Busy Busy

It's been a busy couple of days this week. Yesterday Mum, Claire and I went and did the weekly grocery shopping. Our usual Monday morning trip to Sainsburys. Got home around half ten and then had to go back into East Grinstead for a couple of things. While there I popped in to see if there was any chance of getting my opticians appointment changed to sooner than next week. They said they could see me at 12.40pm so, no point in going home first and a good reason to go to Nero's for a coffee :o) By the time I did finally get home there was only about half an hour before Emily got back from school and the usual afternoon things took over. Had great fun doing Emily's French homework with her - she was in stitches at the way I pronounced things ;oD - did the trick though, she got 11 1/2 out of 12 in her test today!!

Today saw me going into Crawley with Mum, Dad and Hugh. I needed to get a top for myself and a cardigan for Emily, to wear to the funeral on Saturday. (We've got a fairly early start, needing to leave home by 7.30am as it will take us a couple of hours to get to Deal and the funeral is at 10am.) The weather has been quite chilly in the mornings and I don't want us to get caught out. Fortunately I found what I was looking for quite quickly and we had time to do Hugh's shopping and a bit of browsing. We had lunch in East Grinstead when we got home and again, back to the house shortly before Emily was due home.

I haven't had a chance to do the last couple of days layouts - the preparation is done but I haven't got the photos printed off yet. I'm hoping to finish them tomorrow but may be taking Dad to Crowborough hospital for a check up around lunch time. Will find out for sure in the morning. Keep checking in and I'll post as soon as I can.

A photo for today ....

This is what Tom thinks of all the rushing around I've been doing - he'd much rather stay nice and cosy on the couch in the lounge- out of the cold wind!

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Happy Birthday, Dad!

Today is Dad's 79th birthday! We had family round for afternoon tea and cakes and were able to sit outside as the weather has been beautiful. This morning Claire made a Key Lime Pie and I made some scones. I remembered to take photos of the scones but forgot the pie because it was in the fridge :o( - needless to say, there's none left so I can't take a photo now! I'd forgotten how much I used to enjoy baking - I'd quite like to bake more but I don't know how good it would be for Weight Watchers! A few photos from this afternoon The Gang Tyler liked the pebbles Claire enjoyed blowing bubbles Claire and GrahamMore of Tyler

With Mummy/Theresa

I haven't done my layout for today yet so that will have to be posted tomorrow. Hope you've had a good weekend.

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A Scrapbooking Day

Somehow I seem to have got way behind with my layouts for Shimelle's class but, today, I've made up for it and am now up to date (bar one, which I am still trying to get right!!) They all have the white background now (even the ones that I had previously done with different coloured backgrounds have been changed to the white). Title Page Day 15 Day 16 Day 17 Day 18 Day 19

Let me know what you think.

Will be back again soon with a general update.

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Excitement in our town

Hugh asked me if he could drive to work this afternoon and I would drive home (he needs the practice before his test). I decided to go home a different way than I normally do but when I got up to the roundabout at the top of the road, the cars were being stopped by a police man. Once stopped I could see that there were a number of policemen surrounding one car with guns trained on the people inside. The two men inside were brought out one at a time, handcuffed and taken to a lane next to the shops where they were put up against the wall, stretched out and searched. The men were kept apart and their car searched. Once the police were happy the car was safe, the men were brought out and put into separate cars plain police cars with plain clothed policement in with them and they were driven off in convoy. Such excitement for our little town which is normally so quiet!! Must be our week for excitement - yesterday, after school, I took Emily and her friend, Lucy into town so they could go to Cafe Nero. Claire and I went as well and sat at a different table so we didn't spoil their fun. We had parked and I had just got our ticket when I heard a car hooting - long and LOUD! I looked to see what was happening and a car was reversing out of it's parking space and the guy hooting was behind him. I was sure it would stop but ..nooooooooo... carried on going until it actually hit the guy who was hooting. The man got out the car and said he hadn't seen him!..... Hello!!!! ....... Even if he hadn't seen him, surely he heard him!! Oh, the fun we're having in town (hehe!!) xx