Birthday celebrations

The earlier part of last week was spent doing plenty of food shopping, laundry and other household chores. My pile of ironing had grown again, not because I have been a bit lax, but a lot of my summer clothes I had washed and thought, ‘they’ll need to be vacuum bagged and put up in the loft soon.’ However, the weather is still very warm here in the South West, so I’ve sorted through them. I’ve kept back some summer dresses which I’ll continue wearing (with a cardi, if necessary) and put the rest in the loft pile. So there was a bit more ironing to do than I had originally thought. Still, I steamed through it (pardon the pun!) and am now smugly up to date.

While shopping in the supermarket, I picked up these Gladioli......

Such a gorgeous colour and only £1.70! It makes you wonder what they pay the growers for them, doesn’t it?

I did go to the hairdressers, via the Range, like you do. I had a little mooch around the craft section. I picked up a couple bits and pieces, but I’m going to the Creative Craft Show at the end of September, so I didn’t want to buy too much.

Wednesday, it was my daughter’s 23rd birthday. Until she was 5, her birthday date had little significance (apart from to our family of course) But on her 5th birthday, I left home in the car to pick her up from her reception class, the radio blurted out that a plane had flown into the twin towers. I pulled over and immediately rang my mum, who was at my house, to put sky news on. We made sure our little girl still had a happy birthday, but the adults couldn’t believe what had happened.
This year we celebrated her birthday with a meal at Chiquitos, where we wore sombreros (for a short time!) We had a lovely evening, with lots of laughter but a some point in the day, we all remember what happened when she was 5.

I’m still bringing in tomatoes from the garden........

I’m hoping the larger ones will redden up. The mini plum ones have, so I’m keeping my fingers crossed.

Blue Cross baking for Friday was just a toffee loaf cake with salted caramel drizzled over it, nothing spectacular but it went down well. I had the pleasure of being with this gorgeous mum this week. The rest of her litter were having a snooze in their pen, but she opted to lounge on a blanket just by the pen and cuddle one of her daughters as she fed.....

Today I have been to Exeter City and watched them draw with Leyton Orient. It was very warm sitting in the stand. Hubby left early this morning and won’t be home until late tomorrow evening. He has to work away most weekends. So I have full control of the remote. So Midsomer Murders it is then!

Hoping for another fine day tomorrow, a visit to the gym and then I want to start trimming back more lavender in the front garden. Enjoy the rest of the weekend, folks. Cheerio for now, Ann x