Almost...

ready for our hols. Case nearly packed apart from a few bits still in the wash. I will tidy and hoover tomorrow and then we shall be off to the In-laws for the night as they are fairly near Gatwick.

Last Tuesday was my birthday and I spent the day at a patchwork workshop. We made up 3 blocks ready to carry on to make a lap quilt here's one of them.

I have also done a little more to Ethans new quilt and hope to finish it as near to his birthday as possible.

In the evening we all had dinner at Rachels' and I had lots of lovely goodies as presents, mainly craft stuff. Ethan had helped to make my birthday cup cakes and presented one to me, complete with candle as he sang 'Happy Birthday'.

We went to watch the film 'Mama Mia' last Wednesday. The critics seemed to be doing their best to to say it was trash, probably because there was no blood and gore or heaving bedroom scenes. The singing wasn't the best but for me that added to it. It was a feel good film that one could just sit back and enjoy and we certainly did!

Thank goodness...

it stayed dry last Saturday, so Beverly and I could enjoy an open air performance of Midsummer Nights Dream at Cliveden. We had a lovely day. Our first port of call was good old M & S to buy goodies for our evening picnic. We stopped off in Wendover and had a wander in a few very pretty shops and found a wonderful cafe where they make chocolate too! Next stop was Hugenden House, we always buy a guide book so we know what we are looking at. We took tea by the river at Maidenhead and then on to Cliveden.

Parts of the play had been updated but in such a way that it wasn't spoilt. The cast were good and the minimal scenery and costume changes ( each actor played 2 or 3 roles) were brilliant.

We sat on the ground

supported by our bean bags which everyone seemed to think was a very clever idea ( well done for that one Bev ). The only bad part of the day was getting stuck on the M1 for an hour on the way home.

Olney crop was on Sunday and again I managed 4 layouts and had a great day.

Time is moving on apace now towards our Egypt holiday so I have been stocking up with suncream, ' mossie' lotion and antiseptic had gel. Rachael andI have both bought a sun hat and very fetching we look in them too! We shall certainly need them.

What's been happening...

since I last blogged?

Had a lovely weekend ( the one just passed). We had Jet and Sasha to stay as Lindsay sailed off to the Isle of Wight to visit Squirral. and Ed was playing cricket . On Saturday afternoon we went to the Olney Cherry fair. There was a small dog show included so we entered Sasha in the class for' Best Girl Dog' (don't like that other word!). Ethan took her into the ring, helped by Rachael and he was thrilled when she won first prize. The judge commented on her beautiful shiny coat. Jet got a bone as a treat as he was very well behaved but we didn't think he would be too keen about being in the ring. Bonnie stayed at home, all the other dogs would have terrified her.

Beverly and I took Ethan down to the fun fair at the rec. where an hour and the contents of our purses disappeared fairly rapidly!

We all joined up again for a b-b-q to round off the day.

Sunday morning saw Rachael and I driving down to Watford to take part in a Donna Downey class at Willow Tree crafts. We really enjoyed the class although we haven't finished the project yet,so, piccies later. Donna was lovely, not at all Diva'ish , chatty enough but kept the class going.

I have been enjoying the warm weather and took Bonnie for a lovely walk over Clifton Meadows this morning. The garden is looking nice and full and the hanging baskets are blooming well.

This coming Saturday Beverly and I are spending Saturday at Hughenden House and then going on to Cliveden (both NT properties) for a performance of 'A midsummer Nights' Dream at the open air theatre. Let's hope the weather holds!!