The worst ( I hope ) day

Today is day three of this cold. I’d almost call it a flu only I wouldn’t know if I had body aches and pains. I kinda have that every day 

Hopefully this is the worst day and I start to feel better from now on 

Yesterday I didn’t craft I just spent the day dozing. The brain fog was really bad and my arms felt like lead 

But today I started looking for something to do. 

I had run out of blues for hubbys jumper, or so I thought.  I decided I’ll do something quick and easy instead 

But when I actually had a look I found 

Three more balls! 

I was very excited lol 

So I’ll put something on the television to watch in the background and continue to knit 

Netflix has some great documentary’s. 

I’m slowly working my way through some of them. 

I might end up very clever at this rate lol

Have a great hump day  y’all 

Not Covid

I’ve got hubbys cold 

But as always we check snd its a negative for the dreaded spice cough 

I knew it would be. I had to have a Covid test to have my procedure last week and I’ve not been near anyone who has it 

But as I’m having Ana Friday I needed to make sure. 

It’s not too bad. A sore throat and runny nose 

Paracetamol and lots of hot beverages combined with rest and I should be much better by then 

I was late getting my flu shots this year. Serves me right 

I’ll be here crafting if you need me 

Birthday girl

Yesterday we celebrated Brianna’s birthday 

She’ll be six on Friday 

I love how close the girls are. Grandma is so proud of them 

Today is orthodox Easter 

Xristos anesti.  

Happy Easter to those that celebrate 

Enjoy spending the day with your family 

This is the second post 

As the first was published on the wrong blog 

Sorry Boud I think I lost your comment but I did read it 

Regular checking

Yesterday I had a colonoscopy and gastroscopy 

The gastroscopy isn’t an issue. Usually you fast for 12 hours before hand go in and 

Bobs your uncle out again before you realised you have been asleep. 

The colonoscopy is a whole different animal 

You fast the whole day before. Having only clear liquids, broth 

And black tea or coffee. 

These things do not fill the tummy at all!

Then you have to start drinking a powerful laxative drink. One every two hours starting at a specific 

Time depending on what time your appointment is 

THIS IS THE WORST

You live in the toilet, or your running to the toilet 

Which if you can’t run is always a game of chicken 

And you end up having a bottom like one of those baboon’s 

I just telling myself bowel cancer is way worse. So suck it up and just get on with it. 

Happy to say all clear. 

The barretts hasn’t come back 

And I’ve got the cleanest bowel ever! 

So I need to go back for a gastroscopy every three years. And I don’t need another 

Colonoscopy for about ten years. 

Unless of course I have symptoms 

So to end this horrid post. Here’s something to make you laugh 

https://youtu.be/nvrzUngEQRw?si=768oyqIZGGr7M_e9

Don’t forget to get yours checked 

Blessed

Today all three girls were here 

They all play well together and keep each other amused. 

The weather was lovely so we went outside to check the livestock 

Sitting on a Log watching the sheep and alpacas while the chickens were clucking behind us 

Grandpa and his girls 



Trying to get the alpacas to come and say hi



Back instead relaxing watching bluey 



A pic out of order lol 



The two younger girls are especially close 

They’re doing puzzles together here 




The older and more mature granddaughter was knitting on the couch with grandma 



It was a wild day full of fun and laughter 

Ana has gone home with her parents and the older girls are in Bed 

Grandma and grandpa are resting. Ready to start again tomorrow 

How lucky are we to have quality time with our girls 

ANZAC Day 2024

The Ode

The Ode of Remembrance is a poem that is commonly recited at Anzac Day services to commemorate wartime sacrifice.

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: 
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. 
At the going down of the sun and in the morning 
We will remember them.

The Ode comes from For the Fallen, a poem by English poet and writer Laurence Binyon. The poem was first published in The Times on 21 September 1914. It was later published in the Winnowing Fan - Poems of the Great War.

By mid-September 1914, less than seven weeks after the outbreak of war, the British Expeditionary Force in France had already suffered severe casualties. Long lists of the dead and wounded appeared in British newspapers. It was against this background that Binyon wrote For the Fallen.

The Ode is the fourth stanza of the poem. The verse, which became the League Ode, was already used in association with Anzac Day commemoration services in Australia in 1921.

For the Fallen

With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children 
England mourns for her dead across the sea, 
Flesh of her flesh they were, spirit of her spirit, 
Fallen in the cause of the free.

Solemn the drums thrill: Death august and royal 
Sings sorrow up into immortal spheres, 
There is music in the midst of desolation 
And glory that shines upon our tears.

They went with songs to the battle, they were young, 
Straight of limb, true of eyes, steady and aglow, 
They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted, 
They fell with their faces to the foe.

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: 
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn 
At the going down of the sun and in the morning 
We will remember them.

They mingle not with their laughing comrades again, 
They sit no more at familiar tables of home, 
They have no lot in our labour of the daytime, 
They sleep beyond England's foam.

But where our desires and hopes profound, 
Felt as a well-spring that is hidden from sight, 
To the innermost heart of their own land they are known 
As the stars are known to the night.

As the stars shall be bright when we are dust, 
Moving in marches upon the heavenly plain, 
As the stars that are starry in the time of our darkness, 
To the end, to the end, they remain.

- Written by Robert Laurence Binyon (1869-1943)

LEST WE FORGET 

A tale of three lounges

My friend who has back and hip issues like me was visiting her son’s home in Perth. 

She said that while sitting on  his lounge she never got any pain. 

Once she got home she purchased the exact same lounge 

Hubby and I were talking about replacing our lounge as it had no support left and was causing us both lots of pain. 

When my friend told me about her new lounge we visited to check it out. 

It was so nice to sit in, was higher than ours  and so very  supportive 

So off the three of us went to buy one for our home 

It arrived today and it’s all set up 

I now need to work out how to get rid of the indents in the carpet 

It even has the seal of approval from the princess 



Word of mouth. Is the best advertising 

And we all hope we have much less pain now