Hot and Humid

                                 

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Good Afternoon, It's very quiet in J-land today don't know where everybody is maybe taking the benefit of this little bit of summer we are having. In Perthshire today it is very hot and sticky I was out in the garden for lunch  and a read of the paper but I had to come in as my eyes were going together, so I have had a little nap and feel better now think it must be something in the air just now as Stuart's eyes are the same. Bought some nice miniature Daffs today from the garden centre called Baby Moon they are multi headed so I think they will look good with some miniature tulips I bought last week. I find if I buy a bit at a time you spread the cost more and don't miss it the same. The garden centre we go to for our coffee have a super selection just now and its nice to get in early in the season to get the best choice.                   It must be nearly Autumn as Stuart started back to his art class yesterday so that gives me back my Friday morning which is nice. Yesterday I just sat and read my book in the sunshine we have not had a great summer but I think it has been better than my j-land friends in the south you seem to have had more rain than we have.
I think that's all my ramblings for today hope you have a pleasant evening Casualty back tonight thank goodness really missed it while it was off. Bye for now.
                                  Love
                                    Joan.

PS have finished another book and have updated my books journal.

 

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Time on my hands.

                      

Good Evening its very unusual for me to be on the PC at this time of night far less to be writing in my journal but Stuart is watching a film on channel five that is just not my cup of tea even with Johnny Depp  and Antonio Banderas it was pretty rubbishy in my mind and I could not watch it so I came up her in the peace and quiet played some bookworm avoided being burnt down and decided to write in my journal.
It has been so hot here today the temperature in Perth this afternoon was 25 degrees which is might hot for up here it has cooled now but it is still very warm, great weather for my tomatoes just what they are needing.
Have been doing the usual things this week  St Andrews on Monday, back to being a bit quieter now that the schools are all back but I noticed that the elderly are holidaying again which is nice they were all wandering about in the sunshine on Monday and again in great numbers in Perth today. This has been a lovely spell of weather these last two weeks a bit of summer at last.
Got a great bargain in my local charity shop yesterday I got Final Fantasy V11 for my Platstation 1 for £2 or just over 2 dollars. This is one of the few ways I can get games now as my console is a bit out of date, to put it mildly but I love it just the same. Have not got it set up just now as I try just to play in the winter when getting out is not so nice but am really looking forward to trying it. Will maybe see  that it is ok on the next rainy day.
Don't think I have anymore news tonight so with that I will say Goodnight and God Bless.   
                                          Love
                                              Joan.

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The first of Many.... I Hope.

                            

Good Afternoon, I hope you are having a lovely peaceful Sunday. Have been watching the World Athletic Championships from Japan but I think the time difference spoils things a bit but still a good competition. Weather today not to bad seems to be breaking up a bit now after overnight rain I hope so as I have changed the beds this morning and they are hanging out and NOT blowing in the wind.
Do you remember the tomato growing project I was doing well I am delighted to tell you we have been successful, a bit anyway. On Friday past we had our first cherry tomato from the plants I bought in Sheringham, Norfolk while on holiday there in May nursed all the way home in the car and have had all our love and attention all summer. We picked our tomato brought it into the house washed it put it on a plate cut it  added salt and black pepper and had half each. Wow what flavour I have not tasted a tomato like this for many a year. There are still a lot of tomatoes to come so I hope we get some more sunshine to ripen them. I had them out of the mini greenhouse for a while earlier on in the summer as they were getting to tall. I have had to cut them back a bit to get them back in the greenhouse as our nights are getting colder now and I hope this helps with the ripening.Am determined God willing to try again next Spring but this time I am going to grow them from seed. Fingers crossed. Not a bad first attempt.
One thing about my journal I write about the strangest things. That's it for today hope you enjoyed my tomato musings.       
                                      Love
                                               Joan.

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Mixer maxter.

                         

Good Afternoon, I have just come in from the garden have been pottering out there and having a read too. Have you noticed how green the grass is for late summer ours is still very lush, by this time of the year it usually has a few brown patches but this year it is like a bowling green (almost).
I could not believe how long it has been since I  last did an entry to my journal don't really have an excuse just been feeling a bit laid back and lazy it must be those lazy hazy crazy days of summer catching me out.
  I had a comment in my book journal about how much I read and how many books I get through  I do not read much during the day unless I am sitting in the garden I do most of my reading in bed at night and sometimes early morning as I am not a good sleeper at the moment and being retired  I do have plenty of time to play with. Am not at my best at the moment as I am trying very hard to come off my HRT. I have been advised to come off as I have been on it for many years now but coming off is not easy at all. All the symptoms that I had originally have returned with  a vengeance  and it is been really difficult. I  stopped taking the pills at the beginning of July and according to the my HRT Doctor I will not know until I have been off them for three months what stage I am at so I will have to be patient just now but it is very hard at the moment what with the warm weather and still nights.
Moving on lately we have taken to sleeping with the curtains open something we have never done before but it does let the fresh air in better, and I never knew before  just how bright the moon can be it lights up the whole room our bedroom faces south and that's where the moon seems to be at the moment I  am usually up during the night and have a look out and it is so beautiful  looking out during the night all is so peaceful.
I noticed in a magazine last  week that UK Gold are going to start repeating 'Tenko' as from Monday  at 4 pm I think it is  I really enjoyed this first time round and thought some of  the more senior ladies might just be interested  as it was very well made and had a great cast and if you are young it is a good history lesson.
Well tonight we finally get to the end of Big Brother and its not before time it has been a total bore this time. I cannot understand how people that are supposed to be at Uni can be so stupid  I was not educated to their standard,I left school at 15  and would not see them in my road .  I better not start on about the education service today.
We have had our Granddaughter the last two Tuesdays until she went back to school and  we went swimming with her just me the first week, and this week Stuart came in too we really enjoyed it as it is ten years since we swam in fact not since Stuart had his first heart attack so we were a bit rusty to begin with  but soon got back into the swing of things . Ellen is great in the water and swims well for someone her age  we all had a great time.
That's me for now I did update my book journal last week if you have not seen it pop over and have a look it was about A is for Alibi, by Sue Grafton. Not nearly finished this weeks book yet as it is a big read, but I will get there soon.  Hope you have a lovely weekend and the sun keeps shining.

              

Just a little footnote the garden was full of these lovely peacock butterflies this afternoon they are so pretty flitting from flower to flower.   

                                          Love
                       Joan.

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A favourite piece of music is mine.

                              

Just a short entry tonight as I wanted to share my excitement with you. Today I found a recording of one of my favourite pieces of music it is such a haunting tune I sing it with great regularity. I was in our local charity shop today and stopped to look at CD not something I do a great deal but one caught my eye it was called The Greatest Themes Vol 2. I turned it over and there it was the theme music from Robinson Crusoe. It came from a TV series our son and I watched in the early sixties it was made in French
and had been dubbed and narrated in English but it was always the music I watched it for. Tonight I have also found a web site all about the series I am sure some of you ladies or gentlemen will remember it so I will leave the address at the end of this entry. I have been so excited about this tonight I have hardly been able to contain myself something's just get to me like this. I would have bought this many years ago but I did not know the name of the music, and the CD that has made me such a happy bunny cost me £1. There are another 16 tracks ranging from Vangelis 1492 Conquest of Paradise to Mission Impossible  really think I got a great bargain. Well that's about it for now will go and make some supper then sit and watch Sisters and Brothers one of my favourites at the moment.     Love Joan.

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Guns Are Scary Things

                                       

Good Afternoon, welcome to another rainy Saturday afternoon it is the end of a very busy week for us never seem to have been in for a moment. It has taken me ages to get settled here today as Stuart in his great wisdom has been touching the seat at the computer and had it down far too low for me so I was typing it the strangest position it was if I was hanging from the key board, still have it back to near normal now why do people have to be adjusting things that do now require adjusting? There that got that off my chest.
On Thursday this week we took a little run to Kinhorn and the Firth of Forth. We sat for a long time looking at the Terns fishing and the ships going up and down the river and a large amount of planes coming into Edinburgh Airport. Its a great airport to land at as you fly right up the estuary and over Edinburgh before you land.  After lunch a picnic in the car as it was very windy we decided to have a run up to the Forth Bridges. It is a strange road into  North Queensferry and you enter it from the back. As we were coming into the village its just a small place beneath the two bridges you come down a very steep hill single track road. Half way down Stuart braked suddenly as he had seen one of those speed humps but what I saw made me really jump, two policemen armed to the teeth. I said to Stuart "oh did you see that, what he said that speed bump, no I said the policemen with guns."  He had not seen them as the road is so very narrow and he had to watch the roas very carefully. So here I am saying what on earth could armed police be doing up here in this little village on a Thursday afternoon in the summer (the sun was shinning ) have you guessed yes The Prime Minister lives in North Queensferry and is there just now on holiday with his family. I think that's the nearest I have been to any PM in my 64 years. Not used to these sorts of things happening up here in rural Fife.
It seems very alien to me to see armed police yes I know it is more common nowadays but I do not see it very often. It looked so sinister to me.
The weather this week has been a little better and we did manage to sit out yesterday and the forecast is better for next week so maybe a spell of nice fine weather.
Am going to write up my lasted book review. You will maybe notice that there are two books in my side bar now, l tell all in my other journal. I think that's all for now hope you all have a great weekend. 

                                        Love
                                             Joan.   

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Guns Are Scary Things

                                       

Good Afternoon, welcome to another rainy Saturday afternoon it is the end of a very busy week for us never seem to have been in for a moment. It has taken me ages to get settled here today as Stuart in his great wisdom has been touching the seat at the computer and had it down far too low for me so I was typing it the strangest position it was if I was hanging from the key board, still have it back to near normal now why do people have to be adjusting things that do now require adjusting? There that got that off my chest.
On Thursday this week we took a little run to Kinhorn and the Firth of Forth. We sat for a long time looking at the Terns fishing and the ships going up and down the river and a large amount of planes coming into Edinburgh Airport. Its a great airport to land at as you fly right up the estuary and over Edinburgh before you land.  After lunch a picnic in the car as it was very windy we decided to have a run up to the Forth Bridges. It is a strange road into  North Queensferry and you enter it from the back. As we were coming into the village its just a small place beneath the two bridges you come down a very steep hill single track road. Half way down Stuart braked suddenly as he had seen one of those speed humps but what I saw made me really jump, two policemen armed to the teeth. I said to Stuart "oh did you see that, what he said that speed bump, no I said the policemen with guns."  He had not seen them as the road is so very narrow and he had to watch the roas very carefully. So here I am saying what on earth could armed police be doing up here in this little village on a Thursday afternoon in the summer (the sun was shinning ) have you guessed yes The Prime Minister lives in North Queensferry and is there just now on holiday with his family. I think that's the nearest I have been to any PM in my 64 years. Not used to these sorts of things happening up here in rural Fife.
It seems very alien to me to see armed police yes I know it is more common nowadays but I do not see it very often. It looked so sinister to me.
The weather this week has been a little better and we did manage to sit out yesterday and the forecast is better for next week so maybe a spell of nice fine weather.
Am going to write up my lasted book review. You will maybe notice that there are two books in my side bar now, l tell all in my other journal. I think that's all for now hope you all have a great weekend. 

                                        Love
                                             Joan.   

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