Here is the new window on the day after it was fitted.
Original photograph taken by me - copyright 2011/2012
We are very pleased with the new window. We can actually see the garden through it rather than looking through condensation on the window! We can also actually open the two side windows and I don’t think they will ever be painted shut like our old window!!
Now all we have to do is tidy up the garden since we can now see it through the window. 
This was the day the new window was being fitted. We weren’t too happy about it being done so close to Christmas because of the upheaval and the men doing the replacement could not promise us that it would be completed in one day, so we were having horrors about a gaping hole being left overnight if they did not finish it on this day!! Especially as it is so cold and windy too!!
Original photograph taken by me - copyright 2011/2012
I took this photograph while the men were having a little break!!
Thankfully they were able to finish it in one day but had to come back to do a little more sealing in places outside and we could see daylight through the bottom of the window frame until they came back the next day. We just hoped it wasn’t going to be too windy and cold overnight otherwise it would have been very draughty!!
I decided to take this photograph because the next day everything was going to change!
Original photograph taken by me - copyright 2011/2012
The day after I took this photograph the window was being taken out and replaced by a nice new one!
This one is looking a bit murky but until we took the shelf away that was acting as a window-sill we didn’t realise quite how bad it was!
The window was almost falling out, it was very old, and we had constant condensation there and were forever having to repaint it to make it look a lot better.
The windows themselves were painted shut and had been like that for many years before we moved here.
So, all change and looking forward to a much nicer window!!
As mentioned previously, my 101 year old Auntie Lucy had been staying with us while she recovered from a fall and a bump to her head.
Since staying with us she had wanted to sleep only in one of our armchairs! It seems that two or three days before she came to stay with us, she had started to sleep in an armchair at her home rather than sleeping in her bed. She said she didn’t like lying down!
When she had her fall, her doctor felt that she had had a small stroke, and we know that since the fall she was more unsteady on her feet and needed to walk with a frame for a while, although as I write this, now she does not need a frame.
She had been a little poorly before the fall so we think that maybe she was uncomfortable lying down. So, since she came to stay with us we made a bed for her every night in the armchair and with a footstall so she could stretch out but be upright.
Nurses visited us occasionally to check Auntie Lucy and also an occupational therapist came. She said that Auntie really had to have a bed otherwise she was sitting and sleeping in the one place which wasn’t good for her. Our spare bedroom is upstairs and Auntie Lucy would not be able to manage them.
So we got a new bed for her which the occupational therapist said should be in our Living Room. (She originally wanted to have a hospital bed in there but that would be just too big).
In order to get the Living Room ready for the new bed, we had to remove some of the furniture otherwise we would have been very cluttered in the room, (more so than normal)!!
Original photograph taken by me - copyright 2011/2012
So it was all change!! Paul’s son Clive came to help us move the furniture around in readiness for the new bed and the photo shows a small sofa being dragged up the stairs by Clive!
I just wanted to do a quick post here before I start uploading more of my Project 365 photos that I haven’t been able to post until now.
Since uploading the backlog of photos I have become aware that I have grown an army of followers, which didn’t seem to happen last year (2011) when I was posting photos, so I am not sure what has changed to now make this possible? I also wanted to thank those of you who have come along and visited and “liked” my photos/posts too.
I will visit all your blogs but really must get all my backlog of photos up here into the photo journal as my Project 365 will be coming to an end at the end of this month, so I really need to get them here before then. As soon as I have uploaded the backlog and can get back to posting one a day again, I will definitely come and have a look at all your blogs.
Thank you all again for visiting.
This was a new thing for us, so I felt I had to record it for Project 365!!
Since Paul’s operation he wasn’t able to drive for several weeks, so we had a bit of a problem with shopping for food and so on. We did not want to take advantage of the kindness of family and friends who did some shopping for us, so we decided to try a home delivery from one of our local supermarkets.
So, on this day, this is a photograph to record our first home shopping delivery from a supermarket!!
Original photograph taken by me - copyright 2011/2012
As you can see, Pippin thought it was interesting and unusual too, particularly as there were boxes of doggie dinner in amongst it!!
First of all, a belated Happy New Year to those of you visiting my Project 365 blog.
As explained in my last post for Christmas, other life things prevented me from adding my photos here on a regular basis. I have been very good and taken photos every day, but until now I just have not been able to add them here.
Now I have so many pics to add, it will take a little time over the next few days. I will continue the Day numbers from the last photo I posted here in September 2011, as my photograph-taking continued anyway every day since then.
I hope that these will now be added in the right order, but I have a feeling some may not be!! There are just so many of them that I have had to prepare to add to this blog – eg cropping excess stuff that just makes the photo too big to upload etc..
Anyway, I will try to get as many uploaded today as possible but because there is so much to add now, I might not write quite as much with each pic as I have done on my earlier posts. I’m also thinking that in some cases, I probably have forgotten why I took the photo in the first place, but that will be fun if we all wonder why I have included it in this journal!!
I know that it is such a very very looooooong time since I was able to add pics to this photo journal and am amazed it really has been ages since my last post. I have been very good and continued taking a photo every day, but just haven’t had the time or opportunity to add the photos here.
Due to illness in the family and later a sudden change with things in September I really have not had the time to be able to devote to any of the usual things I was doing.
I apologise to those of you who have been popping in to see something new but found it just the same as a while ago. I just hope you will come and visit again.
Since September we have been looking after my (then) 100 year old Auntie Lucy (she is now 101 years old). She lived on her own, was completely independent and able to do everything for herself. She would go to her art group meetings twice a week and was still exhibiting her paintings in September.
Then she had a fall and was a bit unsteady on her feet as a result of that. Her doctor told us that he thought she had had a little stroke. So we took her home with us and have been looking after her ever since. But since that time she has become very very forgetful and unless kept an eye on, could easily hurt herself because she is now unaware of things like hot cooker rings, and will stick her fingers into a toaster while the bread is toasting and picks up red hot plates and bowls but does not realise they are so hot. So we now have to watch her and make sure she does not hurt herself.
Anyway, it has become very obvious that she can no longer live on her own so she is staying with us on a permanent basis. That means that we have to be alert 24/7 to make sure she is safe and comfortable and she tells us she is happy staying with us.
It has meant that we have even less time now to do the things we would normally do, which is why it has become such a long time since I posted to this photo journal and my genealogy blogs. Now we realise that Auntie Lucy will always be staying with us I am hoping to get our routines done in such a way so that I can at least have more time to be able to get back to our usual things and find the time to add my photos to this journal before the end of the 365 days.
As it is now Christmas time I have made a little virtual Christmas card for my family and friends (haven’t had a lot of time to do real Christmas cards) and want to wish all visitors to this photo journal a very happy Christmas and a wonderful, happy, healthy, and successful New Year.
Digital card made by me December 2011 - copyright 2011
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Look out for all the photos I’ve been taking since I was last here and January will be bringing the end of the 365 days of photo taking!!
Oh silly, silly me!!! A week ago I was having a tidy up in our Study where all my genealogy, craft items, and all sorts live. As time goes by I end up with huge piles of this and that and it takes forever to go through them to find something in particular.
After I had been tidying up I decided that a bit of dusting and polishing wouldn’t come amiss, so I happily pottered about doing that. One of the cupboards that I have all my genealogy stuff in/on has a front flap which now had a broken hinge (because of all the weight of the paperwork and files I had put on it) and so I found that I couldn’t close it properly after the tidy up.
I fiddled about with it to no avail and then decided to just leave it open as a sort of desktop attached to the cupboard.
But oh, silly silly silly me did not realise that I had left the spray can of furniture polish where I was trying to sort out the hinge, so when I left the flap open (and then decided to look through one of my files on it - Wills are so very interesting, aren’t they) I did not realise that the flap was resting on top of the spray can!!
Original photograph taken by me - copyright 2011
I took this pic after I had cleaned up most of the furniture polish that had sprayed out in one spot under the flap I had inadvertantly rested onto the can. The spray can was emptied out of polish!!
Apart from having the bright idea of polishing everything in sight so I did not waste all the polish that had squirted out of the tin, I also had a lot of cleaning up to do of some of my genealogy files, with all those notes and information that was probably going to get smothered and smudged by the furniture polish!!! eeeeeeeek!
Original photograph taken by me - copyright 2011
At first I was relieved because much of the polish had squirted over some of my plastic folders and that didn’t seem so bad as I could just wipe them off. Buuuuuuut what I did not realise is that there were small holes at the bottom of each file – air holes maybe – where the plastic didn’t actually touch the bottom of them and also where some of the plastic was like a seam, that wasn’t tightly closed either, so the spray polish actually went inside the folders. (Groan, sigh, sigh, whimper).
I’ve decided that never again will a can of spray polish be allowed anywhere near all my genealogy files (or anything else for that matter) in the Study. Lol. 
The flap at the front of the cupboard has been removed until we get new hinges for it, so that’s on a to-d0 list to do soon.
Because I have had this awful cold and a touch of laryngitis I have not been able to go out much at all, so it’s not easy to keep finding things to take pics of at home! I decided that for yesterday’s post I would do one of the assignments at The Daily Shoot as I had not done one for a while.
For yesterday the assignment was: TGIF – To celebrate the end of the week, make an artistic shot of your favourite beverage or libation today.
Well I don’t know if it is an artistic shot, but here’s my favourite beverage – a good cup of tea … or two, lol.
Original photograph taken by me - copyright 2011
For many years I have drunk my cups of tea when they are warm or cold. This stemmed from where I was working in my very early twenties and we were always so busy I never got around to drinking tea or coffee until it was almost cold. I suppose it became a habit and now I cannot drink it when it’s hot.
Needless to say, that sometimes because I haven’t managed to finish a cup, another has been made (by either my man Paul or me) and so sometimes there is a queue of cuppas, as in this pic.
