Word of the Week

Word of the Week 38 – Autumnal

September 18, 2020 by Anne Sweet 5 Comments

Hello and welcome to the home of Word of the Week. A nice and simple weekly linky, with everyone welcome to pop by and share. The idea of the linky is to reflect back on your past week and share it with us. It’s great if you can sum it up in a word or phrase, hence giving us your Word of the Week. My word this week is ‘Autumnal’ and you can read more about that below.

I’m not totally strict on using just a word or phrase. But please try to stick to the theme of summing up your week.There are not too many rules with this linky, just remember to read at least another couple of posts in the link up after adding your link. I will read and comment on all posts and tweet them out for you. I also have a Pinterest board devoted to Word of the Week and I will add posts toMix Please add the badge below to your post so that others may find us and join in. If you comment or tweet then please use the hashtag #WotW

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MY WORD OF THE WEEK – Autumnal

Autumnal, image shows a background of brown and yellow leaves and the word Autumnal.

The last few days have been so warm it’s felt more like summer than Autumn, but you cannot ignore the fact that the leaves are changing colour and falling to the ground. And yesterday evening I found drawing my curtains before 9pm because it was really dark outside.

We all know that Autumn is on the way when the kids go back to school. Two of mine are back, but the problems continue for one. I’ll go into that more later. One of the ‘bubbles’ in my girls school has already been sent home because of a positive COVID case. I have to admit, when I wave them to school in the morning I hope so much that I’m not putting them at any risk. It’s such an unusual and strange experience. Life has to go on, and the two at school are happy. But this COVID virus hangs over us constantly.

Autumn is when the weather gets cooler, nature changes it’s colours and we start thinking about Halloween, Bonfire night and Christmas. It’s hard at the moment to see how these kind of celebrations will take place. Will we be able to spend time with our families and friends?

It’s a strange time we live in, but the world is still turning. I hope everyone is keeping safe and well. Are you feeling Autumnal?

Now it’s over to you, what word or phrase sums up your week this week?

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Word of the Week 37 – Head

September 11, 2020 by Anne Sweet 4 Comments

I’m not totally strict on using just a word or phrase. But please try to stick to the theme of summing up your week.There are not too many rules with this linky, just remember to read at least another couple of posts in the link up after adding your link. I will read and comment on all posts and tweet them out for you. I also have a Pinterest board devoted to Word of the Week and I will add posts to Mix Please add the badge below to your post so that others may find us and join in. If you comment or tweet then please use the hashtag #WotW

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MY WORD OF THE WEEK – Head

Where’s your Head At?

image shows women running around a brain and the words running around my head

This week it has felt like I have had a 100 things running around in my head. And to be fair, my head can’t really take it right now.

I’ve been in hospital every day hooked up having my infusions made from human blood plasma…a very big thank you to all you blood donators out there. I haven’t been on the day ward for over a year but it was lovely that the staff remembered me. They see so many people each day and I’ve always thought myself as a totally unmemorable person, so it has meant a lot to me that I was recognised.

Of course, pulling stunts like having the nurses search for my glasses because I couldn’t find them, and then discovering they were actually on my face does go a little way to my memorability!

The infusions give me headaches which are not nice. I have to have them slowly because I once had aseptic meningitis caused by the treatment. That was no fun. Thankfully it was treated with pain relief and rest. Of course, it may be the reason why I have brain issues now, but I guess that’s something I’m still waiting to find out.

I’m sometimes good at using my head, but I’m not always so good at keeping it. My family have me labelled as a ‘flapper’ not the 20s style dancing dress, but the type that flaps around worrying about everything. And they are not wrong.

This week I’ve been losing my head over most things. It’s all been a little overwhelming. I’ve had to think of appointments, school, prescriptions, menu planning, cooking, house repairs, unwanted deliveries and the list could go on. At a time when my head feels like its already exploding, I’m giving it even more pressure.

And at the time of writing this I still haven’t had my MRI results from last week. Another little thing running around my head. Or maybe it’s a big thing. I don’t know but I’m keeping the hope that they would have contacted me sooner had it been bad news. Fingers crossed.

Now it’s over to you, what word or phrase sums up your week this week?

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Word of the Week 36 – Return

September 4, 2020 by Anne Sweet 4 Comments

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MY WORD OF THE WEEK – Return

Image shows school books and pencil and the word return. There is an apple placed on top of the books.

It’s September and the return to school. Well, for some. After much deliberation I decided to send my youngest back to school into year 6. The girl’s are supposed to return to school next week. At the moment, I don’t see that happening.

We have also had to return our car, after just a year the clutch has gone and it’s off the road. We have been given a courtesy car which is huge. It’s really rather nice though, it would be great for a big family day out. Our original car will be returned to us once fixed, which may take a while as the garage is backlogged at the moment.

I have made a return to hospital appointments. This week I had an MRI to see how Walter is getting on. (Walter is the name I gave to the anomaly found on my brain, it’s not a tumor.)

Next week I make a return to the lovely day ward to have my IVIG treatment. I have missed it. I didn’t realise just how much it was helping until it was taken away! I’m not looking forward to five days in hospital though. Plenty of reading material I think.

Now it’s over to you, what word or phrase sums up your week this week?

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Word of the Week 35 – Fifteen

August 28, 2020 by Anne Sweet 13 Comments

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MY WORD OF THE WEEK –Fifteen

image shows the number 15 on a plate on a brick wall. fifteen

I have chosen fifteen as my word of the week this week because we had our fourth birthday in the house in the last six weeks. This time it was Star’s birthday and she turned fifteen.

We usually spend her birthday having a family meal at Pizza Hut, it’s been a tradition for many years. I think her last birthday party was her 7th when we had a My Little Pony theme and it has always been my most read blog post!

This year, however, we are not ready to be eating out just yet so we had a take out instead. Star chose Dominos and I let her choose her own toppings. Afterwards we played some video games together as a family. I made her a chocolate birthday cake and forgot to take a photo of it…you have to take my word that it was brilliant! Ok, it was a nice cake with chocolate on.

The next day she invited her friend from school around for lunch and an hour of video game playing. So, despite the restrictions, I think she has enjoyed her birthday.

It’s kind of strange to think of her as fifteen. The years have flown by for sure. It seems like only yesterday my eldest kids were fifteen, but in fact it was over fifteen years ago! Now, I’m feeling old.

Now, it’s over to you, what word or phrase sums up your week this week?

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Word of the Week 34 – Wet

August 21, 2020 by Anne Sweet 6 Comments

I’m not totally strict on using just a word or phrase. But please try to stick to the theme of summing up your week.There are not too many rules with this linky, just remember to read at least another couple of posts in the link up after adding your link. I will read and comment on all posts and tweet them out for you. I also have a Pinterest board devoted to Word of the Week and I will add posts to Mi x Please add the badge below to your post so that others may find us and join in. If you comment or tweet then please use the hashtag #WotW

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MY WORD OF THE WEEK –Wet

Image shows rain dripping onto a pavement and the word wet in white dripping letters

Well, after an exciting week last week, this week has been boring and very wet!

We haven’t been anywhere, only Graham has left the house. He had to take the car in for its service which was possibly the most exciting thing that happened this week, but even that was boring.

It has rained every single day. We’ve had moments of sunshine, but mostly it’s either been drizzling or pouring down. This time last year we were in Cornwall and the weather wasn’t much better…so, note for the future..this week on the calendar can be marked as ‘wet week.’

So, what have we been up to? Well, I did have a lovely afternoon crafting with my Little Man. It took a lot of encouragement to get him off Roblox, but he had fun in the end. Of course, he started by drawing a picture of Roblox characters! We also did some paper mache and decorated a tote bag with fabric paint. I think the Little Man had fun, I did anyway.

I also baked some banana bread. We had four bananas that no-one would eat because they were over ripe. I didn’t want to throw them away so I made banana bread. My stomach has been faring much better since I left gluten out of my diet. (I did do a test at home and I’m not a Coeliac, but I definitely have gluten sensitivity.) So my banana bread was made gluten free and I didn’t tell anyone. Nobody noticed!

I’ve been busy with my crochet, I’m currently working on a cushion cover and a blanket so I’m alternating which one I do. At the same time I listen to my e-books. I finished ‘I know why the Caged Bird Sings’ by Maya Angelou and I’m now listening to a book that was gifted to me by someone on Twitter, so I’ll be reviewing that soon. It’s quite a dark murder story.

Back to food, we’ve been trying some new recipes from my new Mindful Chef cookbook. The adults have enjoyed them so far. Last night we had some delicious lamb kebabs and I made cauliflower rice. Everyone went urrgh! But it wasn’t wasted, I liked it best, but the others ate theirs too.

Tomorrow we are back at the farm, but this time we are going with another family who we haven’t seen all year. We have a lot of catching up to do, fingers crossed the rain gives us a break, we don’t want to end up getting too wet.

Now it’s your turn, what word or phrase sums up your week this week?

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Word of the Week

MY WORD OF THE WEEK – Autumnal

MY WORD OF THE WEEK – Head

Where’s your Head At?

MY WORD OF THE WEEK – Return

MY WORD OF THE WEEK –Fifteen

MY WORD OF THE WEEK –Wet

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