My First Flight!

My Dad came out of hospital today :-) :-)

This photograph shows us just after landing from my very first flight on an aeroplane and I can't even remember it!!! Apparently this is a good thing as the flight was really scary and noisy!

I just love my Dad's expression :-) :-)

How Irish are You?

This year the Catholic Church have moved St Patrick's Day. Normally it is celebrated on the 17th March but this year that clashes with the second day of holy week. According to Church rules the feast day of St Patrick is not as important as the Monday before Easter and it had to move. So this year St Patrick's day was celebrated on the 15th March.

You're 30% Irish

You're probably less Irish than you think you are... But you're still more Irish than most.

How Irish Are You?

An Unusual Incident!

I seem to be having a week of incidents...

On my return journey from dropping my Dad off at hospital I forgot that one of the junctions had changed into a roundabout and merrily took the wrong turning. I realised immediately but the SatNav had already recalculated. So rather than turn around I decided to go with the new route. This turned out to be the narrowest country lanes you could imagine with hardly any houses and no signposts!!!

Did I say it was night time and I had to dodge the gales and rain??

All of a sudden the road changed from a winding country lane to a straight bit of road and a train was hurtling towards me on the other side of the road!!! EEEK!!! When I recovered from the shock I realised there was actually a fence between me and the train. Then the SatNav asked me to do a right turn across the path of the train... Thankfully although steep and narrow it was actually a bridge over the train track.

The moral of the story is: when travelling on the only main road do not do a diversion – turn back! But then again hindsight is a wonderful thing ;-)

When I asked my brother if he wanted to relive the adventure with me he declined. I can’t imagine why ;-)

PS: The second part of my delivery turned up and was left with neighbours. I had to ring up and remind the gas man he was supposed to be bringing chemicals for my system, but now that is all done and I have to wait and see if it cures the Woodpecker!!!

Seven Good Things in Life

Liz tagged me with this a few days ago. Life has been a bit of a hassle this week so I have only just been able to get my thoughts round it.

This challenge reminds me of the book '100 Reasons to be Glad by Isabel Losada'

I have been thinking about ideas for my 100 for some time... 100 is a bit of a challenge, and so is seven!

So just a few of my ideas in no particular order:

1. Friends and family - Very important and special to me. I could just say friends because my family are my friends too ;-)

2. Snow - I love the snow, I love the silence it brings in the night and seeing it fresh with no footprints or marks in the morning. I like to wrap up warm and step out in it!

I miss the snow...

Cold frosty mornings are nearly as good.

3. Maya Gold Chocolate - mmm you just have to taste this ;-)

4. Gardens - They are so peaceful colourful and tranquil. They need some nicely positioned benches though :-)

5. Freedom - What else can I say about that?

6. Internet, mobile phones etc: - So nice to make contact and keep in touch with people ;-)

7. Gothic Cathedrals at night - mmm! Stained glass windows, candles, atmosphere....

I think most have you have done this already, but for anyone who hasn't give it a go ;-)

Library View

I think this makes me look like a mad woman... maybe I am ;-)

If you are feeling adventurous click on photo for a larger view!

An Unfortunate Start...

...to the day!!!

A few days ago Welshcakes had a fun thread asking what we kept by the side of the bed!

This was my list:

Bedside lamp
Several Books
Lipsalve
A couple of Tissues
My watch
A pint of water
My glasses (I wear contacts mostly)
Pad and pen in bedside cabinet
My handbag on the floor - it is my lifeline... I keep my mobile phone in there too (I can't do without it even though I don't us it much! I know my friends are close by).

Today the glass of water decided to escape all over the books... Luckily the watch was absent and my handbag managed to escape!!!

P.S. there is still a problem with my delivery (only half of it arrived!!!) but at least the long awaited photos turned up ;-)

Happy Women's Day

To all you Ladies out there you should all be taking some time to chill out today :-)

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Background textures from deviant art by SpiritCoda and Sanami276.