Postscript

Wow, how time flies when you're having fun! I can't really believe I've got to the end of my 'Year in Photos' - at times it has been challenging, both finding the photos and finding time to write about, but overall I've enjoyed doing it so I will be continuing this 'blogging habit'. I have started a new blog 'After Thomas' and although at the moment I am using it primarily for recording my Juneathon activities, in the future who knows what direction it will take...

7th June 2011

I shall finish as I started with a picture of my birthday cards. As usual I have been a very lucky girl and have received lots of lovely birthday messages and presents and this evening Mr W will be cooking me dinner :)

Thank you to everyone who has been following this blog for the last year - it has been fun thinking of different things to take photos of each day but I won't miss the challenge of finding something interesting on those rather dull days when all you do is go to work and come home again!

6th June 2011

Today I had to go up into town for the first time since Thomas as I had a hospital appointment in North London. It wasn't as bad as I thought it would be and I also managed to squeeze in my Juneathon exercise at the same time by walking from the hospital in Belsize Park to Camden Town tube station. I've never walked through Camden before and I was amazed by how vibrant it all seemed. I was also surprised to see how tranquil it was around Camden Lock compared with the hustle and bustle on the street.

5th June 2011

Fitting it was rather more complicated than we expected, but here is our new heated towel rail that my Dad has kindly installed in our shower room this weekend. Personally I think it looks great together with the freshly painted wall and new flooring! Just got to paint the other two walls and fix the light now...

4th June 2011

Having bought all those bedding plants the other day, today was the perfect day to plant them out in my patio containers. Unfortunately though before Mum and I could do that we had to empty out the old soil from some of the pots and in one of those pots we rather bizarrely found some wheat growing!

3rd June 2011

Feeling a little sad this afternoon and a bit cross with myself as stupidly knocked one of my favourite mugs out of the cupboard when trying to get the teapot out earlier. It's one of a pair that our friends gave to us when we got engaged and I feel sentimental that it's broken beyond repair - would be happy to use it handleless but the big chip in the rim is probably a bit dangerous.

2nd June 2011

I'm afraid to say that I can never resist a bargain which is why I now have 72 bedding plants to plant into my patio tubs - they were on special offer buy 3 packs for £12 in the DIY store today and it seemed too good an offer to miss. Good job my parents are coming to stay this weekend so my Mum can give me a hand with planting them all!

1st June 2011

Slightly frustrating morning today as I was stuck in the house awaiting three separate deliveries whilst the sun was shining outside. However happily they'd all arrived by early afternoon and so I was able to get out for a walk whilst it was still sunny.

31st May 2011

I was almost too ashamed to post this picture of all the dust that I swept up from our bathroom floor this afternoon, but I'm hoping that the shame I feel in sharing this will remind me to clean the floor slightly more often!

30th May 2011

Today we said goodbye to our futon. It has served us well over the last seven or eight years but there have been many complaints about its comfort levels and so we have bought a proper guest bed meaning that the futon has been usurped. We tried selling it but nobody seemed keen to pay us any money for it and so this morning I put it on Freecycle and less than 12 hours later it was gone. As an added bonus we also managed to send our old office chair to a new home at the same time!

29th May 2011

Today we met up with Mr W's family to celebrate his uncle's 60th birthday - we had a lovely lunch out before going home for tea and birthday cake! Many Happy Returns Greg!

28th May 2011

Time to leave Cornwall today but our holiday is not quite over yet as we're staying overnight with my parents in Dorset to break the journey. We arrived early afternoon and later on we were treated to some of Mum's homemade lemon cake - yum!

27th May 2011

After a very windy week it was exciting that today on our last evening the sun was shining and the wind had dropped enough to allow us to sit out on the decking outside our holiday cottage in order to eat our dinner. Okay, so we still needed to wear our fleeces but at least we were outside and the sun was shining!

26th May 2011

Another miserable day weather wise so we decided to do drive round and do some geocaching whilst I took Stephen on a trip down memory lane visiting places from my childhood in Cornwall. This stone circle near Duloe, that we stopped at for a cache, was one place though that I'd never been before.

25th May 2011

Today we spent the day in Plymouth with our good friend Alice and her two lovely children, the only downside was that her husband had to work and so we didn't get to see him too. We had a great day - fish and chips for lunch, followed by a trip on the Wheel of Plymouth and an ice cream.

24th May 2011

Having yesterday taken Mr W on an unintentional adventure when I accidentally took us on a longer than planned detour through some very narrow country lanes, today we had a planned adventure when we took the Bodinnick ferry to Fowey rather than driving the long way round by road. Much less stressful for Mr W than the narrow lanes!

23rd May 2011

The weather was a bit miserable today so we thought we'd go to the Eden Project as at least we could hide in the biomes if it started to rain too much. It's been about 8 years since we last went not too long after it had opened and it was interesting to see how much the plants in the outside 'biome' had grown up.

22nd May 2011

Having arrived late yesterday we didn't have time to explore our surroundings although the owner of our holiday cottage gave us detailed instructions as to how to get down to the local village. This morning we set off on the coast path to walk into nearby Polperro - a lovely walk and Mr W was very excited to spot Richard Madeley walking the other way (apparently he and Judy have a cottage nearby!).

21st May 2011

Today we drove down to Cornwall for the start of a week's holiday. We stopped to see some friends on the way down so we didn't get to our cottage until late afternoon, but rather nicely we were greeted with a cream tea to tuck in to.

20th May 2011

The sun was hotter yesterday than we thought and this morning my feet and ankles look like I'm wearing a pair of red socks - whoops!

19th May 2011

A sad start to today as it was Thomas' funeral but afterwards we headed to the coast to enjoy a picnic on the beach in the sunshine. I think Thomas would have enjoyed it too!

18th May 2011

Had a few things to do today in preparation for Thomas' funeral tomorrow, including buying a balloon to release afterwards. Here it is with Thomas' rabbit. Hopefully it will still be floating tomorrow and will go high up in the sky without getting stuck in any trees when we let go!

17th May 2011

We've received lots of flowers from kind friends and family in the last couple of weeks but today I found an even more exciting parcel outside our front door - an edible gift in the form of a box of giant muffins! I was very restrained and managed to resist the temptation to tuck in until Mr W got home from work but don't expect they will last very long!

16th May 2011

Mr W went back to work today leaving me at home to occupy myself, so I decided to make some cookies. They don't quite look like the picture in the recipe book but they did taste good, if not quite how you would expect a cookie to taste!

15th May 2011

Rather bizarrely when we went out for a walk this afternoon we found that someone had left a bag of carrots at the end of the alleyway next to our house.

14th May 2011

Following on from Mr W's decorating the other week we decided to treat ourselves to a new duvet cover to go with our freshly painted walls.

13th May 2011

Today I decided it was time to sort out my clothes and put the winter ones away and replace them with summer ones, unfortunately this is a task that requires making a mess before it gets better...

12th May 2011

When we were away at Easter we picked up a geocaching travel bug to move on and so this afternoon we decided to combine our daily fresh-air expedition with a quick bit of geocaching to drop it off. The cache was well hidden in the woods but we managed to find it without too much trouble!

11th May 2011

One of our very first purchases when we bought our first house was a futon for guests to sleep on but after much use it is getting quite uncomfortable and so we've splashed out on a new bed for our visitors. It was delivered this morning and there's a single option as shown but also a pull-out option to make it into a good-sized double. My parents will be pleased!

10th May 2011

We've received lots of flowers in the last few days but this rose plant 'Special Son' that arrived from some friends this morning seems very appropriate and should hopefully last a lot longer.

9th May 2011

Bit of a tough morning today but what better way to cheer ourselves up than with some tea and cake in the sunshine?

8th May 2011

The weather was nice this morning so we decided to take advantage of it and go for a bit of a walk in the countryside. Whilst out we found this stile which clearly belonged to another era since there was no associated fence and we were able to walk straight by without needing to climb anywhere!

7th May 2011

Life has been rather cruel to us lately but we have lots of kind friends and family - these were the first of four flower deliveries that arrived today.

6th May 2011

We've had our vacuum cleaner for almost ten years now, but after sucking up lots of my hair during that time it is finally starting to lose suction and so this afternoon we went to look at the new Dyson hoover in the shop. Good job we did as it is mini (the adverts say it can fit on a piece of A4 paper) and the drum would probably be full in minutes in our house!

5th May 2011

Rather excitingly our new bench was delivered a week early this morning - good job my mum was visiting and able to receive it!

4th May 2011

The newspapers do frequently report ridiculous stories and this one this morning about a 'nose' attachment to enable you to use your smart phone in the bath was no exception! It did make me smile though!

3rd May 2011

Saw this rather nice picture whilst waiting in hospital today - it's basically honeysuckle flowers but there was some debate between Mr W and myself about some of the leaf combinations looking like bunny rabbits!

2nd May 2011

A while ago my parents gave us some garden vouchers, so today we finally went to garden centre to spend them - we ordered a bench but whilst we were there we also bought a mini table for our drinks when we make camp in the garden!

1st May 2011

I'm slightly worried that Mr W is becoming obsessed about the dandelions in our lawn - he spent ages the other weekend digging up dandelions and then he was at it again this afternoon. He threatened to do the same with the daisies but I managed to persuade him that may be futile!

30th April 2011

We've been wanting to decorate our bedroom for ages and even bought the paint just after Christmas, however finding the time to actually get on with the job has been difficult. But today, taking advantage of the four-day weekend, Mr W has been painting like a demon whilst I attempt to tackle some de-cluttering.

29th April 2011

Congratulations to Prince William and Catherine Middleton on their marriage! Having watched the whole shebang on the television this morning we then joined our neighbours this afternoon for a street party to celebrate! The sun even shone for us after a rather dull start to the day.

28th April 2011

Tomorrow we're having a street party on our road to celebrate the Royal Wedding and what could be more British than trifle so this evening I've been making some mini trifles for us to eat at the party! Just need to add the cream tomorrow morning.

27th April 2011

After eating lots of big meals and chocolate when we were away last weekend, I decided that tonight I would be healthy and have a big salad with some smoked mackerel for my tea. Unfortunately I did have to have some salad cream with it but the good intentions were there!

26th April 2011

We have a funny sort of palm tree in our front garden but for the last year or so the top has been looking very droopy and some new leaves have been growing at the bottom, so yesterday Mr W took the plunge and cut the top off in the hope that it will resurrect the tree. I'm not convinced but am prepared to give it a chance, currently though it looks rather odd!

25th April 2011

The rare sight of our car being cleaned - Mr W even hoovered the inside!

24th April 2011

Today was our seventh wedding anniversary. Sadly the weather in Warwickshire wasn't quite as sunny as it was in Weymouth on our wedding day, but we still had a good day out at Kenilworth Castle and these are the cards we received.

23rd April 2011

It was very sunny in Stratford today and so Stephen took me for a jaunt in a rowing boat on the river Avon...

22nd April 2011

Whilst walking around Stratford-upon-Avon before dinner this evening we spotted these very patriotic Easter Eggs in the window of Thorntons. There was also a Charles, a Camilla and a Queen!

21st April 2011

We had our car's air conditioning serviced a couple of months ago but when the weather turned warm the other week we discovered it wasn't working and so it had to go back to the garage to be looked at again. I picked it up this afternoon and happily everything seems to be working now - good job too since the car temperature gauge was saying it was 26 degrees outside!

20th April 2011

This evening we went out for a curry with some friends from the running club. The restaurant do a "banquet" deal including starters, main course, side dish and rice or naan bread consequently our plates were all well loaded with food!

19th April 2011

The daffodils are nearly over, but now it's the turn of the tulips to bloom!