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nuts in may nuts in may reflections musings of a grannie called maggie may wednesday 15 november 2017 explanations if there is anyone left who still reads my blog they will be wondering why i haven t posted lately if i m truthful i have completely lost the need to do it in my blogging heyday i had small grandchildren and lots of funny tales to tell two jobs and plenty of energy and things to talk about i suppose with the exception of a few other things i branched out into i wrote a journal of life as it was then sometimes funny and sometimes sad however my grandchildren have all grown up and wouldn t want to be written about and my circumstances have changed a lot and i have new interests and activities that have taken the place of the blog however no one can tell how things will turn out in the future so i might reconsider later on hopefully my blog will still be there if that happens it was a lovely era i think but one that seems to be over for now thank you everyone who followed me posted by maggie may at 15 38 29 comments sunday 24 september 2017 the waiting game the quality of these photos is not brilliant because i took them through the window for obvious reasons as i regularly put food out for the sparrows the pigeons have caught on that they ll be getting a free dinner from the mess that the smaller birds make so they line up on the kitchen roof waiting like vultures to seize their opportunity meanwhile next door s cat stretches out on my small shed roof in whatever sunshine he can find and the birds carry on feeding in an unafraid way occasionally the cat jumps down and tries to seize one of them just to let them know who is in charge he s getting too old and very rarely does any damage to them so life goes on posted by maggie may at 15 21 10 comments wednesday 30 august 2017 eyeing the world through my lens i ve been a long time between posts as i ve been in a kind of limbo with my eyesight and reading which affects blogging has not been too easy for a while this is because of the cataract operation that i had in june made my eyes very imbalanced while i waited for my second eye to be operated on meaning i needed my varifocal glasses for the bad eye and which i couldn t use with the good eye because of the lens implanted in that eye but i still need reading glasses for it anyway everything is a bit of a mess until i get my second operation in a few days time i m writing this with great difficulty surgery is very good in england but we have to be prepared to wait for it we ve had some very varied weather over here from very hot to cool dry to wet but nothing like the awful floods going on in usa right now that is a terrible disaster which we re following on our news reel the tv news is full of disasters and worrying things right now and some people don t watch it anymore however i feel i need to know what is going on we were fascinated by the total moon eclipse galloping across usa i seem to be writing to usa and canada readers so if i have anyone over here reading this you ll know all about the weather etc so please excuse me i ve had a good display of flowers in my tiny garden and the above clematis flowered for a long time but is over now posted by maggie may at 16 00 10 comments saturday 22 july 2017 bristol harbour festival every year bristol being a large city with a pretty long stretch of waterfront which leads out into the bristol channel and then the open sea has a harbour festival it attracts crowds from all over the country and lots of tiny yachts and boats of all kinds make their way into the harbour we also have several tall ships with masts and canvas sails rolled up one small replica ship that bristol people are very fond of is the matthew that john cabot used to find north america in 1497 it was widely believed that the sea was flat so he was a brave man to take such a small ship out into the unknown yesterday i was actually on board the matthew while it was tethered to the wharf and i realised just how small this little ship is and this replica has actually traced it s roots to canada and braved the atlantic ocean there and back just like it s predecessor apparently the ship rolls as well as pitches into the waves according to the man who showed us round yesterday and who has sailed the ocean in this ship so it takes a strong person to overcome sea sickness he believed in chewing root ginger when he felt queasy the festival goes on for the whole weekend and as well as the ships there are musical events stalls and thousands of people who cram themselves into a smallish area i m glad i went yesterday before the crowds arrived but of course i didn t get to see any of the events but managed a long walk round the harbour that stretches a good few miles and had a quiet pub lunch in relative comfort with a friend posted by maggie may at 15 47 13 comments sunday 11 june 2017 all things bright and beautiful have a little peek under the bandage my son said on returning from the eye hospital no i d decided to go by the book of instructions that i d been issued with the next morning i nervously took all the padding off wow everything was crystal clear and clean and colours looked beautifully bright the day before i d had the cataract on my left eye removed although i knew my sight was getting pretty abysmal i hadn t realised quite how bad it was how yellowy brown everything was becoming and how indistinct everything looked i d bought some wool to knit a cardigan thinking it was a sort of smokey grey and when i looked it was a much brighter denim blue this was just the beginning all manner of things are being noticed and i can t get over the pleasure of looking out into the far distance with my good eye and seeing everything clearly in the meantime i have a bit of a problem my untreated eye now seems to be redundant i can t see a lot out of it without my prescription glasses which i cannot now use because of the good eye taking one lens out of the glasses makes me see double and causes me profound giddiness i talked to my optometrist who told me he will not prescribe a contact lens and that i could put a patch over one eye well i decided to just get on with things and can see well enough with my good eye to live a pretty active life reading was a problem until a friend kindly lent me a cheap pair of reading glasses which i m using to write this post hopefully when the next eye is operated on i will not need glasses except for reading this is quite exciting as i ve been very shortsighted since i was ten and have worn glasses most of that time to correct this bristol eye hospital is really marvellous and the consultant who did the operation put a lens of my own prescription into the eye itself after taking out the cataract what marvellous technology can t wait for the next one to be done though i might have to wait a while posted by maggie may at 14 13 14 comments sunday 23 april 2017 little nooks and crannies i spent most of the day yesterday in my little garden cutting things back weeding tidying up and repotting etc i had a lovely time and although i was very tired and achey afterwards i found the day passed so quickly and i hardly stopped to eat looking around i realise i have lots of strange things in little nooks and crannies of my garden but i love finding little things to add to it sometimes children have called it a secret garden as you can search and find some hidden thing amongst the plant life other people s junk is fine for doing this posted by maggie may at 12 41 18 comments sunday 16 april 2017 happy easter happy easter everyone i wish you all peace hope to be back soon posted by maggie may at 07 23 9 comments older posts home subscribe to posts atom about me maggie may retired grandmother of four i m a cancer survivor i enjoy reading writing leisurely walking and looking at other people s gardens and pottering in mine living at a more leisurely pace these days view my complete profile post of the week awarded by 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