HaHa! HeeHee! HoHo!

Yes it's a year! How else could I celebrate it than with 3 wonderful blip friends, who are no longer virtual but, real friends ( I hope!), at my favourite garden - TREMATON!!!!!! Plus the chickens had to be there somewhere, so with varying degrees of compliance and enjoyment, they wore my chicken hats, held my toy chickens and blew up their inflatable numbers to enable me to take a photograph to celebrate! Thank you AH14, D and mydartmoorwalks! The latter blipper is so going to make me pay for making him wear a chicken hat, in a public place  let alone at all! It's a testament to them that they obliged/pampered /resigned themselves to it, and to blippers in general, as to just what a lovely bunch of people they/you are! 
I can't believe it's been a year, that I have met, in order, mydartmoorwalks, theimpinside, Jinglyan,  Woodpeckers and Cleansteve, Gilesey ( and of course Darren and Nibbler!) DDW and AH14!!! All the nicest people you could hope to meet! 
The whole blip experience has been so totally beyond any expectations - I had simply no idea the extent to which my life was going to be altered when I joined. I don't believe anyone could have. 
So the rest of the day - they all seemed to find Trematon enjoyable and at the same time wonderful, bizarre and a true English folly to use mydartmoorwalks  words! What a relief!  I felt as happy and giddy with them as I did the first time I went! Happy squealing from me once more!
We started with a very long chat over coffee and cake, and proceeded to chat the rest of the day! We did intend to do a walk after mydartmoor had to leave, but ended up having more coffee instead! D came back to my house as she would otherwise have been caught up in traffic, and whilst I took Milly to the vets she and AH14 headed down into Calstock. 
Sad news on Milly, she has a tumor and it's just a matter of time - but for the moment she is in no pain or discomfort, just very tired and frail, and I hope she will go in her sleep. I will be inconsolable, but I know it is her time. I have had her for a while longer after her last illness when I thought she was going, so for the moment I am just going to savour her last days and face and deal with the sadness when it comes. 
AH14 and I are getting on like a house on fire! Despite the fact the first day she had only half a pecan slice from the oven for breakfast, the other danish we were going to eat we forgot, and we saw it on the baking tray when we returned home! Today she did not even get a coffee before we left the house, and we are yet to eat our evening meal! We  have been happily giggling over  our laptops at each others comments, drinking Bellini cocktails and doing our blips!!
So - my second year! I have tried to use all my extras so I can start with a clean slate, I want to simplify - but I must feed AH14 so may add more later! I intend to continue blipping, but when I have something I wish to blip. As I have said before, I do not like looking for a blip, I want to go out with my camera and be captivated, enthused and excited! When I don't blip I can use the time freed up to spend looking and commenting on others blips,  as this has got increasingly sporadic and it does not feel right and does not make me happy! I want to be a mad chicken woman in a fun sense not an angry one! 
Finally! There are so many more blippers I hope I will get to meet in the real world in the coming year! More fun times ahead! WooHoo!