Busy,busy

Apart from being woken up by cramp, and not being able to finish the crossword, it's been a good day.

Finished the service for tomorrow at last. Unfortunately Kit who was doing the prayers for me rang to say he is unwell, so has mailed me his copy, just in case he can not be there.

Managed to buy some lovely little prizes for the children, I'm setting them a challenge to create a picture of their Mum, on the back of the service sheet!!

I thought we could keep the sheet, and use them again next year. It will be fun to see the kids and mums reaction when they see them again.

Finished the day off with a home made chicken and spinach curry, with accompaniments bought from Waitrose yesterday.

I'm now going to relax this evening, before an early night, a 9.30 service will really be at 8.30.

Chris

Relaxing Day

After saying goodbye to Matthew this morning. I had a lazy breakfast, finished the crossword in record time. Caught up on some usual housework. Did a bit of prep work for Sundays sermon, and then reviewed the day ahead it was now 1pm.

We decided to go to the Leckford Farm Estate for lunch. We both had some of the chefs Butternut Squash soup -delicious-, followed by a cheese and onion marmalade roll. All very filling. I did some food shopping. The whole place is a Waitrose enterprise on their Leckford Estate. The long drive up to the farm is a wooded road and at this time of the year there are carpets of daffodils beneath the trees, I could not resist using my IPad to take some photos I cannot share them as yet as I am unable to include photos in my blog, a lesson to come.

Lazy afternoon knitting, great!

Thanks again Miff. I will reunite you with your shampoo on Sunday!!!

Chris

New post

Matthew has kindly now set me up with a blog setting. All good news.

I shall enjoy putting down my thoughts. I will not promise to blog every day, but will attempt to do so regularly.
One of the good things will be being able to share book reviews with others. I am at the moment writing a review of the books I have read putting them down in longhand as an exercise in writing and reviewing, and also as a a way foo keeping a record of the books I have read this year. At Christmas Matthew set me a challenge of reading 52 books in the year. He must be having a joke. I will not manage that number, here we are at the end of March and I have only managed 6 so far.
I will either have to spend more time reading, and that will be difficult, what with my other hobbies or start choosing to read shorter books.

I set Matthew a challenge at Christmas of doing at least one sketch a week, after he said he was keen to draw more. I even gave him some pencils and a sketch book, but evert time I ask him how he is getting on he is quite evasive.

I am actually very grateful that he has given up an evening to come and set me up. My thanks also to Nicky and Jake for letting me borrow him.

I will blog more later in the week. Tomorrow I must write my Mothers Day Service for Sunday, and beg Peter to print it for me.