No photos

 Can’t add photos to my blog without paying, always used to be able to, but now I have to pay. When did this happen? I added a photo a couple of days ago, now I’m told only the first three days are free then you pay a monthly subscription, disgusting. 

Treat time

​Seems there’s a charge for posting photos now, didn’t a few days ago or is that on general posts? Cheek I call it 😡

Celebrating my imagination

How happy I am to enjoy an imagination. Having no imagination to me is like a death 

sentence, a little dramatc but …I din’t know I could survive without my Alta Ego, my travel 

companion in this lifetime. 

How do folk cope? Having to live in the horrible reality of this world? With no music,no 

poetry, no art? I may never write a story to completion, but love to write every day even if it’s 

just this free written thought stuff… I can try can’t I?

I’m on Substack now and should publish every werk, but schedules just aren’t my thing, my 

muse is sulking on me today and doesn’t wish to communicate.

Then I have to open technology and it’s just so much easier to get pen and paper snd just 

write…old tech style as we have done since cave days with stick and ash, the need to 

express ourselves fundamental, to some of us. 

I’m certainly lost without a notebook and pen to write with as I walk this world…just to record 

these (sometimes)crazy thoughts of mine. Getting ideas on paper, enjoying my imaginative 

gift. 

As a teen I told a so called friend I imagined friends when alone, and listened dry mouthed 

as I ate my tea in the kitchen, knowing they were all laughing about me as she told them. 

Now I’m at the age when I can appreciate my imagination, happy in my difference to others, 

not wishing any more to ‘fit in’ with society or others' expectations of me. Enjoying being 

different. Loving my Imagination.

I'm now installed on phone & tablet

On my recent trip to Kew gardens, Henry Moore sculpture, ‘Three piece sculpture:Vertebrae’, this is where we sat for our lunch. My first visit since February due to my Inflammatory Arthritis which started in my knee in May. So a very disappointing summer for me really, as haven't been anywhere far away. Managed to find out how to get to settings page and applied a theme.

Now on phone

Now sorted on phone, with a change of password. Stay simple for now, try to learn a bit about the format, would like to find the App, maybe separate areas for personal, poetry, short story, visual essay stuff , think that may be a more complex format than I’m on at present, small steps. 

Back on here in 2026

Managed to log in on my tablet, but not on phone. Back on here because of a video on YouTube by John Rogers, recommending writing a blog again. My life has changed beyond belief since 2007, which is when I first started this blog, wondering if after a stint or two on Substack and failing I'll make a better go of this much simpler format on here?

Retired now

Now I am retired,worked an extra year, now through family circumstances am living in Windsor and have a lovely garden this is why I'm on here blogging again to record my progress in the garden.

Fed up now, had enough.

Well fed up now with trying to relocate these photo's from 2009 to be beside their pertinent article, must get on with more important things and come back to this later, at least Caleb's photo is up and running!

My new start and countdown to retirement.

So here I go again having recovered my blog account set up many years ago to record my writing and my history of my block of flats, all that has now gone by the wayside as I fast approach my retirement next May (yippee!) and other things have gone on in my life including becoming a grandmother and deciding I definitely enjoy reading more than writing.
One thing happening right now is trying to recover my weight loss which I have put back on over the last two years due to carelessness and illness, have joined Slimming World as got very out of touch with Weight-watchers, although I lost 3st with them, their new programme really does not seem to suit me at all, and I do find they have an awful lot of products in the shops now, which are mostly unhealthy snacks and ready meals. Just started to take SW seriously now as had a couple of weeks where I had to go out a lot and ate far too much. Never mind tomorrow, or in my case, today is another day and am now planning meals better.
I shall now see if I can upload a photo of my beautiful grandson, Caleb, just gone 1yr and starting to take his first steps, bless.

At last discovered that I can post from my phone
:-)

Balcony view

Top floor balcony view

group on facebook

Since seeing the grp on facebook, you know you've lived in keighley when, have become interested in reviving my old blog about the high rise flats again and looking into their history, sadly they are being filled with tenants who do not want to be here these days, and the old days of pride in the flats have gone. I still love my flat however, and will try to upload a few photo's to show why, along with the ones already on the blog, I think this is the best two blocks of flats in the town, witha beautiful outlook and close enough to town to be easily accessible, it's a shame they're going to the dogs.