Hey, . I wish you a happy Sunday, an enjoyable read of the newspapers and then a fine dinner….just like me! But I suspect that the more technologically inclined amongst you, just have a quick look online, if you want to find out what is happening in the world. . Does this mean that quite [...]
Nov
22
2009
22
2009
Sep
18
2009
18
2009
Son Of Bear.
Hello dear peeps, . Today is a very cold one up here in the chilly North East. I have fished out my big sheepskin boots. Unfortunately not real Uggs, but a fair copy, and they do keep my feet well toasty. I have worn these during the winters for most of the last several years [...]
Sep
17
2009
17
2009
Sorry. It Happened again.
Hello folks, . I must make yet to you all. Today I got a heads-up from a charming lady named Manmeet, who had tried to access my site and had been totally unable to get it to show any of my paintings. Thank goodness she told me, or I would have gone blithely on just [...]
Sep
16
2009
16
2009
Who’s A Pretty Boy Then. 2.
For your further edification dear peeps, . With reference to an today. . has just informed me that the earliest known reference to the phrase ‘sick as a parrot’ originated in a book published in 1682, written by Aphra Behn, and titled ‘The False Count’. . In scene 2 a chambermaid called Jacinta enters the [...]
Sep
15
2009
15
2009
Mr.T. Saves The Day.
Hello people, . Today I am very happy, in direct contrast to how ‘sick as a parrot’ I felt yesterday, after having to spend the correcting my own mistakes. That is even worse than correcting someone else’s ineptitude, because you have nobody else to blame. Sudden thought. I don’t know where that saying,’sick as a [...]
Sep
14
2009
14
2009
My Apologies.
Hello, my dear long suffering peeps, . I must apologise to those of you who have been trying to open posts, and have then found that they are not available. . How bloody annoying and frustrating for you. . I must confess, much as I hate to say so, that it is all my fault. [...]
Sep
6
2009
6
2009
Fagged Out.
Hi dear peeps, . Sorry if you have been looking at anything on ‘Jaksie’ today and you found it all looking rather strange. . I don’t know what happened…or what I did …but there were all sorts of strange spacings between the lines of my blogs. . Once I noticed this…at 9.30am… I had to [...]
Sep
3
2009
3
2009
A Good Result.
Hi, . I was so upset by the this morning that I quite forgot to tell you the good…very good…news about Big H. . You may remember the first blog, where I told you all about his , and then the following one about to solving his problem once and for all. . Well, he [...]
Aug
31
2009
31
2009
I Can Do The Little Coloured Bits Now.
Hello to you dear peeps, and to your dogs, cats, budgies, and various other dependents and friends. . As it is only seven o’clock upon a fine Bank Holiday Monday, I am sitting here in almost total silence. Just the odd car passing by the house, and even the crows seem to be eating their [...]
Aug
28
2009
28
2009
Mr. T Can SEE!
Hello to you. . I have some excellent and wonderful news to share with you all. . It has to do with eyes, and it happened this way. . My eldest son was unfortunate enough to inherit his eyesight from me, and not from his father. . At an early age he began to become [...]
Jun
20
2009
20
2009
Cataracts.
Hi, . Yesterday I went to town for my yearly eye test, which is now free because I am over 60. . Last year the Optician used some kind of new camera that takes a photograph of the insides of your eyes, in order to check for all kinds of disease and degeneration. . You [...]
Jun
20
2009
20
2009
Email to my son
Added by the son in question: “Hello darling boy, Well, I am sorry to tell you that I have lived down to your expectations and totally ruined all of your work in setting up my Jaksie site yesterday. I posted a test blog thingy and lost the front page altogether. I tried for hours but [...]
Jun
20
2009
20
2009
What was I thinking of?
. . I am bloody sick of doing this blog already and I have not even started it. . I woke up this morning with the thought that there was no place for older women to go to find out what sort of hairstyles suit older women. What style of gear suits a body that [...]
