What is the best thing that has happened to you today.

Oh.... and that you get some work done on the house!

bags I had better do plenty of dancing and not have a glass or two, or there may be a risk of not much work being done

glass

Just had a lovely moment to add to the thread. Parcel from Hotel Chocolat arrived from DD2 with some caramel cheesecake chocs. [yum emoticon]!

Bags it's a good thing that you live where you do. I'm tempted to visit and grab a wee slice

Ohh bags how lovely, I can see soop climbing on her broomstick as I speak

bags is it for something special or just a Love you Mum treat.

Fly over any time, soop! (but you'd better hurry )

Just a LoveyouMum thing, glass. "Too yummy for you not to have some too"

Just taken Nell to the vets for her booster jab. Whilst waiting, a girl about 4 came in with her mum and dad and a cat in a basket. The girl took one look at Nell (basset hound with love in her eyes) and exclaimed 'that's the doggy I want, not a cat!!' She asked permission to stroke her and they made friends and spent a few minutes entwined. As I left 10 minutes later, she could still be heard protesting 'but I want a doggy like Nell.....' Ooops!

Just been to Tesco and bought a caterpillar tunnel, a paddling pool and a fold up trike for grandson's visit at the weekend. It's so exciting buying toys again...I want to try them out myself!

Why does a caterpillar need a tunnel?

Just back from France; left home at 7.15, on the shuttle at 8.30. I'd pre ordered the wine etc so just picked it up (and added a bit more!) then pottered off to local supermarket to buy nice cheese etc. Finished off with enormous lunch and wine, then back to the shuttle and here we are, home. I am lying down now...

It seems worth the trip again; for a while there wasn't much difference. But the Pinot brand I buy at Sainsburys for over £4.50 was on offer at £2.50, for example.

Well, our neighbours who are in charge of a little local Jubilee Party have all their bunting up - we have only the Union Jack, which is typically us. It is a bring your own effort, just a gathering of about 20 people and we have been asked to do the entertainment - quizzes, 'play your cards right', bagatelle, anything else we can find from the grandchildrens collection (now no longer used), and I believe bingo has been mentioned (GROAN.......). The weather forecast is not good.

Today my almost 8-year-old grandson (from Hampshire) was attending a meeting in Bradford with his head-teacher who was addressing heads and advisers and other educationalists on the subject of Education for the 3rd Millennium. He and one of the girls from the school introduced a power-point presentation about the way children learn now and told the audience about the experience of their school. I have watched it on a re-run of the live streaming and am so very proud of him. He wasn't a bit overawed or shy. I knew he wouldn't be, because he is a highly articulate child with a good stage presence. He was the one who got to do the jokes! At the moment he will be on the train home, but tomorrow I will tell him how proud I am.

DD phoned to tell me my twin GDs had their first swimming lesson today, and loved it! Considering the trouble she had getting them to have a bath a couple of years ago, I'm surprised but extremely pleased!

I do think it's important for them to learn to swim at an early age (they are 5, so not very early!) and it's good that the school is taking them because at the local swimming pool there has to be one adult for every child, so DD couldn't take them on her own.

I agree Anagram. The best thing I've done today is sewed GS's 3rd "ducklings" badge on his swim shorts (DD not good at sewing!). He is five and a half and has been taking formal lessons since last year, but we have taken him to the local pool since he was six months old. There was an article in the Times yesterday about the number of children leaving primary school without being able to swim 25 metres. So far, at his school, there have been no swimming lessons included in the curriculum. Maybe they will come later.

I got a letter from the bank telling me that they had reimbursed the money taken fraudulently from my account

I'll have one of those for you too harri

I have had a fantastic afternoon I had a trip up to a very wet Edinburgh and had lunch with Greenmossgiel, Gally and Elegran Thank you all for a lovely afternoon.

Hope you managed to swim home OK Glass I am still wringing the water out of my trouser legs.

Jealous of your Edinburgh trip...I love London but Edinburgh is special too!

I had a productive day.. did a mountain of ironing and then sorted my wardrobe out..winter clothes put away in a case, dry cleaning sorted, charity bag full and..oh no! I needed a new pair of spring/summer shoes and, after lunch out with DH, was lucky enough to find a perfect pair in town!

You can come to the next meet-up Nanaej

elegran took my shoes off and my feet were blue dye off my shoes

Think we should have an Nationwide annual get together,all grans together, what do you all think?

How about regional ones first, to get in a bit of practice? There could be thousands at a national reunion.

elegran there could be a lot of grans