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sounds as if i have spent the month either eating or reading let s check it out 1 second everyday posted by debs14 at 14 51 7 comments sunday 1 march 2026 the shortest month which seemed to last a long time february may only last 28 days but it seemed to go on forever it has been eventful and not always in a good way we are having a full on decluttering of the house and when i say we i probably should say mostly paul it s not just a matter of spring cleaning it s kind of been forced upon us as we have our daughter and children coming to live with us when their house sale finalises i won t go into details but their family situation is changing and they will be living with us until she manages to find a new home for the three of them our main priority is to make sure the children feel as supported and loved as possible they have always seen our home as their second home so i hope the transition won t be too traumatic for them but can you imagine how much stuff we are having to find room for our daughter was kindly given three tickets for a spurs home game by someone who has a season ticket and wasn t going to use them they were gratefully snapped up by leo our son and paul they were fantastic seats and although the match ended as a draw they were seated behind the goal and saw all four of the goals with a birds eye view i had thought that i had a week free of childcare during the half term but events conspired against that happening and one one day i found myself taxiing our son and his children to meet our daughter and hers at a trampoline park after an hour of watching boisterous children screaming with joy bouncing all over the place we enjoyed a trip to mcdonalds not the day that i had planned but is was lovely to see all the children having so much fun of course we had to have pancakes on shrove tuesday why do i never think to make them at other times of the year and the countdown to easter begins i have a new crochet project which is keeping me busy one of the benefits of joining the knit and natter group is that it encourages me to keep crafting i need to make 40 granny squares to sew together to make a cap sleeved top for the summer ten down and thirty to go my sister has had an accident she slipped off a kerb stone fell awkwardly on her side and has completely shattered her thigh bone from hip to knee she s in so much pain and has had to have a titanium plate screwed in to hold the bone together i think it is going to be a long road to recovery i ve only read one book this month my friends by fredrik backman it s the story of a painting a view of the sea with a three children playing at the end of a pier in a random sequence of events the artist meets 17 year old louisa outside an auction where the painting will sell for a large amount of money soon after louisa becomes the owner of the painter and by meeting ted one of the children depicted on the pier she learns the story of the deep friendship of the children all with difficult home lives who cling to each other to negotiate their teenage years it is touching and poignant happy and sad it has all the same emotions as his previous book a man called ove i would recommend you try it so that is it for this month let s check it out 1 second everyday posted by debs14 at 10 16 5 comments sunday 1 february 2026 january 2026 over and out we had two events planned for this weekend and i was unsure about both of them the first was a quiz night organised by my zumba teacher i signed up for it in november when january seemed a long way away we had been assigned tables of six and whilst we are friends with one of the other couples we didn t really know the other couple a couple of weeks ago the teacher told us that the hall she had hired for the evening had been flooded and she was struggling to find an alternative venue a little part of me was relieved however she did find somewhere new and we set off on friday we had such a fun evening the quiz was lighthearted and when george michael was the answer to the second question i had a feeling that all was going to be ok after all i am a bit of a superfan of his there was a brief moment when we were the top team but then we had a bad round we had to name the seven presenters of countdown and as none of us watched it we could only guess at a few likely names we got two right which was two more than i expected we didn t slip too far though as eventually we came third the second event was a barbecue that had been organised by one of the guys my husband plays badminton with luckily although the food was barbecued outside we ate inside trust me when i say that it took ages to decide what to wear as it needed to be suitable for being outdoors or in the men obviously all knew each other through badminton but i really only knew two of the women there which is why i was a little apprehensive i needn t have worried they were all lovely and very friendly so it was a really nice get together we had wondered why on earth they had planned a barbecue for january but we then learnt that there is a 65th birthday being celebrated later in the week luckily we found that out in time to rush out and buy a card isn t it wonderful when you have low expectations and then things are so much better than you had imagined they might be so i think it is fair to say that january brought some highs and some very deep lows we are gradually becoming accustomed to life without our gorgeous coco but it will be some time before i stop being sad to come home to an empty house or miss watching her silly antics dragging all the blankets out of the basket to make herself comfortable in the evenings here s how the month looked 1 second everyday posted by debs14 at 17 47 5 comments saturday 24 january 2026 books books books it s been a while since i ve shared what i have been reading i had become obsessed with the seven sisters books and need to find something different to read this month s book club choice was theo of golden by allen levi i really enjoyed this book although it did make me cry a little close to the end a mysterious elderly man arrives in the town of golden and pops into a local coffee shop where he is entranced by a display of over 90 pencil drawn portraits which are hanging on the walls of the shop intrigued by the talent of the artist and the personalities shown in the portraits he decides that they should escape the confines of the coffee shop and be handed back to the people they depict he buys a few of the drawings and begins his mission to hand them to their rightful owners by talking to the owner of the shop he is directed to a building where he may find someone who could help him contact the people concerned in doing so he also makes a new friend and finds somewhere to live for the time that he is in golden no one knows the surname of theo he is skilled in redirecting conversations with those to try to find out more about him his only clue that he is willing to share is that he originates from portugal one by one he distributes the drawings people are initially suspicious of his reasons for doing this but gradually those he meets are won over by his charm and generosity the book weaves a story which encapsulates those whose likenesses have been captured and the town falls in love with theo so did i what an example of goodness he is to everyone he meets and what characters have been drawn by the artist after finishing the book which ultimately shares the story of theo s life before he went to golden i firmly believe that we should all try to follow his example so onto my next very different book curfew by jayne cowie which has an alternative title of after dark i know we sometimes say things would be so different if women were in charge but let s now imagine a world where that has happened a female government has decided that most harm done to women is by men and the only way for women to be safe is for boys are fitted with an electronic tag at the age of ten which they will wear for the rest of their life no male is allowed out of their homes after 7pm until daylight in the morning women are able to walk the streets late at night in safety not scared to be out alone in the dark in order for a couple to live together they have to be interviewed to ensure that the man is not considered to be a danger to his partner one of the side issues of this is that men cannot have a job which involves evening work they cannot have a social life outside of the home in the evening so the traditional role of the woman being the homemaker is reversed sarah works at the department where tagging is carried out she lives with her daughter cassie in a house completely accommodating women sarah s husband is in prison due to breaking curfew and cassie is hostile to her mum believing her to be the reason he was outside in the evening as she had thrown him out of the house and would not let him back inside cassie hates living in a world which places such restrictions on men and is finding life as an 18 year old very difficult especially in respect of not being able to have a normal social life or relationship with a boy because those in power believe that the only way for women to be safe is to restrict their presence she is becoming rebellious and unable to accept the fact that these rules have been brought in for the safety of womankind so when a horribly assaulted body is found in the park one morning everybody is convinced that the murderer must have been a woman how could it be anything different when men s tags ensure that any movement outside the home is being monitored a curfew tag is the ultimate proof they were not outside or is it two very different books i would probably give curfew 3 out of 5 stars because it made me wonder what life would be like if women were in charge of everything but it didn t leave me with a very uplifted feeling my post has been prompted by reading deb s what s on your bookshelf challenge posted by debs14 at 17 10 4 comments thursday 22 january 2026 we are officially 3 4 of the way through the month and thankfully the days are gradually lengthening i don t like january and am always pleased when we have turned the page into february talking of turning over pages i ve just finished reading this month s book club choice theo of golden by allen levi what a lovely book although there was one sad chapter towards the end if only we could all be like theo the world would be a better place if you are looking for a heartwarming book to read this month i suggest you give it a try my knitting group have a new project we are making poppies to send to the charity standing with giants they need about 37 000 to use in installations at the british normandy memorial later this year i ve only just found the pattern that i will be using i have been working on four different ones i don t know how many we will make but every little bit helps in other crafting news the scarf is finished and has been worn several times already we are off to a music quiz at the weekend which is being organised by my zumba teacher historically we don t ever win any quizzes we take part in maybe this will be the one which is our turning point we have also been invited to a barbecue by one of the guys who plays badminton with my husband yes you read that right a barbecue in england in january the weather forecast says it will be drizzle with a gentle breeze and a high of 7 celcius i am hoping that the plan is for him to cook the barbecue outside and then we will eat the food inside i will report back next week i will be dressing in layers just in case what do you have planned this weekend posted by debs14 at 20 02 2 comments monday 12 january 2026 starting anew i feel like i need to reset and start the year anew as the first week of 2026 was such a sad one i am realising that i need to keep as busy as possible and to shake up routines so that i m not constantly thinking of what i would normally have been doing easier said than done when the weather is miserable and you really don t feel like moving from a warm comfortable arm chair so i am cracking on with the scarf that i am knitting it s incredibly hard to photograph as it gets bigger as it is a triangular shape knitted on circular needles i ve been knitting it while watching the harlan coben drama run away i m six episodes in and i m finding it hard to predict how it will end ruth jones who wrote and starred in gavin stacey is a private investigator in it and is so very different to nessa i m reading our book club s choice of book theo of golden i m nearly half way through and am enjoying it a lot it s very different to the last books i read which were the seven sisters books oh my goodness they were so cleverly written and the final one about the man who adopted the girls is incredible how was he in every book and i didn t realise the latest series of the traitors is airing in the uk and i am hooked what a bunch of characters there has already been a reveal of a mother and daughter and also a girl and boyfriend but there is a theory that the whole group are couples in one way or another one of the guys james is a personal trainer in a village about 4 miles from me but i know nothing about him so can t reveal if there is anyone else in there that is already associated with him have you heard of an analogue bag apparently it is gaining popularity with younger people it s just a bag in which you keep things like knitting a book crossword puzzles or a journal anything that you could dip into instead of scrolling through social media what a brilliant idea i always keep either a book or a kindle in my bag if i have an appointment somewhere in case there is a delay does this mean i was actually ahead of the trend for once what would you keep in yours posted by debs14 at 12 30 4 comments thursday 8 january 2026 sad news those of you who know me on facebook will already know that on tuesday we had to say our last goodbyes to our darling coco she had been diagnosed with a heart murmur some years ago and was on medication for mitral valve disease but she seemed to be defying the odds and was still really healthy in all other ways so it was still a shock when she suddenly collapsed and a scan showed that the valve had torn and there was nothing they could do for her an hour earlier she had eaten a good breakfast and had a lovely long walk over the park so i will be forever thankful that she was living a good active life up to the end we are heartbroken and our house feels quiet and empty so i wanted to record some of the fun of living with her for over 14 years she was very good at giving you the pleading puppy dog eyes when you were eating something that she thought you should be sharing with her yesterday i found myself holding back some macaroni and tuna from olive s lunch and this morning i automatically cut off some poached egg ready to give her at the end of breakfast it will take a while to 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