all by myself.

LSp is away in Scotland and I have been here all by myself.

well me, 2 dogs, 1 gerbil and a barely here daughter.

I have come to realise 1 thing. I miss her so much.

We have been together for 15 years and we are apart for 1-2 weeks per year. So I should be used to it by now. I am not.

Silences are more silent when you are in a room on your own. I am very comfortable with silence. I can sit in silence with someone else in the room for a long time. it is hard having the silence of having no one else there.

we do a lot of things together.

I drag her round lots of shops she hates. I hate going on my own, I want her view, her perspective even when I know she will disagree.

I cant imagine life apart.

and when she gets back we have 5 days together.  Bliss. x

In other news. I will not be watching Titanic in 3D although I would like to sneak a bubble machine in for when the ship sinks.

Yes I think strange/cruel thoughts like that sometimes. After watching the woman in black I though how funny it would be to hide in the cinema, (dressed as the woman in black) and then when it was getting super scary to just stand in the corner of the cinema.

happy Tuesday everyone.

Valentines Day.

Today is Valentines day. I have had a lovely day. This morning there was little time for romance as I left for work an hour early so I had a 5.30 wake up, shower, make breakfast and packed lunches, feed dog get a lift (thank you Rach) to work. Have a busy day! Then arrive back at the office to a lovely bunch of flowers.

I am very Lucky. (especially as I have already had my valentines present)........oh and a bit spoilt.

 oh and it came with chocolates. 

We had Dinner out, 

Love is important and something to celebrate. 

As you can see, there is a lot of love in our house. x 

I love my Nan.

Well, owing to my Bs being in hospital, our whole weekend has been turned around and the routine has gone out of the window. We had originally planned to go to the lovely coast on Saturday to spend the day with friend's. This could not happen but we have managed to rearrange it for 2 week's time. 


BS has a stone in her kidney, This is very painful (apparently) and she is quite unwell. She is going to be operated on tomorrow and will be home on Tuesday (hopefully). So we have been going back and forth to the hospital and I need to jiggle my week a bit next week to support her. 


Anyway, Today LSP and I Went to visit my Nan to tell her about my sister being in hospital and why. I did not want to tell her over the phone as at 84 she worries,  and it is better to tell her face to face. 

  

My Nan as a child! 

After updating her about my BS we got to talk in general. what had been going on in the village, who had died, etc. Normal grandmother to grand daughter conversation's. 


We got round to talking about YD wanting to get a motorbike. My Grandmother had 4 son's no daughter's. My father was her eldest son, He had a motorbike when he was young......right up till the time he wrapped it around a lamp post. 


Her next Son, bought a moped, he and a friend used to bike to a nearby town on a friday night this town had a bit of a reputation for being a bit rough. Now where my nan lived was half way up a hill and you could hear for miles. On a Friday night, her and my granddad would sit on the step and listen for my uncle and his friend's moped's. As soon as they could hear them (about  2 miles away) she and my granddad would rush up to bed and would be all tucked in by the time he got home they new that he was home safe and well and they did not have to worry. This  continued until he came off his bike then traded up to get a car. 


Her third Son (who always has been careful) had a motorbike, with no incident's however it did not stop her worrying and fretting each time he went out. 


When her youngest son was old enough he was asked if he was going to get a bike or a car. 


He chose the car! my nan was happy. 


We talked about the new's, we talked about the weather and we talked about her health. Now I have started to get heartburn, and my nan has had heartburn for years and she was describing way's of alleviating it. Now my nan had her heartburn checked out just in case it was a symptom of something more sinister. 


My Nan described that after she had been checked out that the doctor told her there was nothing to worry about and the indigestion she was experiencing was a result of all of the adjectives in the food nowadays. My Nan went on to tell me more about adjectives in food. 


I was listening and nodding whilst biting the inside of my cheek to stop myself from laughing whilst LSP was practically eating the i-phone for the same reason. Now you may be thinking, why did I not correct my Nan, well she is 84 years old and confusing 2 similar word's is no big deal, but correcting her may have made her feel silly.


 On the way home I thought about an article I had seen on the new's this morning about the menu for a dinner that Prince William had attended. 


Tom Parker Bowles criticised the over pretentious menu. one example was a main course of:

Pacific Ocean black Cod Fillet, Hand Glazed with a Japanese tamari and mankuna honey reduction. 

Delicately balanced on a sumptuous organic pearl barley risotto,  hand in hand with a delightful English courgette flower beignet, teriyaki jus

hmm I think all of those adjectives would give me indigestion! 

love is in the air.....

Love is in the air, I don't know if  its the lighter mornings or the flowers in abundance but love is defiantly in the air this spring!!

lots of people around me are having weddings/partnerships planing weddings/partnerships and there is certainly money being spent in some jeweller's.

I am lucky that I have been asked to help plan some of the up and coming nuptials!!

Soon there will be magazines and brochures helping to decorate the hobby room.

Its very exciting!

Weddings are such wonderful occasion's all the flower's and the dresses the venue's the people. its all wonderful.

I have been having a wee little browse around the net...

its all to beautiful..... time to dust of the planner and the spreadsheets.........Spring is here!!

"Meeting a stranger in a railway station, a woman is tempted to cheat on her husband".

Today I saw (but did not buy) one of my favourite films out on DVD and all packaged for Valentines day.

Brief Encounter. 

The film is so far removed from its simple description....

"Meeting a stranger in a railway station, a woman is tempted to cheat on her husband".

"I love you, Laura. I shall love you until the end of my life. I can't look at you now cause I know something. I know that this is the beginning of the end. Not the end of my loving you but the end of our being together. But not quite yet, darling. Please. Not quite yet. "

I can just get lost in the film, 86 minutes of wonderful middle class repression.

There is no sex, no violence, no special effects.

Only 8 main actors with another 5 uncredited (including Irene Handl,  who was the gran in Metal Mickey)

Penned by Noel Coward with wonderful acting by Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard.

 It has tension, intrigue, passion, humour and sadness.



People are divided about the ending, I think it is happy a happy ending, Laura and Alec have the perfect romance, it will never go sour, it will never wither, Love is easy but marriages are hard work. Both are married and have children. If they had made the break from their partners it would never have been the same.

The last words from Fred (Laura's husband) are lovely.

"You've been a long way away.

Thank you for coming back to me."