Thursday morning I had promised myself an unhurried day, so I got up in my own time and relaxed with coffee whilst blogging and surfing the net for a bit.   Whilst I’d been away, Sol had plumbed in the toilet and bath in the bathroom, and though they were far from finished, he said [...]

On Wednesday morning, I left mum’s at 8am and set off for home, expecting to get quite a few delays due to hitting rush hour. Amazingly, I had a clear run all the way, which was great, and I was home by 11.30am. It was only on the last stretch, the A69 that I had [...]

On Tuesday morning, I didn’t emerge from my room for breakfast until 7.30, and enjoyed a full breakfast and a little conversation with fellow guests. Then I went and packed, loaded the car, and drove to Sainsbury’s to buy some lunch, and to kill a little time before going back to see Nanny at 10.30am. [...]

I was up early on Monday and after a quick shower and breakfast (kindly cooked early for me), I caught the 07.40 train to London. Happily, I’d bought my ticket last week so I didn’t need to queue for that. I made my way across London by tube easily, and arrived in good time for [...]

After a good night’s sleep and a big breakfast, I left for Sussex, and had a very smooth, easy drive down on the Sunday. I arrived at about 3pm, went to the B&B and left my bags in my room, and then walked straight round to see my Nan. When I got to the nursing [...]

I left Hexham mid morning on Saturday so that I could watch the FA Cup Final with mum in the afternoon. I’d had a smooth drive done, until the very end of the M56 which was backed up for 4 miles due to road works. What was irritating, was that the road works were after [...]

So here we are, on Friday, at the end of a tiring and frustrating week.   Even my blogging hasn’t gone smoothly as I not only had to find time to do it, but the “party girl” entry had to be typed out twice when technology did the dirty on me and lost it all! [...]

All week, Sol has been hard at work on the upstairs bathroom: Before: Bare: Levelling the very wonky floor: Floor done and starting to build the cupboard:   On Thursday, Billy and I went and chose, and ordered, the tiles for the wall – we chose something completely different to what we’d first decided upon, but [...]

Monday at work was hard going as by now, I was really running on empty. I can’t remember the last time I was this tired, and so I put myself on some herbs to try and help me through the next fortnight, which is still fairly busy. I somehow made it through a finance meeting [...]

 *I’ve no idea why the font and spacing are peculiar in this post, but I am not going to risk losing it all AGAIN, so it will have to stay as it is – sorry * As you may know, I am not a party goer really, but last weekend, I had parties to attend [...]