This is a rose from my garden. I have messed around with the photo a little.
Well, I had a nice afternoon yesterday with Coralie, Lisa and the grandchildren. It was a bit of a mistake to leave all my jobs as Simon doesn't seem to be too thrilled about it today. I can't win really. If I hadn't gone, he would have said I should've done!
We had a nice lunch and then we went for a walk. A LOOONG walk! Coralie has been doing this to try and lose her last bit of baby weight. I know I need to start doing some walking in preparation for our Moon walk, but 5 and a half miles in one go was quite a lot. Remember, I don't normally do much walking!
I also carried Ellie for quite a while, so my arms were achy this morning. She doesn't want to be in her pushchair all the time, but she doesn't want to walk all the time either. Nanny is a soft touch and she knows that I will pick her up and carry her! Yes, I am wrapped well and truly around her little finger!
This is our route, taken from Google Earth. Where it says "My house", this is Coralies house, not mine!!
Coralie has lent me a book that she got on Power Walking and it stresses in there that you must start out very slowly with short distances so as to avoid injury. It suggests beginning with just one mile and increasing your speed over that mile before increasing the distance. I shall have to get practising.
When we got back from Coralies, Joshua was home. Verity got in about 10pm, so I have 3 children in the house for the next week! Chaos will reign, I am sure. I have been really busy this morning catching up on all that housework. I started while Simon was walking the dogs. I had done the kitchen, changed the beds and started on the ironing all before he got back.
He went out and did the food shopping while I got on with all the hoovering, washing and ironing. The girls have gone over to spend the day with Coralie and baby Evan. Joshua has gone to pick up Sam who flew home today from France where he has been working for the last week.
Sam builds boats for a large company called Fairline Boats. See them here: Fairline. He went to them as an apprentice when he left school. He is highly skilled and now works on their proto type team. Just recently he has had several stints abroad finishing off boats in situ.
The next boat due out is being exported to Italy so he thinks he may have to go there. He is grateful at the moment to still have his job as the company have just made 90 redundancies and there are more to come. The boats are at the very top end of the market costing in excess of a million pounds for even the smallest ones. They export most of them to rich Europeans and Americans. Consequently the company is being hit hard by the current drop in the markets.
Simon has now gone over to his barn to do car stuff. He was supposed to be taking his truck to Leicester today to have some work done on it by a friend of his. That didn't happen as his friend Jeff who has the trailer couldn't make it. I suspect this delay may account for the grumps he has today! You'd think it was my fault that he can't go.
I have made some fairy cakes this afternoon and done more washing and ironing. There is still more to do as the washing machine and tumble drier are still going. I am just about caught up on all the basics now. The extra bits and bobs will have to wait.
I am having some coffee and I am going to have a bit of a browse around on the internet to see if I can find somewhere down south that we can have a few days after my Uncles funeral on Monday. I'm not sure where and I'm not even sure if it's gong to happen. I am getting the distinct impression that now the original plans have had to be dropped, Simon isn't too enthusiastic. We'll see.
I need to get together the things that we need for being away over night anyway and decide what to take to wear for the funeral. I'm not going to worry about it too much though as I have spent a lot of time already worrying over if I should go or not. Clothes are the least of my worries. The family have said they don't want everyone to be all in black so I'll just choose something ordinary from my wardrobe.
My sister was talking about her coat last night. Well, I don't have a really smart coat. I have a reasonable looking grey jacket but it isn't that warm. The only other thing I have is my waterproof everyday jacket with it's fleece inside. I hate being cold, so I may just wear that! I can't convince myself that this matters. That's one of the things about funerals that I hate, the way everyone gets worked up about what is right and what is wrong. I'm going to be there, so I'm not going to worry about anything else.
A last thought before I finish this.......Why is it that when you are a Mum and a Wife everyone in the family expects you to sort everything out????? I am going to start refusing. I'm going to just say "I don't know" to everything. So there!
No comments:
Post a Comment