What cheered you up today

I have been wondering what to give my husband for his 80th Birthday & had an inspiration,bring our very loved granddaughter home from University for his Birthday,now all arranged she is coming for a week & we pick her up on the morning of his Birthday,17 in immediate family & everyone will be ecstatic.
I sent the money for her flight & can’t stop smiling,he will be thrilled.

Though windy, it was bright and lovely for our Marlow walk today. The other half was cheerful ( not always guaranteed) and the DD sent pictures of her and the DGD in Salisbury where they stopped off on the way to Devon. My Magnolia is in bloom and the garden is looking very nice. Birds are singing and there is home made coffee cake for tea. A lot to be thankful for.

My cat

We both woke up

Spring sunshine, a potter round the farm shop and then new season asparagus for my lunch, with bacon and a couple of eggs. Very nice.

A morning doing Easter crafts with my 8 year old DGS.
A phone call from my 21 year old DGS who was checking up on me.
An unexpected hug from 2 year old DGS who insisted on getting out of the car so he could do so.
❤️

Being asked by my son and his partner to go to a 3D scan of their baby due in May.Getting there with babies two sisters and the 4 year old asking "is it an Alien granny" I struggled to stop laughing.To be honest she was more interested in the soft toys with baby's heart beat than the pictures on the screen.The new baby looks exactly like her sisters who are gorgeous girls .

I've just discovered this morning how to drizzle melted chocolate neatly over a cake I baked yesterday. It's taken me 60 years to figure it out. Happy gran.

Three things - a new bra that actually fits and is comfortable (miss Mary of Sweden), finding a mouth spray from the chemist which has pretty much cleared my mouth ulcers overnight, and a nasal spray which has dried up my drippy cold overnight. So physically I am in a much happier place.

One of my daughters phoned to ask if I would like to go away on holiday to Morocco with them.
I had booked to visit another daughter this week, fortunately the dates don’t clash.

A paradise of Spring flowers

My son arrived late last night for a quick stopover. A most lovely start to this morning. He's gone now but his short visit was a shot in the arm for me. Today can't get much better but....who knows?!!

Beautiful early sunshine, ruined quickly by heavy rain but - a lovely new gardener who will be helping to get my very large and difficult garden under control, and the large amount of grass cut, which seems to grow as I watch it!!

I don’t imagine many people would get this but I was driving towards a supermarket car park exit last night when the delivery lorry came in. It drove right up to my car (I had obviously stopped) and I got to watch it manoeuvre reversing up to the hatch. Then he put his hand up to thank me. I wanted to thank him! And yes, I am on the autistic spectrum 😁 I had a silly grin all the way home.

Mum and dad were out so I was 'babysitting' my 13 year old grandson. "If it's a choice between going out with mum and dad or hanging out with grandma I know what I'd rather do - love you grandma" he said

Getting a lovely WhatsApp message from my 12 year old granddaughter, saying how much she loves me and how thankful she is that I'm her Granny

Spending time with my sister in her new home, and helping to choose plants for her pretty courtyard garden. 🌺

Receiving a photo of my 14 year old grandson’s smiling face this morning just before he set off on his school adventure. A Duke of Edinburgh challenge of a hike and overnight in a tent on the hills. They’ve to set up camp and cook their meal before crawling into their tents for the night. I hope he’s still smiling tomorrow 😆

Primroses and one of the rescued chooks outside the back door.

Seeing my finished home made gold, compost. Finishing my prep for growing veg. The small beds look so neat and are bursting with goodness. My cheeriness will be complete when I have watered my slug nematodes in and maybe this year my veg will have a chance

You lot- going to a funeral of a loved relative in a min and you’re taking my mind off the sadness.

A seven year old pupil rang the bell at Christie’s. We all celebrated with them.

I planted some Asiatic Lily summer bulbs and transferred a shrub to a bigger pot. I love gardening even if it is a struggle. It was quite warm in the garden.

Getting the grass cut. It was dry yesterday, didn't rain in the night as they said it was and didn't rain today, so I went out just after 4.00pm.

The grass had grown very long, with the rainy warm weather we have had this winter. so it took some doing, but it is done.

The added releif was because we are away for 10 days over Easte and our house is for sale at the moment and nothing spruces the outside view of a property more than a nicely trimmed lawn.

Today started with dreich weather. With weather like that it doesn't take much to cheer me up. Feeding the birds first thing usually does it as i go out to fill the feeders and see the spring flowers. Gorgeous.

But I had a lovely day meeting an old friend in town. Best of all was I was pleased to find the wool I was after and had not been able to buy locally for weeks.
I bought 10 balls! In my defence, it's an inexpensive yarn used for charity makes.