• Beautiful sunny weather right from the dawn with coffee in the garden - up on my bench, sun on my face, birds singing
• Shower and dressing up, feeling good with the weight loss
• It's a Lottie day!
• Planting sunflowers with her (and Lottie Hobby fuchsia)
• Water play in their garden before playing matching pairs and baking cakes
• Chat with Nikki, and later with Sheila
• Chicken curry and dahl - yum, yum - made from scratch
• Russ came over, all over the place and yet left a happier man after an evening with us, laughing and singing with Doosie, crying over Pavarotti with me, helping Alan out with chores, eating two platefuls of my cooking, banter with Ian over the phone....Tom working late again but still part of the hustle and bustle

• happy quiet relaxed day
• chat with Ian - on their way to Ikea!
• more blog surfing - like to join in but .....always a but
• knitting and listening to ipod while Alan's in his studio
• lovely trip to Lottie today - paid our dues
• compliments on my hair, long and shiny!
• beautiful walk with the dogs, and autumnal photography
• Alan had to hose Maya down! Horse poo!
• found a blog with STUNNING photography, but read down to find she's a young widow

1) COUNT MY BLESSINGS 2) LIVE IN THE NOW

• Yay 12 weeks and all is well
• I am to be granny around April 21st 2014
• I am so excited!
• More knitting
• lovely shower - eventually
• I lost one lb despite chinese takeaway and too many blueberry muffins
• Lovely time at WW with doosie
• chicken pie, clean sheets - One lovely husband
• NUT strike tomorrow so one the one hand I have another day off (skint)
• lovely packet of seeds from higgledy with a handwritten personal note and free seeds!

• another lazy day - despite having to take Tom to work for 9am
• finally got Alan's bloody ipad sorted out - 3 hours+
• started my christmas shopping - snapfish photo books X2 done
• half price offer too!
• walk with the doods, kept both on the lead
• nice gammon dinner
• Downton - love Sundays

• not a bad day after all
• was chilly in am but warmed up later
• Green and Galaxy were ok, Tash and Krystal ok too.
• I learned what a sound button is!
• Al cooked dinner
• crochet flowers, working through Lucy's tutorial online
• early night!

• great morning in Green class
• nice soup at lunch
• home by 4.30pm
• comfy sofa and comforting alan
• lovely phone call from Ian and Helen
• invite over next thursday evening!
• packing for another weekend away - this time Prague in the Czech Republic!
• lovely cuddle and heart to heart with Tom tonight
• my lovely bed!

• lovely waking up and listening to lovely Molly and family life, she's a great mum and all getting excited at baby in the spring
• Sonny is so lovely such a personality
• we went with him to school and met Mrs Grandowlski (with the lovely soft voice)
• had giggles with little Eve while her mum showed us her favourite wedding pics
• safe uneventful drive home
• lovely walk on the hills with Doodles

• Alan dropped me into school today
• nice memories of Selhurst Park and Ikea as we drove in
• Lynne "dropped in" on Yellow Class at 9am - she gave positive vibes and feedback at lunchtime - all good!
• Guided reading was pretty good and quiet
• Macmillan Coffee morning was manic but popular lots of parents I know
• Yellow class were quiet for 3 whole minutes and I sponsored their silence for the charity - good cause!
• my soup was gorgeous for lunch
• PE session was creative, ordered and fun!
• Alan picked me up again after a good day
• safe journey up to Halifax (though lo-ong)
• Molly looks great at 18 weeks pregnant
• lovely bed to sleep in.....Yarndale in the morning!

• the car passed its MOT!
• and had a full service
• we had a fab day at Lottie, cut the grass, coffee with debs
• our garden looks gorgeous!
• pay day - thank goodness

• Sophia is 2 today!
• Bernice is amazing Grandma
• lovely visit out to Maidstone to see J & M amazing new house and garden
• saw Claire James and foster kids, gave Claire bits for Vicki and Theo
• left goodies for Emily's kids
• Had real giggles with Suzanna (dressed in a cow onezie) and Basil
• the weather stayed dry and warmish even if very overcast
• good brisk walk with dogs this morning
• lovely shower
• I felt nice even if that wasn't reflected in photos
• Tom coped with Kirsty at work
• Nice evening meal and scrabble with Bernice
• still very excited about the news!!!!!!

• another lie-in (only til 8)
• reflections on a good evening with my family
• working with Alan towards a goal, getting our garden sorted
• more blue sky
• success, but hard fought, muscles aching
• a rose arch! Taller, much taller than we expected
• leftovers dinner - very nice
• brisk walk with dogs in a bright full moon
• Sir Galahad came to my rescue as darkness descended

• good night's sleep
• sunshine and blue skies
• lovely walk with Bernice and dogs
• relaxing morning, chatting with B
• good scrambled eggs and bacon
• Tom happy on his Harry Potter tour
• Downton is back on next Sunday
• Caro acknowleged my Birthday greeting

• managed to get up at 6 with the alarm
• got a parking space at WHI
• had a good morning with Green class
• more compliments from Sarah
• Lynne said thanks for coming in to planning
• a nice salad lunch
• Krystal was organised
• I survived the afternoon with Galaxy class
• a friend request from Millie
• fabulous meatball dinner cooked by my lovely Al

1 waking up and knowing our time is our own - loving retirement

2 making a start on dog grooming

3 taking the freezer to the tip

4 Lots of free compost

5 fun with Debs at the allotment - so much in common, and laughs!

6 lovely salad lunch - so filling I didn't need supper

7 sitting holding hands with Al during thunderstorm

8 Heavy rain saved me lots of time (less watering)

9 planting up my cosmos from saved seed - free plants

10 appreciation of people doing jobs that they can't really enjoy but that we couldn't do without - e.g. toilet repairs, tip attendants, Thames Water operatives!

11 Russ looked and sounded better today - he'd been over to Ian's and brought Daisy home.

• despite awful night with nocturnal doodles I managed to drag myself out of bed and get to work ok
• my last minute "smells" went down a storm - I had grabbed a few things from my kitchen, roses, basil, lemon, onion and soap.
• was lovely to see "MY" children speaking out and singing beautifully in Harvest Assembly - I love seeing them making progress
• PE was fun, fairly quiet and orderly.
• got through all tasks expected of me and home by 4.30pm

• Yay - it's Monday again!
• and there's 4 days before work again.
• gathered our apples at Lottie
• cauliflower cheese for tea
• more blog fun
• and patience - I am an addict
• shared my secret with Jan
• Molly says "it's a girl!"
• the sweet fragrance of my rose from Lottie

• good day at school, some giggles and rainbows
• everyone LOVED my faces book
• fabulous visit to Ian and Helen's
• gorgeous boy - my grandson Emil
• he really focussed on my story telling, we had some lovely moments, eye contact and full open smiles
• I even got to share his bath time with more giggles (and screams at hair washing time)
• we made fab faces of our own using the book as stimuli
• yummy scrummy chinese takeaway (the best in years)
• Daisy, Mike and Tom came for supper too
• everybody poos book
• planned birthday treat at Jamie's Italian

• waking up back in our own bed again!
• cwch is just a fabulous word
• Prague was beautiful but so tiring and we are glad to be home
• managed to get some reasonably good photos of beautiful buildings
• also managed to get photos off Al's iPad and create some space
• Lucy is blogging again at Attic24 - brill
• catching up on tv ....chill!

• waking up in my own bed - priceless
• day stretching out ahead - promising
• coffee and crunchy nut, watching birds in the garden
• the virginia creeper is changing colour as I watch
• planning the day ahead with Al
• shower and fresh clothes, smelling sweet, clean hair
• Ikea, getting lost, but hey, got there in the end
• a frame for my textile piece
• autumn walk with the doods, loving my orange coat
• catching up on downton
• blog loving

• 6am chatterbox desperate to tell us his news / life story / the plot of funny bones
• Sonny who couldn't be more gorgeous
• lovely drive through moors and fields to Skipton
• Yarndale!
• great friendships - fab day with Sheila
• meeting Lucy from Attic24 in person (felt like a fan at the stage door)
• seeing the most gorgeous creative work and feeling inspired
• soft, soft, angora rabbits and colourful wool
• amazing crafts people happy to share their work, knowledge and inspiration
• patient tutor who provided wonderful resources for the workshop
• learning, and trying out a new skill, dry needle felting
• finally! spotty table cover

• amazing Lucy at Attic 24! So colourful and inspiring, cheerful and chatty
• Crochet - hooky delight indeed!
• Amazon - my hooks and books arrived today!
• new nails, shorter but still shiny and sophisticated!
• blogland, keeps me inspired and amazed every day
• there are indeed people like me
• chat with Sheila
• Alan using pastels on his ipad tonight
• lovely beetroot and sweetcorn from lottie for dinner (with salmon)

• Lovely day, no sunshine but warm and dry
• walk with Bernice and the dogs first thing
• Lovely breakfast thanks Al
• Slow quiet day, with the papers, football and gardening
• planted lots of bulbs
• replanted shrubs into the new flower bed
• Bern got home safely in good time enough to do some gardening of her own
• Downton back on Yay!
• started knitting for Sophia

• Got up ok despite late night
• Got into carpark easily at 7.20am
• Green class and Natasha were lovely
• pebbles in the jar
• Galaxy class were pleased to see me!
• I got Kyle to cooperate and produce an exciting sentence
• Liz, Krystal and TAsha all grateful, complimentary
• Sarah and Maeve seem to be WITH me and helpful
• I lost a lb at WW
• Daisy was good company

• Monday - no work Yay!
• lie in until 9
• crunchy nut cornflakes and cold cold milk - yum
• a beautiful sunny morning
• finally got alan to have his blood test
• 4 shiny fence posts
• a brisk, windy invigorating tromp over the hills with the dogs
• family coming tomorrow Tom's birthday

• a place in the car park
• petrol in the car
• coffee at school (I remembered the milk)
• welcome from Maria, Sharon, everyone
• reading where we could hear a pin drop
• progress in MY (old nursery) children - they can now read to me!
• despite rain all day, a good day
• Sharon, Lynne supportive
• self awareness that yes, indeed, I do feel better
• chat with Donna at lunch
• naughty (but nice) fish and chips
• 5 days off now
• Bernice coming tomorrow

• waking up with my lovely Alan warm, protected, loved
• no work today and no rain this morning
• hearing the bin men and knowing Alan sorted it all last night
• lovely evening last night with my lovely 4 and Millie
• quick call with Bernice this morning
• walking the girls for an hour around Sparrows Den
• indulging in a little blog surfing
• my quilt!

• lovely lazy day in colour heaven
• really got absorbed into blogland
• saturday guardian, Lucy Mangan, Strictly and X factor
• What's not to like?
• we won the lottery! $3.30p ha ha ha!
• got some lovely crochet and knitting patterns today
• ordered my christmas photo books half price!

• our blue pots on the gate are 1) still there!
• and 2) got bright yellow pansies in at last
• lovely cyclamens in the hanging basket
• tidied up the greenhouse
• walk in the sunshine with Al and the dogs
• knitting - making progress on Sophia's cardigan
• this is my 32nd list so have kept this up for a month!

• John's birthday
• sofa snuggle quilt strictly catch up day
• the joy of saturday guardian and the croydon ad
• good fry up, those tomatoes just so-o sweet and tasty
• finding still more amazing blogs out there - such inspiration
• sloth - a deadly sin, but hey who's watching
• alan's singing along to his music

• lovely, lovely day off
• coffee, toast home made jam
• lovely, crunchy, Autumn walk with the dogs
• iphone photos - some of which are OK!
• love love love the changes Autumn brings
• more blog loving
• loving my cot mobile for my grandchild (secret hugs of joy)
• fab photos of my babies, when they were babies
• joy, secret, bubbling joy
• contact with my cousin Jackie
• crispy chicken skin! Naughty but nice!

• tom asked me to take him to work so at least we could have a chat
• quiet morning with knitting for Sophia
• lovely autumn walk with the doodles,
• taught myself to crochet flowers using Lucy's tutorial
• researching Prague
• Daisy Asked me to go to WW tonight where I lost 1 1/2 lb
• lovely, noisy evening with doosie and tj
• Daisy did my hair for me, bless her

• lovely breakfast with Sonny
• trip to the fish shop for birthday fish at last!
• guppies galore!
• took girls up to old town and the cottage looked so pretty with flowers
• beautiful sunshine but windy, had a go on the swings
• down into Hebden and a lovely lunch in Innovations
• soup was gooooood
• Lily on amazing good behaviour and Eve was manageable too
• choosing beads to make a necklace, like children in a sweetshop!
• Alan bought me lovely earrings
• Eve's humour is coming on a treat

Me: those ducks are noisy Eve: That's because they're Quacking! A sculptor in the river placing stones as statues Eve: has he got permission to do that? He might ...

• despite late night and not being able to drop off - managed to get up in time this morning
• felt good in my blue leggings and fitted jersey top
• nice greetings from colleagues especially Sharene and Emma
• Lynne seemed genuinely pleased at my "Granny" news
• with Sarah's help survived the morning in Green class
• and in Galaxy class the children were genuinely happy to see me!
• home by 4 in the sunshine! Yay!
• fish and chips for supper
• hooky fun - managed to follow a tutorial on Attic 24 for the ripple pattern - success!
• lovely phone call from Doosie

• Near the top of Maslows hierarchy
• moving plants in the garden from front to back
• Alan created railings to protect the flower bed
• ordered some beautifully fragrant roses for the arch
• finally planted those plants from Great Comp
• booked the car in for service and MOT tomorrow
• Tom cooked dinner

• the most amazing news in the world, nothing matters more
• there is a baby coming into my life
• chances are he or she will have blue eyes
• it's growing - already loved by a mum and dad who planned it, and a granny who is just so-o excited!
• Ian, my lovely firstborn is to have his very own child
• oh, and friday went ok in yellow class
• my beautiful rainbow cotton arrived in the post - and a baby blanket is in the pipeline!
• first the phone call, then the reassuring real life full bodied cuddle when he brought TJ home, my son has made me a grandma!!!!!! Happy days!

• Thomas is 25 today!
• another lovely day off and lie in
• working with Alan to assemble the new rose arch
• LOVELY dinner with family, including Emil Apple Peel
• Ian and Russ seemed quite relaxed and comfortable
• Mike came with Daisy
• I cooked everyone's individual meals, crumble for Emil and Mike, Stuffed courgettes for Doosie, Yorkshires for Tom, roast with loads of veg
• used home grown produce, apples, courgettes, pumpkin, beans and cabbage
• walk in the rain with the dogs, satisfying somehow
• Tom is happy with his prizes, nice vinyl from London Grammar and I got the download!

• Bernice is here overnight!
• relaxing day off
• saturday guardian - always a good read
• takeaway from Diwana
• tarka dahl
• Lovely walk in the woods with Gracie and the doods
• wonderful email from Lenny's family with a gorgeous photo
• alan absorbed in premiership football, we lost at old trafford but we still did well! (We being CPFC)
• I won the scrabble

• lie in today until 9.30am!
• good coffee
• hot shower
• progress on my quilt
• someone said "You look nice today!"
• doodle walk on the hills with Alan
• planning meeting at school went ok
• lovely photos of Russ and Millie at Wembley
• Alan using iPad to create images
• chat with Tom