Today I've been mainly.........Vol. 5

golden if you moor outside the Dartmouth sailing club you can use their showers! Tight lines!

gally have a good birthday

harri and Gally Birthday greetings to you both.
JessM I'm empathising with you having had the horrid cough myself. Hope you're better very soon.

Best wishes, Jess, I hope you soon feel better.

I have just had a really good haircut for €14! I had washed my hair myself because of my scalded chest so she wet it with a spray. I didn't need blow drying (my hair is naturally curly, or hairspray. I was expecting to pay about €30 so I was really pleased and gave her a €4 tip.

Planting my tubs and hanging baskets. I shall have to hide them from my French neighbours, because we haven't got to the end of the three days of the "Saints de Glace" yet, until which no French person will plant anything in case there is a frost. I tend to rely on the weather forecast...

Thanks for the good wishes. Yes there is a nasty cough virus around. Our very fit 14 year old nephew had it and ended up with pneumonia. He too did a long haul flight when he had the cough. They are not beneficial to the immune system I think.
Oh - I haven't had one of my ginger and marmalade hot drinks today. Time for one

My son-in-law had a flu jab and immediately went down with flu, which he has passed on to my daughter.

Listening to kids playing wind and percussion instruments. They were sooooper!

I'm sure not causal link greatnan - it would take a few days for it to incubate.

Agreed!

Hope Gally and Harrigran have had really lovely birthdays! I raise my wine glass to you both as I sit here awaiting the delivery of my Indian takeaway from the Taj Mahal.....which is down the road and round the corner, but rather a long way to go to pick it up... (I hope glass hasn't read this...) I intend to eat nothing at all tomorrow.
Happy holidays, Goldengran!

green enjoy your take-a-way we won't tell on you,I do enjoy an Indian every now and then if fact my neighbour and I went to the Indian restaurant 5 mins away last week for their £9.00 all you can eat buffet it was the best I have had in a long time

That's about right, Jess, he had the jab at the shipping medical centre and came down with flu a few days later. My poor daughter has it, and has also broken a new temporary crown and I think it is a bank holiday over there. I would like to be looking after her!

Well, I googled public holidays in New Zealand and none this week, so perhaps it is local. What would I do without google? I know there are other search engines, but I always find what I want on google.

Emptying gunk out of DD's school bag: various lumps of hardened clay (I've been emptying these out for weeks, it seems!), various bits of paper from a visit to the Titan Crane last week, a Mars bar unwrapped but uneaten, two organic lemon melt biscuits, unwrapped but uneaten, various other food and drink wrappers (she did eat the packed lunch I'd sent – obviously preferred to chocolate and biscuits!!!).

So if I eat the Mars bar, it might be a bit clay-ey. That I can cope with, but not clayed up lemon melts.

Oh Bags that takes me back........At the end of term I used to dive into the school coat pockets and remove a terms worth of bus tickets from each pocket mangled up with heaven knows what - sweets, chewing gum, biscuits melted chocolate - those were the days

Today I have decided to 'come out' ; I am going to have a Jubilee Tea Party with Bubbly (mock if you must!!) but it's an excuse to get going again and thank the friends who have been so wonderful and supported me over the last 3 months and it will get me baking again - you are all invited!!

That's a good idea Gally. I'm sure all your friends will love it, and I'll be there with bells on!! Good for you!

Lovely idea, gally! And what your John would have recommended, I'm sure. x

Sounds like my kind of tea bubbly party, Gally!

Gally Such a sensible idea...bubbly, home-baked goodies, and a gathering of friends. Are you certain that you wish to invite the rowdier GN's [absolutely no names mentioned!]

Speak for yourself soop

Gally lovely idea, your friends will love it, and all your friends from GN will promise to behave, wont we!!!!

glass...that's rich, coming from you!

Well good morning! Did someone say it was 15th May, its snowing here and the temp on the car is showing 1 deg, when are we going to get some sunshine.

Good,orningglass it's sunny here and they say it's going to be nice with temp of 13-14