We're going back in time friends... Back in time....

Interesting eh! Especially where I say the job must be very 'giving'...

My car has gone, sold I mean... Took her yesterday, after an on line appraisal, there about an hour, paperwork, viewing, drive, and more paperwork... Came away with a Jaguar emblem!?! Don't ask!! 

Franco took me to work, collected me today, and the same tomorrow, will taxi the remaining four shifts, and am renting a car to visit my sons and remove last bits from the house.

Tick tock!! Gulp!
TTFN
Marian

DC - Tiny

This weekends drawing challenge is 'Tiny'... Amended title! LOL last weekends drawing challenge was 'Tiny'...

Thank you Tammie...

Above is a part of the decking where I work actually, and then zooming in below to show the tiny plant, a little miracle of a plant, it seems to thrive for a day then die off, I don't know what it is (any ideas??).

As you can see its not at its best today...

So here it is from another days blog looking an amazing piece of natural beauty...

Beautiful Tiny little plant! Maybe zoom in to see each tiny little detail!

Well, although you don't realise, this has been nearly a week since I started this Blog!  In fact I am guessing last Friday!

Its been busy busy busy... The weekend happened, working for me, can't remember the details... Tuesday a sudden panic over Pippa, her rabies vaccination needed updating before travel, twenty one days before travel actually!  So needed do immediately, as work prohibited me from bringing her the next day or two and Franco would be back too late!  So to the vets we went, so lucky to get straight in, she could hear the panic in my voice!!

The vaccination went okay, but I learnt Pippa has exactly the same heart problem I have, I couldn't, can't... believe it, she has a heart murmur and mitral valve problem, the latter not exactly the same, mine has prolapsed a little but not dangerously, Pips is leaking where it shouldn't.  He said she is fine for travel but to get her checked out, and find out how far... well, how far... She has had a cough for some years, oddly the very thing I went to the doctor about which alerted him to mine heart problems, Pippa also has started panting when its not hot, a bit like my hot flushes... again, just like the doctor in Spain said, some women think they are having hot flushes until they are well into old age, they're not, hidden heart conditions... all over the place!

My poor Pip, my heart is breaking...

I had to go into work and I couldn't sleep... Anyway...

So, house is emptying even more, bed dismantled, wardrobe dismantled, both going Monday, we're like squatters in our own house, notice given on everything its need to be given on...

And today, my car SOLD!

I guess we are actually going, an idea formed, a plan put in place, each item ticked off one by one... Hold on tight we're ready to fly.... 

TTFN

Marian

DC Image

This weeks challenge, after the summer break is Image, and my Image is neither drawn or photographed...

I've done a long 24 hrs shift then out and about, and home late and tired.

'Home'... not feeling it at all now, our belongings in limbo, aka truck headed to Spain... We ate, we watched tv on the smallest of tv's in a big lounge, me floating within a duvet, I was feeling chilly, I think it's the emptiness of it all.

The house is now empty except for kitchen goods, there is a sofa downstairs, and upstairs a bed in one room and wardrobe in our old bedroom, a room a good 16 foot by 12 or more, the largest dressing room in the ferry!! Lol

I keep walking into a room and up towards a piece of furniture no longer there, I must have put my bag on the table all the time, because I really miss that table! And the big wall unit/room divider thingy from IKEA I built, all those areas that were home to so many things!

The house feels very quiet which is strange, it's the quietness one gets when the power is off and the electric isn't running through the house, it usually goes unnoticed, but whirring and buzzing all the time...

... except when Pippa barks and the noice echoes around the whole house!

It kind of feels sad here too, the house is not structurally too great, I think it needed new floors walls windows... kitchen... before we arrived three and half years ago, we have done our best to keep it in one piece, new flooring in the kitchen and paintwork, but it needs a complete reform to be honest, and now we're leaving it I hope the owner does so!

I have also, sadly, taken some of my step dads paintings to auction, the auctioneer doesn't expect them to sell for much, '19th century type art is on the shelf'... I just hope they are seen and bought by someone who will love them as I do, I feel I have abandoned old friends to make it on they're own... a couple of them have been on my walls for nearly thirty years... I forgot to tell the man the biggest painting was originally a canvas painted on by a prisoner of war during WW2... if they scan that they'll get a surprise! My step dad painted a few on purpose like that, to fool the future art world he said!  I feel I have let him down too, but to keep paintings hidden, stacked up, stored...? Why? They should, they need, to be seen, hung, appreciated, and loved by many...

And finally... before I have to include free box of tissues or at least give a warning of melancholy...

Blackberries ripening in the garden, it's soooo nice wandering about and nibbling on garden fruit, foraging amongst the flora and fauna... last few years the brambles have been cut back so much we missed out on the luscious blackberries, but not this year, they are ruining wild as they were before we arrived! Running the hedges on both sides, spilling over the wall down to the house, pink and white blossoms giving way to black berries full of garden flavour... and once the bramble thorns have been removed from wrist and ankle... yum yum!!

So my friend, did you pick up any 'Images' from my writings today? Did any pictures form in your mind... I hope so, it was hard not to place at least one photo on my page...

TTFN
Marian

Hard to believe my step dad passed away 18 years ago yesterday.... time goes too quickly, when we don't want it to, and far to slow when we want to speed it up! Here are some of photos I took the other week when I was going through dads albums...  His paintings are all over the world, N S E & W.... from Australia and New Zealand to Iceland, the States and Canada and all over Europe....

His paintings didn't end where the scene did, you always know there is more behind, never flat, never lifeless... you know there would be a village, or people or a forest just out of sight, just over the horizon, and now its so sad I cannot take all the paintings I have back again to Spain, to have them one behind the other hidden away; its seems the style of 19th century is just not in the mode just now... people seem to prefer a print from B&Q or Ikea, and I must admit some of their prints are very nice, stunning even.... and easy to just change or throw away when a change is needed or wanted, but the paintings of any real interest are.... just not of interest now to the many only the few...

Everything is boxed up now ready to go, just one TV and three cases to bring down stairs... seems early I know, four weeks yet, but our removals men are from Kent and they are here tomorrow to collect already!!  I got all the rest of everything finished yesterday, my fitbit tells me I did over 20,000 steps thats over eight miles and 60 flights of stairs! Today I feel like it, my shoulders are like rock and very sore... My neck is a little sore too, from my most recent tattoo though!!

Will get a better pic, its not easy!  And yet another Tattoo I have that I actually cannot see for myself without use of a mirror or twisting my head all around owl fashion!

Ithanka - The poem I read out when I scattered my mom, as aforementioned...  And the quote beneath is by Vivek Rajan Vivek - You and Your Dodoisms, a book I helped edit a while ago.

A bit hard to see but at the end of the quote is a semi-colon; its not the end....

TTFN
Marian

A couple of pieces of my photo art today... From the tiniest garden plant hanging on from decking to stones...

To apples 'n pears...

Feeling very tired today, thank you predictive words on my phone... E&EO exceptions?!?

I have another sleep in tomorrow night, as last night, and Friday will complete a nine day shift... Without a break, my rota for rest of time in this job allows no more weekends free, looks like I will be keeping my car until the weekend after we finish work to visit family before leaving for home...

Think I better post this now before phone blanks out along with me...

TTFN
Marian

Taken in Porthcawl last week, above the photo shows the peninsular on the land at sky meeting sea level... that's Ilfracombe...

We were sat, four of us girls in a line on a bench, faces to the sun, warm and happy and appreciating the beautiful day...

We were working, two of us, and down this lower end of the town it was really peaceful, went we went to eat lunch the sound of chatter and traffic broke our spell of calm!

We have been having good and bad weather, in that order!  Today is bad!  I popped out briefly before getting ready for work which is where I am headed soon.  I randomly bought things for home, a calendar for next year!!  And some other bits 'n pieces!?!

We are all packed really... only a few last things to go in a box or two on moving day, moving of our belongings that is, I think we will be here for a week maybe, living very sparsely! lol

Living in a strange place now, a moving changing weird limbo, ready to go but can't, counting down the weeks/days, items on lists being crossed off daily, plans made come into place...

Finally a photo from Facebook recently.... therefore it is purloined!  Thank you...

TTFN
Marian