Moving swiftly on....

First a big thankyou to everybody who sent supportive messages and splendid ideas to my last blog. I feel truly blessed to have been contacted by so many lovely people.

For those of you who want a peek here are the websites where you can see the wedding dresses of our two forthcoming weddings. First, my son's bride: blonde, petite and almost as beautiful as , my daughter: tall, dark haired and beautiful don't they look a picture! I'm sure the dresses will look even better for real. Son and his bride will be having a party when they get back and will wear their wedding clothes again so we can see them properly.

Moving Swiftly On....

We went down to the boat yesterday. It was such a beautiful day and too good an opportunity to miss. We were very pleased to find that the boat had suffered no ill effects from being covered up during the winter. In fact there was only one spider inside! Now that is a record. Usually I have to break the webs to climb in. Oh sorry, is that doing your head in!! I don't mind spiders at all except that, on the boat, they seem to poo everywhere. Now I never dreamt that spiders poo. Did you? Never thought about it. I have to cover the seats with kitchen roll paper in the cockpit and make sure the loo lid is down and covered before we leave to make clearing up a bit easier on the next visit. But I digress. We took the covers off. The wind made it a bit interesting. The larger one nearly carried us off as we tried to fold it! Like a huge sail it was! Our neighbours found it amusing but then came to help which is typical of the club. The next job was putting the batteries back on. I left that to 'im indoors having first found him the necessary spanners while I stuck this year's licence to one of the cabin windows.

Then we thought it would be fun to start the engine. Only it wouldn't start!! Shame that. I phoned the chap who had serviced it at the end of last season and he's coming over this week to sort it out. Having described to him what we had done and the noises the engine was making he decided that it was probably just a small adjustment needed as, "those engines always start first button" which, I have to say, had always been our experience before the service! 'im indoors washed the boat on the mooring side. Next time we go down, presuming the engine has been fixed, we'll turn him round so the other side can have a clean up too (not 'im indoors silly, though he could do with a wash and brush up, the boat!) There's always something to do on the boat but we really enjoy "pottering". We had another beautifully sunny day today but it was filled with -

An early start to be round at daughter's to babysit while she went to a step class. Then a dash back to get ready to go the dentist aaaaarrrggggghhhhhh! I hate the dentist!! No, not her personally, just the whole experience. My coping strategy is to keep as still and quiet as possible while she does the injection, drilling, squirting, suction, filling, smoothing, AS QUICK AS BLOODY POSSIBLE SO I CAN GET THE HELL OUTA THERE!!! Phew. No more visits for six months. What a relief. Then it was home for some lunch (soup - can't chew on the right side until tomorrow). Then it was back to daughter's to pick her and baby up to go into town. We went to the bridal shop so daughter could try on her wedding dress for me to see. Well, you can imagine what happened. You guessed it. A little tear rolled down when I saw her. She looked stunning and that's without the makup, headdress etc. We also bought a gold chain to set off the pendant that daughter will wear on the wedding day. The pendant belonged to my grandmother and I wore it on my wedding day so it's a bit special (see picture above). Having walked all round town for a couple of hours we came home exhausted. But happy. Apart from the dentist which really made me tired, it was so stressful.

I haven't had such a busy day for ages! So now there's tomorrow to look forward to. Moving swiftly on.............