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I bet we dont, my son has his eye on it so I cant imagine Lena will like it if it rains. I will be fine but I know what she is like.
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Been loading the contents of Mrs Motties mum into a skip. Brought home boxes and boxes of paperwork that we've still go to go through. Found a photo of Mrs Mottie on her wedding day looking like one of those dolls your nan would have covering a spare bog roll in the downstairs loo. 
Also found an old insurance certificate for a Cortina GT that Mrs Motties dad bought brand new in 1967. Look at the value of it!
Also found an old insurance certificate for a Cortina GT that Mrs Motties dad bought brand new in 1967. Look at the value of it!
Arrived home today, towing the caravan, parked everything up, unloaded, including clothing piled on the stair lift, to be run up-stairs to put away. Stair-lift went up, came down, loaded with a second load, it went half-way then stopped. Battery issue, thought I....
Long ago, I'd asked the engineer, if there were any easy way to turn the mains off, and isolate the 2x 12v batteries. He had said just switch it off at the arm, and it would fully isolate batteries - wrong, it discharged one of the batteries, and wrecked it. I'd swapped out the wrecked battery, for a slightly less wrecked battery, and it had worked OK for some years. In the meantime, I nursed the first wrecked battery back to some level of health, so I'm refitting that, at the moment, just for the dog to ride on it.
I feel really sorry for the poor old dog, she obviously happy just pottering around, but she really struggles to walk far, even needs help, to get into the car.
Then jumped on the mobility scooter, to get me to the local Chinese take-away, to collect dinner, which was quite amusing....
An idiot car driver, had parked blocking the footpath, there were two irate scooter owners ahead of me, on mine, struggling to get past, and so naturally, I joined the queue
Long ago, I'd asked the engineer, if there were any easy way to turn the mains off, and isolate the 2x 12v batteries. He had said just switch it off at the arm, and it would fully isolate batteries - wrong, it discharged one of the batteries, and wrecked it. I'd swapped out the wrecked battery, for a slightly less wrecked battery, and it had worked OK for some years. In the meantime, I nursed the first wrecked battery back to some level of health, so I'm refitting that, at the moment, just for the dog to ride on it.
I feel really sorry for the poor old dog, she obviously happy just pottering around, but she really struggles to walk far, even needs help, to get into the car.
Then jumped on the mobility scooter, to get me to the local Chinese take-away, to collect dinner, which was quite amusing....
An idiot car driver, had parked blocking the footpath, there were two irate scooter owners ahead of me, on mine, struggling to get past, and so naturally, I joined the queue
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Been to a charity quiz night. Over £750 raised for cancer research. We came a respectable 3rd out of 10 teams although we only had 6 in our team tonight and all the others had 8 or 10. Oh, and I won a raffle prize again. Under orders from Mrs Mottie, I chose a cushion with some sheep on it!
Came home, no Susie to greet us so the tears started flowing again. When is this going to start to get better?
Came home, no Susie to greet us so the tears started flowing again. When is this going to start to get better?
There will be a puppy somewhere close that Susie's spirit has jumped into, waiting for you to come and collect her. Go and look for her, you'll know.
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At least you know that she lived the best life.
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It will, but it takes time.
Our cat got run over and I still miss him terribly.
I dream about him often. In the dreams, he is lying next to me on the bed and I am stroking him.
I can feel his soft fur and hear and feel him purr. It's so super real it's incredible. Then I wake up and of course, he's not there. It's both comforting and upsetting at the same time.
I'm sure that for me, this is part of the grieving process. Everybody's grieving process is different, as is the length of time it will take. Don't beat yourself up because you think things should be "getting better".
Give yourself time and all will come together.
These quiz nights are getting sadder as time goes on. The lady that organises them is herself suffering with cancer. She has now been told it’s terminal and last night she had her head covered as she has lost a lot of hair and she has put on a lot of weight due to the steroids she is taking. You couldn’t meet a nicer or more positive person though. She's not had a nice time these last few years as she lost her mum under terrible circumstances.
Romford: Family of woman killed by firework arson 'massively affected'
The son of a woman killed when a firework was put in her letterbox calls for tighter regulation.
www.bbc.co.uk
Why do rotten things happen to nice people? Why don’t the ****s of this world seem to suffer the same?
Sorting through yet more boxes of historic paperwork hoarded by Mrs Motties mum. No texts, WhatsApp or FaceTime in the early eighties and international telephone calls were not easy. We found a telegram sent by Mrs Mottie-to-be on the 26th Feb 1982 that she sent to her parents when she flew out to me in South Africa. I had to take her to the main post office in Cape Town the day after she arrived. They must have charged by the word at the time. It just said: "ARRIVED SAFELY. WEATHER FINE. WITH STEVE". 
Quite common. Mrs Mottie transcribes for some consultants and always has a load of work waiting on Monday morning due to the weekend consultations.
