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Anniversary congratulations Bridget, I hope you are having a lovely day.

Its all going well...wallpaper goes up tommorrow, Iv'e told him hes not allowed home until my dining room is finished !!! I love it all being new but the garage is full of boxes and my conservatory full of furniture !!!!!!!!!!!!

Happy Anniversary.

Richard and I will be celebrating 19years this September

Wedding getting nearer..........weather still wet !!!!!!!!!

Regards Jan
4.50 pm Norfolk

Good morning to you all.

I hope that you all have a splendid day, and that you make at least 2 other people smile.

For breakfast this morning we are having scrambled eggs with pieces of smoked Salmon, toast, coffee, and our bottle of champagne. This is being organised by OH, but as he is still asleep not sure what time the breakfast will be, it could become "brunch" .

Greenfingers, how is the decoration in your dining room going?
I used to go into Norwhich nearly every weekend when I was living in Attleborougj, . It was a good shopping centre.
We fell in love with Norfolk and made many friends in and around Attleborough, in fact we have decided that when we return to tne UK, not just yet,we would like to live near to or even in Antleborough.

The birds are chirping away and it sounds quite funny. Unfortunately I cannot recognise which bird makes which sound...but... there is one bird who every time it gets into song all the other birds start to sing / chirp even louder. Reminds me of when all the children were living at home.

It is quite cool at the moment although we are expecting high temp levels again this afternoon. I have the best tan I have had for years but I do use a lot of high factor cream and also mousturiser . Yesterday when our friend visited they told us of a family they saw on the beach whe had three young children and they were all turning red and only had pants on so no protection for the rest of their body. Need I say which country they came from. My friends were having a coffee very close to the family and got chatting to them, tried gently tlo explain about the strength of the sun ,but were told "oh don't worry they are used to running around like this at home in Manchester!!

Oh well we can only do our best.

Becoming rather excited now as we go to see BB King tomorrow evening on the Beach under our Papaluna Castle. The event starts at 22.00hrs. So will have to be there at least an hour before hand. Has anyone seen him live?
If so did you enjoy it?

Hoping that you all enjoy the day, and write on this thread!

Best wishes

.08.17 hrs. Spain

:-D

Thank you for you wishes for tomorrow. I eventually explained that I did not have a card for OH and he sad" no worries we will share the one I bought whilst in the UK, he then printed on the first inside leaf, " From me to you & from you to me on our 18th wedding anniversary. They said it would never last.". 2011.

Now that is what I call, love, happiness and sharing

Thank you all for your wishes and kind comments. We have put to one side a good bottle of Champagne to go with our breakfast tomorrow.

17.26hrs Spain :-D :-D <3 <3

Congratulations to you both Bridget, may you have many more happy years together.





Val.


4.57 p.m.

Also I can recommend the M & S Card site....its really good, if you are in the UK its 2.99 each card and they can be personalised...They only deliver in the UK, so I would thoroughly recommend, can't help you tho Bridget..sorry. Have used this site loads this year as I have as you know been laid up and everyone I have sent to has been thrilled

Jan

Another rain rhyme - - - -


It's raining, it's pouring,
The old man's snoring,
He went to bed,
To mend his head,
And couldn't get up in the morning.

- - - - - -

It's still raining here.

Bridget - have a look at www.jacquielawson.com
or hallmark.com

I have received some beautiful cards sent via Jacquie Lawson website.

Jan,thanks for taking time to tell us about your day. It sounds as if you all had a great time.

Wevwere out to a free lunch curtesy of the owner of the English bar for all the Quizzes that oh does throughout the year. The bar closes at the end of July until September.

Tomorrow is our 18th wedding anniversary and I cannot find the card I bought for OH..... I wonder if I can do one on line?

19.26 hrs Spain

I am reminded today and yesterday of the ryhmme Rain Rain go away, come back another day. It has rained for nearly 2 days now, and it s wonder we haven;t got webbed feet. It poured all day from 2 am to whenever yesterday, a group of us wet but undefeated met in Norwich at the Assembly rooms for afternoon tea for my daughters hen party....it took us ages to get there...its 30 mins usually, the traffic was ghastly, road rage imminent and nowhere to park and it was pouring !!!!!!!!!!! Despite that we had agreat time and Alex enjoyed it too, it was a scrummy tea and well worth it, it beautiful surroundings. The men, my OH BIL, SILto be and Grandson to be were due to have a boys afternoon, thwarted by the weather and getting us to Norwich destroyed all that....but we are still smiling...well just !! Her dress fitting went well, we pick up the dress on Wednesday....and I've got our decorator arriving tommorrow to sort out our dining room mad or what !!!

Hope you are all well.

Jan

It was a very wet day here yesterday. rather quiet too, it felt like a Sunday.
Sunny to day, so got round to doing washing, now that it is newarly done, I see lots of dark rain clouds looming overhead. Will have to keep an eye on the weather.

Will be goung out later this afternoon. My fifteen year-old grandson will be staying with me for two weeks, so that he can do some work experience in a local restaurant. I will be meeting him at the station.

Will show him the way to the restaurant tomorrow morning, on the bus. (he has only been there once, and that was when his dad took h imin the car).
Then hope to go to the Library, must remember to take my bottle of water as the cafeteria in the library has now closed.

Greenfingers, I see that you too want to go to New Zealand. I ahve wanted to go since reading about it in a geography book when I was ten. magnificent descriptions of Christchurch. It seemed that the writer had fallen in love with the place.

Hve to go now to get the place ready for grandson and to have some lunch.

Hope that everyone is well,

Tess

A lovely day here to-day. Have just returned from a walk on the beach, it was absolutely perfect down there with just the gentlest of breezes blowing.




Val. 12.30 p.m.

Good morning. I have just finished writing a fairly long entry and wentbto press Submit but somehow deleted it!! Ahhhhhh.
So now I am going to make a coffee, sit on the verandah and contemplate,
I will be back sometime today,

Enjoy your day.

07.52 hrs Spain :-S

Good afternoon to you all, the sun is shining, the temp is back to the low 30sm there is a very slight breeze, Jet & Joe have come indoors and have found some cool tiles to lay on, and I can hear some children playing in the pool in the garden below our house, we cannot see them just hearing them have some fun.
The visitors in the house next door set off home for Switzerland this morning with their two dogs, I am sure that Jet and Joe have missed them already. Other members of this large family will be here for two or three weeks on Wednesday. they will also be traveling from Switzerland.

We popped down to the local supermarket this morning for ice-cream, mild, some bottled fizzy water and a bottle of wine. that is what was on our list and...wait for it...that is all we bought!!!!

This afternoon I want to review one section of my family tree. I have already posted for hlep and some people are so fast with their responses and so accurate at the same time.....I am going to check them all and then see where I am. These are my grandmothers family and although I am back as far as 1794 I have some confusion as to the name of the lady that this person married. I am also going to see if I can get back even further. My Grandma was a very special person in my life and I am doing this for her.
I have nearly finished reading my book The Alchemist and ma/have enjoyed reading it. Has anyone else read this book?

That is about it for now, husband wants me to make another cake today so will add my new recipe on Culinary delights later this afternoon.

Take care everyone

13.22 hrs Spain

Oh dear - all that rain to come??? Send some of it over here. It's mid-winter here and all we get where I am, is light showers - occasionally. Twenty to thirty years ago, we used to get a whole week or more of torrential rain - but the last time I remember that kind of rain is about 1990. Other parts of our country have floods, but not here.

Bridget - I've started reading through your cullinary thread and have already got some ideas from it. Thanks for steering me onto it.

Greenfingers - I'm sure the wedding (and the cake) will be a great success. Enjoy yourself!

Ann - my books took two weeks to get here this time. I read two others while I waited for them but still have a few unread books - and a couple of unfinished ones. One of the latter is Colleen McCulloch's 'Antony & Cleopatra'. There were so many characters in it with Greek names - all ending in 'ius' - that I became confused and gave up after reading 100 pages.

It has rained here today... on St Swithens Day (oh no).

Tess
23.32 UK

Enjoy the wedding Jan. Hope that your back is not too painful and you have a lovely stress free ND Pin free day.

Yes, will post after the wedding and let you know how it went

Jan

Hello Ladies, a lovely day here to-day. Friends will be arriving later this afternoon so not sure if I will be here to-morrow.

Looking forward to hearing all about the wedding Greenfingers, bet the excitement is mounting as the big day draws closer.

Had to visit the doctor this morning for new prescriptions for our chronic medication, we have to get new prescription every six months. Must go for a Glucose Tolerance Test on Monday as he tested my blood glucose level and found it too high. Also had to have a spine X-Ray, so have had a busy morning. After all that I enoyed a bit of shopping.

Now it is time for the mundane job of bringing in the washing!

Enjoy what is left of the day.



Val.

1.20 p.m.

HI bridget

I live near Norwich, but have just googled Norwich Union and found an excellent site www.aviva.com which has various links, re the history of the company and they also have a lady (can't remember the name ) that you can contact. So if you know the year your relative worked for them, you should be able to access some info. Hope that is helpful

Had a practice run on the cake arrangement and it looks ok so just have to decide what day I do it !!

Regards everyone

Jan