Anniversary

It's Mum and Dad's anniversary today, 52 years. We did presents this morning and we'll have cake and sherry this afternoon. We'll have a nice dinner at the weekend.

Birthday

It's my birthday today. We did presents this morning and we'll have cake this afternoon. Then at the weekend we'll have a nice dinner.

Scotland

We left for our weekend at my cousin's in lovely sunny weather and for the first few hours the sun did shine. We took a trip out in the afternoon and spent some time at Floors Castle garden centre then visited Ford and had an ice cream and tea. Unfortunately the hot weather didn't last long. In the evening there was supposed to be archery at the local pub but that got cancelled. Instead my cousin, me and her friend had just as good a time playing darts very badly while my uncle watched.

Next day the weather was if anything even worse as it poured and poured all day. My cousin and his wife arrived at lunch time and in the afternoon we had a short trip out but apart from that we had a great time in the house catching up and talking and wondering in the occlasional breaks in the rain if we could get outside.

On Sunday the weather was better although there were some impressive puddles in the roads on the way home. All in all in spite of the horrible weather we had a great time.

Holiday

My weekend has started. I have a day off tomorrow as we are going up to Scotland to stay with my cousin. My uncle is going as well and on Saturday my cousin's brother and his wife are coming up too. The forecast isn't very good and there might be some rain. It would be nice if the weather was as good as it is today, it is lovely with lots of sunshine and very warm.

Shopping

I bought myself an iPad this week. It was a bit of an impulse buy but so far I am enjoying it although the keyboard is a little difficult to use. When I think back to my first computer and compare it to this it's quite amazing.

My only other spend this week was going to the hairdressers yesterday.

This weekend has been a quiet one,mainly watching the rain coming down and we have had more thunder and lightening. Summer weather can be so nice!

A little reading

Now that the tennis is over I finally got round to buying a couple of books I have had my eye on for awhile.  So this afternoon I bought Jump! by Jilly Cooper and The Death Instinct by Jed Rubenfeld so have plenty to occupy myself with.

The Wii Fit is also back in use now.  It's amazing how it doesn't take long to get out of the way of exercise!  It is about all the exercise I am getting as it is very quiet at work now that the vacation has started.  The mornings do drag quite a bit!

Lunch

The weather was very up and down today.  Bright sunshine one minute, dark clouds and threatening rain the next.  But luckily by the time I met Mum and Dad to go down to the Quayside for lunch the sun had decided to come out and stay.  And a very nice lunch it was.  We all went for the chicken and bacon with brie salad and then Mum and I had creme brulee while Dad had Bakewell tart and ice cream.  We got some much needed exercise afterwards with a nice, long walk.  And the sun stayed out!