Friday 25 April 2008

Finally we have lift-off!



After FOUR years of planning applications we finally got started on our extention! All we wanted was one small room on the back to house a new staircase thus freeing up the dining room of stairs, you'd think we were asking for the moon!
Anyway, the dh and his oppo got going this week, knee-deep in wet concrete and the back garden looks like the Somme, it hardly seems to have stopped raining since. I am consolling myself that soon I will have more space and his office willl be out of the livng room - and I will be able to watch the telly I want to watch. Why is golf, football, snooker, etc the mainstay of men's lives? It is never off the TV and when it is it's University Challenge and Mastermind closely followed by Jeremy flaming Clarkson!

Had to laugh last night, I went to babysit my daughter's children and the littlest one (nearly three) bounced into the house back from nursery with 'hello Nanny where's Ho-HO?' Why she calls the dh Ho-Ho we have no idea but she has done ever since she could get the words out. He even answers to it now!

Monday 14 April 2008

A village evening

Last night was just a bit different. We went to a church service and re-newed our wedding vows along with a few dozen other couples. Really touching, until the dh - being told to kiss his wife - was discovered to be chewing gum!!! We even had champagne afterwards, and wedding cake served at the back of the church, so civilised!
Saturday was different too. Our favourite pub landlords have finally decided they have had enough of battling breweries and the chancellor and are going to live in Spain. So Saturday was their send-off and leaving do. Lots of tears and laughs, loads of wine and hugs. We shall really miss them as it has become such a nice habit to just run over to Dave and Barbs and be sure of a welcome any time. We used to live very close to the Bell but now we are further away it is more of a journey but it was well worth the effort.