Joyful and triumphant

I have sold the car - finally - and have a cheque to bank. Look out America, I'm on my way........

life of meaning

I've been contacting people recently and realising that they are having a thoroughly wonderful life, full of life! Normally by this time of year I would have numerous long week ends away, long haul holiday, week end visits to far flung friends but hey, no, I've stopped. Yep, my life has stopped, and I just hope that when it finally kick starts again in a few weeks I actually have enough life left in me to actually bloody well enjoy it!!!!


Very sad to report that the wonderful Mrs Kennedy of April Cottage has died. Found by her neighbour slumped in a chair in front of the television, she had experienced a pulmary embolism (don't know how to spell it) that grabbed her away from us. Mrs Kennedy, thank you. Thank you for your cakes, they were so much more than just a cake. And thank you for everything you have given. I WILL always remember you.

Exciting, well for me.....

I have come to discover that which is most wonderful, the very British Library......

I am in a Library once again, this time in a Cornish village. Fabulous stone architecture, just yummy. The people here all seem very grounded and very 'real'. I quite like where I am and feel that if I should return from the US, I would like to inhabit these here moors. In fact I would like to be anywhere except Leatherhead......

Have sold the car, well am just about to accept an offer from a VW Dealer. Have to whizz back to Surrey, get paperwork, empty car, dash back, wait for cheque to clear, dash back, get on plane, start having adventures.......

Phew, almost there.......

The Last Prince

Ah there you are! Wondered where you'd been hiding.........

Actually I'm hiding. Hiding from wasps. Hiding in the Library from the wasps. The Downstairs Lady has discovered a wasps nest in her guttering and has 'a man in to sort it' as I write. (Dahling, everyone needs a man in to sort it....) Downstairs Lady was really quite amenable, bit of a shock. Obviously the car parking debacle is the only thing to fire her wrath, that or maybe her happy state was party to the man I spied in her kitchen as she imperiously gestered me take in all the dead wasps in her hall..... Mmm, wonder why she had left all the dead rotting wasps in her hallway??

So I have to hide out in the Library for as long as possible as the fumigation takes about 40 mins. I have found an available pc station in the Library and intend to stay put for an hour. That way I should minimise the danger of very cross wasps being very cross with my very exposed flesh. Well I say very exposed but actually, I only have bare arms and maybe a little ankle........

Not sure I can manage an hour. I burnt my fingers on Sunday and I've knocked a finger on the corner of a bookshelf and one of the blisters has burst and, well it really really hurts! I think I might need to lie down and be fanned by a tall, dark Italian..........

Are there any tall Italians? Maybe there are some tall Italian Americans. Ahh, but I guess not in the Southern states that I plan to visit. Hope I spot myself a cowboy or two! Have to see all the cliches as well.......

The number is changing for the Library. Oh. Its a contact centre. No. It's a call centre, doesn't matter how you try and dress it up. Don't you just hate call centres? I do. I like to build relationships with people. Library assistants are people aren't they? Well..........

I'm getting excited about just getting on a plane and arriving in the US. That is if I can still fit in a single seat! I seem to be expanding at a rate to compete with The Prince of Pleasure, the Regency Prince of Wales.......

Now will the Yanks want to hear my opinion of our current royal family? Gawd I doubt it. Everytime I've been there they all gush with adoration of Diana, Princess of Wales. And we all know what I think about that, don't we children???!!!

Firstly can we all remember that she is, or rather was, Lady Diana Spencer and Diana, Princess of Wales. She was most definitely NOT Princess Diana. She was made a Princess of the Welsh Principality. Only being born into the immediate ruling monarchy allows the bearer to be titled King, Queen, Prince or Princess. Got it??!!

Not that I recognise her title, or indeed Prince Charles as the Prince of Wales. There was, and will be, only one Prince of Wales for me. Llywellyn ap Gruffydd, the Last Prince of Wales. How can an English person hold that title? Go and steal an English title. Why can't he be called Prince of England? He has more right to call himself the Prince of Greece for Gods sake......

Right my fingers are really hurting now and I want a cuppa so I shall attempt a battle run to the front door. Drat, I only have flip floppy sandals on.

I wonder if I'm allergic to more than one wasp sting...................