Word of the Week

Word of the Week 32 – No Holiday

August 7, 2020 by Anne Sweet 4 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 ‘No 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 Mi xPlease 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 – No Holiday

A bit of a weird one this week. Were supposed to be in Dorset on holiday. In fact we would be coming home today. So this is our no holiday week. Back in March when the virus started to become dangerous and the lock down began, we didn’t know if we would be going on holiday or not. I had hoped it would all be over by August.

Four weeks ago I had a phone call from Haven saying we could still go on holiday but it was entirely our decision. And we decided to postpone it until next year. We have been so careful, staying home, keeping safe, being careful. I think we deserved a break by the sea. But as things have opened back up, I realise it’s not because the virus has gone away. It’s to keep the economy going. Which is vital. But it all depends on people using their common sense and being careful. If we were a fit and healthy family I would have still gone on holiday. But we are not. So I think we made the best decision.

I was happy with my decision, but I think this week it has hit me bad. The kids don’t seem bothered, they are still happy at home doing their thing. But I have felt sad that we couldn’t go away, see the the sea, enjoyed some time in different environment. I’m not sure if the sadness triggered my illness but I’ve been really ill for a couple of days this week too. Maybe if we had gone away I would have been okay? Maybe if we had gone away, I’d have spoilt it by having to spend a couple of days doing nothing at all?

So, how have we spent our ‘no holiday’ week? Well, I did get the pool back out, and the kids have had some fun with some games. But other than that it’s been the usual computers and screens.

Eldest daughter has gone back to work, which means the girls can’t stay up really late anymore so they don’t disturb her. That’s a good thing, they need to get back into their routine in time for school.

We have some exciting things planned for the next week. My baby boy turns 10 years old on Sunday! We are having friends around for a garden picnic on Monday, and on Tuesday we have a farm visit planned…where we get the farm to ourselves for a couple of hours! No need to worry about masks and social distancing! Fingers crossed I can stay healthy…positive thinking Anne!!

Now it’s your turn, what have you been up to this week?

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Word of the Week 31 – 13th Birthday

July 31, 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 ‘13th Birthday’ 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 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 – 13th Birthday

This week Boo celebrated her 13th birthday, she is now officially a teenager.

She had a friend around for lunch. We were hoping it would be a picnic but the weather was pretty dismal. They still had a lovely time though. Boo seemed happy enough.

I bought her a laptop for her birthday. It was more than I would normally spend on a birthday, but I’d just received the refund for her school France trip. And it was her 13th, which is a special birthday to have without being able to go out or have a party. She also had a t-shirt which was from the US. We teased her all day for flexing her merch. (I have no idea why it was such a big deal but the other kids found it hilarious!) Do you think I would have been flexing my merch. when I wore my Fonz t-shirt back in 1978 when I was 13? 😀

I made her a cake. She didn’t want anything special, just a blue cake, I bought her some gold number candles to go on top, and Star decorated it with some sprinkles.

My Little Boo is growing up and I’m sure she’s going to make a lovely young lady. The teen years will hopefully pass without too much trouble.

On Thursday we went to Cosford Air Force Museum. This had been planned for Graham’s birthday back in February half term. When I was too sick to go I said it’s okay we can go next half term. Then we ended up in Lockdown. So we went yesterday and had a lovely day. It was bit of a rocky start as our new teenager decided to throw a strop because she didn’t want to go. It turned out that she had the best day out of everyone, she was asking her Dad so many questions about the planes, which in turn made his day real special too. I got to see how unfit my kids have become. I’m used to Star sitting down all the time, but it was sad to see the other two getting worn out too. Thankfully, it was a beautiful day and we spent a lot of time sitting outside in the sunshine.

Hopefully, I’ll be writing soon to let you know what a great day we had.

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

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Word of the Week 30 Gardening

July 24, 2020 by Anne Sweet 8 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 ‘gardening’ 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 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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I’ve noticed a lot of link ups that have nothing to do with the theme of my linky and even link to Facebook pages. I’m not strict, and I’m happy for new blogs to link up, but if you don’t even read what the linky is about, or partake in reading other posts then I’m afraid there is a little delete button on the bottom of each link up that I can click, and I will.

MY WORD OF THE WEEK – Gardening

gardening, written over the background of a pretty flower.

It’s the first week of the school holidays! Usually we’d all be excited but the kids have been home for 4 months now so it’s not exciting at all. We are looking forward to going back to school in September, those six weeks holiday which always felt so long, suddenly seem like a short wait until normality returns.

Graham has been very busy gardening, both front and back gardens. He’s worked really hard and they are looking much nicer. We can even walk down our side path to our back gate now thanks to him cutting back the hedge which had really overgrown.

I have tried to get a new net for the trampoline without success, but now we are going to try and fix the one we have. Well, Graham is, but I may be able to help if I can get up the garden in my wheelchair.

I’ve also tried again to get the missing part for the garden furniture. I bought a lovely lounge set back in May, but we haven’t been able to put together the settee thanks to a missing part. We could have sent the whole lot back but Graham committed the crime of not checking all the pieces before he started putting it together and had made the two chairs and the table before he realised we were missing a major part. The chairs and table are nice though, hopefully we will have the settee soon.

We looked into getting the patio area extended, but gave up when we realised how much it would cost. We could try second hand slabs, but I think we will just cope for now.

I may buy Graham some paint for the shed to brighten it up a bit. That’s his place where he goes to play his music and smoke his cigarettes. The rest of us keep out (mostly because it stinks of fags) but even though we don’t go inside, we can still make it look nice on the outside.

Next week we should have been going on holiday, but this summer will be spent mostly in our garden, so we are trying to make it as nice as possible. Hence the need for all the gardening…now I wonder what plants I can add?

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Word of the Week 29 – Back Pain

July 17, 2020 by Anne Sweet 5 Comments

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MY WORD OF THE WEEK –BACK PAIN

Back Pain

I don’t know why but last Friday my back started hurting. Not just aching, but really hurting. Every movement hurt, sitting hurt, standing hurt, lying down hurt…I think you get the idea. Bending was impossible without me feeling agony. If you’ve had back pain I think you will understand.

I hadn’t done anything to hurt my back, and after a consultation with my GP it was blamed on my condition. (Isn’t everything, I swear, if I got a blister on my thumb it would be blamed on my condition!) But, I’ll take it. It means I can’t do anything but take stronger painkillers. So, now I have another pill to add to my collection. Thankfully, one week on and I think it may be getting better. I’ll just be happy to move again without it bringing a tear to my eye. I’ll even go as far as saying I’ve missed being able to sort the washing, and the little bits of housework I usually do.

It’s not all about back pain though, we have other ‘backs’ this week.

Back to School

It’s such a weird time. Normally we’d be looking forward to a six week break from school, but the kids have been off so long now we are actually looking forward to going back before the holidays have begun! The kids have all received back to school letters and detailed information about how it’s all going to be for them. It looks like The Little Man will be going back to a more normal routine than the girls as he is still in primary school.

Back to Normal

The virus hasn’t suddenly disappeared, but now that it’s more under control then the Country is getting back to normal. It’s not the normal we are used to (so is it actually normal then?) but it’s a return to work and going out again. I don’t really see things changing much for us, we never really went out much anyway, and I work from home. But life is returning from it’s long slumber.

Back to Treatment

After a telephone consultation earlier this week it has been decided that I will be going back to hospital for my IVIG treatments. I’ll be having five days infusion to start off with, with a formal assessment of my condition both before and after. Then I may be continuing with five day treatments every three months.

I’m also going back to have Walter (the leak on my brain) checked by MRI as it’s been four months since he was last looked at.

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

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Word of the Week 28 – Sullen

July 10, 2020 by Anne Sweet 5 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 – Sullen

photograph of a sullen looking statue with a grim look on her face and her elbows resting on her knees with her hands on her chin. She also holds a bunch of flowers.

Is it the weather? Has it just non stopped rained for what seems like forever? Where did the sunshine go? I think everyone in our house has taken on a sullen mood. See that statue in the photo above…yes, we all feel just like that.

Rain, rain go away!

Maybe if the sun came back out to play we would feel better? The girls have been moody and argumentative. No school work has been done all week. They’ve been refusing to shower or go to bed at a reasonable time.

The eldest two have also been moody, stomping about and spending more time in their bedrooms than anywhere else. Coming out only to eat and complain about my cooking.

Graham hasn’t been too bad, he was grumpy that the Little Man was taking over his PS4 at the beginning of the week, but now he has it back so he’s okay. The Little Man is happy so long as he can play Roblox or Minecraft. He has been doing school work under protest, and even had a haircut off his Dad.

I Want my Happy Family Back!

Last week we were having fun together and enjoying each other’s company. But even I’ve been intolerable it seems, everyone is avoiding me anyway. Please come back sunshine, and bring some light back to my family.

I hope your week has been better, please cheer me up!

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