We walked a 10 miles round trip to watch the show
Bank holiday weekends can be hell when you are on your own
Been to the " Book Swap " at the village hall
Came away 5£ lighter, two books heavier but did have one of Bridget's " fat bastard "scones ( which rival Auntie Glad's, they really do)
And got a big hug from the velvet voiced Linda from Well Street who I think adores me.
Tomorrow my sister in law and I are going out to lunch then to see the acclaimed The Children's Act
And this afternoon Mary and I are going to walk from Prestatyn to Rhyl to watch the start of the Air Show
Weekends are the worst when alone. But today I have to move the horses so a man with a bobcat can clean out the horse run. Then go to the feed store to fetch corn for the horses and pigs. Then mow grass if the mower doesn't sink in the ground from all this rain. Learning very slowly to be a Jack of all trades. Have a good day John.
ReplyDeleteHello everyone reading this message I'm here to ask for your assistance in helping those poor kids out there. I want to feed 5,000 (five thousand kids) in Africans this Christmas and I want to also send them back to school and I'm asking for your help to make this possible. No amount is too small or big $50, $100 any amount will be appreciated. Contact email via: (charitydonation8@gmail.com) thanks.
DeleteEnjoy the air show. I have been know to describe time alone, as quality time with my favorite person.
ReplyDeleteThanks for your card David x
DeleteEnjoy your weekend. I will mostly be trying to stay awake. I'm working Monday night and trying somehow, to fathom out a way of seeing my very favourite local band too, but it's not looking good.
ReplyDeleteI've just walked 10 miles now I'm dozing covered in dogs
DeleteSuch a rich and loved life. Oh, I could sure go for a Fat Bastard Scone!
ReplyDeleteYou eat too well already ! Those restaurant photos of yours have me drooling
DeleteThis weekend will be about relaxing at home. It was a long week at work.
ReplyDeleteWhy is it a holiday weekend in Wales?
Bugger only knows, sane in England too
Deleteooooh, would like to see a pix of the fat bastard scone! speaking of auntie glad, have you seen her recently, john?
ReplyDeleteAbout three weeks ago. Very frail. She didn't know me but we talked about the flower show
DeleteYour scone is making me hungry. Sounds like a fun weekend. How is Auntie Glad these days?
ReplyDeleteFrail and very confused but still sprightly
DeleteI had a cheese scone at a church flower festival that has a big marquee full of secondhand books for sale.
ReplyDeleteHave a list of stuff to do to fill the aloneness of a Bank Hol weekend.
Enjoy the air show
Just returned , walked 10 miles there and back , just resting my legs, Mary is fast asleep
DeleteI'm not surprised Mary is asleep, you've walked the legs off her!
DeleteYears ago my uncle took his sisters dog out for a walk, way up in the hills of Galloway. The next day he got the lead and shouted for the dog to go a walk, but she went and hid behind the sofa and wouldn't come out.
I think I will go find a “fat bastard scone” . . .
ReplyDeleteand then . . . go for a walk in the rain . . .
Bliss
DeleteCarving a new life. Good to hear.
ReplyDeleteWhat else can I do?
DeleteSome may wish they were alone at bank holidays
ReplyDeleteUnderstood xx
DeleteI'm currently at the allotment . I'm going for a run later; my first in 15 months. I'm hoping my husband will make some 'fat bastard' scones at some point this weekend. I'm redundant in the some making department now as his are so good.
ReplyDeleteThey ALWAYS ATASTE BETTER IF SOMEOBE ELSE MAKES THEM
DeleteMy last weekend before I go back to school....the last weekend of summer. Where did it go? I plan to catch up on laundry! How exciting is that?
ReplyDeleteListen , I can write a whole blog about laundry
DeleteOh I also had a nice chat with a friend
DeleteTry and think of it as a normal weekend John ..... when ‘ things happen ‘ , I think we all think that everyone else is having the time of their lives ..... rest assured that most of us are doing bugger all with the odd interesting weekend now and again 🙃 XXXX
ReplyDeleteJust fed up of " thinking too much"
DeleteWalking the dog, going to a yard sale and working at the gift shop. Tomorrow, I work at the co-op. No rest for the wicked!
ReplyDeleteDebbie
Are you wicked?
DeleteNow you've made me hungry. I have yet to have a scone. I plan to watch another old series ... what else? Have a good one!
ReplyDeleteWhich one dearheart?
DeleteI'm going to a party!!! There will be music, games, cake, ice cream, and a piñata!!!
ReplyDeleteAnd I'm so grateful there's no clown or mime at this kids party...
Have a wonderful and relaxing weekend!
Have fun xx
DeleteI hope you like The Chirldren Act enough to write a review here. I am curious. I loved the book but found the Grauniad article on McEwan’s book not translating well to the screen interesting.
ReplyDeleteTraveller
Emma Thompson and Stanley Tucci .....I'd definitely be writing a review
DeleteWe have our two year old grandson staying over tonight, so from
ReplyDeleteabout 4-00 this afternoon until 10-30 tomorrow morning everything will be revolving around him. His parents are going for dinner at Picanha in Chester, we three will be having fish fingers, chips and beans!
Tomorrow we'll be up early with small person, with sausages and cheesy pancakes for breakfast. When he's gone home, I think it will be 'collapse and recover' for the rest of the day!
As for Monday, I have some skirts and trousers cut out, so it will be a sewing day! Husband will be visiting his idiot father, then vanishing into his workshop to continue building a castle/fort for small person!
Hope your weekend is great, different, but great! X
I'm exhausted just reading this
DeleteStop the FOMO! It's insidious! 30 years married and still whistfully remember the blissful all by myself weekends with a clean apartment, clean sheets, long bath, good book and fancy lamb chops for dinner. It will get better, that I know. You are a special person, John. Do
ReplyDeleteI'm having chicken stir fry tonight!
Delete( I'm such a giddy bitch)
Stooped me at 'the fat bastard scones'!!
ReplyDeleteWhat am I doing?....I will be visiting my father and helping him with this week's 'lexicon'. Or should I say he'll be showing me a thing or two about how it is done!
But before that....Sophie and her dads need a good walk at the beach. Have a great day John.
You too jimbo
DeleteI shall be picking Blackberries.
ReplyDeleteAnd whistling no doubt
DeleteVera Lynn favourites!
DeleteJust returned from my big 'event' of the w/e - had toenails cut, cost £34.
ReplyDeleteGrab your fun where you can get it
DeleteThis was about as far removed from 'fun' as one can imagine (I'm hobbling around painfully this morning!). Nevertheless, the essence of what you say is correct.
DeleteWorking today, tomorrow and Monday but only for a few hours at a time and in a different aspect of my job on each day. When you’re self employed and work from home, Bank Holidays don’t mean much! In between I’ll be doing housework, paperwork and laundry as I’ve just had a week’s holiday.
ReplyDeleteThat reminds me I've got loads of pants to wash
DeleteNothing planned, husband's painting the hall wall and I should be doing more photograph sorting, but I need a long rest from it. When my daughter was a baby I was told by someone to take as many photographs of her as I could as she will grow up so fast. Wish I'd never taken so many! Now it's a case of choosing one over the other which is hard.
ReplyDeleteEnjoy your weekend John, sounds more exciting than mine.
Really?
Deletesince I had two teenage girls here all last week to entertain I'm going to try and get some work done.
ReplyDeleteAfter a week of two teenaged, I'd be lying down in a dark room with a damp flannel over my eyes
DeleteI will be trying to keep up with a 8 year old, master "Go Fish" player and expert giggler.
ReplyDeletecheers, parsnip and badger
I spent a rainy morning in the polytunnel weeding ... there's something rather lovely about being under the polythene with the rain beating down ... now I have claimed the computer for an hour or two after Alan has finished his office work for the day.
ReplyDeleteTonight we are off over the road to the evening wedding reception of our neighbours at the campsite. Again under cover, although canvas this time, as they had the foresight to arrange a marquee for their planned open air wedding.
Tomorrow will be doggy walks to make up for leaving them tonight, lots of grass cutting if it's dry enough, followed by a lazy afternoon/evening in front of the television with a film or box set. Monday it's all systems go getting this place tidied up a bit inside and out, the rain has given us a jungle of plants everywhere. The hedge was being trimmed nicely yesterday until Alan cut through his newly erected fencing wire with the hedge trimmer, then the fence took the last hour before it rained to fix.
Bank Holiday weekends are just the same as any other days for us, except the roads are busier and the tourists go sooooo slow on our bendy, windy roads so that getting anywhere takes ages ... and if we need anything we have to remember the shops shut earlier.
Now I'm off to make some 'fat bastard' scones ... you've got me drooling :-)
Have you ever tried a FAT RASCAL ? They sell them in Betty's in York and Harrogate and a cross between a scone and a bun
DeleteWow
No, I've never been in Betty's, I tried once but the smell of all the tea was over powering (I hate tea with a vengeance).
DeleteI'll look up the recipe :-)
I am sitting here waiting for my son, daughter in law and grandson to arrive, having just flown in from NYC.
ReplyDeleteI Be Happy.
Get that kettle on
DeleteCandice, good for you! Then you won't have to spend your time writing the comments on your own blog. LOL
DeleteAfter 4 weeks of heat, intense smoke and air quality advisories off the charts, we woke up to rain this morning. I have have never been so happy to see rain! I will be making a big batch of applesauce, doing some quilting and reading . Take care John.
ReplyDeleteBarb from Canada.
Get yer knickers wet , get outside x
DeleteHaha! That sounds good too!
DeleteYou should have come to Scotland as it’s not a Bank Holiday here!
ReplyDeleteLucky buggers
DeleteI'm dog-sitting a friend's miniature dachshund. Her name is Lilli. Lilli recently got into a terrible fight with a raccoon. The raccoon won. Full of awful puncture wounds, Lilli is laying-low recuperating. Poor baby was only protecting hearth and home. She and I will take it easy this weekend.
ReplyDeletePoor baby, thgey arnt built for fighting anything bigger than a mouse
DeleteI thought it was a few puncture wounds. No, oh no. Two large gashes on her little back. Wounds that must be thoroughly cleansed morning and night with a special application from the vet. And when I say "thoroughly cleansed", it disgustingly means removing any scabs trying to form (something about wanting to keep that area free and open so that new skin can form from the outer edges). She doesn't seem to mind this brutality ;-) but jeez Louise I'm glad when it's done. A nurse I'm not. Animals are amazing and seem to know we're trying to help them, and she's certainly a precious understanding little pup. It's the nurse who's unraveling.
DeleteToday I’ll be watching three of my grandchildren from afternoon until the wee hours. Tomorrow I will be planting my cool weather veggies. Monday...don’t know yet. Maybe I’ll take a long nap.
ReplyDeleteRather unexciting, but that’s how I like it.
You'll need a long nap
DeleteDirty girl
ReplyDeleteI have spent all day making bacon butties, mugs of tea and chocolate brownies for the man and woman who are cutting down the huge conifer hedge at the front of my home. It's completely dead inside with just a couple of inches of greenery on the outside, making nit impossible to trim back. It was overhanging the pavement by about 2 feet. 3 trunks down, 4 still to go. Removal and clearing up will now be next week as the whole operation has taken much longer than thought.
ReplyDeleteOh and I have been looking after 2 grandchildren (ages 12 and 7) while it was going on. Woe is me! Another visit to the cash machine is necessary.
A It of grandparenting this weekend
DeleteChilling a bit this weekend, the holiday here isn't until next week. Had a busy week, working outside, weekly shopping, day at the hospital getting plasmatheresis on my husband (a three weekly occurrence to keep him moving as his doc says) and a funeral for a 42 year old son of a cousin (very sad). So chill weekend will be very welcome. Watch some soccer on TV, watch F1, catch up with some shows recorded during the week and doing some knitting.
ReplyDeletePhew
DeleteA morning walk with spouse, grocery shopping, hope to tackle one room with a tidy up, make a batch of spagetti sauce from garden tomatoes. Also hope to sit and read"Dead in the Dark by Stephen Booth from library and not least do several goes at physio on a hopefully healing broken shoulder.Your plans sound like more fun. Jean/Winnipeg
ReplyDeleteMary and I walked ten miles my legs have just fallen off
DeleteMy sister and I are setting sail from Aberdeen to Kirkwall for a week in Orkney and Rousay , first holiday for nearly 18 months ! xx
ReplyDeleteWhat larks pip
DeleteOh I would like to see Orkney before I pop this mortal coil, I need to make the effort.
DeleteOrkney is amazing , so much to see archaeology wise , the berds, just all of it really . Worth the journey x
DeleteI am going to Orkney soon. Boat is booked.
DeleteSounds like you have a plan. Can't wait to read your review of the film.
ReplyDeleteCall in tomorrow x
DeleteViewing my spare room. Had the whole of humanity viewing from 75 to 18yrs One smelled of pee, one drunk, one asked how often i did their washing, no chance. 5 ok. One lovely.
ReplyDeleteKirriex Jacqueline McManus
Hell in a room
DeleteMy fat bastard is having an extended lie in today, he usually works Saturdays, but got this one off, I'm having a midday foot bath listening to the Saturday public radio lineup...
ReplyDeleteOh you diva!!!
DeleteMy brother and his wife invited me to have pizza at a beach near there home.
ReplyDeleteKirk sounds rather blissful , simple pleasures eh?
DeleteI've just baked a cake and my son will be coming over for dinner later. John what if you took a day to just play with the dogs and not think?
ReplyDeleteI think too much
DeleteExactly. Take a brain break!
DeleteFirst time in a theatre in about 20 years this afternoon, had booked a loop system in advance but left after 2 mins as the amplification was so feeble. Was given a refund and went for a cuppa instead! Visited a bookshop with a resident dog, who enjoyed a bit of attention.
ReplyDeleteGoing for a roast lunch tomorrow, followed by a walk along a beach. More beach walking on Monday, then home by train on Tuesday. In retrospect, five days away would have been enough,and being Scottish I hadn't realised there's a bank holiday here in England too.
How disappointing keep trying with different theatres life is far too drab without live theatre
DeleteI'm making a no-crust quiche this evening, reading, and using odd minutes for "a bit of a stitch" as my Aussie quiltie sister says as I make progress on another wall quilt using autumn fabrics. Can't have cold walls!
ReplyDeleteYou cheat no crust indeed xxxxx
DeleteI'm spending my 62nd birthday in a cast on my foot, countin down the days until I can exchange it for a walking cast. Hubby, who's taken over all household responsibilities like a champ, has arranged a bit of a surprise dinner for family at a local restaurant (I overheard him making plans, so I've been practicing my looks of surprise. 😱)
ReplyDeleteJust don't fall over and break the other foot
DeleteMore thanks for sponsorship here
ReplyDeleteJenny o, Margo bow bells, Colleen , Barbara, pipipstrello,Sarah, Gareth and cam, yael, Jane and Paul, hazel, Julie, Helen, Kathryn, and zoe
Unless there's another jenny o, I have to confess I got to the final page and signed out as I couldn't figure out what my bank would charge for the privilege of converting to your currency! I did try, though! How do you get the names?
DeleteGood idea John - you are cottoning on fast. The secret on solitary Bank Holidays is to plan and then carry out the plant so you sound to be on the right track.
ReplyDeleteI've been doing a lot of talking and driving this week so I'm going to give my voice a rest and stay at home. But I will be talking a bit at Crafty Club on Monday. Oh, and I need to get a letter in the post, and wash some pants.
ReplyDeleteStaff BBQ at a coworker's house this afternoon. Spouse is tagging along. He doesn't want to fend for himself and has heard how tasty a nurse's potluck can be.
ReplyDeleteHouse cleaning and walking an elderly gentleman dog of 12. Well, slow saunter as he limps along and waters assorted fences, hedges, and fire hydrants. Life is hard when all your friends are dying. His pal down the road passed at 8 years and his lady friend was 16 when she passed. He still looks for them at their yards.
Had the long overdue haircut today and think I'll begin tying on the new warp on the loom. So happy I had all the threads wound on before I broke everything a month ago. Thank you for making that hang glide. I must do it. Go big or go home!
ReplyDeleteYes, lots of Followers doing Grandparent Duty this weekend over your way. We're on Grandpuppy duty as the family are up north at a very sad funeral; that of their Best Man's wife, dead at 35 leaving two small children. It tears me up thinking about it. Fortunately they have a very close extended family (called whanau - wh pronounced 'f' commonly here). The Goldie is quite demanding. She nudges Bill until he stops reading/working and agrees to take her for a walk. They'll be back Tuesday.
ReplyDeleteMy husband and I headed out for a ride on our tandem trike and had a flat at mile 5. Bummer, we should have just gone out for coffee and a lovely scone!
ReplyDeleteFinally got a workout in and now there are people working on various projects in my house. We have been refurbishing the place for two years and I am currently surrounded by scaffolding,plastic sheeting and tons (tonnes) of dust. I can't quite remember having "fun" on a weekend. This too shall pass. Enjoy the air show.
ReplyDeleteHexham today, posh lunch tomorrow, Farndale Country show on Monday, much better than being stuck in my office 😊
ReplyDeleteOf course Linda joins the long list of people who adore you.
ReplyDeleteA ten mile walk? Colour me impressed.
I have been gardening. Trying to work out a way to discourage (feathered) destructive vandals.
I will be attending a seminar on existentialism at The Philosophy Centre on Carterknowle Road. Later I plan to bake a loaf of rye bread and continue reading "My Absolute Darling" by Gabriel Tallent. It is an excellent novel.
ReplyDeleteDear Yorkshire..Looked up "My Absolute Darling" on Amazon for a brief description and discovered the setting is Mendocino where I live. Intrigued, I'll order it through our local library. Thank you.
DeleteLocal flower show today. Personally, my Granddaughters and I were robbed of our top trophies from last year. I was also asked to come on board for the committee. I was told they need feisty new blood like me!Said I'd think about it. I suppose Bank Holidays et al could be a sad time after being in a relationship/marriage but things will get easier and anyway, you won't be on your own too long, you've got so much to offer.
ReplyDeleteCan anything with Emma Thompson in it be bad? Tried to Google fat bastard scone, but here in Canada all I got was results for Fat Bastard Burritos!
ReplyDeleteMinding my own business.
ReplyDeleteWell go and mind it
DeleteSelective replying...nice! BTW The Children Act as a book was harrowing. I think Emma Thompson will shine in it though.
DeleteNana bit busy to catch up with all comments apologies
DeleteI’m getting into the Autumnal spirit. I’ve been working on a wreath. I’m about finished. It’s my first attempt and it looks nice if I may say so myself. I just 🧡 YouTube. I learn so many things on there. Gabs
ReplyDeleteI signed a new client last week so I took my girls out for Indian last night and ordered a bit of everything while I feel rich. It was grand.
ReplyDeleteChurch and housework today
This is a regular weekend here; our holiday is next weekend. This one will be like most - do the week's laundry, think about sewing without actually doing it, think about housework without actually doing it, etc etc and then reading (which is why nothing gets done except the laundry). I have terrible self-discipline. I'm glad to see yours is better than mine.
ReplyDeleteI am enjoying a holiday in the French Alsace.
ReplyDeleteI am going to the Belfast Mela I am really looking to seeing the colourful costumes hope the rain stays away.Meg
ReplyDeleteMy gorgeous niece and her three year old have been here for two nights, it's husband's birthday today so fun opening pressies with a three year old who has decided that she loves him to the moon and back, they leave in an hour and we are going out for brekkies xxxx
ReplyDeleteI love anything with Emma Thompson in it. So I have spent the weekend getting my dog set up in a new warm house, had the horses stalls mucked out debating on whether to mow or not to mow grass as we are expecting more rain. Going to the tractor supply today to get salt and mineral blocks for the horses. My animals keep me moving and that's a good thing.
ReplyDeleteYou presumably never saw her being truly dreadful as Lady Marchmain in the abysmal and misguided film version of Brideshead Revisited.
DeleteAlas, too late to comment. It's Sunday and the answer forward is 'not much'
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