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New Year's Resolutions
Posted on 8:31am Tuesday 2nd January 2007
I hate making resolutions! I suppose because I always set myself up to fail making unrealistic goals for myself like lose 50 pounds in 3 weeks, okay well maybe not quite that ridiculous but you get my meaning.
Cindy Read »
Happy New Year
Posted on 10:00am Friday 29th December 2006
I have itchy feet. . .while I said in my last blog that I don't travel much, that didn't mean I don't love travelling. I've been in England for 4 years next month and through a little pushing and prodding have convinced my husband to take me around to see the sights. I think when you live somewhere forever, you take for granted the very things around you that can be interesting.
Cindy Read »
Ghosts and British Buildings
Posted on 8:53am Friday 22nd December 2006
Sadly, my blogs seem to be less important then the others I read as I don't talk much about current issues or take a stand on 'going green' nor do I do much travelling. Just the same, for as long as I am permitted I will continue blogging. I visit the Hereford Times site often looking for new blogs from my fellow bloggers because I love to read what they have to say.
Peter Norton »
Food Miles
Posted on 3:31pm Friday 15th December 2006
I've got on to food this week in the paper. Once i get going on this subject I might not stop.
Cindy Read »
Time to read. . .
Posted on 3:56pm Wednesday 13th December 2006
I've been lucky enough through my recent affiliation with the Red Hat Society and my attempts to get a chapter started here in Hereford to meet some absolutely lovely women. One of them is a published author who makes her home in Leominster.
Cindy Read »
Preparing for Christmas
Posted on 4:28pm Sunday 10th December 2006
Does anyone but me miss the magic of Christmas? Once the kiddies are grown and cease believing in Father Christmas,the fun goes out of surprising them because it seems their expectations grow beyond our budgets.
Peter Norton »
More on insulation
Posted on 11:45am Tuesday 5th December 2006
I've been talking about insulation this week, it was sparked off by going to visit some friends who live in a typically ancient Herefordshire home, draughts and all. They had just had some bales of 'thermafleece' delivered, made from 100% British sheepswool.
Cindy Read »
Red Hat Society's Christmas Do
Posted on 10:43am Thursday 30th November 2006
Today I've booked the Pizza Express for our first meeting out in full Red Hat regalia. So far we've got 8 attending and it looks like our little social club is going to take off. We are going to meet on Dec. 12th at 7:00 P.M.
Cindy Read »
Surviving Homesickness & This & That
Posted on 8:31am Monday 27th November 2006
I survived Thanksgiving better this year then any year in the past. That could be a result of not spending the day alone as every other year hubby has been at work.
Cindy Read »
An American Holiday
Posted on 7:37am Wednesday 22nd November 2006
Thursday this week an American holiday takes place. It’s Thanksgiving. It is always held the fourth Thursday in November. I’ve been told the British equivalent takes place in church and is called the Harvest Festival.
Cindy Read »
Thoughts on living in Hereford
Posted on 10:03am Saturday 18th November 2006
Nearly four years have passed since I arrived in this town and still I walk through certain parts of the city centre and pinch myself because life is so different here from living in Florida.
Cindy Read »
Results of the first meeting. . .
Posted on 9:58am Saturday 18th November 2006
Cindy Read »
First meeting of The Red Hat Society
Posted on 11:28am Sunday 12th November 2006
Ladies!! The first official organisational meeting will take place in my home in Belmont at 2:00 P.M. Thursday the 16th of November. You do not need to come in the Red Hat prescribed garb for this meeting just come. We will be putting our thinking caps on to decide when and where to meet and what type of activities our ladies might like to do.
Cindy Read »
Expat American in England Continued Part 2
Posted on 9:56am Thursday 9th November 2006
I had separated from my husband (we will call him ‘the ex’) (remember we are protecting the innocent and not so innocent here) of 25 years in the autumn of 1997. It’s funny (or not so funny depending on how it turns out) how your perspective changes as you grow and mature.
Cindy Read »
Moving from America to England
Posted on 7:31am Monday 6th November 2006
I’m going to tell you a true story. It’s a love story with complications (aren’t they all?) It spans two continents. It’s about how I met a wonderful man through a dating site on the Internet. I will tell you how four years of correspondence resulted in marriage and a life-changing move. I am also going to attempt to tell you of the adjustments my husband, myself and family had to make in order to cope with my new life all the while living in a foreign country. While the country I was about to move to was English speaking, I was going to wonder if I would ever understand the people around me.
Cindy Read »
Red Hat's Progress
Posted on 1:25pm Friday 3rd November 2006
I know I just wrote yesterday but I was so excited that I wanted to share with everyone the results so far of the Red Hat Society beginnings. To date, I've had one email and seven phone calls from women who are interested in joining. I am so very pleased with the response and will be planning our first organisational meeting soon.
Cindy Read »
Friendship!!
Posted on 3:15pm Thursday 2nd November 2006
I am delighted to have been added to the blogging team at the Hereford Times and for my first topic I'd like to tell you about a club that I am working on bringing to Herefordshire women. My efforts to bring this club to Hereford is based on a need that most females have and that is to have close female friendships. Since I don't work away from home, I've found I have a shortage of friends here in England and I am hoping that this club will bring me a friend or two or even a half dozen.
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