Nice Day, Bad News

This morning we woke up to this view:

 

We are being spoilt with this sunny spring weather again. We lay in bed for 40 minutes just chatting away. It's nice to have those lie in days. But then, my mum called me & told me about what the Dr had said about my dad yesterday. Dr. Lewis comes to visit my dad at home every few weeks to check up on him.

Now, my dad has always been a very outdoors person. When I was little, up until he was diagnosed with the cancer, he would always be up at 7am walking the dogs on the beach & then spending the rest of the day doing something outside. So this sunny weather = my dad going out. The other day, he was in the JCB putting some fence posts up with my brothers & my mum said to me ''Your dad will be half dead after doing this..."

It's always the same. He rests until he's feeling 'okay' then he'll try and overdo something, then suffer until he's well enough again. So a few weeks back I mentioned he had pluracy in one of his lungs, well, he took some antibiotics for that & we thought he was better. But, he hadn't finished the course of antibiotics & had gone outside all day (even though the sun is out & is warm it's still pretty cold unless your out of the breeze). So my mum told me this morning that the Dr has found he has the fluid now in both lungs... so he's been told off by my mum, brothers & friends to make sure he does not overdo anything & to make sure he finishes his course of antibiotics this time.

The other day I was looking back at old pictures & it makes me so sad & also, very angry that this had to happen to my dad. The guy who used to be smiling all of the time, joking all of the time, out everyday - rain or shine, the guy who used to get so mad if I stayed in on a nice day... I hope this clears up fast so he can at least just sit outside rather than being in the house.

This was a phase he went through. Buying old Landrovers, doing them up & selling them on. He was retired at this point & did this as a hobby. Ignore my American flag ripped jeans, lol. This was back in 2002.

After putting my new alloys on my first ever car back in 2004.

Putting the blow up Snowman up on our our family home (now my brother Tom's house). My mum kept saying how he was going to fall off. Even though he wouldn't be able to do this today, he still tries his best to get out & come back half dead, lol - This was Christmas 2004.

A couple more photos of how he used to goof around all the time, from 2005.

& lastly, I think this picture is so nice :)

Like I said. I hate the fact that this horrible illness had to happen to my dad. He is still the funny person above, but just trapped inside this weaker body. Don't get me wrong, he still manages to make us laugh & smile himself, but I just hope he gets better so he can get out & be like this again...

Wordless Wednesdays...

In case you haven't seen it yet... The full Eclipse trailer will be released tomorrow - 2pm in the UK, 6am PST & 9am EST.

& today/tomorrow/next day & next day I will be mainly doing this:

Our Random Little Day Out #2

These are some pictures I am uploading here for someone (that isn't on Facebook to see)! They're from the other day when we decided to go on another walk, which was meant to last 10 minutes. We were gone for nearly an hour & a half, lol.

We found a really great pebble beach (that Tats found it hard to walk on, lol) & sat there for half an hour just throwing the pebbles into the sea... then we went to the Royal Charter Memorial. The Royal Charter was a ship that had sailed from Melbourne & was on the way to Liverpool when it was hit by Hurricane winds in 1859 - 400 people died, even though the ship itself was close to the shore, the winds were against them. Charles Dickens even visited Anglesey to visit this spot & stayed in a nearby Pub.

Just thought I'd give you all a small history lesson there :) To read more on the Royal Charter just click here. Going to sound geeky here, but I've always been interested in local history (which Anglesey & Wales/UK has a lot of) & shipwrecks around the area I live!

Oh & did I mention we have been having glorious weather the last few days! A reminder of what is (hopefully) to come this summer :)

Our Random Little Day Out #1

On Saturday, Dave & I decided we wanted to go walking somewhere different plus maybe see a movie or go out for dinner. In the end we did all three & more! We ended up going to Llandudno around 4pm, but the next showing of the movie we wanted to see (Alice in Wonderland, 3D) was at 9.30pm. So we needed to kill a 'few' hours, lol. We ended up not driving home, but just walking around everywhere instead...

It looks pretty miserable, but it wasn't. I kept telling Dave it was going to rain (especially before we walked to the end of the pier - above), but it never did in the end :)

Haha, I secretly wanted to go on that ride! We went into this cheesy arcade in the end, where we found those 10p machines - & they kept falling out on their own. Below - some very old advertisement (I think it was put there delibarately - because no way they would leave something this old up, lol).

Dave & I at the end of the pier, before we headed off for our Costa Coffee's. Please ignore Dave's pout & my windswept hair, haha.

It was about 7pm & we still had some time to kill, so we found this Italian restaurant 'Cassanova' & decided to head inside. I didn't think we'd get a table, but we got the best one in the house. I kept saying it was like Valentine's day again! The meal was fantastic & I'd definitely go back there again!

After this, we went along to see Alice in Wonderland, which was also fantastic, especially in 3D! I'd definitely recommend seeing it. Then at midnight we drove home & that was the end of our long, random day. Oh, & incase your wondering if Tatty was okay on his own for all that time, he was just fine, sunbathing.

Springtime Gardening

I haven't been feeling too well these last few days so it was nice to be outside all day today in this sunshine we've been having. I actually managed to wear just a t-shirt & catch a slight tan, which is strange this time of year. But as soon as that sun disappeared, it sure went a lot cooler. I am currently underneath my snuggie writing this!

Front garden - where the grass has turned mostly into moss, so it's more like a carpet!

The back garden, where I was weeding the rockery (above) & my vegetable/herb patch round back of the house. I managed to fill the whole green waste bin (which if you don't know how much that is, is a lot)! Now is definitely the best time of year to do it though & I'm glad I've managed to get most of it done. However, along the way there were a few encounters I could have lived without... like a huge centipede that crawled out from underneath a plantpot, yuck - I hate them sooo much! Then there was this:

I was clearing the dead leaves then I stumbled across this. The first thing I did was run into the house & shout Dave saying I'd found a dead turtle. When I first saw it I honestly thought it was a dried up, dead, decomposing turtle. It looked horrible & had no eyes, plus the shell looked so real because it was made out of wood or something... Inside, it had rotted away into a white powder which I assumed was just rotten turtle. Then we found a metal plant pot attchment for the top of the shell, so we knew it was a garden ornament, but how freaky is that??

Also, I'm not very happy with a certain Chihuahua at the minute. He's been doing his 'whoopsies' as Dave & I call them ON the patio (you can see the little dark spots on the 2nd photo). Now, he never used to do this last year at all - it'd always be on the grass... I'm guessing because I hadn't cut the grass in a looong time (not at all over winter) he probably didn't want to go into the long, wet, cold grass - Chihuahua's are very fussy with anything wet - well, mine is anyway. He hates the sea, rain, puddles or any kind of water that isn't in his bowl. I'm going to make sure this stops though, because I wasn't happy at all today when I accidentally stood in one...

Oh & if there are any gardeners reading this... does anyone know whether I need to cut the old Hydrangea flowers off the actual plant, or do they just drop off naturally? I can see the new buds growing on each branch, but the dead flowers just look ugly!