Enough of gallivanting!
I’m back. Did you miss me? I had a weekend flit to England to help my mother with her Christmas shopping and to check that all was well on the home front (it was, thankfully!). I had intended to check in along the way and let you know what I was up to, but my laptop didn’t like the look of the wifi at the local library, so that wasn’t to be. Did anyone notice I was gone?
I also managed to fit in buying and installing mum’s first ever DVD player as well as doing an analogue to digital switch over on the television – I have to keep saying this to myself as I was quite stunned that I was capable of managing such technical feats – but then, when a handy husband isn’t in the neighbourhood, a girl has to just get on and do whatever needs doing.
Did you know that you can buy a very smart DVD player in John Lewis for the princely sum of £29.95. Quite incredible. I couldn’t believe my eyes – and it wasn’t even on special offer!
I also had a lovely trip to York to meet Lindsay, complete with lunch at Betty’s, a trip to the Quilter’s Guild and a quick dash into the lovely yarn shop Ramshambles right in the middle of the Shambles.
I even have great photos of my adventures to show you – or I would if I hadn’t left my camera in the boot of Lindsays’s car. Which was, if I say so myself, a very stupid thing to do – but there you are, it was dark, we were swapping bags of Christmas presents and talking twenty to the dozen before I hopped on the train back to mum’s – and somehow the camera didn’t make it back into my bag. Hopefully now it’s on it’s way back here in the post. Lindsay and I are crossing everything that we have to cross that it doesn’t get nicked along the way, as that would be a very great shame.
My camera and I are joined at the hip, so I am feeling rather bereft – it’s a bit of a lost handbag feeling actually – and of course the blog is pictureless until I work out an alternative solution. Right now though it’s probably just as well that you can’t see the state of affairs round here. I’ve been gadding about and neglecting things here for the last 6 weeks or so and I’ve come back to semi chaos and lots of work to do….and don’t even mention the quilt that has to be finished for shipping for Christmas….
Ah well, nose back to the grindstone….
It’s nice to be home though and I’m looking forward to a nice bit of ordinary life.
Hope you’re enjoying the start of advent.
Helen
November 29th, 2011 at 3:29 am
Yes, I certainly did miss you! I like Cookie Monster, but he doesn’t take the place of Helen….
November 29th, 2011 at 10:37 am
Welcome back! How lovely that you got to meet Lindsay again and in beautiful York, too…!
I had to laugh about the DVD – we took a “spare” cheap DVD player with us to Granny’s once, but she couldn’t be bothered with it, so it eventually came back again with some other visitors and then was taken to Brittany, where it lasted a couple of years ;o Well-travelled, like your camera.
As for being HD-ready, when Granny turned 90, we bought her a new telly with integrated VHR, as she still has our old home movies, and they asked if she wanted 3-year insurance – she thought she probably wouldn’t live long enough for it to be worthwhile… She’s now 95 and goodness knows if that little telly is as HD-ready as it’s supposed to be – she will definitely refuse having another one, saying she won’t live long enough to make it pay!!! LOL And she’ll say it with a big laugh, too!
November 29th, 2011 at 3:27 pm
Yes indeed Helen you were missed. So glad you were able to spend some time with your mother and to meet up with Linds as well. Hope the camera arrives safe and sound.
November 29th, 2011 at 3:31 pm
Thanks so much for missing me!
By the way, the Lindsay I met up with isn’t the same Linds that you may know from Rocking Chair reflections!
November 30th, 2011 at 8:48 am
Yes, I did wonder what you were up to. Sounds like you had a lovely trip. And thanks, we are enjoying Advent. Already made mince pies and put a few decorations up. Also, I’ve even posted some Christmas parcels. This level of organisaion can’t last … !