HAPPY NEW WEEK!!!
Last week's Chat thread is here.
Seems like a lot of folks on this thread have been facing adversity of one kind or another. Sending you all best wishes and good energy.
Have a wonderful week everyone!
DIANE lovely pic of HM. She was a very beautiful young woman. I was always surprised that Margaret was thought to be the prettiest. For me HM outshone her.
DIANE - Many thanks for the link. I can only echo what others have said here.
ANNETTE - It sounds as if you had a great time on your family meal out! You don't often mention your OH as joining you - perhaps I am wrong - happy that he enjoyed it all!
Sun early this morning, then rain, now the sun is trying to come out to play. I was shopping in town, bits and pieces from M and S. Treated myself to some new pyjamas.
Back later, must have some lunch.
Busy day today - morning at eye-clinic (all okay, tail off steroid drops to zero this week, go back if it flares again, Haircut this afternoon and Gardening Group this evening. Also keeping up to date with washing and ironing to have things ready to pack ay weekend. OH currently mowing first half of front grass - hope for another weather window for other half another day! J has some Wednesday hours until school finishes for summer - doing a special task.
Ospreys Rule OK, but Goldfinches come a close second!
Well, had a busy morning. We were out for a longer time than we planned. Bought a cheap frame at Ikea for the lovely enamel picture of birds which we got a week ago at the Craft Event. Also grabbed a couple of photo frames for future use while there, then saw a cheap doormat!!
After a break for coffee, we drove to a big hardware retailer and chose an exciting thing - a new handrail for our stairs! The one we have is just a small grabrail and I'm getting nervous that I might lose my hold and fall down. So we then had to fit it into the car....good job we have an estate. Next door was the furniture shop where we bought our living room sofa, so we decided to pop in and see if they had a suitable footstool to match. Our old stool matched the previous furniture and is shabby now. Surprisingly, my OH agreed to spend and we've ordered a new stool!! I said "Yes!" when he asked if I liked it, quickly, in case he changed his mind!! ;-)
Didn't have time this morning to remark that your lovely lunch must have been fun, Annette. Your garden sounds interesting, as you can grow different things from what we can here, obviously.
OG - Good that you're nearly done with the eye treatment. Your remark on cutting the grass reminded me that we never put grass cuttings into the compost nowadays - we used to layer them with other stuff, but really if its summertime and the grass is damp, it ends up oozing as it rots and is not nice! You certainly can't have a grass cuttings only heap, or it would be really wet and smelly! So now our grass cuttings go into the bin provided by the Council for Green Waste.
Here are the rest of the promised Sunset series ~ all taken on the 30th May.
Firstly, we arrived at our small beach - this is my OH and the dog, going down the slipway towards the sandy pebbles......
Its not until you take pictures like this that you realise that the sea is such a definite horizon, and soon looks crooked if you are even slightly out! I have several that are gorgeous, but look as if they are sliding away!!
On this one there are a flock of birds going across the sun, but they are small in the distance....
Last ones......
~ ~ Then we strolled back, enjoying the pinky afterglow. Lovely!!
Hello Everyone,
A break from grandmotherly duties. D in L and G'daughter left here this morning to visit the maternal side of family.
We have been busy keeping a lone seven year old occupied (more difficult than two, I find)
We have been to Stonehenge, exhausted the supply of play parks within easy reach, and visited various NT properties with woodland trails. Yesterday, I took her to the Natural History Museum which was a great success. She had been before, but one year on obviously she sees things from a different prospective.
They will be back here in two weeks for a couple of days, so we can take them to Heathrow to fly home.
Lovely pics, Lindy. I like them all. All worthy of wall space.
Diane, I have just been informed about State flowers. What a nice one for your State.(and Alan's photo)
Ohio has two, I am told. The carnation, and white trillium for the wild one.
I had no idea about the State reptiles, either. There do seem to be a lot of turtles, types of which I didn't know existed. I gather Ohio has the black racer snake.
I am learning quite a lot in my old age, including American history!
Heather and others. I like the lettuce story. I think in the past when I have discovered a tired lettuce, that cutting off the bottom of the leaves and putting them in a bowl water revives them. It also revives the slugs!
Like Lindy, I now mostly buy bags of leaves.