May 7 2013

Heat Wave :)

This might only be a short one, but finally we have some wonderful sun. It stayed over the weekend into the bank holiday and was glorious. It continued today and was lovely out and about on my working run. 

Paul’s making progress with Bobby. He managed to get him out the cage to fly to him. Yey! 

Everything else is going well so far. 🙂 This week is looking up. 

Two more to go and I’m on holiday as well. The countdown begins, lol. 

 

Speak soon… 

 

D x x 

May 5 2013

Been a busy week.

I can’t get past this hurdle of intense emotional, financial and weird amounts of stress. I haven’t been able to do much writing or editing, but I’ve done lots of reading and catching up with things. 

This last couple of weeks in total have just been crazy. 

This week, started out a little better. But then on Wednesday kinda went down hill. Both at work and home I broke my van at work, and then my car. 😦 

Came home and mum had been in bed all day, sick. Which isn’t like her, so then worried all day on thurs about her and the cost of our car. 

Friday and mum was no better, I called the surgery to try and get her a doctor out and to be honest they really weren’t interested. Told me some meds to get her and didn’t quite tell her some others. So at least by today she’s feeling a bit better. 

The car cost a small fortune to get fixed, but seems okay now. All fish are good. And Bobby has been out the cage again 🙂 He’s now in his new one although a little tired from all the exercise yesterday. 

Here’s a picture for you all. 🙂Image

He loved my head…. tee hee. Silly Bobby. 🙂 I was a little scared at first but he seemed happy so he stayed there for over ten mins. 

Hope everyone else is good. 🙂 

Speak soon x x 

Apr 28 2013

Crazy week!

 

So sorry I haven’t updated much this week. It’s been very busy.

Went back to work, which was tough. The knee sort of holding up, hurts more in the afternoon than the morning after I’ve been driving all day on it.

Wed….

Had to come home from work, and then we were straight out to pick our new family friend up. A collegue of my hubby’s just got himself an African Grey and the poor ringneck he bought last year was being left in his cage, so he offered him to us.

I’ve never owned a bird before, so this experience is totally new for me. I was kinda scared of them in college, because they flew about. But, seeing them be social brought me around.

I am guessing these next few weeks will be more posts about Bobby… as well as my writing and my fish. lol…

Thurs…

Our 15th wedding anniversary. Paul and I got together in June 1996 nearly 17 years of ups and downs. Mostly ups though 🙂

I also had a session with E.J which went very well, the more sessions I have the more I learn about story telling in a prose setting. Where as I am used to doing it in a script writing sense. This is all new to me, as is learning about ‘modifers’ present or past participles. Etc etc…

Friday…

Pauls’ 53rd birthday, he had to go to work but we managed to celebrate later on.

Sat,

We managed to relax a bit. Clean the ponds, check on all the fish. I actually took a few scrapes and some from the sides of the ponds to see what other creatures we have living in them. It was a pretty interesting afternoon, researching what those critters were.

Sun,

We won a new cage for Bobby off Ebay so we went to pick it up from Skipton. It’s a much bigger cage, and we’re still settling him in, so it might be a while before we actually get to put him in it.

All tiny steps. One day at a time. After all it took me months to get my koi to hand feed and to be comfortable with me almost stroking them and picking them up out of the water, so I can only imagine how long it will take for us to get Bobby used to being around us.

Hope this week is a little easier on us. 🙂

Catch you soon.

Dawn x x

Apr 22 2013

A quick one…

 

Hi there,

Only a quick update today. Been a long one as I didn’t sleep much last night.

The weekend was good, caught up on some outside jobs with the ponds. I haven’t touched anything in a week, so I had to get out there and see how everyone was really doing. Nice and sunny so it was amazing to be outside for a change.

Sunday as a little bit of a washout.

But —

 

— we’re getting a new friend… a Blue Indian Parrot. A friend of ours bought him last year and has since gotten an African Grey, so can’t keep both. I’ve never had a bird before with keeping a cat. It’s a friendly, young bird. So we should be able to get it to talk quite soon. It needs a mirror and lots of time. 🙂 I can do that, it can sit with me watching me type. lol

 

 

Writing.

I’ve had a good few crits through on ‘scribophile’ along with my coaching, so I’ve let my head settle on where I want to move and change things. I finally felt like I was ready to tackle a re-write. It might take me a while. But I am more confident now about it 🙂

Work.

I went back to work today. A bit tough, it was harder to drive than I first thought. With some pain killers in the morning though I made it just the four hours before I needed more. Eeek. At least my customers were all happy to have me back. 🙂 I was happy over that.

 

So, long day, heading to bed. Hope you are all great.

 

Dawn x x