tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31424648866325906552024-03-17T10:14:57.313-07:00busybusybeejaybusybusybeejayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04570020362062932692noreply@blogger.comBlogger597125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3142464886632590655.post-53679626646036604102024-03-17T10:14:00.000-07:002024-03-17T10:14:15.517-07:00Glasfryn. I am so envious of you going to Glasfryn.we lived in Mold for 49 years.Life in Cheshire is not the same.Barbarax busybusybeejayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04570020362062932692noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3142464886632590655.post-9829890808569179122023-12-24T15:37:00.000-08:002023-12-24T15:37:19.531-08:00Happy Christmas to everyone!!! I grew up in a very strict Methodist Church home.We were not allowed to say “Merry Christmas “ as it implied you had been drinking!!How times change.We shall be with our daughter and ex husband and our two granddaughters.Looking forward to lots of fun and laughter and making some lovely memories.Hope everyone has a lovely day tomorrow.Lots of love Barbara aka busybeejaybusybusybeejayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04570020362062932692noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3142464886632590655.post-28039605670674968962023-09-24T12:25:00.001-07:002023-09-24T12:25:35.147-07:00Where do you live? After 49 years living in Wales we have now moved to England to be near our daughter.Barbarax busybusybeejayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04570020362062932692noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3142464886632590655.post-16641886073114744612023-09-18T13:02:00.004-07:002023-09-18T13:02:59.708-07:00Busy times. I haven’t been on here for a while.I never feel I have anything of value to say but anyway here goes.Today has been the only day this week I have nothing organised.I have been retired for almost thirty years and it has just flashed by.Tomorrow I go to an Art Appreciation group.There will be an illustrated talk and a cup of tea and a chat.Wednesday there is a general group meeting.The topic busybusybeejayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04570020362062932692noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3142464886632590655.post-30822981285770770482023-02-06T09:33:00.000-08:002023-02-06T09:33:50.808-08:00Over a month later….. Over a month after having Covid I am finally feeling a bit better.I have been so so tired.I lost my appetite but no weight!!!Normally in the evening when I am sat watching TV I would knit or crochet.Nothing since then until last night and I made the effort to do some simple knitting (trying not to let it distract me from Happy Valley).Our daughter dropped a bombshell last week telling us busybusybeejayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04570020362062932692noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3142464886632590655.post-75503753598361648902023-01-01T07:44:00.002-08:002023-01-01T07:44:47.156-08:00I have tested positive for COVID. Yes.I have tested positive for COVID. That is NOT a good start to the year.We were down in Cambridge for Xmas.Angus ,our sixteen year old grandson,had a cold and we thought nothing of it.He had just come back from a school skiing trip to Austria on a coach non stop.Looking back at the photos I am either sat opposite him or next to him.I havn’t been well since the 28th so should be over the busybusybeejayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04570020362062932692noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3142464886632590655.post-4853475966289063012022-12-31T12:36:00.002-08:002022-12-31T12:36:23.992-08:00Happy New Year from Barbara Happy New Year.Hope it a happy and healthy year for everyone.Lots of love Barbarax busybusybeejayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04570020362062932692noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3142464886632590655.post-68037376571799914352022-12-06T12:08:00.001-08:002022-12-06T12:08:29.410-08:00What a state the country is in! I have been been reading a blog which was telling us about an elderly man falling in his house.A neighbour managed to get in and phoned for an ambulance.He waited six hours!!!!This is just not good enough.If things are that bad bring in the army,pay carers more.Would you want the job that they do?I dread getting ill.busybusybeejayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04570020362062932692noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3142464886632590655.post-77373974455145075492022-11-03T13:11:00.002-07:002022-11-03T13:11:37.027-07:00A lovely day today. My brother is five years older than me and lives about an hour and a quarter away.Because of COVID we have not seen a lot of each other but today we went to visit him and his wife.He will be 83 next week.Both C and I were shocked to see how he had aged.Fine mentally but obviously not as good with mobility.It was great to have a catch up.It involves us visiting them as P does not want busybusybeejayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04570020362062932692noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3142464886632590655.post-76628230304760499442022-10-29T15:38:00.000-07:002022-10-29T15:38:48.212-07:00Has anyone heard from Pat/Weaver? I haven’t blogged for a while. I read other people’s blogs but feel I have nothing much to say about my everyday life.Is anyone interested in my day to day things,my crafts,my family ?Feel free to be honest(but not rude)Barbarax busybusybeejayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04570020362062932692noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3142464886632590655.post-26436722120712638262022-08-23T12:50:00.005-07:002022-08-23T12:50:42.775-07:00Teapots Do you use a teapot when you make a cuppa or am I the only one?Barbarax busybusybeejayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04570020362062932692noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3142464886632590655.post-27061272452298923442022-05-10T12:55:00.001-07:002022-05-10T12:55:46.305-07:00A week away on Anglesey This is the cottage we have rented for a week here on the Island of Anglesey in North West Wales.It is over 150 years old.Quite small but ok for a week.I have brought some things to do if the weather is bad but so far so good.This is the book I am currently reading. The blurb says it is funny.It isn’t so far. A Bargello kit half completed already before we came.Today we have been onto the busybusybeejayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04570020362062932692noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3142464886632590655.post-86626178370676462012022-04-24T07:50:00.002-07:002022-04-24T07:50:43.571-07:00It has been a busy week but not much cooking! This last we have been quite busy.Art Appreciation Tuesday.Great to meet a lot of our old friends.Our closest friends who moved 200 miles away were up for a few days.We gathered as many of our old “gang” together for a meal out.Seven out of the eleven made it.Another couple have moved away also,another had dementia and is in home.The last one did not want to risk catching COVID.Thursday it busybusybeejayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04570020362062932692noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3142464886632590655.post-83756387429374142952022-04-18T08:00:00.002-07:002022-04-18T08:00:20.719-07:00I can’t “sign in with google”.Help! I have just been readings posts and a couple (Through the keyhole and A bracelet of days) won’t let me comment.It just says sign in with google but when I try to nothing happens.Any else had this problem?Barbarax busybusybeejayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04570020362062932692noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3142464886632590655.post-14302344072006434962022-04-16T06:47:00.004-07:002022-04-16T06:47:52.740-07:00Tomato seedlings for free! This is how many seedlings I have got from two slices of tomato on some damp compost.I did this last year and it was very successful.Tomato plants for free.busybusybeejayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04570020362062932692noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3142464886632590655.post-70270759584840424802022-04-15T11:12:00.001-07:002022-04-15T11:12:24.595-07:00Great Budworth,Cheshire. We did a quick visit to Great Budworth today.This is a pretty English village which has been used many times on film sets.It is only about ten minutes from where we live now in Cheshire(I still missNorth Wales).We are part of a social history group here and for our next meeting we are looking at churches in the area.C and I have got this one.It was mentioned in the Domesday Book and there busybusybeejayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04570020362062932692noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3142464886632590655.post-176180145967394682022-03-01T12:32:00.000-08:002022-03-01T12:32:22.689-08:00Cambridge again.Our daughter in law ( and son but he has a day job too)has two coffee shops in Cambridge,one in CB24 and one in the village of Histon just outside Cambridge.They also have the above,a coffee van.How great is that.Matt has had an annexe built in his back garden.This is where we stayed.It is really for their 22 year old daughter who is at University in Manchester.There is a bedroom and a lounge busybusybeejayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04570020362062932692noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3142464886632590655.post-68280804772462543172022-02-27T10:13:00.002-08:002022-02-27T10:13:48.414-08:00A visit to Cambridge to see our son. Last Thursday we went down to Cambridge to see our son and family who live there.Our grandson ,Finlay(18) ,was flying to Thailand on Friday morning to go travelling for 8 weeks with friends.It was lovely to see him and enjoy a family meal with him ,his younger brother Angus(15) and his Mum and Dad.This is a shot of Kings College taken from the Backs.Friday morning Matt and Jude were workingbusybusybeejayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04570020362062932692noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3142464886632590655.post-44314702512189187252022-02-23T13:07:00.003-08:002022-02-23T13:07:46.634-08:00Which should I do? It is my daughter’s birthday in two weeks time and I thought I would do her a little cross stitch kit.Her surname is Peacock but the other one says love.I havn’t time to do both.Excuse the rubbish photos but I shake.Tomorrow we are off to Cambridge to stay with our son and family for the weekend.We havn’t been down for two years.We are going tomorrow because our eldest grandson,busybusybeejayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04570020362062932692noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3142464886632590655.post-18569788305272252202022-02-15T12:22:00.003-08:002022-02-15T12:22:40.403-08:00I am delighted to say that I have got my money back. A couple of weeks ago I put a post on saying that I had been scammed by. “policeman “ to the tune of almost £20.000.I heard last week that the bank had recovered the first £10.000 but the second lot went to an independent bank.That they haven’t been able to get back from them but gave it me from their scam fund.They admitted that they had not warned me it might be a scam and had not busybusybeejayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04570020362062932692noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3142464886632590655.post-83083502062507037342022-01-29T12:56:00.001-08:002022-01-29T12:56:32.481-08:00A warning.Please read. I was scammed of £20.000 yesterday by a “policeman”.He had even tampered with my phone so he could get me to call 999 to check his identity.He told me not to contact my bank as they were the ones being investigated.I just feel sick.Thank goodness that didn’t clear me out.Not certain whether I will get it back.busybusybeejayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04570020362062932692noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3142464886632590655.post-62535177746586395712022-01-13T12:52:00.001-08:002022-01-13T12:52:05.015-08:00The vase in yesterday’s post was bought in West Berlin in 1966. Has a history behind it.In 1966 my brother had married Ute ,aGerman girl he had met on holiday on the Isle of Man. She was working there for the summer.They settled in our home town of Bolton.In the summer of 1966 my brother suggested we drove to West Berlin to see Ute’s mother.He didn’t have a car and we only had an A35 van with seats in the back but no windows! We had to drive through busybusybeejayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04570020362062932692noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3142464886632590655.post-70923548633585404042022-01-12T12:40:00.002-08:002022-01-12T12:40:16.897-08:00First daffodils of the year. It is always good to buy that first bunch of daffodils.We had lunch today with a group of friends back where we used to live.Great company and great food.I miss it so much.There used to be eleven of us who lunched together.One couple went to Cambridge to be near their daughter,another couple went to Wiltshire to be near their son.Another of the group has dementia and is in a home so now we busybusybeejayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04570020362062932692noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3142464886632590655.post-61574051478852522252021-12-31T09:27:00.004-08:002021-12-31T09:27:37.422-08:00Happy New Year. My wish for 2022 is return to something like normal.Just when we thought that was happening along comes Omicron.Things we had planned for January have already been cancelled.Let’s not dwell on that.Looking back the biggest thing we did was move house,even move country.Would we have done that if it wasn’t for COVID.I think we were scared and wanted to be nearer family.So in April we moved busybusybeejayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04570020362062932692noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3142464886632590655.post-77831745141974255752021-12-29T12:28:00.004-08:002021-12-29T12:28:40.614-08:00Today is our 55th wedding anniversary. Not the best time to get married between Xmas and New Year.We have a tradition of driving through Snowdonia(North Wales) and then going to Llandudno to eat lunch.Last year we didn’t do it.Lockdown must have stopped it.The problem now is that now we have moved we are 40 minutes further away.C really wanted to do it so we did.The scenery is spectacular.It is only when you move away do you busybusybeejayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04570020362062932692noreply@blogger.com7