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Today I'm wishing a happy birthday to this man. The man who is one half of the dizzos, and posessor of the naughtiest sense of humour (check out my wit and wisdom of Mr Dizzo posts if you do't believe me!)

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Mr Dizzo has finally caught up with me again and we're having a quiet night in with TV, take out and a bottle of wine.

Please oin me in wishing Mr Dizzo a happy birthday and very many happy returns

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Mr D and I had a week away last week, spoiling ourselves at a posh hotel and celebrating our anniversary. Although it was generally a relaxing week, one thing we did while we were away was visit the magnificent Ludlow Castle.

The Castle overlooks the lovely medieval town of Ludlow and stands on the border between England and Wales. It was built originally in the 11th century, and enlarged in the 14th century. It has a long and vivid history and is linked to such characters as King Richard III, the princes in the Tower and Prince Arthur, Henry VIII's older brother who would have been king instead of Henry had he survived beyond his 15th year.

I may have mentioned in the past that Ludlow was my maiden name, so I'd always wanted to visit my namesake castle (I've been to the Town several times, but never made it to the castle). My Dad jokes that this is my inheritance - I wish!

Anyhoo, here are a few snaps from our day of exploring my past!

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Thirty years ago today, this little shindig took place.

Mr D and I are low key celebrating with a meal at a nice restaurant this evening, then we're heading off for a few days away together in early September.

I'm not entirely sure where that 30 years have gone! I'm older, heavier, and a bit more cynical. A lot of water - good and bad - has flowed under the bridge since then, but one thing that hasn't changed it that I'm happy we found each other!

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I had a birthday today, and as it fortunately fell on the Easter Bank holiday, Mr Dizzo and I were both off work, we decided to make a nice day of it.

We ended up going for a nice long walk in a beautiful part of the country called White Horse Hill. The weather was kind to us, and it ended up being a beautiful, breezy day!

White Horse Hill is a place steeped in history and legend and I've loved it forever. I'll post more about it later because I find it fascinating and I think you will too, but for now, here is Mr Dizzo and me, the gruesome twosome!

We finished up the day in a lovely pub called the White Horse (of course) in the nearby village of Uffington and had a delicious meal.

So yes, becoming another year older wasn't so bad after al!

It's Easter weekend and that means four days off work. I've booked tomorrow off as holiday to give myself an extta long weekend because it's my birthday weekend too.

Mt Dizzo asked me what I wanted to do for my birthday and I said I'd like to go our for a nice meal, but somewhere we've never been, so he's going to surprise me. I won't know where we're going until we park the car! I've told him that if we end up in KFC in Farnborough I'm going to divorce him!

In the meantime I aim to spend this weekend arting and relaxing, and just generally spoiling myself and I can't wait!

And,of course, the spoiling myself - and all of you - starts now!

Enjoy!

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Mr D woke up yesterday morning looking like he'd been punched in the side of the face, with a patch of angry red swollen rash on his right cheek.

I asked him if it was painful or itchy and he said it was more tingly than painful. That got me worrying, and I suggested he go and see the doctor. Mr D didn't want to bother the doctor, but in the end we compromised and this morning, when the rash looked more raised then yesterday, he went to see the pharmacist at our local chemist.

The pharmacist apparently took one look at his face ad said "you need to book a doctors appointment - today," and went on to explain how he thought it might be shingles.

Mr D got an appontment for a couple of hours later and, sure enough, he's got shingles!

The Doctor told him we've got to watch the rash and make sure it doesn't spread anywhere along his nose or around his eyes, if he does, it's back to the Doctors asap! In the meantime, he's got a course of antivirals to take - 5 giant tablets 5 times a day!

Luckily, Mr D is working from home until Wednesday next week, so he's got a few days to rest up. My next fight is to get him to sign himself off for the whole of next week. I torally believe he will benefit for a good long rest, and he's adamant he's going back to work on Wednesday!

From my point of view, luckily shingles isn't contagious unless someone hasn't had chickenpox, and I have, so I don't have to run away anywhere. That means I can stick around and keep an eye on the stubborn git, and make sure he rests - which he won't, and try to coax him to take some extra time off - which he won't.

*sigh"

It's been a crazy busy, but lovely weekend that started off on Friday evening with me catching up with Amy, my lovely God-daughter.

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So, I've never done this before - National Blog Posting Month, but I really need an reason to post to my blog more often, so let's go for it!

Day 1: Share something that makes you laugh!

I'd have to nominate this miscreant:

Mr Dizzo. We will have our 30th wedding anniversary next year, and he can still make me laugh.

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We both have the same irreverent sense of humour and that really is a powerful glue that binds us both together. You can read some examples of Mr D's wit and wisdom by following my 'mr dizzo' tag!

Mr Dizzo and I went away last week for a few days. It had been a long time coming due to various factors such as conventions, eye operations, parent strife and also logistics around getting someone to take care of the fluffy little ratbags, but finally, we headed off for a few days in Somerset, a county in the south west of England, which is a long time favourite destination of ours.

The weather was hideous for the first couple of days, but after that it eased off a little and enabled us to get out and about to enjoy a bit of fresh air.

First stop was to a lovely valley called Batcombe Vale, a previous favourite camping location. Although we haven't been camping for a few years, we haven't said never again, and I really hope to be back here under canvas at some point.

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Mr D slipped in the shower this morning trying to rescue a spider. He said he didn't see it when he started showering, but he turned round to see it struggling up the side of the bathtub trying to get away from the water and he felt sorry for it.

His good deed didn't end well!

He thinks this was from the bottom of the shower door where the rubber seal has started to get old and degrade. He said 'I caught him and tried throwing him out the window but he was having none of it so came back in and mooched off into the spare room. I was bleeding all over the place so left him to it.'

Lucky spider. That's all I can say!

I've got to share with you the sad tale of our dinner on Christmas Eve!! 😂😂

We were having green beans, a gammon joint and Mr D was using this as an opportunity to try out his roast potatoes ahead of Christmas day.

Mr D was cooking, and I was sitting in the living room when I suddenly heard a massive crash. I ran out into the kitchen and the gammon joint was on the floor; it had apparently skidded halfway across the room leaving a trail of juice and gravy behind it. Apparently it had slipped out of Mr D's hands as he was taking it out of the oven. The pyrex dish that it had been cooking in was smashed to bits and there were shards of glass everywhere. Barry and I picked the gammon up off the floor to see if we could clean it up and salvage it, but it was full of glass fragments, so it was inedible; we couldn't even put it out for the foxes. 😕.

At this point, the green beans and the roast potatoes were all done and ready, so in the end, I had a dinner of roast potatoes and green beans - for the record, they were beautifully cooked. Mr D managed to find one slice of ham lurking at the back of the fridge to add to his dinner.

Definitely one of the more memorable meals I've ever had!!!

Well, since getting back from Paris on Monday, I have been knocked sideways by the cold from hell. It appears these French germs were determined to rough me up a little; maybe they were pissed off at me becuse of Brexit, or Waterloo, maybe ... who knows? All I do know is that this is by far the worst cold I'd had for many a year. It's tailing off now, and I'm sitting here sporting a red nose worthy of Ronald McDonald and a residual cough that sounds like I've been on forty a day since I was four and a half, but hey-ho! (And no, it wasn't Covid because I tested negative twice!)

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Wow, where does the time go!

It was 28 years ago today that Mr D and I tied the knot. I've no clue where 28 years went, but I do know I'm glad I spent them with Mr D!

Look at us sweet young things!

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Well, I think we've identified the buns' favourite fruit. They can't have banana every day because it's too sugary, but a couple of times a week is ok.

And Mr D insists on being the banana machine as he working hard on his nefarious plan to make those little furry ratbags love him more than me!!!

I think it's fair to say they love bananas more than either of us!

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Following on from the saga of the bloody heron who decimated our pond and ate our poor fish last year, we decided that as Mr D rebuilt the pond last month, it was time to restock over the jubilee holiday weekend.

So now, I am delighted to announce we have eight new little scaly friends living in our pond now. They're still very shy, and not all in this picture but I've got to say, it's lovely having little buddies back in the pond now.

We've also beefed up the heron protection, so the lanky bastard is going to go hungry if he comes here expecting a fish supper again!

Say 'hello' to seven of our eight little friends!

Last August, a heron visited us, and decimated our little pond.

Not only did the feathery bastard eat all our poor fish (who had been part of our life for eight years), but to add insult to injury, he also punctured the pond lining. 😡 We just didn't have the heart to do anything with it then, so we just left it empty and derelict over the winter.

Last weekend, when I got back from Crossroads con, I got a fabulous surprise because Mr D had been busy over the weekend and, without telling me he was going to do this, he's completely rebuilt and renovated our little pond again! 😍

We're just letting the water settle for a few weeks, then we'll be introducing a new generation of little wet scaly buddies again!! 🐟🐟

And some far more heavy-duty heron proofing! If I could, I'd put 10,000 volts through the lanky sod!

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At last!

For the first time since 2019, it looks like I'm going to have a birthday - one that's not spent stuck in full lockdown!

That being the case I've decided I want to make the most of it, and so as my birthday will conveniently fall on a Friday this year, Mr D and I are going to head on up to Stratford upon Avon to stay in a nice hotel for the weekend. Even better, the Royal Shakespeare Company are performing Henry VI on my birthday, at the RSC in Stratford upon Avon.

Guess who's got tickets for her birthday night... :D

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Apparently it was TV night for Mr D and the buns last week while I was out with a friend. Accordng to Mr D, they like Blakes 7 and War Films.

Personally, I think it's Nutmeg that likes Blakes 7. Juniper looks like she's more interested in eating Mr D's jeans!

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I went over to the Isle of Wight this weekend for a wet and windy visit to my parents, and I left Mr D in charge of the bunnies.

It appears that while Juniper was busy foraging around the room for anything vaguely edible, Mr D and Nutmeg settled in for a boys' night in front of the TV.

Thick as thieves those two!

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Back at the end of last year, when Mr D and I had talked at length and decided we were going forward with the idea of getting bunnies, Mr D was at pains to point out that 'these are going to be your rabbits'.

They're 'your project' he said to me; 'I'm not going to get involved', he said.

This was Mr D last night...

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Entries tagged with mr dizzo

Happy Birthday Mr Dizzo

Happy post: visiting my ancestors ;)

Happy Post: Where did thirty years go?

Happy Birthday to me!

The weekend starts here!

Mr Shingles

Well, that was that then!

Nablopomo 2023

Time for a break in the country!

Incey wincey Spider!

For never was a story of more woe than this of our Christmas Eve Dinner!

Update from Dizzoland!

28 years ago...

Bana-na-na-na-na-na

We have fish!!

Happy Post: What a nice surprise!

Happy Post: At last!

TV night

Boys night in...

So, you're not getting involved...?