Funny old weekend and start to the week this time.
First of all on Sat there was the highly successful Parks meeting.
Sunday provided the unexpected visit of the Sweetie which was nice.  But since it snowed heavily on Sun evening /night he decided to stay an extra day (and has in fact only just left).
This was lovely but disrupted his plans somewhat. ( Read more... )

Hi peeps.
just to remind everyone to take care while they are out and about in this weathe. Not so much the snow and cold but the ice is what can catch you out.
Seniorsis who is oh-so-careful in general, slipped on a patch of invisible ice just outside her house and has broken her arm.
Quite nastily as it is just under the shoulder and cannot be ( Read more... )

Just got back from this mornings Parks Meeting.
It was great to see so many people there including a brand new person. (so much for the Parks Dept. suggesting we should cancel as it was much too cold and dangerous to go out).
I thought these Northerners were supposed to be hardy types and we Southerners were supposed to be the nesh ones. Ha-Ha!! ( Read more... )

Bell Ringing today. The first time I have actually rng the bells since the beginning of November because of holidays and conducting and such.
In my absence they had decided to work on a system of "shadowing" in pairs. (ie 1 person plays and the other reads the music and follows along wth the tune then you swap over).
Really good idea!! Wish I'd ( Read more... )

How odd that when the temperature drops like a stone, the days are short and the rest of the plants are cowering under the frozen earth, my Amaryllis bulbs decide to throw up great jubilant shoots which in a week or two will carry four enormous flowerheads on each stalk.
Isnt Nature amazing?

Just read an odd little book courtesy of my Kindle App. by Kate Danley called "The Woodcutter".
An unusual take on many fairy tales all wrapped up in a fantasy novel. I thoroughly enjoyed it as it was different. Have never heard of the author before.
Just now embarking on a Bryant and May book (no.1 in the series) by Christopher Fowler which was ( Read more... )

So we woke this morning to snow everywhere and settling.
Chairperson (who is now ex chair) phoned to say that she was not going to the gym as the roads were all covered in snow and it was too bad to drive. (I should add that I am a firm believer in not adding to the crowds when conditions are bad, but even so - TOO BAD TO DRIVE - I think not!)
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Just got back from my upgrade session at the gym.
Who'd have thought that just changing the angle of your feet woould make so much differences to the exercices.!

She's got me doing slow, controlled muscle work on all the chairs and fast cardio burn work on the beds this time.

I was absolutely shattered when I finished. Could really feel where I'd been ( Read more... )

Just got home (well about an hour ago) from the Spanish group Xmas party.
We went to a Tapas bar in a local town.
There were 10 of us and the first 2 to arrive explained to the waiter that we were learning Spanish and wanted to practice.
The staff there are all Spanish and they were brilliant. They spoke to us in Spanish first - slowly so we could ( Read more... )

So where to start???
In general it has been another good year for me - though of course there have been the usual bumpy bits along the way.
BUMPS;-
The first of these was suffering from post viral exhaaustion in the early part of the year after a particularly vicious fluey cold, and the second was the several leaks that the house developed during the ( Read more... )