BEN COMES TO STAY

JUST BONDING

We've had Debbie's Shih Tzu Ben here to stay with us for a week.....what a pet!

He's always been ready with a growl for me at ANY time - but not so this week....Ben knows not to bite the hand that feeds him :)   He has been a darling and is such a character.  We just love how he brings a toy to you when you come home....and he even tidies his own toys away!

We've had a great week with him while Debbie has been in Rome - and we will miss him when he goes home......didn't think we would feel that way!

  

......even better bonding!

Just going to help Auntie Linda with the gardening

                               

Uncle Jon and I keeping up with current affairs

Off walkies

Our bedtime selfie

 

RETURN TO MILLBURN ROAD

We head back to our own homw in Millburn Road -  I have been SO looking forward to returning and yet I am hit with mixed feelings now.  We had thought our lovely home was in safe hands, having entrusted all the rental proceedings to a local professional letting company - and through them letting our property to a professional 'gentleman'.

It appears there was nothing 'professional' about either the letting agents or the tenant and our home is no longer recognisable as ours.

 

I hope to post photos taken on the day we handed over to Peter Race... and the comparison of what we found awaiting us.
In the meantime  -  this is how this man and his daughter was living in our home!!
WHY??  HOW??



LOUNGE




 

SIDE HALLWAY



BEFORE

 

 

AND AFTER!

 

 

 

 

KITCHEN BEFORE

KITCHEN BEFORE

 

and after.....

 

MIDDLE FLOOR (MAIN)   BEDROOM

TOP FLOOR - LOUNGE TV ROOM

 

 

SMALLER TOP BEDROOM  - 

LOWER STAIRWAY - 




 

 

 

HOTPRESS AND BATHROOM .....

 

STAIRWAY ................................

 

He shall set me upon a rock.........Psalm 27

TIME FLIES.....AGAIN!

Seems like time is just whizzing past - the weeks fly faster and faster. It used to be said when you thought that way it was a sure sign you were getting older - well, even the young ones seem to think so now too.

A great part of the past weekend was spent in bed - a sure 'fibro flare' with all the old symptoms rearing their heads again. Amazing how quickly I can adapt to feeling good and then when the pain and fatigue hits I am caught totally unawares. In the good days / weeks it is easy to say that there's more to life than fibromyalgia (or any other debilitating ailment / condition), truth is that when it does hit, it takes my focus off the 'more to life' things and fair square on my limitations. And this is NOT what God intends or wants for me....He has bigger plans! To focus on my limitations is to focus on ME .....my focus must be on God Himself. O Lord, through all of this help me to keep YOU at the very centre of my focus, not to be distracted by that which I cannot control but rather to be drawn to You. Why O Lord am I so slow to learn?