A happy Easter to you Mick and all GN's and wishing you a lovely time with friends and families.
I am even slower than usual this morning to get going. Partly just the boring painful back , but today knees and hands have also decided to join in, but also partly because I stayed up late to watch the snooker match. My father used to play well and in the old days played Ray Reardon and several other very good players (whose names I cant remember) so have always watched a little when there was any very interesting matches, especially at the crucible. He once won us a week at a holiday camp by the sea. A great prize which my sister and I loved, as previously we had usually just gone to stay with relatives. Think mum and dad enjoyed the rest as we were of course off doing whatever was on offer. So they did ballroom dancing , I remember, and enjoyed the break.
Of course colour tv has made the difference to watching snooker. Last nights was definitely worth watching as this first time player beat the world champion in the end . An exciting game to watch and some brilliant shots of course, and that mixed feelings at the end, sorry for the loser but exciting to see a new talent coming through. Went to bed thinking of my dad and old times .
Good job that I had no concrete plans for today. It is greyish, chilly but dry this morning, so if it stays cold, I think the best I can manage is to go out with my secateurs and do some deadheading of the daffodils, which have been doing very well. The muscari is also doing well and so the borders look quite good right now with pheasant eye and thalia and several clumps of miniature daffs looking as though I have really worked hard in the borders, but its really been just them coming up to cheer the day, Inside my white hyacinth is doing well and giving that lovely perfume too.
I have no plans other than to try and do what I able to manage, and just accept it is one of those days. Not a day to go out anywhere as it will be busy and good cafes and restaurants will be full and booked up. It does add to that feeling of sadness , when y ou look back over many happy Easters with my dear husband. Taking my son and making pace eggs and rolling them down the hills etc. One year flying kites from very high up and my son wondering if his kite was the highest in the world!! Meeting up with family, or friends, and of course most Easters I would be singing in church or cathedral etc. We also used to go on good friday, climbing up the hill and singing by the old church. Ah well I do have the memories to look back on. This week I have various doctors appointments and also the dentist, but I am going to find a space and have my own little easter treat of a trip probably up swaledale or maybe to the coast, when everywhere will be a bit calmer. Anyway it is quiet and peaceful here at the moment so if the weather improves I may at least get to sit outside in the sun and read.
Rosieandhermaw How wonderful to be going to amsterdam. How lovely for you and understandably you are very proud of DD. Hope you have a great time and that everything goes well . It is a lovely opera too.
grandMattie I understand that feeling on your own in a big crowd. It is often easier to just be at home on your own , where you do not have that situation reminding you of what you used to have and now dont. Having gn's to chat to is a great help as we can speak of things that we dont want to upset families with or just have that acknowledgement of our situations with many others in the same boat.
Happy birthday Blue Sapphire and how lovely to be on your cruise and also have a chance to meet some other gn's in person. My goodness, Agatha Christie missed this scenario out. Just think what great plots she could have made of the whole range of us all getting together across the world by messages and then in meetings with of course our gn names, which may or may not be our real ones!
Ashcombe Very well done on your trip round town. You are doing well and any day you are not having such a great one you can look back at this trip and have good hopes for the future.
Marydoll if you should be reading this I wish you a blessed easter and hope that you will soon feel like joining us again.
Wishing all gn's a very happy and blessed easter and thanking them all for the interesting posts and support they give everyone
