tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-154725292024-03-16T01:09:49.036+00:00NOT DEAD YET!The diary of an oldie who refuses to go quietlyJudithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07056868850692279739noreply@blogger.comBlogger419125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15472529.post-53927332571932967522019-08-16T15:55:00.000+01:002019-08-16T16:15:43.259+01:00Another year, another hairstyleChanged my hairdresser for the first time in over 30 years. Wish it wasn't such a yellow picture, as I rather like it.
Fancy being vain enough at 91 to want a new profile picture for Facebook! Did you ever notice that once
there are grandchildren about Granny seldom gets her picture taken ... and I daresay Grandpa has the same problem.
The going is beginning to get hard now, and I've had to Judithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07056868850692279739noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15472529.post-25263898379844578942018-03-02T14:55:00.000+00:002018-03-02T14:56:36.020+00:00Calculate your BMI
Judithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07056868850692279739noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15472529.post-24480390305621227622018-02-20T20:04:00.002+00:002018-02-20T20:04:46.009+00:00Judithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07056868850692279739noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15472529.post-11057771369686240132018-02-20T17:47:00.000+00:002018-02-20T18:00:16.855+00:00Knocking on at 90.......
I thought I would come back and change my profile picture, now I am starting on yet another decade. Unfortunately the software won't accept it so I have to put it in my post.
I got distracted by other things in 2009, and stopped blogging regularly, but I have been back once or twice since to make the odd comment. I always plan to take it up again, but each year that goes by makes it harder to Judithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07056868850692279739noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15472529.post-14615642647827900152018-02-20T17:45:00.000+00:002018-02-20T17:45:05.895+00:00Judithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07056868850692279739noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15472529.post-30651134186115209492016-04-30T17:40:00.001+01:002016-04-30T17:48:12.974+01:00LOVE POEM - (without benefit of accents)
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Charlie off to Bolivia today....lucky thing.
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mso-padding-alt:0cm Judithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07056868850692279739noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15472529.post-83425439869388079942014-06-12T16:00:00.000+01:002014-06-12T16:00:03.327+01:00What do you call a government who ...
What do you call a government who....
Posted:
12 Jun 2014 03:13 AM PDT
If
this article makes you think, please don't close it without using the buttons at
the end to tweet it, share it and send it to your friends. This has been a
scream inside my head for months now. What do you call a government
who's first act is to make it virtually impossible to remove them from power, Judithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07056868850692279739noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15472529.post-77661300965267504932014-03-11T15:26:00.001+00:002014-03-11T15:28:44.373+00:00Sue Marsh speaking at the TUC "Better Way" protest demo~
)Judithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07056868850692279739noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15472529.post-82199577364565928632013-04-25T15:08:00.002+01:002013-04-25T15:09:38.336+01:00Nursing the Nation~
Judithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07056868850692279739noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15472529.post-67480499554352950212013-03-30T08:54:00.001+00:002013-03-30T09:02:09.650+00:00Bedroom tax song~
Published on 27 Mar 2013
A song about the Bedroom Tax, written for the demos all over the UK on Saturday 30th March, 2013, the Glasgow one in particular. Set to the tune of 1960's folk song "The Jeely Piece Song", by Scottish singer-songwriter Adam McNaugton.
LYRICS
I'm a welfare state wean, we live on the bottom flair
But we're no allowed to even live there any mair.
They say we've Judithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07056868850692279739noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15472529.post-89116614304004479182013-01-21T10:46:00.001+00:002013-01-21T11:00:16.073+00:00Help us! We're begging you!~
"No-one likes a nagging over their cornflakes. Actually, no-one likes to be told that they're lazy, unfeeling or cruel at all. But Britain, for God's sake, are you ever going to listen to these News stories about disability and care?"
So says Sue Marsh, a well respected writer and campaigner on behalf of people who are disabled. Please follow the link below to find out why we should all be Judithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07056868850692279739noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15472529.post-40647425041234479382012-11-22T14:45:00.001+00:002014-04-15T15:52:44.448+01:00WHITBY GINNELS?
I inherited these four watercolours from my husband. They were painted around 1900 by his mother, whom I never met, as she had died only weeks before I first met him in 1946. The pictures stayed packed away in boxes until after he died, but I have brought them out to see the light of day, and had them framed as a set.
The artist herself named the top two, and I made a trip to Whitby to Judithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07056868850692279739noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15472529.post-13806344401668428652012-07-03T12:49:00.000+01:002012-07-03T12:49:02.336+01:00Alone we whisper, together we shout!~
Judithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07056868850692279739noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15472529.post-9306879209324856552012-07-01T12:50:00.002+01:002012-07-01T13:20:45.378+01:00Making an appeal to the Social Security and Child Support Tribunal~
Judithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07056868850692279739noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15472529.post-41541686257314851532012-03-23T09:23:00.001+00:002012-03-23T09:28:42.619+00:00The Robin Hood Tax~Judithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07056868850692279739noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15472529.post-52850094000167664182012-01-13T15:10:00.009+00:002012-01-13T16:09:01.855+00:00Welfare Cuts in the UKOn Wednesday the 11th January the House of Lords was debating the Welfare Reform Bill. They won the vote, by considerable margins, on three major amendments which they had tabled, in an attempt to mitigate some of the severest effects that the cuts will have on sick and disabled people.Here are two articles appearing afterwards, in two newspapers at the opposite ends of the political scale.Sonia Judithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07056868850692279739noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15472529.post-47607598171335531052012-01-09T16:41:00.006+00:002012-01-09T19:29:31.631+00:00The Spartacus Report on Responsible ReformThis report into Disability Allowance Reform has been written, researched and funded by disabled people, who see their basic but essential support benefits under serious threat by government reforms. I am very concerned by its findings and the misrepresentation of disabled people that it exposes. Here is an extract from the press release that accompanied its publication:"A report published today Judithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07056868850692279739noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15472529.post-54198015453034991302011-12-02T16:06:00.006+00:002011-12-02T17:23:39.063+00:00Surviving Winter Appeal~I am lucky enough to receive the Winter Fuel Payment, which I do not actually need. There is stuff in my life that I could easily do without, before I would have to think of doing without heat. But the numbers we read of old people like myself, who die each winter of cold, are dreadful - and it seems that they are likely to be worse this winter than ever before.So I am donating my Winter Fuel Judithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07056868850692279739noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15472529.post-36972497259232479072011-11-29T08:37:00.003+00:002011-11-30T13:26:50.514+00:00Shalala It's Christmas~This is my seasonal greeting to all my blog friends, just to show that I am still here and, incidentally, turning 84 today.I think this is a lovely song, and the children perform it beautifully and with such confidence. (That must be some music teacher they have in St Saviour's!) I shall probably listen to it every morning till Christmas, as it really brightens my day.A pacemaker implant in JuneJudithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07056868850692279739noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15472529.post-64148185549726318872011-10-19T20:09:00.001+01:002011-10-19T20:13:03.186+01:00~Judithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07056868850692279739noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15472529.post-35118058480686953402011-10-17T18:06:00.000+01:002011-10-17T18:07:25.523+01:00Yellow Bird~Read Yellow Bird Lyricshere.Judithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07056868850692279739noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15472529.post-68128108486134486592010-12-04T19:29:00.009+00:002010-12-05T09:10:44.631+00:00Teddy bear concert~Another granny and I took our teddies to a concert today. It was rather sad really, because I had invited two grandchildren and their parents to come with me, as it was a special children's concert. But then they realised that my granddaughter's school concert was the same day, and as she had a part to play, she needed her family there to support her, obviously. So I set about trying to find Judithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07056868850692279739noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15472529.post-44752525923121651602010-12-02T11:01:00.002+00:002010-12-03T09:12:57.240+00:00Halleluja Chorus for AdventWishing all my readers a Happy Advent and a Joyful Christmas.Judithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07056868850692279739noreply@blogger.com8