Feeling really low today . Did a bit of polishing .
It had been so beautifully packed with lots of bubble-wrap in a wooden crate .
There was a big dent in the wooden crate as if it had been struck with a axe .
To cut a long story short , both my good seller and I received a full refund .
.....and I am now wondering how expensive it might be to replace the bevelled mirror and where might I go to have this done .....I really have no idea .
So that is also on the table waiting to be fixed .
Also as you can see , my camera is still playing up .
It is going to be a week of trying to fix things . See the pretty statue in the background ?
Well , it's been packed away in a box under the stairs for years . My husband bought it years ago in a market in Quito Ecuador .
It was placed on top of a chest of drawers in our bedroom .
Because I wasn't with him when he bought it and because of other things that happened around that time , I didn't really have any loving feelings towards it and then also while he was away , I got a beautiful rescue dog golden retriever . The biggest and most handsome boy you ever did see !
Anyway ,the first thing he did when I brought him home to our little cottage , was to do this thing that dogs do .....he dashed about casing the joint , into every room sniffing and quickly learning where everything in his new home was . He ran thundering upstairs , bumping the chest of drawers and knocking over the statue as he continued on his way .
Beautiful , handsome boy , my best friend ....long gone but forever in my heart .
Statue went into a box .....cupboard under the stairs .
Anyway many years have passed and as I am clearing out stuff ,as we all collect over the years , I find myself to be a different person to who I was back then ...... well , in some ways .
So I came across it the other day and took it out . It is now also on the table waiting to be fixed . I have some super glue .
I couldn't fix it back then because we lived in a little cottage in the middle of Salisbury Plain not far from Stonehenge . If there was even such a thing as super glue back then , the one tiny post office /shop in our hamlet would not have stocked such a thing ...and there was no such thing as computers or shopping on-line .
Chasing off the Red KitesMeanwhile , back outside ....one of our Raven chicks was found fallen from the nest up in the big pine tree . They have been working so hard back and forth feeding and guarding the nest .
I'm not sure if there are any other chicks in the nest . We are watching and listening ...but I think it might have been just that one little chick .....I think it was seagulls that tried to get the poor thing ... but we have also been seeing a pair of Red Kites scouting about and yesterday there were four of them .
Beautiful birds , sadly my flaming camera refused to zoom in on them .
Tired , from things going on in my life and not having a best friend to hug , feeling blue .
It's cloudy this morning so I don't have to dash about watering so early . Yesterday the sun shone but there was a bitterly cold breeze coming from the East .
Yep , I have to try and turn all this around , starting with that statue .
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