My old blog ......

is sitting out in bloggerland as lonesome as can be; yet will remain so, as I cannot get into it to post, or delete it. Grrrrr ......... Well truly ....... if I were 'computer wise' there might be a way. Presently that remains a mystery to me. Hopefully my old friends will find me soon and we can enjoy each others company once more. This past eleven months of no blogging have been busy and full of change at Wine Brook Cottage. That's life, isn't it?! ........ full of change ........ ready or not!! We're down in numbers ....... the goats have gone off to other homes ....... two homes in fact .... and good ones ........ where they are living the best of lives as pampered pets. They got to be too much for me physically to handle here so it was time for them to move on. Sad to see them go, of course; however, they are near enough to visit and I do keep in touch with one of the new owners.

Aren't they cute?? :-)

"Outside a church gate I picked up a discarded piece of paper. Thinking it could be a church notice of some kind, I opened and read it.

At the top, in neat writing, was the date and the heading 'Things To Be Grateful For Today'. It was a list of ten items, including: 'Finding That Secondhand Bookshop, Buying That Old Book, Seeing Those Puppies, Catching The Bus On Time and Meeting A Friend Again'.

Simple things, perhaps, but all obviously important to the writer. I was about to throw it into the nearby bin when, on impulse, I tucked it under the windscreen wipers of the clergyman's car, parked nearby.

Food for thought or maybe even an idea for the next sermon? That unknown person had the right idea. Perhaps we should all make a list every day and, in time, 'Things To Be Grateful For' would far outnumber 'Things To Grumble About'!"

Hmmmm ..........