Had a strange experience today but in a good way..

I have to tell you all about this strange experience that I had today. It was a kind of surreal moment but it brought tears to my eyes in some way.

I was sitting on the sofa watching t.v. and I could see some birds playing in the rather bedraggled forsythia bush that is touching the front window. When all of a sudden I saw a flash of red. I looked closely and a beautiful robin came hopping out of the branches and sat on one of the outside branches and looked straight at me. This may not be a strange experience to some but it is when another robin suddenly comes from nowhere and sits right next to this robin. The proceeded to look in the living room window for a good 5 mins. Then with a bob of their heads they flew off. What really was strange is that we have a resident robin in the back garden but in all the years we have lived here we have never ever seen one robin round the front, let alone two.

Now me being me had a lovely thought when I saw these two robins, and I would like to think that they were possibly my mum and my nan come to let me know that they are looking over me and wanted to wish me Happy New Year! It may have been utter nonsense but I have a gut feeling about this and we do get strange things happen, for example seeing a squirrel in our garden for three days then totally disappearing when my cat Barney died a couple of years ago. Bearing in mind we have never seen a squirrel in our garden in the 14 years we have lived here, and have not seen a squirrel since.

I had a lovely warm feeling once the robins had gone, although I will admit I did have a wee cry to myself.

Who's a special little polar bear???

Knut, the polar bear that was born 5 November 2006 celebrates his first birthday today. He's a wonderful looking bear now, weighing in at a whopping 17 stone. It's so hard to believe that animal activists wanted him destroyed because Knut was going to be hand reared by his keeper. But because of world attention etc, Knut did indeed get hand reared by his owner and he has turned into a lovely polar bear, although he could do with a wash as he is definately not the lovely white fluffy baby he was once :)





And I promise there will be some stitching updates posted very soon, well once I have finished some stitching that is..lol

A pretty little plant..

I finally found out what this little plant is called - "Hoya Bella" I inherited it from Mum's while I was sorting her house out before the funeral. It's a really sweet little plant, but knowing my mum's penchance for the weird and wonderful I had no idea what it could be. Then it flowered, wow is all I could say..the flowers were wonderful. So armed with a picture of the flowers I then went to hunt it down in my mother in law's flower books, and this weekend I found it..woohoo!!

May I present the year old addition to our family:

One very old cat..

Pussywillow, a semi feral cat has reached the grand old age of 26yr old. She is still sharp in mind and eyes according to her owner Lin Brown. She survived a fox attack four years ago, and is still going strong.

Apparently a healthy cat can live to 18yr and some cats do live to 20yr but living to 26yr is almost unheard of. Pussywillow may have even reached the Guiness Book of Records by living this long.

What a lucky cat she is.

Full story can be found here: Pussywillow