Mid-July

“I figured something out. The future is unpredictable.”
― John Green

My last post was about Grandad and was on Father’s day – so it’s only fitting my next post starts with him as well! It’s funny how priorities and outcomes change as time goes on. Last year, when he went into hospital, our end goal was for him to go home. Gradually we’ve had to refocus our targets and have learned that sometimes the next best thing will have to be acceptable. The good news is that Grandad is coming ‘home’ in some respects, to a local nursing home. I hope that nobody has to go through seven months of hospitals because it has been gruelling.

The weather has been great. June into July was warm and we’ve just had the occasional (much needed) bouts of rain. I don’t recall when the last ‘proper’ Summer like this was, but it was way too long ago! Maisy has been once again enjoying a quick spell with the hose pipe…

One of my closest friends gets married in a couple of weeks and I had my first experience of a Hen do! It was…hilarious…

That pretty much sums up the photographs from the last little while, I’ve mostly taken iPhone shots here and there and Wedding season is in full swing so there’s that to contend with as well!

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Sunny June

“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

I hadn’t been to the meadow for such a long time, mainly because life has been very busy but also because it was living up to it’s definition of being a water meadow – but today it was so nice to go back. Whilst my Father mowed paths through the long grass and meadow flowers, we taught Buddy to swim across the small lake!

Buddy isn’t as adventurous as most dogs with the water, but after some coaxing and cheerleading from both sides of the lake, he eventually stopped running around it to get to us and instead, swam across. It was a proud moment! He did that a few more times, then got tired. So we wore him out even further by getting him to pose for various photos!

William even posed a few times too! It was lovely just being out in the sunshine, and forcing the hay-fever to peak and then regress a little. I’m feeling a lot more refreshed after a day of being very ill yesterday so the calmness and relaxing environment really helped…and inspired me to get snapping again with the camera!

Sorry this blog is a little ‘doggy’ heavy with the images, but I couldn’t resist. Just an update on Star, she’s doing really well and whilst she’s not up to roaming the meadow anymore, she’s doing really well at roaming the garden and house! Here’s some upbeat music to go with the mood of the day…

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