Comments for Just Frances

Comment on A birthday in Crieff, not grief by Amy

Amy — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 23:48:37 +0000

Happy Birthday dearest! It sounds like a wonderful little vacation, well deserved and oh such yummy food! I appreciate all the pictures as I sit and eat my boring peanut butter and jam sandwich!~

And hopefully you got my email with a little something attached. If you have no idea what I’m talking about, email me!

Love ya!

Comment on A winning announcement by Rebecca

Rebecca — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 23:03:03 +0000

My name is Ozymandius, King of Kings
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair

Great poem!
http://honeybeedz.blogspot.com/2011/04/leave-your-books.html

Comment on A birthday in Crieff, not grief by Rebecca

Rebecca — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 22:47:39 +0000

It looks like it’s been a good day. Well done you for taking the plunge. I’m glad it worked out. It can be a hard thing to do, being the independent girl about town. But you’ve managed it with style and I take my hat off to you.

The sugar mice look great too…!

Comment on Free drugs by Sharon B

Sharon B — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 20:06:05 +0000

People think that national health care is such a bad thing but anyone I know that lives where they have it really loves it. And they still have the option of getting health insurance and going to a private doctor so that’s why they don’t think waiting a while for an appointment (a negative effect) isn’t something that can’t be remedied in an emergency. People also don’t realize how much insurance companies have decreased a physician’s time with you. Too many i’s to dot and t’s to cross. They are burnt out just from the paperwork. It’s not a good thing and one way or the other, something has to change. Malpractice due to insurance red tape is probably through the roof but sadly goes unnoticed. I’m glad your experience has been good so far.

Comment on An anniversary contest by Ant Elizabeth

Ant Elizabeth — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 20:25:02 +0000

Ok, I thought I would just ramble here a bit. I am not a writer nor a blogger. I received a nice email this morning from my friend Joy. Last week I had mailed her a cd that I had compiled. It was called: Keep ‘er Steady, Cowgirl. I got the notion last summer to put a cd together. I used to make my own ‘mix tapes’ all the time and share them with friends. Anyway, a few songs were sticking out to me so I found a few more along the cowgirl theme and this cd was born.

Joy is a friend from ‘the Homeland’ and lives on a ranch and has always ridden horses, and shared her horses with me as we were growing up. I have now lived on the Wet Side for nearly 25 years and in those years, I found another horsey friend, who (whom?) I have always referred to as ‘Cowgirl.’ Anyway, Joy and Cowgirl were the inspiration for the cd. I had lunch with Cowgirl last week to give her a copy and she loved it. The email this morning (from Joy) said she loved it as well. I was so happy that someone liked what I had created.

Joy’s mom, who I always called ‘Mom’ too, is a yodeler, and the cd included a couple songs with yodeling. (ie Jesse, the yodelin’ cowgirl, from the Toy Story movies) It was so fun to put together and to share with others.

I have another ‘mix tape’ in mind for which I am still looking for songs to include. It is already named: Beyond the Beer Barrel. Intrigued? Stay tuned. Actually, if you are interested, you will have to ask, since I am not planning to start a blog to blog about it.

I have no idea how many words this is, but since I am musing on horses and cowgirls, I will share my ‘guilty pleasure.’ My fav tv show is the Canadian ‘Heartland,’ about a teen girl ‘horse whisperer.’ Bein in my 50s, it seems sappy to like a teen show, but my fav character, next to the horses of course, is the Grandpa, Jack. I guess I love the show because there has always been a bit of cowgirl in me, after all, I was a horse thief as a child…

All true.

Comment on An anniversary contest by Rebecca

Rebecca — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 19:47:33 +0000

PS As Graham can attest, I still do a fairly good routine of falling over my own feet too…

Comment on An anniversary contest by Rebecca

Rebecca — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 19:46:32 +0000

I used to be so clumsy as a child that I was always falling over. My mum even said that I could fall over a blade of grass. So, to try to cure me of it, she sent me to ballet lessons. From age 6 or so. In a little blue leotard with a tiny frill at the hips. And little flat flesh coloured ballet shoes – probably with elastic straps because it took me a long long time to learn to tie shoe laces, let alone ballet ribbons.

I persevered for about 4 years. I did manage to learn to stop falling over my own feet but I was never what you would call graceful. My feet were too flat for that and I was a pleasantly chubby child, definitely not a willowy sylph.

I took it up again when I was 16 or 17, and persevered for another year. By that stage I was well into my puppy fat, and because I was a few years older than the other girls in my class, I was even more galumphing (or so I felt). I enjoyed it a bit more second time round, and I even appeared in a ballet show (3rd wave from the left, as I remember – complete with a proper tutu!).

And now I dance tango. Seems although I may not be willowy and graceful, I do have fairly natural rhythym (great word without any vowels btw!) and a degree of musicality.

Entertained yet?

Comment on Free drugs by Just Frances

Just Frances — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 17:59:59 +0000

I was with Blue Cross through an employer for a couple of years and it was awful!

Comment on Free drugs by Joanna

Joanna — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 00:03:25 +0000

The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association is larger than the NHS, and they like to take my information and lose it

Comment on Sunday roast by Just Frances

Just Frances — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 22:17:54 +0000

Thank you, both! It really was yummy and provided three left over meals, too! I’d have happily shared with either of you, but will look forward to sharing meals with you both on my next visit to the homeland! xx