Snow!

Well here it is - the first snow of the winter.......it had been -5c over night,  cold enough for me to put another quilt on the bed and have a hotwater bottle to cuddle. It was very frosty and we had to scrape the windows on the car before we could go and collect our grandaughter to take her to school.  It only started snowing half way through the morning and we didn't think it would settle - but it looks as though it may - the temperature at the moment is -1c (30f) so unless it gets warmer this afternoon we will have this stuff over night!  I  just feel sorry for a friend of mine who is moving house to day!  but I suppose it is no worse than our move in the pouring rain a few years ago.

Strange week!

What a strange week this is turning out to be!  We are having to do a school run twice a day all week this week! we haven't done that for years!  Charlotte's Mummy isn't very well so Charlotte is staying with her Daddy, who stays most of the time with his girl friend and her children (their Daddy died in a motor bike accident a few years ago).  As Stuart goes to work early to avoid the M25 traffic hold ups and Leslie needs to leave by 8:30 and her children all go to a local school, and walk there, we are picking Charlotte up at 8:20 to take her to school the other side of town. 
It seems funny to have to think about collecting her at 3pm and then having her here till Stuart picks her up again around 5:30pm.  We have told him that we will not be able to pick her up from school on Thursday as we want to go and see Joshua and Emily in there schools Nativity play.   I'm looking forward to that........
Today she asked me to wash her hair for her, she was going to the youth group attached to a local church this evening and her hair was 'greasy' she said......she has very long, very thick hair (down to her hips) and it takes ages to deal with it. I think she has trouble doing it her-self, and she likes the way I can blow dry all the waves out of it!

I think that Brian and I are going to be exhausted by the end of the week! and we don't yet know how long we are going to do this school run.........it may be till the end of term, depending on how quickly Charlotte's Mummy gets well again.

Rain!

I am fed up with the rain.......we have had so much lately and now it looks as though it's going to cost us a lot of money!  The garage roof is leaking !!  Himself has already started on the clean- up........he had our old kitchen units out there as a work bench and storage - they are in soggy bits down the dump now! and the tools and pots of paint that were stored in them have been dried off and are sitting at the other end of the garage! 
This roof has already had a 'patching' job done on it a couple of times since we moved here but it looks as though this time it will need something more drastic! and expensive!!
He is going to have a proper look later on today - now it has stopped raining for a while.........but it is soooo cold out there at the moment ,  just 2c with ground frost..............not good conditions to be climing a metal ladder - he could stick to it!
Oh well if it has to have a new roof it does but that will mean less money for our holiday to Canada next year.  We are going to Vancouver for a family members wedding and are going to ride the Rocky mountaineer train to Calgary and then fly to Montreal to see the rest of the family. 
We will be away all of August and some of September too.    Everything is booked except where we are staying in Montreal - we are hoping that the family will take care of us there........a sister and five neices should be able to have us a few days at a time don't you think?  if not we will go into the Comfort Inn nearby, the family all live fairly close together on the west side of Montreal and not far from the hotel is a fabric shop - the one that is the reason why I do P&Q.  La Maison d' Calico in Point Clare. (this site is in Canadian French but there is a button to change it to English on the site bar)

Arfur

As promised to Purple Podded Peas a picture of my red tabby..........waiting for his supper..........he has been gone a few years now but I still miss him.

He always took advantage of any body in a reclining position!