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!