Frosty day

I awoke at 6.30am and as it was Saturday I somehow didn't mind waking up (on a work day I want to put off going to work for as long as possible so I always want to go back to sleep!). I read, listened to the radio, contemplated more paint colours and generally enjoyed a lie in til 9am. Bliss. And I had lunch with some of the family to look forward to as well. I love my life sometimes!

Then I installed my new (old) side table in the sitting took and am happy with it. I moved a few things around between rooms upstairs now that the colours in some rooms have changed and washed some curtains. Anyone would think it was Spring! Then it was off to meet C, P and P at the Red Lion in Brafield for midday. It was a stunningly beautiful day but frosty with 0C even at 11.30am. Blue, cloudless skies all the way, though. Gorgeous.

They'd had a two hour walk in Salcey Forest and were ready for food. C needed to leave at 1pm to get back to Heathrow for his flight to Canada so we had a lovely hour in a really nice pub, enjoying decent food (if a little pricey) and catching up. Here's my Aussie brother, C, embracing my other brother's wife - he had nipped out for a ciggy!

I took a trip to my second home, B&Q, this afternoon and got some nice bold paints for various rooms soon to be decorated. I'm trying to persuade the lodger to accept some pink in his room! I found a nice but very cheap textured light shade for the back bedroom that I'm pleased with. I donated some items to the charity shop and did a few jobs in Stony, including buying Christmas cards, though I managed to 'lose' both my purse and house keys in the mess that is my car. Thankfully, after 10 minutes searching (determinedly not panicking) I found them both lurking in the boot. Idiot - but phew!

I was considering going to see my bro singing in a Christmas concert tonight but feel more like staying in, in the warm, and doing some more clearing. It's on nights like these, when I would have gone to the concert with my stepmum, that it hits me again that she's gone - for good :(