Change of Heart and Light

Change your Mind -  brighten your life with Yellow and Stylish Low-Energy

A 5 day tour, via 3 groups of friends, of Norfolk/Suffolk changed my mind about several things. I have always avoided yellow and green.  Still working on green, but yellow is now back on the list of options available to me.  And – I no longer HATE all LowEnergy lamps.  They are now more stylish, instant and brighter – halogen/discreet and no longer poking out of the top of pretty lampshades too!  I’m planning to create a sculpture with the hideous ones.

Planning My Funeral and Having Fun

The Saddest Funeral Ever

I have been to dozens of Funerals – but none like my Best Friend’s.  Everyone was crying.  I managed to talk to a room full of people who mostly didn’t know me – explaining that I was her best friend and her death had affected me more than the death of my own parents.  They were both 87 and their time had come.  It was way before her time was up as far as we were all concerned.

Why I need younger friends

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Techy stuff – and iCloud (which is much trickier than they make out – but still brilliant)

Yes, lots of other reasons too – they keep you young, help you with new vocabulary (like iCloud) and all sorts of other great things – apart from being vibrant and good fun.

First Loss

My Best Friend is dying

I have thought for days about whether to blog or not.  Then I thought – hardly anyone reads my blog, no one who does knows her, and I only write for me anyway.  It might make me feel better to have her remembered in print.  And I need something to help me.  Her name, like mine, is Jenny and I love her to pieces.  And my heart is broken.

Friends before Lovers

FRIENDS – 3 thoughts

People who allow a New Lover to replace friends are immature.

I have a small family and friends have always been the most important part of my life, so listening to Woman’s Hour this week interested me.  They defined 3 groups.

The NHS has changed!

Waiting lists seem to have disappeared in Berkshire

I was seen a week before Christmas and was operated on about 10 working days later.  I could hardly believe it.  I wasn’t kept waiting anywhere. Everyone was extraordinarily helpful and courteous.  The hospital was squeaky clean.

Sharing is SO much more fun

Try sharing 2 tiny macaroons with 4 other friends

I can’t tell you how much more fun this is than having 5 of these treats between you.  Just try it!

The Story

Yesterday we had two of our loveliest friends from London to lunch.  And then three quarters of the way through lunch another very special friend joined us. Just in time for all the real fun. And – as luck would have it, I was about to serve up delicious filo pastry apples which the Extra Friend just happened to have given me as a present the previous Saturday when we’d gone to supper at her house.  Life is sweet.

The London couple, a seriously fun arty pair,  came armed, as always, with a classy bottle of delicious wine and two extraordinarily special macaroons bought from that very expensive shop in the Burlington Arcade.  My friend had patiently waited whilst they coated them in gold leaf for her. An optional extra, one presumes.  And the care with which she had then carried the little box on 3 trains to get here was a feat!