AWWWW MONDAY - WEEKEND MAY 3

 

This was Pookie she was "imported" from London by my son who had to work in Amsterdam for 3 months and had asked me if I could keep his two cats because he had no garden. I said yes and 19 years later she was still with us  and died here peacefully. She was an adorable cat, very clever !

 

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On Saturday I wanted to go out a bit, but then it started to rain in buckets, so I quickly jumped (which is exaggerated) in my car and went to the shop where I could buy a crutch. The shop closed already at 3 pm so I had to hurry, but I found one nice and now when I go on cobbled streets (we have a lot of them here) I walk with my crutch. My son, charming as ever told me that now I really look old, but I answered him when next time he does a sport and breaks his leg, we would both look old. We always tease each other !

I was on time for the coffee and we were quite a lot, because there were visitors, so we had nice discussions and laughs and the afternoon went by very quickly. 

Sunday it still rained and my mood was rather black. My sister in law dead, my poor niece all alone, and I am far away. The funeral is on Tuesday.

I spent the whole morning to inform other family members, it's quiet difficult becdause I have to do everything in Italian, fortunately Google became a quite good translator, not like a few years ago.

We played a nice game finding words, and the afternoon was quickly over. 

AWWWW MONDAY - Weekend 29

 There is a mouse in the shoe !!

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What a boring weekend ! It was so stormy outside that my fake flowers which were still hanging in their pots on the terrace flew away, and even a heavy vase. 

The broken parasol flew from one end to the other and made such a noise that poor Rosie almost flew out of her basket. It was drizzling and I decided to stay at home and not go to the market. So I sat behind the television. 

My movie was interrupted by calls to tell me that out of 3 friends, 2 had a cold or Covid, depending on whether they tested themselves or not. I think that's stupid, because Covid or Cold, you have a sore throat, a running nose, a fever and you feel bad. So it doesn't matter what you have. 

I only see very few people with masks and even in the retirement homes there are no masks in sight and they were always the first. 

Laure, my friend who had just started her cruise to South America, sent me a message that the plane had to be diverted due to a storm before she boarded the ship in Portugal. This is starting well, hopefully it will get better. 

I don't feel like doing anything so I hide in my apartment and wait for the move. At least then I no longer have to worry about falling or anything else happening to me. With Rick dead, my health has dropped by at least half. I get all sorts of things that I never had before. Poor Isabel, who always looks after me, is also lying on her sofa and is sick.

I hope that my health will improve, people who know me always teased me with "the German Quality" and now I am a fragile Chinese doll !But as the saying goes, “weeds never go away.” 

 

 

 

AWWWW MONDAY - WEEKEND MARCH 19

Isis loves company and participates in the conversation

 

 

 

 

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WEEKEND

On Saturday I rested the whole day  after all the excitement of the past week! Mr. G seems very happy with his room in the hospital and the people are all very nice. He is alone in his room and can watch TV as much as he wants. 

I slept until 10 a.m., 12 h exactly (!) then drank coffee and made my post for the next day. In between friends called me and I hang on the phone for a while. The weather was so nice (but cold) that I had to open the living room door and sit in the sun that was shining inside. Then it was already evening and I watched a movie. 

On Sunday I still felt exhausted and tired, but at least gathered my energy and answered comments.

Fortunately, Myriam came in the afternoon to measure our balcony because I would like to put a fake grass carpet on it. I think this  will look very nice. Now I have to find the grass carpet !

We scolded again about the new Corona rules which are not logical at all and I think more and more that we are treated like little school children. The kids who have not been tested last year because they were not dangerous will suddenly be tested this year because they could be dangerous !Probably to keep the statistics high. Something is wrong with the whole corona story. 

I called Mr. G in the hospital again, he is feeling good, he had to walk a bit, tomorrow on Monday all tests will start. It will probably last the whole week. I don't know yet. 

Don't worry ... be happy 

 

 

 

 

AWWWW MONDAY - WEEKEND JANUARY 23

After the lockdown everybody back to normal chatting !

Publicity for jam

 Look an Euro !!

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I had a birthday weekend ! Myriam celebrated her 71 or 17 birthday two times, due to lockdown rules ! It was very nice because I had to honor twice to be invited. Therefore the weekend was not that boring.

We had offered  her a new case for her smartphone, a beautiful one in  turquoise with pink flowers, not the boring black one ! and an invitation to a nice restaurant as soon as they are open again ! I hope she has not to wait for another year !!

 The birthday cake and table

It was a nice afternoon and we were all happy to be together and chat about other things than this Coronavirus ! He was not invited !

Sunday morning I read in a Newspaper on my computer and saw this picture

The world is really small ! I saw this man on the above picture and thought I have already seen this face and then suddenly I remembered ! It is the SIL of my blogfriend Diane  from Brisbane in Australia ! I knew his face from family pictures on her Blog ! How he ended up here in a  French Newspaper in my Smartphone remains a mistery to me ! He is an actor and that's probably why. I couldn't read the article  because the link stopped there.

Thanks to the lockdown I had learned to use YouTube and started to watch a movie, but it seemed boring to me so I stopped, got dressed and went to the second Birthday celebration of Myriam. We were again  4. We talked about our youth and the poor kids or teenagers now, who have to spend their days in front of a computer or TV because besides running in the woods or bycicle there is nothing else to do. The worst is that they can't meet with their friends as it would be normal. 

Outside it had snowed a bit 

View this morning from my room

 and the view from our living room

MY CAT AT THE VET

Mr. G's childhood dream was to own a white cat. So getting his dream come true, we went to an animal rescue center and while asking for white cats, somebody showed up with a carton and sitting in there was little 6 months old Arthur.

Of course we filled in all the requested documents and took baby Arthur home. We quickly noticed that Arthur was a very special cat.

I could write a whole book about his adventures but today I just tell you one for the the One liner Wednesday prompt. Meanwhile Arthur is not a baby anymore but a grandpa of 18 years old.



One day, I was in the kitchen when Arthur suddenly appeared on three legs. The left front paw he held up and when I saw it I got a shock. The leg and the paw were full of blood and on his white fur that looked even more dramatic ! I carefully picked him up,  put him on the table to have a closer look. Fortunately only the paw was bleeding the leg was only full of blood. But the worst thing was, one claw was nearly hanging out and crooked. I left Arthur on the table, picked up the phone and called the vet. Fortunately she was in and had her consulting hours. I described what happened and she told me to come over right away and that she would take me before the others, as this was an emergency.

I got the carrier and carefully put a slightly reluctant Arthur in. He didn't like the cage, but sat down. At the next street, Arthur started his free concert. He sang with full heart in his awful Siamese voice and didn't listen to my prayers to stop it. And that lasted the whole way through until we arrived.

When I got out of the car I was close to a nervous break down.

In the waiting room were a dog and a cat with their owners.  The dog immediately got up and forgot that he was sick pulled at his leash and wanted to get near Arthur's cage. Arthur who didn't sing anymore as soon as the car had stopped, looked at him bored and preferred to look at the other cat. The vet arrived she had seen me coming.

Arthur was very brave on the table and let check his paw without any problem. Diagnostic was, she had to take out the claw, it was so deeply broken that there was nothing to do any more . So I had to leave Arthur with the vet only for 24 h. I could pick him up at 5pm the next day. Heavy hearted I drove home and Mr. G had a sleepless night !

Next day punctually I arrived to pick up  Arthur. The vet opened the door and with a relieved sigh told me that she was happy to see me. I wondered why, but then I went with her into the consulting room and saw  Arthur walking around ! When he saw me he came immediately to greet me walking on three legs the forth  with a nice blue bandage which matched nicely with his fur.

I asked if everything was OK and she nodded a yes, Arthur is fine, she said, she had taken the claw out and now it has just to heal. Politely I asked her if he had been good. I better didn't have asked !

As soon as she had locked Arthur in a cage in a special room, where all the others sick animals were in their cages already operated. Arthur started singing.

He sang louder and louder, and finally she couldn't stand it any more (Arthur always wins) and let him out.

Immediately Arthur was the best cat in the world. After having examined the whole room, while a cat sat on the table and had sniffed all strange smells, even if he could hardly walk He sat down on his three legs and observed what was going on with the cat on the table.

And so it went the whole afternoon. He stayed there and observed the sick animals and what was done to them.  But at one moment she had to close her consulting room and had to lock Arthur into the cage again.

She told me the last thing she heard before closing the door of the room was a noise similar to a tortured person. But she had to leave and I only came later.



The vet told me that she had never ever met a cat like him he hasn't scratched not even hissed at her,  the only thing he had done was protesting with his "beautiful" loud voice. And she sees a lot of cats.

We left, Arthur sitting in his cage and looking around. In the car, as soon as I started the motor, he thought he had to make an anti-noise and sang again with all his heart until we arrived home.

I was exhausted ! 


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Arthur                                                        Waiting to provoke dogs !!




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AWWW MONDAY - WEEKEND JANUARY 25

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It had been a very quiet Saturday it was cold and so foggy that I quickly did my shopping and then returned home. We watched a Barnaby as usual very nice and I did some computer work and the day was over.

On Sunday afternoon my Scrabble group came for a drink at 4 pm for a little chat, before we went to the cinema where we watched «Judy» the life of Judy Garland. I was a bit disappointed. It just showed a very squeezed resume of her life. A few weeks before I had seen Liza Minelli giving a glimpse of her mother's life with her and it seemed to me very different. From us four only one really enjoyed it.

But the evening was saved because we decided to have Spaghetti in a newly renovated restaurant just besides the cinema and the new chef's Spaghetti were delicious. Normally I avoid going in an Italian restaurant because I eat mostly Italian at home, but Mr.G doesn't like Spaghetti so it was a good occasion for me to have one. We stayed until 10 pm surprised that it was so late and returned home. It had been a very nice day and Mr.G had the opportunity to be the only man amongst us four women, but he didn't come with us to the movie, instead he had a Pizza and probably watched a blood streaming film !

WORDLESS WEDNESDAY

I want to be a cat and spend my days like that !




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Poor Arthur, no whipped cream anymore !

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This "meme", I still don't know why in Blog language it's called meme and not "theme" as it is a theme, and I had difficulties at the beginning when somebody asked me if I didn't want to participate in a meme ! Even the most sophisticated dictionary couldn't find an explanation, only Mrs. Wikipedia knew ! Anyway as memes are played all over the world I have a problem.

Some people think that we all have the same time. When somebody from Bali calls me at 3 am to say good morning I am not so happy as I should. Now I switch off the bell of my mobile.

The same is with the Bloggers who invent the "meme" some of them publish "our time" which is especially difficult if you don't know where they live. The Australians go to bed when we just get up and have our first coffee, while the Americans get up when I have lunch and even it depends the State.

In my case I often can't see what the meme is and I write something else in the hope I can smuggle the word in. When I want to write my text for this meme, I only get it in the evening, when my brain is empty and I only want to go to bed, while the Americans just got up and had their first coffee ! Poor Australians they are even  a day ahead ! They are lucky ! They live already in the future !

So I just comment the pictures above concerning my cat Arthur who is mad about whipped cream. I had the bad idea to put some whipped cream on my apple pieces, with the result that Arthur wanted to jump in my plate ! I gave him a bit, but as he eats like a Formula 1 driver, I hadn't finished when he tried again. I pushed him down, I insulted him, there was nothing to do. Finally I managed to eat my apple while he fixed me with killer eyes and I put the tray on the table.

He then was busy to check each apple peel if there was any cream left and then attacked the spray bottle and tried to get it open. A part from the cover it only rolled over the tiles ! He didn't give up so easily and it took a while until very much disappointed he left ! 

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WORDLESS WEDNESDAY - HOW DO YOU RECOGNIZE A MANIPULATOR

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HOW DU YOU RECOGNIZE A MANIPULATOR

Family visits can be very tiring especially if one of the members is a very talented manipulator. Suddenly you have the impression that you are not in your home but in his !

Even if you are very clear about what you want, need, or said, he will find a way to turn the truth around and work in his favor. And he will brush it off by saying things such as “But I never said that" and then you are left defending yourself

For some reason, the manipulator thinks if he talks louder it makes him sound smarter or better. They also think it makes them right. Emotional manipulators do this all the time.

They just keep talking. And can even accompany their tactics with aggressive body language. They talk louder and over everyone else to gain control of the room and then you have no choice but to listen to him.

They make no apologies for saying you are wrong or doing things wrong. And by wrong, what they usually mean, is that you are not doing it their way! You’ll always be wrong unless you do it the way they think it needs to be done.

Whatever you decide to do about a classic manipulator in your life, decide that you are going to look after your best interest. The manipulator is not going to change. They won’t learn, they won’t think about how it’s impacting you. So you can’t rely on them to fix this for you.



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AWWWW MONDAY - WEEKEND APRIL 20

Where is Isis ???



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Weekend April 20

Our garden still looked like winter so I gathered the last energy which was left in me and "planted" flowers in the pots ! To my surprise it went rather quick and in an afternoon it was done with a lot of breaks !

As I hate garden work but love flowers and sit in a nice garden, I put the fake flowers from last year in the pots, some I had to replace because they had lost colors with the hot and sunny summer we had last year. Now it looks colorful !



On Easter Sunday I expected my son with family and I decorated the garden in the morning. I hang fake eggs in the shrubs and hedge, made a Easter bouquet and hid Toby's gift in a basket in the garden.





The Easter table



Toby searched for eggs and chocolate bunnies and a gift of course. I had bought a training football. He was very happy with that.

After lunch we went to visit Mr. G. in his reeducation center.



As he had his birthday last week, he got a beautiful Swatch watch, which besides measuring how many kilometers you walk, your blood pressure, heart beats and ALSO shows the time and date, as birthday gift from his dear son, and in order not to be short on T-shirts 3 more T-Shirts. Now he really has enough. Toby and Mum read a bit, I listened to the explanations for the watch. Then we had a birthday cake, fortunately I had brought paper plates with me and also glasses, only the cutlery I had forgotten.

Late afternoon we returned home and then they continued to Amsterdam and I fell half dead on the sofa. It had been a little bit too much for me.