What I did today! The next chapter!

Went to see GC this afternoon, eldest was at cinema with her mum and they just made it home before the snow started. We left early because there was a great risk of getting stuck, DH and I got a few miles down the road and there was no snow and the temperature rose 3 degrees. Just heard from DS and he says the snow just stopping now, one of the problems of living on the top of a hill.

yes very good nanaej but deserves a bigger space. That Pick guy that ran the london transport company commissioned great art.

jess I need to go to the LT poster exhibition...I went a month too soon by mistake so have a ticket! Was it good?

Was supposed to have 3 friends over for lunch today but the Chelsea match got rescheduled from yesterday to today. As DH and 2 of the friends are season ticket holders the meal was off! The third friend and I met up for lunch and a mosey round a garden centre instead. Not tempted to buy as it was tipping it down!

Made a loaf and a cake!
Had supper
Going to bed!
Night all!

Sunday lunch with my eldest son and his family, cooked by him. Newest grandson spent an hour or so on my lap, giving me lots of beaming smiles, dressed as......a leprechaun! Lovely day!

Sounds like a lovely time, Jess

I went to pick up DS1 from our local, refurbished for the Olympics, station. It is so well refurbished that the disabled parking spots are invisible despite the local university being a recognised centre for Disabled Sport. Tried to park in the drop-off zone but found it was full. Tried to park illegally and then use DS's blue badges but, as I was reversing into the last space, a blond woman, in a big, expensive 4 wheel drive thing, drove in and ignored my gesticulations and hooting whilst her passenger went and bought tickets. Unfortunately DS did not appear, in his wheelchair, before she went. Possibly unreasonably, but still very .

Oh gally it is not all sunshine and nice weather over there I know. Dangerous coast. Hence the obsession with lifeguarding.
I had a nice day in London yesterday - went with DH to see the London Transport poster exhibition in the LT museum. (it is expensive to get in but the tickets last a year - great place for small kids as they have fantastic buses etc)
Then i spent the afternoon with my lovely grown up niece (so lucky to have two of these to compensate for lack of daughters) . She helped me buy a glittery garment to wear to weddings in July from Zara. (sorry can't find a photo on their website) It is nice to have shopping company isnt it.
Then we tried to buy her a bra. Debenhams staff seem incapable of selling anything despite the fact quite a few of them and a massive stock of bras.
Then we had tea and treacle tart in Liberty's tea room (big treat) and did some drooling over the scarves and fabrics.
Then came back and watched the rugby
today - some progress on study clearing....

Decided to bite the bullet and machine quilt something I wanted to finish before Easter .i had decided on a sashiko pattern of fish scales with intersecting lines. Must have mismeasured something as very few of my intersections intersect. I feel your pain Butty. Now unpicking furiously.

Today I had a lovely 40 minute walk in the park, its was lovely.

nellie it good to hear your ok, doesnt it make such a difference if you can wash your hair.

Nellie Glad you're doing ok!

Ah, Mamie - The French country idyll

I've spent all morning measuring and cutting a mount for a collage I've just finished - and 'whoops' - the blade slipped - ruined it! Round two this afternoon.

Doing ok! as long as I don't do much DD and co came and cooked for me and "Bliss" washed my hair for me this a.m, so I could keep stitches dry.

Seeing lovely DGS's new trick was good entertainment. He is now rolling over and over across the floor on our carpet! 10 days ago he was just about turning over front to back. He can only go in one direction at present so he has to be turned around in the room so he can roll back. He has managed to bang his head rolling into the leg of a chair though time has come to baby proof the house!

Cabin fever passed to the extent that we can now leave the property! Still cold, wet and horrible. We have only got to re-model the raised beds, finish re-building the potting shed, re-construct a boundary wall, plant seeds, get spuds in, cut grass and get the cottage in the garden ready for our next house swap.....
Instead we are stuck inside, but at least OH is over his gout attack....

Had a wonderful day out today with my daughter at a knitting and sewing fair. Relaxing and restorative. And with retail therapy plus lunch, what's not to like.

Nellie, get well soon, Kitty good progress and Mamie hope the cabin fever has passed.

Nellie Hope you are feeling more comfortable as the days go by.

Jadey
Nellie
Yesterday (saturday) had a day with DD in Sydney - retail therapy and a long lunch which was lovely especially for her to have a child free day! Woke up this morning to the tail end of a cyclone hitting the Northern beaches and the sad news that a young swimmer was washed off the rocks into the sea and lost yesterday afternoon. So that's why I could hear helicopters overhead well into the night.

Best wishes Nellie and Kitty x x

Nellie

I think I might try it tomorrow, I need a new bike ha ha ha

You do know I am only joking right!!

Today I went shopping and as I walked along the high street a man standing outside a Mc Donalds asked me did I have any spare change to buy some food, obviously as he was standing outside this food chain place and was asking for money, I believed that he was truly hungry and could not afford to buy food and gave him the change I had in my pocket as I wanted to help him.

As I walked back down that way there he was chaining up his new state of the art bike to a pole near by the Mc Donalds, I was quite angry and approached him, asking him if this was his bike and he answered that it was, with a look of shame and surprise of my cheek of asking him.

I asked him because he was pleading poverty and homlessness and coned me into giving him my change that I was going to spend on myself to buy a magazine but gave it to him instead(I had just the right amount of change on me to buy my magazine without having to go to ATM machine)

When I got in I told my husband what had happened and he said that there was a man in The Market that was boasting that by begging he had made £62 in one day!!!

Well I never!

nelliem, that doesn't sound very comfortable, but I'm glad you're beginning to feel better

kitty, keep smiling!

Which phrase, 'keep smiling', makes me think of bikergran. Thinking of you, biker. Come back when you can

kitty "I'm not stopping..." that could me, a few years down the line...
My father went into a very pleasant convalescent home, to recouperate after major surgery. He refused point blank to join the other "inmates" [his word] because "they're all grouchy old folk". He was in his early 80s and master of the art of grouching...

kitty I'm sure she'll settle in after a while if not, chain her ankle to the bed , I think we all need time to adapt

nellie so glad it's all over for you.
kitty and happy that things are looking up for you.