London Life.

Noise.
Piles of rubbish in the street.
Beautiful buildings.
Ugly buildings.
Homeless.
Snippets of peoples conversation.
Green spaces.
Sad dogs.
Not acknowledging drivers stopping for you on Zebra crossings.. ( I did at the beginning).
Never dark.
Dirty pavements.
Warm, rank air in tube stations.
Grey squirrels.
Brilliant theatre shows.
Cheerful nurses.
Expensive shops.
Traffic.

Oh, and small children whizzing to school on scooters!!

Once again I had a fabulous jam packed weekend. I got let off dog walking duty on Saturday morning so I could play racquetball - and I had SUCH a good session ( thanks ST) . Just what I needed!
Followed that with a trip around Waitrose, but not entirely successful as I can't keep tabs on what's been eaten and what we need, anyway enough food etc bought for the weekend.
Dragged Steve to Acorn Nursery to buy some bedding plants, I can't keep walking up the driveway and seeing the sad, shrivelled leaves left in the summer flowering pots.
After lunch I made him help me clear out the old containers and pot up the new plants ( like he didn't have 100 other things he'd rather be doing! )

I did have tennis planned for the afternoon, but it started to rain really heavily, so we had to cancel. Not wanting to be idle I peeled some apples and made two Eve's puddings, a batch of flapjacks and a a batch of brownies.

We then took the girls ( dogs obviously , we are not running a Boot camp) on a 'training ' session/walk down through the woods.
Papa was home when we got back as we had invited him to help us eat the sole and plaice that Jack and his friend had caught the day before, they were delicious !

Sunday morning was cliff path walk, aerobics with the girls ( love those nutty twins) and then three sets of tennis..... All brilliant fun, and when I got back in the door at 1:45pm Bex had done the ironing! Bonus !

Gun dog training at 3:30pm for an hour, and so when finally back home by 4:45pm I was feeling a little tired, still managed to get a roast chicken in the oven and supper for 7 people. Thank goodness I have daughters and 'daughters-in-law to help, and of course all those MEN in my life!

Finally , good news, no, not the fact that I have my crazy aunt over here ( more of that later) - but I have been told that I do not have to do the last three days of radiotherapy . They have adjusted my dose and are giving me the final concentrated session on the 4th November - yippee .

Only 8% of battery left, so the latest embarrassing antics of the Aunt will have to wait.... One snippet though...

Sat on the tube returning from Kew Gardens, I give her the newspaper crossword to finish so she doesn't keep fretting about the stations and if we are going the right way. (I have had many experiences on how to keep a small child quiet- although not usually with the cryptic crossword in the telegraph ) . Anyway the train stops, she looks up , I ask "What". She replies "I was just seeing if an elderly person needed a seat". We both looked around the carriage, I replied sagely " You , ( pause ) ARE the elderly person" ......







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Location:Two days with Mad Aunt....