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Thamks Louisa, I shall have to be careful that I don’t get delusions of grandeur !
Nice that Sarah has been shown our sincere appreciation .

I like Fuchsias ,so varied ,look like little ballerinas ,actually I think one is named “ Ballerina”

Off to bloods clinic,actually I must check, it is a Bank Holiday.
Don’t want to go if only urgent bloods being done.

Sunny but still chilly here..

So now I must start phoning !

Grandson,(F.H and Kyra’s daddy )is 33 today .
I sent a message last night as they are probably akready out somewhere interesting this morning .

Hope everyone has a nice day.
Cheerio.Viktoria.

Yes Candleflame, it is funny ,sent it to my sister who refuses to grow old also.
She looks good at 90! However she  did have HRT .

.My Dr. said I was not a suitable candidate ,my sister stayed on for longer than the advised time, so I managed without ,the dreaded “ Change “ was nothing much ,but I know I was fortunate ,some of friends had a tough few years.

Washing out so off to shops.
A few clouds now so perhaps some of that wet stuff- what is it called ? OH YES—- RAIN!
So better shop and hope I am back before it teems down and washing all dripping.
Also before I change my mind re the new clothes ,never worn but now far  too big I have ready for the Charity shop.
Cheerio .Viktoria..

Many thanks folks for your wishes for my Birthday.
A quiet day ,but cards ,presents and phone calls .
Flash Harry and Kyra phoned as I had made a point of thanking them ( and their parents) for my cards and presents,F,H, was at school but I had sent him an email and he replied by phone when he got home.
His parents are very keen on them saying thank you so  I had to be sure to do the same .

Off to bed soon, finished a good book but won’t start another tonight.
Had a partial sort out of clothes much too big for me now, so Charity shop tomorrow before I put them back in the wardrobes !!!

Look after yourselves , we are a special band ,never meeting but very supportive and friendly .
Kind regards to you all.
Viktoria.
P.S just found a message from Flash Harry and Kyra ,she is “ playing “a musical instrument ,all squeaks and whistles while he sings Happy Birthday” 
😆😆😆😆😆
Viktoria.“

Rena, things come full circle sometimes, from a Lancashire background when the mills were still in full production ,it grieved my husband when in the 1960’s on business trips to India,he saw Lancashire looms being unloaded on the Bombay docks for the weaving industry there.
Whilst others were being smashed up in the mills in Lancashire ,a very sad period .

The industry had no doubt mostly run on what was little better than slave labour ,long hours ,poor pay and Dickensian work rules and poor housing   - much built by mill owners .

It needed improving ,but why was it almost totally stopped?
Whole towns losing the mills and subsidiary industries that supplied the machines and maintained them .
As with coal mining ,when the pit closes it affects so much else,so with the mills.
Brigidmac, what a very interesting visit ,I love cemeteries ,usually so peaceful .
At Sunday School and Chapel we walked down the central path - the only path - through the graveyard of the little chapel , with old graves and more recent ones on both sides, so in a way always visitors on Sundays .
If we were early and Sunday School not yet open we would walk through
and were familiar with the names etc of the other children’s antecedents .
Not gloomy or gruesome at all.

Many thanks for Birthday wishes , some lovely flowers from grandson,Flash Harry,Kyra, and their mummy .
Cards etc and had my present from number one son-some perennials  for the garden( they are in Rhodes) sister,sister in law,work colleague I was at school with , number two son a new oxygenator for my little pond .

A cool but sunny day .
Gammon steaks for  tea ,so not much cooking .
Thanks again for the kind wishes
Am going to further sort  out my wardrobes ,get rid of things too big and not worn for a good while.You watch- I will probably gain weight - Sod’ s law!
Who was Sod?

Cheerio , best wishes to anyone else whose birthday is today .
Viktoria.

Whatever party gets in they never really do what they have said  they would do if elected or keep promises made pre election.

Unless you get an ordinary working person earning a modest wage or an unemployed person who has really sought employment in a position where they can make their real difficulties known to those in power so changes will be made ,there will always be gross inequality .
I don’t mind some people having a great deal,more than I have, I have enough for a modest lifestyle but really feel sorry for young people working hard who can’t get on the housing ladder and are at the mercy of greedy landlords .
Margaret Thatcher had a lot to answer for,selling off Council housing stock
and letting borrowing include the wife’s salary which raised house prices, and allowing Estate Agents to be involved in mortgages.
They had a vested interest in high interest rates !
She let down the class from which she came .

I voted Conservative in that election ,I thought a woman would be more attuned  to family  needs etc,

Many thought ‘“Oh ,a woman,she will be more down to earth,”


Never mind ,we are not in Israel, Gaza or Ukraine ,for which I am very thankful.Viktoria.