@Mumtobabyhavoc My darling boys have gone back to Lisbon and taken my DD with them. She will be back on Tuesday though. Gosh it’s quiet now. We had a lovely few days, playing outside with lots of water games, while it was hot, then art school when the weather was a bit drizzly. We watched a couple of Harry Potter films and played games on the Wii. Thank goodness granny can compete at the same level as the boys. We did lots of chatting as well. The elder one made me very tearful when he said, “Granny, you are not just my granny, but you are my friend as well.” What a little love. The younger one was designing houses where we could all live together. It included a pool, with a pool house, a cricket pitch, library, art room, playroom, Lego room, 6 bedrooms and bathrooms, cinema room as well as living rooms and kitchen.
I introduced them to the Monkees, which used to be my favourite group. The TV programme is being shown on a replay channel and I was recording it every day, although I have the complete boxed set of DVDs which my DD bought for me a couple of years ago. We started watching them in the evening and the boys really enjoyed them. I could hear the younger one singing the theme song while he was drawing a picture, so funny.
@bizzey have a lovely holiday.
@EllaDisenchanted those cakes look delicious. I can’t bake at all now. My cooking isn’t up to much now either.
@mathanxiety i have the Merlin app and I tend to use it in the early hours through the bathroom window. This last week, along with the usual little birds, there was a buzzard recorded and a woodpecker. I’ve never heard or seen either of these before.
@Deathraystare how is your job and house hunting going? I’ve been thinking of you a lot. I hope you are OK. 💐❤️
I had my second shingles vaccination on Thursday and my arm is swollen, hot and sore at the moment. I hope it’s going to settle down soon. I don’t remember the first one being so painful.