Life!

Slightly more relaxed start. Got up at 7 and had shower then breakfast. Jayne also got up and came with me on moor.  Walked for an hour from small car park along ridge then towards hay tor and back along tramway. Went to Tracey house and brought Mary back for coffee. Showed her butlins photos. After taking Mary back helped Jayne with Indian visa application. Went to post office to send it off then bought a few bits in Tesco and manns and came home and had jacket potato with cheese and ham with salad. Finished off with manns treacle tart. Jayne had custard I had yoghurt. Watched lots of house buying programmes. Went ringing at 7. Only three of us there because coach trip to see war horse the stage production in Plymouth had been arranged and lots of people on it. However new learner turned up. Moved in to bovey 5 months ago with husband. I tried not to be jealous! So she got a good long go and was ringing both strokes with assistance by the end of the evening. Austin and I demonstra...

Got up early and had shower and walked suki then went to 8 am service.  Stayed on for the ringing.  Made them up to 5. Ladies outnumbered the men too. . Me rosemary Diane Barry and Austin.  No one could call on 5 so I did simple calling taking front bell to back till back in rounds.  Barry tried calling it and did it twice and was very pleased.  Settled down with cross stitch when I got back and discovered to my horror that I had left pattern in London.  Mike came up trumps and loaded software on to his computer and scanned in pattern and emailed it to me.  Meantime spent the afternoon loading final butlins photos from Leanne and dealing with emails. Took suki for a walk in plantation.  Getting very muddy again and wellies now essential rather than just useful.  Loaded word onto jayne s laptop for India and also made it Internet ready and did instructions on how to create pdfs.  Then loaded more cds. Jayne cooked delicious supper of salm...

Got up early and had shower. Out on moor by 7.30. Lovely morning.  It was wonderful to see the sun come over hay tor and start to light up the rocks on the other tors. Couldn't really do it justice with photo. As hoped for, hardly saw anyone else. Difficult to see when facing sun as low in the sky. Got very warm. Got back to house at 8.45 and Jayne and I went to trago mills. Had breakfast then looked for curtains but none suitable for home. Bought a pink pair for Devon lounge. Bought lots of dog food too.  Then went to dun elm and other stores looking for green curtains but couldn't find any suitable ones. Went back to house at 2 and ordered them on line, spent the rest of the afternoon putting up new curtains and moving others around. Took suki to parke at 6. Field by river padlocked because of sheep. Had to stick to railway track then higher path and back by river. Had steak and home cooked oven chips for supper with red wine. Watched foyles war and copied jayne's CDs to ...

Got up about 7 and had shower then did breakfast. Took suki for a walk. Went to Tesco. Washed up and cleared away. Set off for Devon at 11. Satnav a bit temperamental after updating but cleared it by turning off for a while although had lost my personalised menu. No live services. Discovered when I got to Devon that this was because subscription had expired.  Renewed it. Also disconnected from Twitter and set up the speed camera alerts to only ping if I am speeding. Took suki to parke. Immediately had contretemps with woman about suki growling. Tried to ignore it but as usual it mithered away in my head. Saw her again later and grovelled a bit which soothed her. Wasn't going to let her spoil my walk. Light rain but blue skies interspersed. Met some nice dog walkers too. Had upset stomach - not sure if related to large amount of dried apricots eaten on journey in attempt to wean myself off sweets! Decided not to visit Mary in case it was a tummy bug. Jayne got back from Exeter just ...

Got up early and had shower before getting Mike off to work.  Lorraine also got up at 6!  Made her a cup of tea. Spent all day doing middx association stuff including forms for tower subs and new member pack and cert.  Went to committee meeting in evening at st Margarets vestry.  Was rather gratified to hear pru say new Web site needed an overall web master who cares what is on it. Just what I offered to do at the outset.  Glad to leave them to it now.  Took the minutes.  Passed forms over.  Picked up salad wrap on way home.  Met Lorraine on 272.  Finalised minutes when I got in and emailed them off.  Also paid Mary's expenses. 

Not quite as early this morning but still out with suki by 7.30.  Cross stitched again all morning.  Had sausages potatoes curly kale and carrots for lunch. 10 sausages in pack so cooked them all and made sausage sandwich for Mike to take to goldsmiths.  I had lettuce sandwiches for supper.  Did lots of admin and also practiced Cambridge again on Abel.  Watched silent witness with glass of red wine in evening. 

A much better start than of late. Up at 6.15 and out with the dog by 7 to Acton park. I had forgotten how much nicer it is at that time of the morning. Did cross stitching all morning and finished another block. Had veg pasta for lunch. Practised on Abel in the afternoon. Have out middletons into the compositions. Made a bit of headway. Took suki to Southfield in the afternoon. Saw people exercising with crutches! Went out to eat with TARTS in the evening at Meson Don Philippe in Southwark. Lovely food and great to see the others again but very noisy exacerbated by wooden floors. Man played guitar sitting on chair on small platform! Just drank a couple of San Miguel beers so much more restrained than usual which was better. Picked up some Lahori on the way home and divided it into meal sized portions and put them in the freezer before going to bed with a hot drink. One final practice on mobel before turning in.