Catch Up
At the moment, there's so much to do and such little time. Sophie is in the middle of her GCSE exams and Jamie is due home (more endless washing!), DH is busy at work and in the garden and it's the start of the tennis season in England. Jasper's allergy has re emerged from last year and I spent a great deal of yesterday grooming him and bathing his sore eye with salt rinses. At last the weather has changed and yesterday was glorious with endless sunshine and bright blue skies. I managed to finish the "Prom Bracelet V2" and watch Rogi's sad defeat at the French Open. DH was teasing me as he knows how much I like Roger. It really was a poor tennis match and Rafa won easily. Without doubt, Roger will be victorious again at Wimbledon this year. I will only be watching the Championships on the box this year as I was not lucky in the ballot this time (well three years running was great). So what does a girl do? Sit in the garden or watch the start of Queen's Stella Artois this afternoon. A bit of both I think.
I didn't tell you about my trip to Richmond. The drive down was good but the weather was overcast and a mixture of drizzly rain and heavy downpours. I took the wrong exit from the M25 and ended up driving round Kingston Upon Thames, Richmond Hill and Teddington and finally got to Jamie's Uni with a 40 minute detour. With the seats down, we loaded up Pepper to the brim and then we drove back to Richmond and had lunch here and then spent the remainder of the afternoon by the river. I really enjoyed walking along this part of the Thames. There were so many people cycling and walking or just like us later; sitting, chatting and enjoying a nice cuppa. It was overcast but warmish and so refreshing by the water' edge. The shops were good and Jamie got a treat from here. No evidence of knitting shops but Jamie said that Barnes has lots of my sort of shops. So a visit is pencilled in for later this year. He is home for the Summer this afternoon, so I am waiting for his call to taxi him back from the train station.
Sophie's show was fab and was a mixture of AmDram (lots of songs from Oliver and other musicals), fabulous costumes and great singing. It wa a fine tribute to Miss Wendy. Sophie was in a gangster style white pin striped suit. As I well know, the tall girls always have to dance as "men", as there only about 3 male dancers as opposed to 200 girls. Sorry no photos - not allowed. Afterwards, we waited outside the stage door for her and an unexpected heavy mist had descended and it was freezing (remember the theatre is at the end of the pier). Tea and toast were needed for a very late supper.
I didn't tell you about my trip to Richmond. The drive down was good but the weather was overcast and a mixture of drizzly rain and heavy downpours. I took the wrong exit from the M25 and ended up driving round Kingston Upon Thames, Richmond Hill and Teddington and finally got to Jamie's Uni with a 40 minute detour. With the seats down, we loaded up Pepper to the brim and then we drove back to Richmond and had lunch here and then spent the remainder of the afternoon by the river. I really enjoyed walking along this part of the Thames. There were so many people cycling and walking or just like us later; sitting, chatting and enjoying a nice cuppa. It was overcast but warmish and so refreshing by the water' edge. The shops were good and Jamie got a treat from here. No evidence of knitting shops but Jamie said that Barnes has lots of my sort of shops. So a visit is pencilled in for later this year. He is home for the Summer this afternoon, so I am waiting for his call to taxi him back from the train station.
Sophie's show was fab and was a mixture of AmDram (lots of songs from Oliver and other musicals), fabulous costumes and great singing. It wa a fine tribute to Miss Wendy. Sophie was in a gangster style white pin striped suit. As I well know, the tall girls always have to dance as "men", as there only about 3 male dancers as opposed to 200 girls. Sorry no photos - not allowed. Afterwards, we waited outside the stage door for her and an unexpected heavy mist had descended and it was freezing (remember the theatre is at the end of the pier). Tea and toast were needed for a very late supper.
