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!

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!

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.

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!

17th April 2011

Congratulations today to my parents on their 40th wedding anniversary! To celebrate they held a party in their garden and this is the fabulous cake that my godmother made for them.

16th April 2011

My parents very kindly bought us several presents back from their world trip and this was one of them - a furry brown kiwi that makes the appropriate sound when you press its tummy!

14th April 2011

This weekend we're going down to visit my parents and help out at their 40th wedding anniversary party. I seem to have volunteered to make some coleslaw but as my mum doesn't have a food processor I've decided to take ours rather than have to chop cabbage by hand!

13th April 2011

Although my parents are now back from their round the world trip we've received four postcards from three different countries from them in the last two days. Yesterday we got two from the Cook Islands and today we had one dated 17 March from New Zealand (which they visited before the Cook Islands!) and one from Los Angeles.

17th March 2011

We got another postcard from my parents today - it arrived a bit quicker than their previous cards from New Zealand North Island but it still came with a odd sticker on the front indicating that it had come via Darussalam.

23rd February 2011

It's my parents 40th wedding anniversary in April and so they're going to have a party to celebrate, however as they are currently galavanting around the world it has been left to me to send out the invites. It should have been a relatively simple task - stick a 'no presents please' label on the back of the invite and an address label on the envelope. Unfortunately though my brain wasn't fully functioning this afternoon and on more than one occasion the address label ended up on the invite rather than the envelope - whoops! Still all sorted now, just need to remember to stick stamps on the envelopes...

23rd January 2011

Today was Mr W's Mum's big day and so after a nice lunch out in Sevenoaks we came home and had some tea and birthday cake!

21st January 2011

For Christmas my in-laws bought me a tiered cake stand so I thought it would be nice to use it to serve pudding when Mr W's mum comes over at the weekend and a couple of weeks ago I had the bright idea to make some profiteroles. Thus this evening I have rapidly been learning to make choux pastry in order to make the buns to be filled with cream and smothered in chocolate tomorrow...

19th January 2011

Mr W's mum is coming to stay on Saturday night so we were getting in some early preparation and pumping up the airbed this evening.

28th December 2010

My parents are going off travelling for three months at the beginning of January and so we bought them a Bon Voyage card, together with a jar of Marmite as we weren't sure they would be able to survive without it for that long!

24th December 2010

This afternoon we drove down to my parents' house in Dorset for Christmas. My godmother and her gorgeous black labrador, Molly, are also staying for Christmas and on being reunited I am not sure who was more excited - Mr W or Molly!!

23rd December 2010

This evening we went for a pre-Christmas meal with Mr W's parents, which was also an opportunity to meet Mr W's brother's Belgian girlfriend for the first time. She is trained in Indian classical dance and very kindly gave us a demonstration before dinner! It was a swirling delight and made me feel dizzy just watching!

24th November 2010

It was announced yesterday that Prince William and Kate Middleton will be getting married on 29 April next year and so the BBC website today saw fit to publish a list of famous April weddings. However
they appear to have missed some key nuptials off their list, for example Mummy and Daddy-cakes - 40 years on 17 April next year - and mine and Mr W's - 7 years on 24 April!

21st November 2010

Today we visited Mr W's parents for lunch, having stopped on the way over for a couple of quick 'cache and dashes' to reach our 400th find. This is their lovely new kitchen - it's been a long slog but the end is now in sight which is why Mummy W is looking so smiley!

13th October 2010

This evening I went to the Annual National Seafarers Service at St Pauls Cathedral with my Mum's cousin's husband, my parents and Princess Anne. Actually she didn't sit with us but she was there all the same for this annual celebration of seafarers past and present.