The sign

The sign
Thanks Dad !

Monday 30 June 2014

Apologies

For the rant. I have collected up all the toys that I threw out of my pram. We are good to go.
My running partner and I have been out running. For the first time in forever ...... Well about a year. We did a little trot to get back into it. It appears that we lost -4 seconds off our best 1-3km time, but I am sure we can live with that. I am just pleased that instead of just thinking about it, I actually went out and did it. 
So yes, our little trot of 2.35km took us 13 minutes. Next week we are going to do it twice- which should let us know how we stand on a 5km time.
Here we are with our after running faces. 

Sunday 29 June 2014

Glastonbury

I love seeing the Wolverhampton Wanders football club flag in the audience. Who does it belong to? I tried to follow it one year- but gave up. JGS and I have been chatting about going to a festival again. I stopped going to Glastonbury in 1999. I remember cash points arriving on site and the boy in the tent next to me being on his phone to his mum saying someone had robbed him of £200.00. I can remember thinking that I felt so old fashioned . Who would bring £200.00 to a festival and Glastonbury at that? For me it was music, Eco toilets, mud, rain, garlic bread,gin (how the train passengers from Bristol to Paddington must have loved Monday's  travelling!) and knowing that I was in the same place at the same time as John Peel  I loved not having a wash - I do have soap dodging tendencies. 
But now.... I can't be going with having to wait in a queue on the phone to see if I can buy tickets and then only a certain amount. I don't have any really short denim shorts (nor the legs for them) or a pair of hunter wellies. I don't want to see old bands (Paul McCartney/Rolling Stones/The Who). Or pop stars (Kylie/Rita Ora/Lana Del Ray/ Beyonce). However - Dolly Parton should have a slot every year. I know I found like a miserable old bag but there are plants of other festivals for acts like that. Glasto is all about that band you saw whilst on the way to another band on the way from seeing a different band. 
And the rubbish. Don't get me started on the rubbish.... The ethos of Glastonbury is the environment and the amount of rubbish that people leave is shameful .
I will get off my cross now- someone needs the wood. 

Saturday 21 June 2014

Way back when ....

Like in 2011 when I took my second tentative steps in learning to crochet (the first time round has been more or less erased from my memory in order to protect the innocent) I went to a crochet workshop. I spent two hours (with some other newbies) being told that *I was doing it wrong and I was leaning towards knitting rather than crochet (tres ironic when you consider my adventures in knitting and I STILL haven't started those socks yet) but one thing I do remember is one of the other ladies at the workshop telling me that one day I would be able to crochet and watch the tv! As if!!! I exclaimed!! And yet this is how I mostly crochet now- always with something else going on- tv/radio/being in the car/on the train. Tonight we started watching True Detective and I was crocheting away.
*It all ended well though as I went to the library for a book but came away with the Attic24 website. And the rest is history .! 

Friday 13 June 2014

Mandala mandala

Ahhhhh look how pretty she is. I so enjoyed mandala-ing and there are some beautiful specimens available to view on the Yarndale Pinterest board. I saw a 3D one - it had a sheep in the middle .

Thursday 12 June 2014

How very polite.

But I am not exactly sure what Boris expects the buses to do .....