Having a super time!

Still here in England but enjoying every moment, thank you! Today we are driving to Deal to visit my mother and sister as a surprise......the only things we have arranged are that we can take the C-Max Merc with its open top - yes, indeedy!!! - and will have lunch at the bay with my aunt. Visiting my mother and sister requires stealth and cunning. I rang Joanna and she thinks she will be out today. Maybe so, but I am not convinced so we are going to try and call anyway. And if I give my mother advance warning she will have something else to do and will excuse herself, so for the 30 minutes she will tolerate me for, this is the only way I know works. Sad but true, so I deal with it and take it in my stride. Having Clare alongside is the added bonus today. And after the rain the sun is shining and it is all looking like a beautiful day ( Elbow ref). I am doing well with my photo taking challenge and managing to get as many as possible every day. Some days are easier than others, for example extending the rockery around their pond was easy to shoot, but lying on the lounger in our sunhats was more demanding!! We have visited a gorgeous garden called Leonardslee which has Wallabies, and is closing to the public in June, so anyone wanting to visit should go now!! It is delightful and well worthwhile going. Its near Cowfold in Sussex. Yesterday we pottered in Bexhill and treated ourselves to lunch at a Siam Thai Restaurant in Little Common which was delicious. Each day we have lunched out so I am being thoroughly spoilt as you can see!!! But now the shower is next on my agenda this morning and so I will love you and leave you until I am home again! Sue xx

One week in the life of...

Ali Edwards is busy with this visual documentation of her week - well, any 7 sequential days that you like, really, so my plan is to record the week ahead when I will be in England with my bestest friends in the whole world. So a bit of a cheat maybe as it is a special week, but at least it is one when I KNOW I will take photos every day, lots of, and I will want to share them when I get back here again. Two birds with, and all that jazz!!

Talking of jazz, it is soon going to be the Enkhuizen jazz festival and this year I intend to go to something with Gebke. Not sure what, but we agreed to go there together - just to be doing something new and exciting and different. It will be fun!! I have to look up exactly when it is, and who is appearing this year, and when is best to go and price of tickets etc, but now I sing in the place where it is held, I feel comfortable going there for an event. Crazy how shy I still am after 51 years?!!!!

So, this is my last post for a week. Will you miss me I wonder? Will you visit me here and look at old posts so you can see us? Will you read my craziness and laugh at me and remember how beautiful my new stool is?!!!.... I hope you do. I am going to miss you too. Stay safe and well. Call often!!

Sue xx

background on computer

Oh dear, I am such a saddo!!!

I have got the best photo as my screen background (now that I know how to change them), but it makes me want to sit and gaze at it all day long!!!!..aah............;-)

Sue xx

Todays thought of the day

"Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are. Let me learn from you, love you, bless you before you depart. Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow. Let me hold you while I may, for it may not always be so. One day I shall dig my nails into the earth, or bury my face in the pillow, or stretch myself taut, or raise my hands to the sky and want, more than all the world, your return." Mary Jean Iron.

Finka's first foray!

She saw a bee for the first time and wanted a closer look but we soon advised her otherwise! watching, listening, looking....so long as no-one makes an untoward sound she is fine outside. The cats chair in the garden; what would I do without it?!! It is where they sit and sleep and cosy up together in the sun. Here Finka is just contemplating whether or not she should get down and take a wander around the garden................her coat is getting much darker now she is 8 months old, but she is still a scaredy cat when it comes to new things. The chair is the perfect place to start her explorations and she runs to sit on it when it gets a bit scary in the world. I do so hope that we have a suitable cat chair spot in the new garden..........

Sue xx

Happy Birthday sweet 13!

Genghis Khan is thirteen today, 24 April. He has lived and been loved by us since he was 6 months old; moved houses 3 times and country twice. He is as squinty-eyed as they can be, totally wrongly built for a Siamese Show cat despite his father being a champion ( Shere Khan) but he is also the loveliest, most devoted, most loving and contented cat I know. Here he is sunning himself in the flower border!!!! Right on top of the new growth too..................

Long may you live sweetheart!

Sue xx

Quote of the day

"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense." Emerson.

Fly baby

Everything is seemingly back on track for my trip to England this coming weekend thank goodness! It was rather worrying with all this volcanic ash floating around in the atmosphere, but fortunately that looks to be settling down now and flights are returning to normal. I did think that maybe I was being told not to go.................not that I am superstitious or anything like that!! Well, maybe intuitive is a better word to use. I tend to sense things very quickly and easily and just know stuff sometimes, without having to be told about it or read about it, just feel it. Spooky!! But I am getting myself ready slowly and trying to be all organised before the weekend as there are bound to be last minute things that require my attention, always are.

Having worked the past two days I am a little behind with my blogging, but here I am, sitting in my room thinking about today and all the possibilities it may bring. Lying in bed this morning I was having quite weird dreams about sticky frogs and clear water in Scottish lochs and children and pebbles and lovers..........all very interesting but quite a rich fantasy world I guess!! Sometimes I dream whole film scenarios, or books, and only wish I could get up the next morning and remember it well enough to write them down!! I have a tendency to dream in a semi- awake state y'see. Say nothing; I know it is odd but there it is. I do it during the day too, which sometimes leads to a little embarrassment on occasions. Not so much now, but when I was in school it was amusing for others when I was day dreaming and gave completely wrong answers when being asked something by the teachers! Especially in Geography because I hated the subject so paid very little attention to it, and was caught napping on several occasions. I did have a geography teacher who liked me, however, so I never really got into trouble for it; thanks Sir!!!! His name is lurking in the back of my mind right now, but not quite clearly enough to recall it, but he did look rather like a hippopotamus.................or a wrinkly prune as I recall...................

So, onto the next task since the floor downstairs is probably dry now, and I dare walk on it without messing it up with my footprints already, and I need to do some grocery shopping this morning. Tim is fast asleep still, so not going to wake him. We were thinking of going into town but tomorrow suits me better now. He did so well in his baking exam yesterday scoring the highest points in his year at his level, which is great, although I have no idea how that translates into his grade at the end of the whole exam thing. But it is encouraging so far!

Sue xx

one more photo...by request!!!!

Me and our boy!

Sue xx