A dying beauty

Nearly dead but still beautiful. I had two bunches of flowers on my birthday, the 16th, which is nearly 3 weeks ago now and unbelievably they have both lasted really well. I threw one bunch on the compost heap today (which included this flower) but the other bunch is still in the vase. I don't think I've ever had flowers last this long before - the cold weather has been good for them.

No work today but I worked from home and even did a bit of sorting in the study although you can't really notice what I've done and hubby won't believe me!! After dinner I decided to go for a swim. It was a bit late really but I managed to get there, swim 100 lengths in 35 mins, shower, change, dry my hair and drive home in about an hour and a quarter, arriving home just in time to pick my son up from school. I'm glad I went as I felt much better for the exercise. It's the first time that I've managed to swim it all doing just breast stroke as I normally need to do part of it on my back to give my arms a rest! All the rowing I've been doing in the gym has obviously helped.

Enjoy the long weekend everyone, let's hope the sun shines. ;-)