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Losing the light this evening as the sun sets but froggies are done.
29/05/2026

Losing the light this evening as the sun sets but froggies are done.

Froggy toes!
29/05/2026

Froggy toes!

Progress.
28/05/2026

Progress.

Back to the grindstone. 😃
27/05/2026

Back to the grindstone. 😃

Today was a little bit exciting. For the first time this year I spotted a fish on Visdeurbel and got to ring the doorbe...
27/05/2026

Today was a little bit exciting. For the first time this year I spotted a fish on Visdeurbel and got to ring the doorbell! A few minutes later the lock keeper opened the lock gates to let the fish through.

Soooooooo damn cool to think that from my boat moored at the side of the canal on the Shroppie I can spot a fish underwater on the underwater camera at the Weerdsluis in Utrecht, Nederlands and it will signal a lock keeper to open a gate and let the fish through.

For those who don’t know, fish travelling up the Oudegracht to spawn often don’t survive the trip. When the lock gates are closed, fish are forced to wait, wasting valuable time and energy – making them easy prey for birds and predatory fish. So a system was installed to help them. To help the fish, an underwater camera is installed at the lock. If fish appear on screen, you can press the doorbell! This alerts the lock keeper, who will open the lock when many fish are waiting.

And today…I spotted a fish, rang the bell and it worked…the gate was opened.

That’s my good deed done for the day. I can go back to being me again now. 🤣

Unfortunately it doesn’t save the photo you took to your device, it just uploads it and I suppose from the up,owned ones they choose the best to feature. These are some past photos others have taken. Mine might appear next week in the list because it was a pretty decent shot.

If you care to have a go yourself just google Fish Doorbell and it will come up in the search.

Eduardo has been very chatty all day today farting his little head off. There used to be a time when I’d be so embarras...
27/05/2026

Eduardo has been very chatty all day today farting his little head off.

There used to be a time when I’d be so embarrassed by his farting back in the early days before I could accept having a stoma, but not anymore.

These days honestly I find it very cute, funny but most of all very reassuring because lots of farts means no blockage and that he’s taking care of business. A farting stoma is a healthy stoma.

Only someone who’s known the intense pain of a diverticulitis flare up and subsequent burst abscess could know the relief it brings to the mind to now fart at all and without pain.

Now I think back to all those wasted years of tightening the butt cheeks trying to keep a fart in, but why? Because it’s a social norm? Say’s who? And I do wonder did holding farts in for years contribute to my diverticulitis? Be free and fart people! The more farts the better!

Bonus for me though because Eduardo’s farts don’t smell. Well they probably do but since he’s farting into a bag with a carbon filter no one knows what they smell like.

Also bonus for me….hubby has a very bad habit of coming into my room, farting and then leaves. Yes well, Eduardo and I get to save up 20 farts or more in his bag. I can go into hubby’s room and let out 20 farts at once. Now that’s a super power hard to compete with. 😃

Frank says I always have to have the last word.It’s not true at all. In fact I always let him have the last two words.“...
27/05/2026

Frank says I always have to have the last word.

It’s not true at all. In fact I always let him have the last two words.

“Yes dear.”

I’ve phoned hubby four times already this morning and it’s only 10am. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣I’m making up for lost time. 😃But I’ve been v...
26/05/2026

I’ve phoned hubby four times already this morning and it’s only 10am. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I’m making up for lost time. 😃

But I’ve been very careful about picking just the right time to phone.

Brushing his teeth…..ring, ring, ring, goes his phone.

Unlike me, he’s one of those people who can’t possibly ignore a call. He spits out the toothpaste and dashes to answer the phone.

I say, “Hi, just me checking this is the right number.” 😃

Then I lurk and wait until he’s on the throne and when I call again.

Ring, ring, ring goes his phone.

He shuffles out the bathroom, pants around his ankles and reaches for his phone before shuffling in reverse to sit back down and answer the call.

I say, “HI Eduardo wanted me to call and just check this is the right number?” 💩😃

Then he’s outside sawing wood.

Ring, ring, ring goes his phone.

He dashes back onboard inside to answer it.

I say, “Sorry, just me checking you can hear it over the power tools.” 😃. And I make the suggestion he should probably keep the phone in his pocket.

Now it’s 10am and we’ve a problem with the generator so he’s torn up the floorboards and has his arse in the air and his head down nose to nose with it was he struggles with tightening the pulley belt for the umpteenth time. There’s lots of heavy breathing and a little swearing going on as he fights on determined to win this ongoing genny battle.

Ring, ring, ring goes his phone.

“HI,” I say, “Just me checking you’ve got your phone in your pocket. 🤣

Anyhow I’ve got 5 years of missed phone calls to make up for so now I need suggestions and reasons to constantly call him for the rest of the day. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Man I love speed dial! 📞

For the past 5 years hubby never, ever answers his phone when I call. He always claims he didn’t hear the phone ring or...
25/05/2026

For the past 5 years hubby never, ever answers his phone when I call. He always claims he didn’t hear the phone ring or it didn’t ring. He gets my text messages, and sometimes my FaceTime calls, just not my phone calls.

About 4 months ago I got fed up after calling him numerous times one morning and getting no answer. I got mad enough to go through his phone (something I never do) to try and fix the problem. I thought perhaps he’d accidentally muted or blocked my number but nope, he hadn’t.

After going through every possible setting I could think of I just gave up and figured it was an Apple problem. 🤷🏼‍♀️

Today he lost his phone and couldn’t recall where he had put it. He has a bad habit of leaving it on the roof of the boat or in the car. But after having walked back to the car, searched it and not finding it there, he was perplexed. So he used my phone to call his which is obviously a stupid idea since his phone never rings when I call, except today, for the first time in 5 years it rang!

A flippen miracle!

He must have the magic touch….or as it turns out the right number.

Apparently he typed the digits in instead of using my contacts number.

Turns out for 5 years I’ve had one digit of his phone number wrong in my phone. 🤦🏼‍♀️

Now I’m wondering who I’ve been calling for 5 years who’s never answered their damn phone to tell me it’s the wrong number! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Seriously….5 effin years and it never occurred to me to check the contacts info. He came to the U.K. 4 years after I did and after Covid when he got his U.K. phone. I guess I just always assumed I added him as a contact when he called me at some point but I guess not. I must have just typed the number in wrong. 🤷🏼‍♀️

I guess the messages and FaceTime went through because they were using his email address on WiFi not his phone number.

5 years!!!!!

Been sitting here all day thinking…..5 years!!!!!

How….just how could I have the wrong number in my phone contacts for my husband for 5 years and never notice! Never even occurred to me to check. 🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️

I’ve put it right now of course although I suspect by this time next week I might actually change it back again. 🤣

Only one way to settle an argument in a marriage….go to war!
24/05/2026

Only one way to settle an argument in a marriage….go to war!

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