Today I have been mainly Vol. 6

Thinking of you today, number.

Sounds like the Bristol lot had a super time - might move closer

Hope all goes well for DH today number - let us know how things go.

Hope you are feeling OK this morning ariadne
Sorry to hear about more ill health in your family number - look after yourself and I hope things go OK with op.
Grey and foggy. 10 days to go until DH packs up chattels and shifts them to small but nice flat in N Wales. Am going to print out a big number 10 and stick it to the wall I think. A morning of admin tasks planned , then hospital visit to a dear friend who is having very intensive blood cancer treatment. In-patient for the duration poor love. He is being v brave but concerned that chemo is making him look different.
then come back and tackle the last of the clothes sorting/ packing. There is already a pile of about 100 coat hangers on the bedroom floor... really! (hangs head in shame at accumulating far too many clothes over last 20 years. It is time to atone. Oxfam is gaining another boot full of stuff from me)
DH last night gave me a hug and said he had not quite anticipated the sheer upheaval that would ensue when we agreed he would resign and go back to uni.

Hope you feel better Ariadne. Still boiling hot here. Are you going to Bangor, Jess? That is where I went to university and met Mr. Mamie. I gather there is a Waitrose in Menai Bridge now (opened for Kate?), so shopping should be better than it was in the late 1960s.

Yes indeed mamie in fact MB itself 2 minutes from the sea
And yes, Kate's local Waitrose is just 5 minutes walk away. Although I doubt if she will take the baby shopping with her. Their quiet extended honeymoon on Anglesey, with peaceful shopping in MB Waitrose, is going to change once the baby hysteria kicks in methinks.

Number Sending all good wishes to you and your husband today. Hope all goes well. Take care.

Should be wonderful, Jess. Lovely part of the world, which I am sure I would appreciate even more now than I did at eighteen.

Sending good wishes number

number I do hope all goes well for your dh, and you too. You must be feeling exhausted

Number best wishes to you both.

Number good wishes from me too
Jess shopped in aforementioned Waitrose when we were in Anglesey. My sister is even more determined to move back there and has even put in an offer on a house!!!!
Good luck with the 'upheaval'... what an adventure tho'
Missed all the Birmingham crew (nautical term as Jess will have lovely views of the Straits) at our Bristol 'do'.

Carrying on from the mention of Styal's Quarry Bank Mill featuring in a forthcomng drama series called The Mill, it's starting on Channel 4 on Sunday at 8pm. I hope they show the surounding countryside, which is next to the airport, Wilmslow and where I grew up in South Manchester.

I have set my box to record it, since I'll be out of the country. The title is a bit unimaginative, isn't it? It's quite surprising that they have used a property so close to the airport but perhaps Styal is off the flight path. I have heard that Tatton Park has had to stop hosting period dramas because of aircraft noise. This kind of thing must be good for the National Trust's coffers.

Best wishes number, I hope everything goes well for your husband.

I have been to the beach at Lion-sur-Mer. Very hot day, sea quite a comfortable temperature and I swam for nearly an hour, before sitting with a coffee watching the keep-fit class on the promenade. Lots of families enjoying the sun and the lovely, uncrowded beach.
It is, of course, one of the D-Day landing beaches.

Thinking of you number

Best wishes to both you and your husband, number

Soop - stop messing around on GN - go and tidy up!

A group of us from our creative writing group went out for lunch at Ashford-in-the Water between Buxton and Bakewell. The food was delicious though in some cases excessively large in portion size. It was warm, but not too hot and we spent a short time just standing on the lovely old bridge watching the ducks and the trout in the river. Peaceful.

I know exactly where you mean. That bridge and the river are lovely. It's not so dreadfully hot today either.

Kittylester messing about on Gransnet indeed!
Are you suggesting that we neglect our homes and families by "messing about on Gransnet" when we should be cleaning. I cannot believe this!
We do not "mess about" we make meaningful communication.

I love that bridge Anno it always looks peaceful despite being by a major road.l!

Soop is trying to sell her house Nellie or I wouldn't contemplate suggesting such a thing.

Thanks when I look forward to watching it.

Isn't it strange, kitty, that when you are standing on that lovely bridge, you can somehow block the sounds coming from the road?

I love Ashford-in-the-Water, and have stood leaning over that lovely bridge many a time. Such a pretty village.