Lets get out and about for the next few days

Celebrated GS’s last exam on Friday evening with a meal out. Went to Church Stretton yesterday and it was glorious. Blue skies and sunshine but not too hot. Fascinating buildings, a rich history and some interesting graveyards!

Was planning to return two tops bought recently but it has just dawned on me that there will be few buses and not sure if the shops will be open. OH is grass cutting and gardening so don’t want to disturb him.

We took the bus to Canterbury too many visitors in sunny Folkestone. Although Canterbury Town was busy we walked 3 miles along the Stour river bank to Chartham for a lovely pub lunch. If not for the aggressive groups of cyclists terrorising the pedestrians on the shared path it would have been perfect.

It was a beautiful sunny day today and as we are still in lockdown we walked down to our local shops and back, about 5 km. It is a lovely tree lined street so it was quite pleasant. We are only allowed to shop one per family so one of us went to one part of the shops and the other went to get a newspaper. There are still plenty of cars on the road, I don’t think people are taking the lockdown as seriously as last time.

Barbecue in a friend’s garden. Warm, sunny and good company.

My birthday was on 29th had a lovely Prosecco brunch with family, wall to wall sunshine in Hertfordshire today doing my summer bedding plants. So nice after all the rain. Enjoy everyone ☀️☀️

Just got back home after walking around 2 large car boots.
It was really cold at 7am but warmed up nicely by 10.
Very few people wearing masks or social distancing sadly.

As it's half term week, we'll be mostly at home, working in/enjoying the garden. In this fine weather it's just nice to be taking the time to be outside; a welcome change from so much cold weather & rain.

Giving my garden room a good clear out. We have used it as a bit of a dumping ground this past year, so I am putting out stuff needing to go to the charity shop, gardening stuff which should not be in there etc, so not outside, but using the nice weather to put things outside whilst I clear and clean.

I live in a village on the North East Coast. This is our fourth day of heavy fog. Its called a "harr" . Very cold. Feel so sorry for all the visitors who have booked cottages for the weekend.
Hopefully we might get to see the sun tomorrow.
However we have been busy in the garden all weekend, and I'm cooking a posh chicken recipe tonight for tea , plus a botttle of Chardonnay left over from Christmas. Will enjoy.

Overcast start today but up for 8.15am U3A gym session heaving 6kg weights around. Arrived home to find a message that tomorrow's painting of the planters at our local TfW station had been brought forward. Had planned to mow my grass as 'no mow May' almost over! Armed with wire brush I prepped five planters ready for painting. My colleagues arrived and made a lovely job of staining the old planters. Grass mowed at home and now the sun is shining - garden chair out and shorts on. Hoping I don't fall asleep and snore - alarming the neighbours!!!

We have just got home from a weekend at Great Yarmouth with DD. We played crazy golf, walked along the prom with 1,000s of other people, ate ice creams, hot donuts and fish and chips (not all at once, spread over 2 days) and went on the boating lake.

This evening DS and DDil and DGC arrive for a weeks stay. We haven't seen them for nearly a year. We plan a day in Bath, a visit to the wildlife park and a local donkey sanctuary