tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19713733560068198432024-02-15T09:45:40.978+00:00Pembrokeshire Lasspembrokeshire lasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00833127199774032916noreply@blogger.comBlogger134125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1971373356006819843.post-24274887280915536702019-09-28T15:38:00.001+01:002019-09-28T15:38:25.400+01:00<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It is good starting to blog again!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">And to catch up with</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">so many of you!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">As I started visiting your blogs</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">so many people that you wrote about,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">so I caught up with them as well!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This week was Hubbie's birthday</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">and it seemed as if</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">but meals out and trips</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">the south of Pembrokeshire where he was born.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">where they often went </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">His grandfather was a lay-preacher and often</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Years ago, when I was a lay preacher myself,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">(I had mentioned him in the sermon)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">She said that she remembered, if the tides were wrong...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">As I have said in the past</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I think when I last wrote</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Unfortunately my breathing is not at all good now</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">and I have a job to walk and talk</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">so I had to finish there last year...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I was so sad about that</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">as I really enjoyed taking groups of tourists </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">All these things I want to ....and mean too do</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"this will be the day that I start writing my blog again!"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It is all so easy to stop doing things</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">well I completed 4 years of my Open University </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">......the hedge of thorns </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It was years before I discovered this tower.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Some say a folly that the monks in the monastery used....</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We went to the Isle of W</span><span style="font-size: large;">ight.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In the past I have emailed them to myself </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">but today I am in agony and can barely move my left leg. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I had an emergency appointment with an osteopath this morning who eased it slightly but it's still pretty bad!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I've been trying to get on with my studies </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">(Luckily I've managed to get an extension of 2 weeks but really don't want to use all of it as my exams are on 7th June!!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I had planned to study today but, as I'm on lots of painkillers and in a lot of pain, I just cannot do it! Panic .....panic!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I've been reading all sorts of books since I last wrote. I took</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Sarah Morgan's books never disappoint!! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This one, </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">'How to Keep a Secret' </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> It tells life stories of several different people whose lives intertwine. It is so compelling.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> ....and bewitching </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">that I was really sorry to come to the end!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">There is another book that I so enjoyed </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and I haven't stopped telling anyone I meet about it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">by Judy Leith. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Again, I wholeheartedly recommend this book! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I cried with laughter, </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">held my breath as the heroine looked to be getting in over her depth, and grieved as well! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I believe that it is Judy's first book </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It was such a good read </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I do hope somebody will 'discover' it!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Right, I think I have wittered on long enough!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Those of you that I failed to return visit...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am sooo sorry!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Latin study has really taken up so much of my days.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Only another month to go ,,,,,oh help!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I really love the colours and the owls are so cute!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I am also very busy studying for my degree.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I find the Latin really hard</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">soooo </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">interesting!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">and it's mainly just locals</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Do you notice the Napoleonic fort?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">There are forts all-round the Milford Haven estuary.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In fact my grandfather</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">in the First World War.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It is how he met my grandmother!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">he met my grandmother,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I've actually made three </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Inside I placed pictures of her father and family...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">guiding visitors around a local castle.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">When I last posted at the end of May...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: large;">I fondly imagined</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: large;">at least weekly!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: large;">But ....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: large;">within a few days....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: large;">I was back in hospital......</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: large;">this time for 2 weeks!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: large;">The registrar took one look at me....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: large;">practically pushed my husband out of the way....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: large;">and told me he was admitting me immediately...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: large;">I was in hospital for 2 weeks!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: large;">I didn't get to answer your lovely comments.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: large;">I am soooooo sorry!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">It was so encouraging to read.......</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: large;">and had been wondering what had happened to me!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: large;">Thank you all so very much!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: large;">I intend to try to post more often ....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: large;">and visit....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: large;">and reply to your comments!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: large;">This last time in hospital was such a shock</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: large;">as I thought that at last</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: large;">I had finished with all the orthopaedic operations.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: large;">I was off crutches for the first time in</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: large;">9 years....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: large;">and then.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: large;">I ended up back in hospital!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: large;">Ah me....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: large;">Well I had to defer</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">I can't believe that it has been so long since I last posted.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: large;">I don't know why I haven't written.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: large;">Life just seemed to get too full and it's too easy</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: large;">to let time without posting....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: large;">one because the fixing in my back loosened.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: large;">so they had to reopen and start again!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: large;">I'm afraid I took much longer!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: large;">and journaling around them</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: large;">sells some beautiful foiled stickers in...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I shared about my Open University studies....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I passed my Examinable Assignment</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It takes 16 hours of study a week..</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Life seems to have been so full.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">A cry I know many of us echo as we try to catch life by the coattails!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I decided that, with all the sitting around, being unable to get out</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I've taken it one assignment at a time..</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">and so many times I have sat in front of the computer and thought</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"I can't do this!"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Yet, I have!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I have so enjoyed the breadth of what I have learnt...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">sometimes I have felt angry </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">But, I've done it!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So, I have had my head down for days</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Well more than it usually is!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">My physio said that the back pain.. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">He said we won't know for another 12-18 months</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">While I had been thinking all is pink...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">when my mother and I went to Madeira</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">we went on a trip right up into the mountains..</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Mum and I bought a few...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">They became overgrown with weeds and brambles</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">when he said....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"This is a strange weed"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I couldn't believe it...and rushed to put it in a pot...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Sorry about all of this..</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">that the fusion seems to be working and</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I just love to chat to you like this...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It's one I can easily manage on the crutches</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">A very big THANK YOU......</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This is my wonderful friend (who has really kept my spirits up by taking me out every few days....)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">how far does friendship go??</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">of being in wheelchairs, on crutches </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">and be able to go on my favourite</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">and unselfishly helped me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.tangled-yarn.co.uk/collections/free-patterns/products/phoebe-free-knitting-pattern">Tangled Yarn Phoebe Knit a Long</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The pain in my back is easier</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">(though this is sometimes very painful).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">so they decided to do an Xray</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">low and behold...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So I am going back to Cardiff </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I have been rather down.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Although I know that hip replacements are routine and very successful now...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It's the thought </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I know some of you have been through so much worse but it's only a few months since my last major op and sometimes I think that I just don't have the energy for this all over again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Plus over these last 6 years I have had been in plaster 3 times (2 of these ops.1 of those a fusion) on my left ankle;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">2 times on my right (1 was an op.);</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">2 back operations</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">and now...this!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">And...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I was told...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"This will be it...after this all will be well...."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I thought I'd be up and able to walk our lovely coast path and do things with my mother and grandchildren without having to take handfuls of painkillers and sit down every few steps...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I'm fed up of putting a brave face on so that people will want to be in my presence.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I'm fed up of people laughing at things that I have to do for day to day living..</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">like carrying things up and downstairs </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">(which I do as seldom as possible as it's so painful) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I laugh with them laughing at me</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">but inside I'm bleeding!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In the Drs the other day I was in tears and was told "Never mind. Use your black humour. You'll get by"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Now you see, my friends, why I haven't blogged in so long....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I've probably already driven away</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">the few of your who have been kind enough to write!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Sorry!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Life has just been too painful</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">and upsetting</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">and I can no longer put on a mask</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">and joke about it!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">who led a very gifted ministry.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">She said "No.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Last week I was told</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">so that the bone grafts</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Before my appointment last week...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I had been thinking that I should be </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">..that it was 'time' for me...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">to pick up the reigns of the house, meals etc...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It was such a relief to be told by a professional...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I am so grateful</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">for all that I am learning....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It is the most glorious yarn</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It was very expensive but so worth it!</span></div>
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<a href="http://thebrickstreetbungalow.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/enabling-rabbit-chases-and-unloved.html">Lisa's Wrap</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I had made one for my daughter in law in the summer and Mum loved it..</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">yes another Noro Kogarashi!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">They really are a lot lighter!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So....I haven't made much really...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I have started a few things and then not been happy and so pulled them out!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It's been a strange couple of months...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">thank you all so much</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">for writing</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">and even one friend sent a card!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I do so appreciate</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">the love and support that you have all shown..</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">sorry I haven't written back</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It somehow feels </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">as if time is in slow motion </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">and everything takes so long to accomplish </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">that I often don't even start!!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The result is </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">that I seem to have got </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">very little accomplished!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I've been in quite a lot of pain</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">(even with all the meds)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">and it feels as if the op last September (2012)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">hasn't had much effect.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">However....</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I am going to Cardiff</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">(100 miles away)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">for a major back op</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">on 26th of this month!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">At the moment I am trying to get everything ready</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">both for being in hospital for a week</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">but also..</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">...especially with Christmas looming!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I so hope that this will do the trick</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">and that I will be out of pain and able to walk and get about more easily!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I am so sorry that I haven't visited any of you recently.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I just don't seem to have the energy.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It doesn't mean that </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I haven't thought and spoken of you all a lot!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Hopefully I will get to see some of you soon...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I might even be able to visit</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">if the hospital has Wifi.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Have a wonderful Thanksgiving, my friends in the USA</span><br />
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pembrokeshire lasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00833127199774032916noreply@blogger.com32tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1971373356006819843.post-74661273476377400882013-09-27T16:30:00.000+01:002013-09-27T16:30:06.177+01:00Hope<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">seems to be the universal symbol of</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">That's why I chose this picture</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">from many that I took</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">from our windows last year!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We seem to have a lot of rainbows here</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">particularly in November.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">God said that, when we saw it,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So why am I showing this</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">of all the pictures that I could have chosen?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I was on the way to my doctor this morning</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">'Why am I feeling so flat....almost dead inside?'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">....and asked myself what had happened.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So....what went wrong??</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So....what happened a month ago?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">That is all good and fair..</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">and very wise and reasonable</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">That was 6 months after!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I feel like I have lost hope!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Sorry for moaning</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Sorry about this miserable post</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">but I've read often enough</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">please give me time....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Hence the rainbow....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So many of you</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">and I suffered terribly with asthma.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">this was their home.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">What a busy place it was then </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">and all the rest of the things necessary </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">as he installed the electric lighting!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Debra at <a href="http://www.commonground-do.com/"><span style="color: black;">Common Ground</span></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">...listen to the 'plop'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">She so enjoyed reading what you wrote.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">She reads my blog quite often and likes reading </span></div>
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