This July is proving as cool, grey & miserable as last year.
Thankfully not quite as wet.
It was a year ago yesterday, that THE colossal down-pours set in motion a chain of events that I won't forget in a hurry.
Suddenly, living so close to lakes, rivers & streams and on a flood plain lost it's charm, when the Environment Agency issued a
'Severe Flood Warning!' I wrote about it extensively HERE!
My home came out unscathed after eight days of panic & hauling in 27 sandbags, but some people whose homes were seriously flooded locally still have return, as the much smaller flood of this January hit them again.
Anyway today, it's showery once more, heavy blustery showers too.
So, having been caught out in one, this morning.
I was not
'Singing in the rain' when I got drenched I can tell you.
I gave up in my plans for this afternoon.
Had it been the sunny day I was hoping for, I'd have been torn between too out-door options.
1. Going to Christ Church's & Merton Colleges NGS open garden day - I went last year.
2. Seeing Shakespeare's
'As you like' it in Trinity College gardens.
Rain will sadly have spoilt the beginning of both events.
Of, course right now when it's too, too late, the sun is shining!!!
So, what am I doing, apart from blogging???
What friends recommended for a broken heart, eating cake!
Marks & Spencer's new
'Dark Chocolate Roulade', with double cream no less...
It's a dark chocolate sponge filled with real Morella Cherry compote, thick West Country cream & smooth Belgian Chocolate sauce.
And, it is
absolutely scrumptious!
For those who can buy, do so - it comes HIGHLY recommended.
Calorie wise!
Mmmm, a sixth of the roulade is 245.
I'm in the process of comfort eating half.
I'm not doing the maths - no way.
Do I feel better, brighter today for it?
Heaps.
I've also, just permanently removed a cryptic comment from an anonymous blogger, from my personal
'Tears before bedtime' post
It read:-
"Why do you ruin a reasonable photographic blog, with emotional female drivel?" Excuse me!
This is my blog, I'll post what I want.
It may not always be great reading but it's about me.
I guess, many visitors just looking in, for a specific weekly photo meme, which is where I presume Anon came from; may not want to wade through my minor dilemma's & other's may wonder why I say so much on subjects close so my heart.
This blog, follows in the footsteps of my first one.
It's a Internet personal log, in most part.
I write it as I would a personal diary of my life.
Living alone; some days I talk to know one, so I give voice here.
I spill the beans on my little drama's as a way of release, thinking them through, trying to make sense of them.
OK, sometimes it's not pretty & it's self indulgent.
But, you take it or leave it.
I don't rate my posts by the number of responses I receive.
And, I'm not going to start a separate photo blog, as I try to keep my posts on photo meme's current to my life.
To my friends, old & new who left supportive comments & ((hugs))
Thank-you! Just want to correct one thing, Little Buddy isn't a drunkard.
He just gets alcoholic melancholy, like we all do when we indulge too much & deep felt emotions come to the forefront; which is how come he wrote the email that spiralled me into the abyss again yesterday.
Sober, he realised he had nothing new to offer & had hurt me again.
Now, I could be easily be described as a man hater, I'm certainly a man dis-trustier & I'm deffinately very, very rarely comfortable in male company, childhood experiences saw to all that; which is why Little Buddy, faults & all has been so special to me.
No one's ever got closer, giving up a bond like that is hard.
And, I have no desire to let the barriers down again.
