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Word of the Week #37 – Poorly

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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 poorly 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 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

Word of the Week is open from 6am on Friday Morning to 12 noon on Monday. Plenty of time to join in!

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MY WORD OF THE WEEK

Poorly

a packet of pills with the word Poorly

Me being poorly is nothing new. I went to the GP on Monday to get some test results and guess what? They were not labelled correctly and so haven’t been done! So now I’ve had to have new ones sent off and I need the result before my hospital treatment on Monday. Fat chance of that. Maybe I can get a Dr to see me there?

The kids have been back to school just a few days and already they are bringing home the bugs. The Little Man was first, then Graham got sick. Both Boo and Star were feeling unwell, and finally I had to let Star have the day off on Thursday as she was so poorly.

We also had to take our poor cat to the Vet on Wednesday as she has been suffering with a problem around her tail. We had no idea what was wrong. It turns out that she has a skin infection and the Vet gave her a steroid injection which should help. We also picked up some prescribed flea treatments as the ones we are using don’t seem to be doing their job.

In other news, I did get a lovely night out with my friend on Wednesday. We went to see Matthew Bournes Romeo + Juliet. It was truly stunning and very original. You can see my review here if you wish.

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

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Word of the Week #36 – Empty

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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 empty 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 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

Word of the Week is open from 6am on Friday Morning to 12 noon on Monday. Plenty of time to join in!

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MY WORD OF THE WEEK

Empty

Empty. Empty room beyond two white doors.

This week my kids have gone back to school which has left the house feeling rather empty. The Little Man went back on Wednesday, he didn’t mind that his sister’s didn’t have to go to school so he must have been happy to go back. Not that you’d know it.

The girl’s went back to school on Thursday. They were both nervous but Star was also excited. She told me that the SEND rooms had been moved to the first floor and she was worried about remembering where to go. As she spends probably 90% of her time at school in the SEND rooms I guess that was a worry, but she’d not mentioned it at all until the last minute, so I’d not had much chance to offer re-assurance.

So in reality it’s just been two days of an empty house before we are full again the weekend, but next week it’s a whole week. I do miss having my kids around…but I won’t miss having to think about what to make them for lunch every day.

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Word of the Week #35 Memories

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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 memories 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 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

Word of the Week is open from 6am on Friday Morning to 12 noon on Monday. Plenty of time to join in!

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MY WORD OF THE WEEK.

Memories, a box full of old photographs,

Memories

This week I decided it was time to sort out our bedroom. We broke our wardrobe when moving house six years ago and only use one side of it. The other side is full of boxes and stuff that has barely been moved since we put it there.

So, I ordered a new wardrobe and side table. My first job was to empty my side table. It was rammed with stuff! The top drawer was full of drugs, but don’t worry; they were all prescribed. Some of them were past their use by date though.

As I moved down to the other drawers, I found photographs and notebooks going back ages. I loved the baby books that I’d kept for my three youngest. I also found a lot of crystals and a fair amount of small change.

The Wardrobe

The broken side of the wardrobe is guarded by my daughter’s dog Sasha. The dog is now over 20 years old but she’s still looking good. I remember buying her as a birthday present; she was pretty hard to wrap being the size of a regular sitting labrador. She’s easy to care for, she doesn’t eat, move or bark. My daughter gave her up when we moved and we found she made a good doorstop for the broken wardrobe door. I don’t know what we’ll do with her when the new wardrobe is up.

I moved Sasha out of the way and started to go through some stuff in the wardrobe. Wow! I had drawings and hand prints from all of my five children from when they were little. Such precious memories. I whittled two huge boxes of paper down to one though. I find it difficult to part with things, but I reckon one huge box of memories is enough. Then there were the baby clothes. I don’t know why I kept them? Some were woollen jumpers that my Mum had knitted, so I get that, and the Christening robes. Everything else had to go. Including about 20 different princess dresses. Oh, my aching heart.

Then there were the photographs. Oh so many photographs, going back over 40 years. Oh my, I was such a pretty teenager, why didn’t I see it then? Maybe I’ll scan some later.

Sad Memories

It’s also been a sad time for memories as I lost a dear friend to the dreaded cancer this week. 15 years ago I was searching the internet for someone to talk to about my miscarriage (my one and only.) I came across a forum (Facebook wasn’t a thing then and forums where a good way of making connections.) I came across a group of women who were all of a similar age as me and were all trying to have babies, or had lost babies. We became friends and over the years we laughed and cried together as we all went on our parenting journey. I still know many of these women now (Although we have moved on to Facebook.) I know so many women with children the same age as my girls (not so much my boy as we were all a little bit ‘past it’ by then…well apart from 3 of us!

Maggie was a lovely member of our group and we all will sadly miss her. She is the second member now taken from us by cancer.

Another of our group also lost her partner suddenly last week. So, it’s been a very sad time indeed.

So my memories this week have been cute, heart-warming and very sad. A true mixed bag of emotions.

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

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Last week my word of the week was washing

Word of the Week #34 – Washing

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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 washing 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 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

Word of the Week is open from 6am on Friday Morning to 12 noon on Monday. Plenty of time to join in!

If you are unfamiliar with the Word of the Week linky then please feel free to ask any questions. New linkers are always welcome, we love to hear what you have been up to in the past week.

MY WORD OF THE WEEK.

Washing

a line of washing blowing in the wind
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I’ve been back four days and already I’ve done endless amounts of washing. I thought I’d done so well. We went to the laundrette a couple of days before coming home and put our dirty holiday clothes in the huge machines and tumble dryers. Just one hour later it was all clean and dry and no sand to bring home.

What we used after than I packed away in one suitcase while putting the clean clothes away in others. Nicely sorted for when we get home.

So why is it that I’ve not stopped washing all week?

We did have a lovely holiday despite it not being the hottest of weeks, we only had one day where we were stranded in the caravan. We managed to fit in so much and we all came home ready for a rest…well, apart from all the washing!

We are gearing ourselves up for an exciting weekend as we approach birthday number 4 in six weeks. Star is fourteen on Saturday and she’s chosen her favourite birthday treat, a visit to Pizza Hut!

Apparently it’s going to be a nice sunny weekend, fingers crossed.

Now it’s your turn, come and tell us what you have been up to this week.

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My Word of the Week #33 2019 – Holiday

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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 holiday 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 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

Word of the Week is open from 6am on Friday Morning to 12 noon on Monday. Plenty of time to join in!

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MY WORD OF THE WEEK.

Holiday

a big sun in a blue sky
Holiday

I’m away this week, hopefully enjoying some sunshine in Cornwall. I’ll write up all about it when I get home, but in the meantime, do link up your posts and I’ll read and share them when I can.

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