I knew this was going to happen, especially as we did not get to go away at Easter but spent the time decorating.  I now have two books from my Book Year with Heywood Hill to read!!!!  I also have a rather packed To Read shelf already as Eldest caught me up with the Clive Cussler books I have missed!!!  I love nothing but reading for hours when I can but at the moment we still have quite a few jobs to do around our home, so I am reading when I can!!!!  Here are March & April’s books.

Normally as I am at home all the time I get to open all the boring post which of course is usually bills so it is really nice to get these parcels, it’s like having your Birthday or Christmas once a month!!

I am going to get all my normal jobs done today and then clear our dining room so we are able to start painting tomorrow and Sunday and get everything put back and tidy on Monday.  Well it’s a plan!!! 

It was the Duke & Duchess of Cambridge’s tenth wedding anniversary yesterday and I remember we were in Scotland for the Easter holidays and we all watched it.  When you look back over those ten years and see what has happened it really does focus your mind on what can happen in a decade.  

We were staying at Foulis Castle, seat of Clan Munro. We had a wonderful two weeks and the weather was amazing.   Corinne & Gordon came round for dinner and it was so nice we played baseball in the fields after.

The window overlooking the Courtyard.

The kitchen with the old baking oven and the log burner.  I used this chair a lot whilst we were there, reading of course. 

I hope you have a wonderful weekend whatever you are up and I will be back on Tuesday, no doubt with paint in my hair!!! I am a messy painter!!!!! 

Hugs & Love, Susie xx

I have been doing some reading over the weekend, in between getting some of the Spring Cleaning done!!!  I have a Stephen King book on the go at the moment and he is back to his normal self thank goodness, I will review it next month.

Great Book Shop Window!  Quite agree book collecting is not a hobby!!!! 

This picture was taken by Elle Croft, you can find the article here.  It is the desk from The Last Bookstore, Los Angeles.  How great is that desk or is it?  Should old books be used in this way?  It is always a huge debate of what to do with old books which are not worth anything and are perhaps damaged but it still looks good!  Elle’s article is really good, go check it out. 

I hope you all had a great weekend.  We had a lovely evening on Friday with Girlfriend’s family, an outdoor BBQ and the weather was good.  We saw the Puglets as I call them, Dotty and Ralphy, and it was so, so nice to go out socially and for me to get out of our home!!!!!  Saturday was spent Spring Cleaning the kitchen which always takes an age to do, as there are so many fiddly bits, cupboards etc.  But it was done thank goodness!!  I love it when it is done but not so much when I am in the middle of it!!!!! 

Have  a wonderful week. 

Hugs & Love, Susie xx

Today is St. George’s Day, Patron Saint of England.  There is never as much happening today, unlike St. Patrick’s Day, but we are still proud of St. George and of course the Dragon.  We don’t know if he had a name like the one in Harry Potter or the ones in Game of Thrones but in the depiction below he looks to be quite a small dragon!!!

I managed to get all my home jobs done yesterday and grocery shopping will be tomorrow as tonight we are all out as a family at Girlfriend’s Mom’s home for a BBQ!  We are all adhering to the current Covid rules and fortunately today is a lovely, and warm, Spring day so we can be outside without fear of rain!! 

The weekend we are going to get some more of the Spring cleaning jobs done and hopefully a little gardening as well.  Make the most of the weather and time before everything starts to ramp up again!!!! 

I hope whatever you lovely lot are up to this weekend you have a great time and still stay safe. 

Hugs & Love, Susie xx

Happy Earth Day!  Sorry for lack of posts this week but I have been trying to get a lot done and catch up on things, almost got there, still have a few things left to do!!!! Friday tomorrow, yeah!!!!! 

Hugs & Love, Susie xx

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I am glad it is Friday it has seemed one of those long weeks!! I know they are all the same length but sometimes they really do feel very long!!! 

Our swimming began on Wednesday and the swimmers are glad to be back in the pool.  At the London Acquatic Centre they are currently hosting time trials to qualify for the Olympic Squad this year and our swimmer, Molly, swam the 200m Breastroke final last night and won with a time of 2:20.89 which is a new British Record and well under the qualifying times for the squad!  Jacob Whittle, also from our Club, swam the heats of the 100m Free this morning and is in the final tonight with the fifth fastest time.  Well done both.

We have had a bit of controversy over the last few years in Derbyshire regarding a certain private school who’s new headmaster swept in and declared that they would become the centre of excellence for swimming in the whole country.  Since then they have “poached” swimmers from various Clubs, employed a former Olympic coach from abroad and done everything they can to boost their Club.  So it was quite funny in the heats yesterday morning at the Olympic trials for their only swimmer, swimming the 200m fly, to finish the final 50m doing front crawl!!!  He was of course disqualified!!!  Perhaps instead of being so up oneself they need to tell their swimmers that if they are racing a stroke you don’t change half way through!!!!!  I am sure they will claim that as he was last anyway he probably hurt his shoulders and was swimming down!!!!  Yes that may be the case but it still looked ridiculous! 

Tomorrow is the Duke of Edinburgh’s funeral and there has been a lot said about who will attend because at the moment only 30 people can attend a funeral!  He always said he did not want a lot of fuss and the current situation has meant that there won’t be.  It is one of those days that you just have to get through and I am sure it will be the same for HM The Queen and the Royal Family.  We will be watching. 

I have managed to get our home jobs done and am ploughing my way through the mountain of washing!  Hopefully tomorrow I can get some more Spring Cleaning done and a few other things.  The weather is due to still be cool, roll on warm Spring sunshine we are definitely lacking and missing it this year. 

Hugs & Love, Susie xx