If I'd have been on my own, there's no way I'd have managed to do it on my own !!

Here are a few photo's I took while we were out and about.

Jim cooking breakfast on the beach yummm.



A huge fungi that was about 3 1/2 ft across



A lovely view of Menai Bridge



One of those arhhhhh photo's.