I just couldn't help myself...

 I saw them, I just couldn't help myself, I just had to have them. I had to add them to my already growing collection,  with Tony's help it was possible.
I think these will be my second favourite. I think just in case you haven't guessed what I am talking about yet I had better show you.

My newest addition to my Doc Marten collection.

1490 Vonda Floral

Leather mid-calf boot. Mini gold studs, gold eyelets and gold tipped laces.

Embroided roses, hidden tonal detail & subtle chain detail.

I don't really have anything else to tell you, I went to mum's today, she is well and so is Oliver.

Tony is now on 2 waiting lists for ops. I am plodding along as usual. The weather is still only fit for ducks to go out in & that is about it.

Keep safe & well

Until the next time...

Somedays I just don't want to get out of bed...

I have been down to the garden a couple of times, however, the cold just gets the better of me, I want to stay longer but I begin to seize up so I have to come back up to the flat.

I have taken some photos tho'.

So here we go,

This squirrel is a regular at the window.

He sits and looks at me for a while.

Then he helps himself to a nut.

when he decides he has had enough, off he goes to see what else he can find.

I put a new fat ball holder up the other day, this little newbie doesn't know what to make of it,

every time he goes to the nut box he leans across to sniff at it.

This is a newbie to the garden.

It all gets a bit too much sometimes.

Keep safe and well,

Until the next time...

 This little male squirrel is still not sure about me

He's found a nut

He's taking it away

He thinks I can't see him

Waiting in a queue of traffic, Tony pointed out the seagulls on top of the streetlights, there just wasn't enough room for all of them so one decided to sit on another's back. I only had my phone to take a picture with, I don't think it did too bad

There just wasn't enough room

How does the old saying go?

Red sky in the morning, Shepherd's warning.

Until the next time...

Back in the garden...

I went back down to the garden again yesterday, I didn't stay for long because it was very cold. 

However while I was there I did take some more snaps of the brave little squirrel. 

He decided to stay for a few minutes. 

Then he moved on to the fence where he posed for a photo.

One of the reasons I had gone to the shed was to check the trap we have for the mice.

It was empty yesterday and again today. 

 

These are 2 pictures of a mouse that was in the trap a few days ago.  It looks so cute it is a shame that they cause so much damage. 

I don't hurt them we release them  at the bottom of the garden where they usually run into the corner and under the fence. Tony says that I am probably catching the same mouse time after time.

I don't have anything else to  tell you at the moment so ...

Until the next time...

I bet you didn't expect this, did you ?

 

 First let me wish anyone reading this a Happy New year 🎉 

I hope everyone is safe and well,  we have a few family members who have  Covid or are still suffering  side affects. Lynsey caught Covid ages ago she still has limited scene of smell or taste what she does have she wishes she didn't. Lynsey is very limited to what she can eat, she said food smells like the bottom of the bin, everything tastes of dirty water, salt or rotten eggs. I hope that I never catch it.

I have been trying to make friends with the squirrels again. We have a few young ones in the garden again.

This one is just Greedy.

  

This one likes to watch me though the window. 

This is one of the young ones. 

I have some more pictures of squirrels but I thought I would just ease you back in gently.

We haven't really been anywhere or done anything, we still have appointments but most of them are done over the phone now. However I have been fast tracked a couple of times, for cancer referrals that came back clear. One of them was for throat cancer.I have problems swallowing and feel like I have something stuck in my throat.  Tony has done the Heimlich maneuver on me when I  have been choking. When the test came back clear I heard nothing else, I still have trouble swallowing  it still feels like there is something stuck in my throat a lot of the time, but hey it's not cancer so your fine live with it. 

Right enough of that.

I go see Mum every  Thursday we chat about things we have done and if we have any news. Then we take it in turns to fall asleep in front of the telly. Oliver wakes us up, he makes sure Mum makes a cup of tea every hour so he can have a biscuit. Then he tells us when it's 2 pm so we have an ice cream, just so he can lick the bit of ice cream we leave on the stick for him. 

Well I think that's enough for now. 

Until next time...

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