What's good in your world....?

Been to see my daughter and granddaughters. Haven't seen the girls for about three months and they've grown up so much.Eldest one (13) is becoming a lovely young lady. I've missed them so much. And they missed me too! Happiness....

It's such a beautiful day here.Sun shining,birds singing,bees buzzing,I can't believe it's so quiet at this time even in a terraced house with close neighbours No dogs barking,children squealing or or lawn mowers buzzing -yet.
So I'm enjoying! sitting on the patio with another cup of coffee.My lawn needs cutting but it can wait.

nanachrissy your post made me

Today, Kintyre is many shades of grey. Our good friends in the village have invited us for lunch. We'll ring their door bell, the two dogs will fall over themselves in glee, we'll be dined and wined and well and truly cosseted. And Greatnan we'll tell a few of your jokes. Laughter is always on the menu in their company. Thanks to you, we'll be able to contribute to the hilarity.

nanachrissy am I right in thinking it is your birthday today, (seem to remember you mentioning it in a thread some time back)? If so then enjoy your day. Pleased to hear you had a great time with family yesterday.

Enjoy your lunch soop and have plenty of and laughter

shysal No it's in June, but thank you all the same. I think extra birthdays now and again would be a good idea! as long as they don't add up!!!!

Sorry about that, I was gettjng ahead of myself! It feels like June today. I shouldn't wish the summer away, I can't believe in a few weeks it will be the longest day! I shall retreat back into my shell in embarassment

Home from extended lunch with two big-hearted pals, Had such fun. Greatnan's jokes brought tears to our eyes x
Good news for our wee community [200+ souls]...we're to have an official Jubilee beacon lit on Dunskeig. Read it in their copy of Mail on Sunday. Very proud and all puffed up.

shysal don't you dare be embarrassed! You were being thoughtful and kind.

soop glad you enjoyed yourselves.

What's good in my world today is a huge chicken casserole which tastes delicious.

We've had a lovely day - it was so sunny and warm. Just sitting outside with a cuppa, and a most magnificent peacock wandered up the drive, and came really close.

The cats were all scared and slunk away! We gave him some corn, and he's been with us all day, displaying such wonderful colours of blue and irirdescent green.

He's been up on the roof of the house and old barn - he's now peering through the french doors at us. If he roosts on the roof we might not be so keen early tomorrow morning! Don't know where he came from, he has no band round his leg. makes a change from the pheasants and moorhen.

I am off to Manchester tomorrow for a week with my sister and won't be able to post, unless I pop into her library.
I will have to burn the midnight oil tonight and post enough jokes to keep Soop going while I am away!

Have a lovely visit Greatnan

Enjoy! geatnan

How exotic sunflowersuffolk .. from a local stately home.. though yours is obviously preferable and perhaps more stately.

My day not so exciting..grass cut at last and better still I finished making a pair of curtains that have been nagging me since before Easter!! Need to get the pole up now!

We've been having new double glazing put in this weekend , deep joy!! the mess has been a pain but it will be nice when its all done and the house is back in some kind of order.. we forgot that all the blinds would have to come down and then be put back up again.. we've only tackled the bedroom and living room so far.. the rest will have to wait till OH calms down a bit..lol , he never was any good with DIY, I'd tackle them myself but he thinks it should be a 'man's job'!!

Also spent an hour looking through some old pics... my Mum Joyce would of been 100yrs old today.. she didn't live long enough to get her telegram sadly..

After many weeks of hunting I've finally found a lovely dress to wear to my nieces wedding in 5 weeks time. I've lost count of the number of dresses I've tried on in the past few weeks, I thought I'd save hours of shopping and order online, my neighbors must think I'm having a fling with the delivery man he's been to our house that often. Anyway I decided to try our local shopping outlet, tried on a lot of dresses, found one that I quite liked and my DD liked on me, just as I was browsing some matching jewellery I spotted another dress that I hadn't tried on. I very nearly left it at that as I was feeling quite bedraggled by that point but my DD daughter said to go and try it on. Well it fitted, actually I needed a size smaller much to my delight as I was beginning to deeply regret not losing the weight I had intended for this wedding.

Moved on to the M & S outlet to get me a pair of 'Magic knickers' to even out the bumps and I'm all set to go to the wedding. A very good day for me

I had a picnic with friends in the nearby river meadow and then collected eldest son from the station after he'd phoned to say he was coming for a quick (surprise) visit. Just lovely!

Lovely indeed, ga. I so enjoy picnics. Sounded special.

How nice Libradi, you can relax now and look forward to the wedding! It makes you feel much more confident when you know that you'll look good.

I had a lovely long phone call to New Zealand this morning as I won't be able to phone from my sister's house (I get free calls via my ISP).
My youngest grandson, who is 13, achieved Level 9 in his English grade - the highest possible and normally only given to 16 years olds. He didn't tell his mum - he is very modest - but one of his friends told her.
I always feel so happy after talking to her and hearing all about the lives of her six children, who are all happy and successful. The three oldest, who stayed in England, meet up regularly and say they still feel very much part of the family. I am looking forward to getting big hugs from all of them at the second son's wedding in August, in Kent. His fiancee sends me photos and news of my two great-grand-daughters, so she is like another grandchild to me. It is just a shame that my other daughter won't let her children go to their cousin's wedding, although they have always been on very good terms and used to go out clubbing together when they were in their teens.

I don't get to my Internet as often as so many of you and have only just read sunflower's post, what a lovely picture it conjured up, must be a wonderful place to live.

Yesterday we took youngest son and fiancee to the Eden Project and had a smashing day then drove them back home where they discovered we had been doing 'guerilla gardening' while they were working away, they were very pleased. Back in own bed which is always good and now looking forward to seeing grandsons tomorrow.

My very dear sister is good in my world!

Drove to Bedford for routine dental care. So glad I no longer have those back teeth and their gum disease nooks and crannies.
The countryside looks incredibly beautiful in the sunshine. All the millions of tiny new leaves in their spring colours.
The rape seed fields add wedges of vivid contrast to the landscape.

Chatting to my daughter on the phone again , and beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel with all the housey jobs that have been left undone for several months!
Still got wardrobes to sift through, but hey ho, it will get done sooner or later!

Spent yesterday afternoon at Amberley Museum & Heritage Centre, we have been volunteers there since 1994, but because of health problems not as active as we used to be. We volunteer in the print shop my husband has been in print since 1944, so all the old machines at the Museum are just his cup of tea. We met up with the some of the other volunteers there, all lovely people and caught up on the latest news. We (personally) are lucky enough to own some Victorian wooden engravings, some of which were used to Illustrate 'The Poetical Works of Eliza Cook'. Don't think much of the poems! We also have some bird blocks, again some of these were used to illustrate 'British Birds in their Haunts' by Rev. C.A.Johns. It is lovely to have these, so that we can demonstrate the printing of them, and tell their history. As you can probably guess by all this, I quite enjoy talking to visitors, but like to think I am a good listener, because we can learn so much that way.

I just read your post, Printmiss, and thought "I didn't know there was a museum at Amberley" then I realised you were in England of course: Amberley is our local airbase here in Ipswich, Queensland Australia.

I read your profile - printing rings a few bells with me. I used to be the MOC or union delegate of our local print union branch, ie NATSOPA. MOC means 'Mother of the Chapel' as the printers' union dates back to the first printing press with moveable type, or so I was told. This was in a crypt, hence the bloke who looked after the printers' interests was Father of the Chapel. I liked being in an organisation centuries old.

Of course, I wasn't a printer, I was a newspaper accounts and ages clerk, but all non-journalism jobs came under the printers' union.