Summing up Sunday.

I had a pleasant walk with just Stanley this morning, longer than our usual route and it was a good brisk walk.  The sun was shining this morning which was nice after the horrible day we had yesterday.  

I'm not sure if I will blog as much this month as I am going to keep a journal/scrapbook. I do this every now and again, but haven't done one in ages, but fancy doing something a bit more artistic for a change that doesn't involve sitting at a computer.  I will still post pictures from my walks though.

My left shoulder has been troubling me for the last few days and I had quite bad left sided head pain yesterday which I haven't had in a long time.  I hope this isn't going to become regular again.  The air pressure was very low yesterday so not sure if that had any bearing on it or not, but I have taken note of it.  I also have quite bad pain in the back of my neck, again something I haven't had in a quite a while...so feeling a bit miffed about that.  I've been on a whole pretty good the last coupe of months with regards to my pain levels, so this is rather unpleasant especially as the pain is also starting to run down my arm today.  Usually it is my right arm that gives me the most grief.  I am wondering if it is because when I walk the dogs, my left arm has been held back quite a bit recently as Percy is slower, so my arm tends to pull backwards slightly. 

Our lovely maple tree is starting to change colour and lose its leaves...although not as fast as the Oak in the street.  It seems we are the only ones who bother to rake up the leaves on the verge...and yes you guessed right, the leaves that were on everyone else's verges have all blown  on to ours after the wind yesterday.  We have been raking the leaves up every few days.  If everyone did their own verges, we wouldn't have to completely fill our green bin!  It really strikes me how lazy people are now.  I think there is only about two other people in our street that will rake up leaves or pick up the odd branch that falls on their verges.  Across the road they pay for someone to 'blow the leaves' around in a most non-environmentally, noise and air pollution way. Why the gardeners don't use a rake and broom I've got no idea.  No noise pollution, no air pollution, and actually achieves the task in hand which is to remove the leaves!   A few houses down from us there has been a baby's hair brush sitting in their driveway.  When I first saw it I thought about picking it up, but thought they probably would...but two weeks later it is still there, and looking rather the worse for wear now!

I made a Shepherds Pie for dinner tonight which was very tasty and will do nicely for tomorrow night as well. 

Lovely to welcome some new followers. :)

Time to warm up some heat packs to put on my neck and shoulder and sit and relax I think.  I've done battle with the vacuum cleaner today, my least favourite pastime as it doesn't treat me nicely!