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Living La Vida Loca by Carol M Tetlow 11/5/2023 9:24:49 AM
Writing as I listen to fireworks going off outside, but as I've bathed and got warm and cosy after some very good tennis, I have no desire to go out into the cold and look at them. I might peer through the curtains in a bit.
Two talks this week. ... more
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It's a bumpy ride - hold on tight by Carol M Tetlow 10/29/2023 10:32:10 AM
Stop the world as I'd quite like to get off for a rest. I'd also like to redesign the head, so that there is a zip fastener around it at about forehead level, so that at opportune moments, I could open up my skull, put my brain in a cupboard for a wh... more
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Chills, thrills and touch feely tennis by Carol M Tetlow 10/22/2023 10:18:49 AM
Dutifully went along for my covid booster after a summons. The venue was empty save for all the people running it. They told me the uptake hasn't been good. Gone are all the questions about your health, your medication etc etc, no, now if you can wal... more
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Calling Morpheus by Carol M Tetlow 10/15/2023 10:08:52 AM
Happy birthday to the best brother in law you could hope for. He has received an array of exciting gifts, sat, uncomplaining , wearing a ridiculous hat with felt candles on and a birthday sash, never complaining but delighting in being with his famil... more
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I'll never get to Wimbledon at this rate.... by Carol M Tetlow 10/8/2023 8:06:46 AM
I can now advise you all (in case you didn't realise) that tennis is the most irritating game in the world. Yesterday, I couldn't play a shot wrong, today I was bitterly hopeless and am now back at home, licking my wounds and drowning my sorrows in a... more
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I do like to be beside the seaside by Carol M Tetlow 10/1/2023 9:26:09 AM
Here's to the positive event of the week. The car and the annoying pinging and flashing of warning lights has been fixed at last. I think my email to the UK headquarters of the car maker might have carried some weight, not that I was confrontational ... more
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Oops, I did it again...... by Carol M Tetlow 9/24/2023 8:19:19 AM
I've done it again. Tempted Fate and rued the consequences. Having given myself a stern (very stern) talking to about not looking for a new house until the money from my sale was in the bank, I foolishly, but in my defence, innocently, thought I'd ju... more
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Core stability by Carol M Tetlow 9/17/2023 10:39:11 AM
I am delighted to write (though it's perfectly possible that this time next week I may eat these words) that the house sale has moved another two baby steps in the right direction. Quite how it is possible to have so many questions to ask about a) a ... more
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Not for the faint-hearted by Carol M Tetlow 9/10/2023 9:07:48 AM
Where to begin? The most positive week I've had for a long time. Monday saw me invited to join three mature men (more mature than I am) for tennis at one of their houses. I'd not been before and Oh My Goodness. As bidden, I turned off the road and th... more
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Priorities by Carol M Tetlow 9/3/2023 7:29:21 AM
On Thursday a strange sound was heard. What was it? Should we be afraid? it was the slow grinding into motion of the wheels of the conveyancing department as the house sale moves infinitesimally in the right direction. I'd waited all last weekend and... more
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Challenges by Carol M Tetlow 8/27/2023 8:16:25 AM
In many ways it feels like a more positive week, though if I take a step back and review it, I'm not actually any further forward. I'm talking about the house sale of course. Advised by the estate agents to keep on taking viewings while the intereste... more
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Keeping my head above water - it's not easy by Carol M Tetlow 8/20/2023 10:29:34 AM
The house sale saga rumbles on. Am I alone in feeling trepidations about the supposed purchaser who said they were taking out a loan to buy but then it turns out that this was a ploy to play for time and that they are just putting their house on the ... more
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Time to smile by Edie M. Batstone 8/18/2023 1:15:28 PM
It's past the middle of August already, but my mind got stuck in the 'middle:'
At the middle of the month,
In the middle of the day,
The middle of a minute
Is the perfect time to say,
Before this minute passes
And the nex... more
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Third time lucky? by Carol M Tetlow 8/13/2023 5:16:29 AM
The prospective buyers of my house came on Tuesday evening, bringing some friends with them and they spent over an hour walking round the paddocks, inspecting the fencing and hedges, studying the fruit trees (marvelling at the damsons) and gazing at ... more
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Gut feelings by Carol M Tetlow 8/6/2023 9:23:09 AM
After another week of sitting on the edge of my seat, chewing what finger and toe nails I have left and lying awake at night, I seem to have sold the house. Well, I've accepted an offer of the asking price and so far so good. I mustn't get too compla... more
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The lady's not for turning by Carol M Tetlow 7/30/2023 6:05:30 AM
Remind me - do I play tennis for fun? I seem to think I do but Wednesday evening put my passion for the sport to the real test. We arrived at a not-too-far-away club for a mixed doubles match and the clouds had already gathered and were a dark grey i... more
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It's raining again.. by Carol M Tetlow 7/23/2023 2:21:39 AM
Inspired by Wimbledon, I've really enjoyed tennis this week, which could have a lot to do with the wine and socialising afterwards. Up until yesterday the weather has been quite kind to us but after waking repeatedly last night to the sound of rain c... more
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Staying put and positive by Carol M Tetlow 7/16/2023 5:52:22 AM
Thank goodness for lovely Laurence and his welcoming and cheery group of men that I went to speak to, getting my Monday off to a good start. It was just what I needed, though where were the biscuits? The coffee was good though.
There is no news o... more
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On the edge by Carol M Tetlow 7/9/2023 5:13:14 AM
Some years ago Queen Elizabeth II announced that she had experience an annus horribilis. I know how she must have felt, God rest her soul. Currently, I feel that I am living in a vat of quicksand and slowly sinking and each time I get my head a littl... more
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Ah! love thoseThe Fireflies! by Edie M. Batstone 7/8/2023 9:21:37 AM
"Shine little glow-worm, glimmer, glimmer
Hey, there don't get dimmer, dimmer
Light the path below, above
And lead us on to love!"
Love these lyrics from "The Glow-Worm," a song from Paul Lincke's operetta Lysistrata. It was wri... more
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