Our weekend

The weekend seemed to fly by; the weather was great, we got to sit outside a lot as well as getting things done around the house. One of my jobs was to move my photos on to my new hard drive. I ordered a 1TB External Hard Drive which arrived on Saturday morning. It took about an hour and a half to copy my photos over from my computer (over 25 000 photos) and even though I checked, and double checked, that they'd transferred over properly, I still put off deleting them from my computer - until Jon said he would do it ;o). I now want to back up everything on to discs to be on the safe side. My biggest nightmare is losing all my photos!

As I said, we spent a lot of time outside over the weekend. We had Jon's sister, Deb, and her husband Dave round for a braai (barbecue). I forgot to take photos until it was time for pudding (meringue nests with strawberries and cream). I haven't been doing so well at documenting my week so I think I'll have to adapt it to suit me.

My guilty pleasure on Saturday evening was Haribo Mini Jelly Babies - my favourite!

Sunday morning I woke up with a thumping headache. Fortunately the tablets starting helping quite quickly and I sat outside to have my breakfast and flip through one of my photography books.

Our azalea has started flowering and the flowers are bigger than I remember them being last year. It looks like we're going to have a bush full of flowers again this year. I'm really enjoying seeing all the plants turning green again, watching the hostas and the lillies pushing through the ground and the garden slowly come to life again. I love this time of year - especially when we've got sunshine as well!

I was out and about this morning but when I finally got home after lunch it was still warm enough for me to hang the clothes on the line - and for them to dry. I'm loving these sunny days and hoping they last for a while yet!

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Emily goes back to school tomorrow so I really need to have an earlier night tonight so that I'm up at 6am. I've got used to having an extra hour in bed in the morning and going to bed later but I need to switch back to school mode now. It's been a lovely break and I know it won't be too long before they're on half term again.

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Thank you, Amy

A big Thank You to Amy (and her lovely little assistant) for the template I was lucky enough to win. I liked it when Amy first showed it and when I got my email telling me I'd won I couldn't wait to use it myself. After the scan this morning I knew what my first layout would be and this afternoon I completed it. The template was easy to use and I'm so pleased with the way the layout came together. I hope I've done your template justice Amy - I know I'm going to get lots of use out of it! Thanks once again and enjoy your weekend. xx

Claire

Claire and I spent most of this morning sitting at the hospital waiting for her to have a scan. She's had a couple of hiccups during the past week and the Doctor wanted to see that everything was ok. I'm glad to say that it's all fine, they measured the baby at 26mm which makes her about 9 weeks and 3 days and the baby should be due around the 17 November. It was a huge relief to see the little heart beating and know that all is well. First scan photo and for those of you who are as good as me at making out these photos, the head is on the left hand side.

I don't think Claire and I stopped smiling all the way back! We picked up Emily and took Claire out to get some lunch before she headed back to work.

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Ali's "Week in the Life" project

As a number of you will know, next week Ali Edwards is running her "Week in the Life" project (for those who don't know about it you can see what it's about here). I had been thinking about playing along but next week isn't looking terribly exciting at the moment so I decided I'd start my week a bit earlier - like today! I've just downloaded about 70+ photos taken today - random everyday things. I haven't edited them yet and I've still to weed out which ones I won't be using. I have a couple of ideas about what I might want to do to document it but won't concentrate on that until I've completed the week.

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This is a glimpse of what my day has entailed:

Took Claire to work and then carried on to Wetherspoons to meet the coffee ladies for breakfast. Emily came with me.

Home to hang out the washing and pick up Claire's coat and straighteners.

Lunch at Starburger with Hugh, Claire and Emily.

Took Hugh to the station to go up to Sarah's (in London).

Picked up Emily from Waterstones.

Phoned the Vets about Cloud.

Phoned Specsavers to make an appointment for Hugh.

Text Mary back about haircuts.

Caught up on some blog reading.

Look on Genes Reunited to find out date and place of Aunt Mavis's marriage.

Ordered External Hard Drive and photography book from Amazon.

Sorted out My Favourites on my computer, deleted any I no longer read.

Went to Vets to pick up more antibiotics for Cloud.

Made dinner for Jon.

Downloaded my PDFs from Ella Publishing.

Emily has Davina over for a sleepover.

Downloaded my photos for the day.

Edited a couple but lots more to go through.

Wrote this blog post.

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I'm looking forward to trying to keep this up all week. Anyone else fancy giving it a go??

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