Addicted again!

soop felt a bit of a fraud buying The Lady....as nothing could be further from the truth...I am not a LADEE...I loved your article,do,you write regularly for them,how did you start to write for them...it has added another facet to your personality,was sorry that it was only one page...will you be writing for the next issue...and if not,why notxxxxxxxx

soop just read your article! It's great. Makes us almost seem human
Very well done!

GERALDINE

CARI

GNHQ PLEASE NOTE AND READ!

soop I can never resist a challenge. The Larry who was happy may have been a boxer called Larry Foley. However, as it is an Australian expression, it may be derived from larrikin (a hooligan or unconventional person).

soop - is your article out today in the ladylike magazine? Forgive me if you've already posted somewhere else about it!

Just spent a few hours walking DD's dogs in the rain. A quick bite to eat and just checking in before I suss out some online Spanish lessons.

Icecream now in freezer!
Tom and cheese in oven on top of aubergine to melt

Can then sit and relax!

Well I must admit that's all been a bit energetic for me!

A little lie down?

Fishin rod and hook?
Abseil?

Got icecream on freezing.
Aubergines cooking in oven
Checked up on you lot

What next?

juragran and I had a wonderful holiday in Sharm , jeni- I can still close my eyes and visualise that first moment when you enter the sea and there is the reef - not only the beautiful colours and shapes of the coral and the fish, but the feel of the sea on your limbs. We got back on Saturday and I came home on Sunday. It was very hot, about 42C - not a climate I would choose but bearable in an air conditioned hotel with a short ride to the beach.
It is much nicer here in Haute Savoie - about 20C, like an English summer day and just right for walking. I have taken to setting out really early, about 8 a.m. (7 a.m UK time), so I get back in time for The Wright Stuff! Only two hours today, straight from the door, on one of my favourite local walks. I am building up to some mammoth walks.
I was sitting on my balcony an hour ago, when a naughty breeze whipped my flimsy, cheap parasol over the edge. It is now lying in a garden on the ground floor. The owners are away and the garden is only accessible through their flat! I need Poirot to work out how to get it back!

Been to Pilates, taken DH to a friendly golf competition ( in rain and wind) come home again and before a snack, what do I do but check iPad and GN!
Keep writing friends.....

Well I've had a coffee
Read Monday's files (just we'd and thurs to do)

I reckon 2out of 4 not bad. So I deserve a treat
Back to addiction!

Computer in room with the piano. Look out over the sea. Next door is the bathroom. We have a wee house...on one level...few rooms...so I paint in the bedroom, with little easel propped on dressing table. Paints on tray on one chair. Water and cloths on the other. The view is looking out to the bird feeders and the ancient forest. Bliss! I'm happy as Larry. Anyone know who Larry is?

Um...*soop*, where exactly do you keep your computer?

soop you are so pro-active! Very good!

Took long hard look at portrait of Pepper. Convinced myself it wasn't good enough for dear number. Started afresh. Feeling hopeful. Needed a wee. Dashed to bathroom [just in time] and couldn't resist a fix on Gransnet. Ha! That's betta!

or there again...................

I have done half an hour on my exercise bike. And I will go out on the real bike later.

So it's not all bad.

There might be a bit of housework thrown into the mix.

I think I saw some once, jeni, but it escaped before I could grab it.

I thought you went coral diving not surfing
What's sunshine? Is it available in England? If so where do you get it from? Is it expensive? And can you order it online?

Greatnan, please refrain from talking about 'gorgeous sunshine' - simply adding to our pain in the rain (oh! that rhymes!)

I feel virtuous because I have already taken a two hour walk in the gorgeous sunshine and now I am sitting out on my balcony with my laptop on my knee and watching TV through the open French windows at the same time as surfing.

Well it is made with fresh cheddar strawberries!

jeni, I'd say that strawberry ice cream could feed another addiction very satisfactorily.

And me! Imsupposed to be

1 reading next weeks files
2 making strawberry icecream
3 starting the cooking for tonight
4 making myself a coffee

And what am I doing?