Today I have been mainly Vol. 6

Town And Country Planning [Scotland] ...
Planning Permission given to build wee hoos on the orchard plot. Bravo, Mr soop. You are a star.
Now all we need is a buyer for our home.

Got up early and went to market. Treated ourselves to a live lobster from the fish stall for dinner and bought plants for tubs. Came back and planted geraniums, petunias and verveine in shades of pink, white and a touch of purple. Planted courgettes and checked on all the seedlings in the potting shed. OH cutting turf and building the last half dozen new raised beds.

The really best bit is - I make the cake, covered in chocolate and all sorts of other really nice, sugary things - therefore I'm a goody, but someone else has to clean it up and cope with the sugar rush and come down!! I knew there were advantages to being a Ma!!

kitty, have fun. There's no better sign of a successful party than small children covered in chocolate cake .

anno wondered where you had gone glad you enjoyed your trip.

kitty enjoy the party [cake] and have a lovely holiday

kitty lovely photos. anno your holiday sounds wonderful

Having been away for work for 3 days (trains/suitcases/platforms/staircases plus being "on" all the time!) I have the "oh the joy of the house to myself" feeling and am off for a long and lazy pedicure. The woman I go to has magic hands and does a foot massage with a citrus scrub that leaves me delirious and boy do my tired old feet need a pampering.

I have just found the photos and movies I took of DGS on Monday. I have a new compact camera and I am impressed with the results. Sometime I need to sit down and really learn how to use it, some good weather to take photos in and some good views to take.

Are there any other GNrs e out there who want to take good photos instead of snaps. I need all the advice I can get

I am quite proud of the ones I have posted on GN even if taking them did involve me rolling on the floor next to DGS.

Today I have mainly been .....
collapsed in a chair in the garden recovering from having DD and 4 month old DGS here for 5 days.

What a lovely lovely time it was .....

and how totally kn******d am I?!

Great photos kitty, your dd's wedding smile is just like her dad

I've made an enormous chocolate cake, for DGD2's party in London and thought about packing to go away on Sunday.

I also took a plant to my friend as an excuse to see how she really is after her chemo a couple of weeks ago. She's not felt up to visitors since then but had her feet done today and has a hair appointment next week.

kitty - lovely pictures. They make me wish (almost) that we still had babies and toddlers in the family, but it's not going to happen.

Really lovely photos kitty.I'm doing stacks of ironing...in the garden..not wasting that precious sunshine

Sounds as though you had a fabulous time Anno Brings back lovely memories of taking the children on camping holidays in that area although, when we got to Aosta it was Sunday and it was closed!! I expect times have changed in the past 30 years.

I should have said my phots are of Bertie, Persie and the kissing cousins, Hattie and Ellie Big boy Seb refuses to have his photo taken.

Well now, I got home late last night after a very good week with Greatnan in France. Very comfortable in her apartment and very well fed! The weather was variable but we had a wonderful cable car trip up the Aiguille du Midi in the Mt Blanc Massif. There was cloud and we wondered if it would be worthwhile, but a skier who was queuing ahead of us assured us that it would be clear at the top. And it was! There wasn't a cloud in the sky. We were surrounded by spectacular snow covered peaks. It was quite moving to think we were looking out at the roof of Europe! On Monday we went under Mt Blanc through the tunnel to Italy. It was warm and sunny and for a change I was able to discard my fleece. Aosta has excellent Roman remains which cost nothing to visit. Greatnan on a previous visit had found a superb small hotel high up on the north side of the Aosta Valley, with a spectacular view of the mountains on the south side; comfy beds and great food too. We had a walk on Tuesday morning on a track from the hotel to a point where Mt Blanc was visible. The Alpine flowers were wonderful. Need I say that Greatnan was out before breakfast reccy-ing this walk to see if it was OK for me - less experienced and much less fit than she is. No problem!
So I have had a great holiday and feel very reluctant to get back to normal - whatever that means!

Just uploaded 3 new photos of grandchildren and one of Dh looking particularly good . (Why do they not appear together )

when that is so funny

Mamie wrap in cling film!

Nellie

That's just reminded e of a weird dream I had a couple of nights ago. I was placed in a room at the surgery to take my own blood pressure. In order to give a low reading, I placed a cooked prawn in its shell between my arm and the cuff. Result 150/60! Try it, it obviously works

Last night I had a very bizarre dream where I was planning to go off traveling by myself. I had just retired but had forgotten to tell my employers.
At the airport having bought a ticket for £1,000s and I was waiting for a plane to OZ but realised I hadn't prepared anything to take with me. No insurance, no malaria protection stuff or anything. I think I just had a couple of carrier bags with me.

I am still puzzling about where that particular idea came from.

DD did that for a year but that was 8 yrs ago.

Oh Mamie I bet that smells!
I have to own up to not putting lids on properly at times.
Pop the Ipad in a polythene freezer bag.
Don't then go and put it in the freezer though!

You can buy LCD screen protectors for Ipads etc that can protect them I have one for the LCD screen of a camera. Google I pad screen protectors.

Luckily I had left the ipad with the recipe on the kitchen table. How do you keep the ipad clean in the kitchen? Now there's a first-world problem.

Started the day making a quick traybake before the labouring in the garden starts. Managed to knock over a jar of anchovies in the larder, lid wasn't on properly. Ingredients and self covered in anchovy oil. More haste less speed. Grrr...

Today - being awake since 3.00, as I am occasionally! But off back to bed now, methinks.

I've just spoken to my sister who's staying with my mum for a few days on a brief visit back from the U.S. She told me she's discovered that mum has had diarrhea for a MONTH and has lost a massive amount of weight. My poor sister has spent two days sorting out medication, GP and hospital visits. It's just four days since I spoke to my mum and not a mention was made of this. Why? Because I would have made her go and see the doctor she says. Arrgh!