CRASH, BANG, WALLOP!

 

 

 

 

Hello everyone,

I`m late again, I decided to read journals before doing my own entry.  I had cleared them all but there have been more alerts while I had my tea, I`ll read them when I`m finished here. Yesterday was a busy day for me.  I decided to do some early Spring cleaning in the living room, it`s a major operation moving the leather settee and chairs, they are so heavy that I don`t do it too often for fear of hurting my back.  Luckily, I got away unharmed yesterday and I now have a squeaky-clean living room without a speck of dust anywhere, well hardly any...lol!

Jim has hurt his back but is soldiering on bravely.  I managed to stop him doing any more decorating but I told him to be careful at work when lifting.  He doesn`t usually suffer from back problems but when he does he really knows about it.  In the afternoon I was putting the crokery away after unloading the dishwasher, while putting some glasses back in the cupboard I knocked one over. That hit another and they fell out of the cupboard knocking over several cups, they all hit the floor with a mighty crash and glass and china were everywhere!  It took me over an hour to clear it all up and make sure that there was absolutely no shards of glass anywhere. I didn`t do too badly as I only had a small piece of glass in my finger and that came out easily.  I was furious with myself for letting it happen though, when I`d finished the clearing up and went upstairs and cried my eyes out, something I never do.  I think it must have been shock......what if Roman had been in there?  What indeed, if anyone else had been there?  Thankfully nobody else was there to get hurt but even so.......

This morning Slava brought over some of the smaller items of Danny`s furniture.  When he moves it will be to a smaller place and he won`t have the room for it all.  Jim put all of it in our loft until he needs it back again.  He even managed to put his table and chairs up there, how he managed that I don`t know but he did.  Of course, Danny wasn`t there to help them, Oh no, he said he had to be somewhere (how like my son!) and didn`t have time to help.  I`d bet money that it was  something to do with his girlfriend, I asked Slava and he was rather vague about it all...hmm, he knows all right.  I`ll find out in the end, I always do, nothing about Danny gets past me...lol!

I walked Jake a long way this afternoon in the hope that I`d get warmer on the way round (?).  Well, I didn`t, I got colder which wasn`t helped by the fact that I bumped into a very chatty friend that I haven`t seen in a while. We must have been talking for over 30 mins when I looked down at Jake who was lying down, out of boredom I expect!  By the time I got home I was freezing, my legs felt numb from the cold wind and I was glad to get a hot cup of coffee down me.  AS for Jake he got in his bed and fell asleep, talk about an easy life!

Anyway, I`ll say goodbye now.  I hope you`ve all had a good weekend and not broken any china or glasses!  Take care.

 

 

 

 

 

To an Early Daffodil

Thou yellow trumpeter of laggard Spring!
 Thou herald of rich Summer's myriad flowers!
 The climbing sun with new recovered powers
Does warm thee into being, through the ring
Of rich, brown earth he woos thee, makes thee fling
 Thy green shoots up, inheriting the dowers
 Of bending sky and sudden, sweeping showers,
Till ripe and blossoming thou art a thing
 To make all nature glad, thou art so gay;
To fill the lonely with a joy untold;
 Nodding at every gust of wind to-day,
To-morrow jewelled with raindrops.  Always bold
 To stand erect, full in the dazzling play
Of April's sun, for thou hast caught his gold.

By Amy Lowell