Mothers Day

                                                             I had a Joyful Mothers Day

This is the menu for the meal my son in law Mike cooked for us.

The main course.

                                                                      The dessert

                                               I didn't get a picture of the starter or cheese board,
                                       but I can assure you it was all delicious, so very very delicious.

                                 My baby daughter Helen and her crazy husband Mike and Meeeee....

                              My wonderful husband:)  Photo taken by my granddaughter Emily.

My gorgeous girlies, Emily, Jess and Meeee

It was a Great Day.

Happy Mothers Day

A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.

Washington Irving

Happy Birthday Mam.

My mam would have been 86 today.She was quite a woman, she didn't have an easy life.  In fact just as her life started to get a little easier, the Good Lord took her.  She passed away peacefully, reading the tv listings on April 26th 2003.

I could write reams and reams about her and our relationship, but not today.  Today I just want to remember her.  It is Mothers Day here in the UK tomorrow, so her loss is a double dose this weekend. I will just say, if you still have your mum, whether you have a good, bad or indifferent relationship with her.  Once she has gone, you will never ever feel the same.  Once your mother has gone, a place in your heart and soul will feel bereft and lonely.

Happy Birthday Mam, hope you are dancing in Heaven.

Day One of a Hundred

"It's spring fever.  That is what the name of it is.  And when you've got it, you want - oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!"
-  Mark Twain

So very true.

One Hundred Days

I am going to take 100 days, beginning on April 1st, to start making some changes around here.I am feeling Fat, Old, Achy, Lazy, Idle and much more.I am surrounded by Stuff. I am going to change all of that. This time I am going to succeed. No diet's. I am done with dieting. I gave up bread for Lent, it has been a struggle, but I have stuck at it. I would love to be able to say I am feeling better for it, but do you know something? I don't. So it is not bread that is making me feel bloated and heavy. So I need a plan, to see me through 100 days to a better place, physically, healthily and spatially. I am away to to that right now.

Sheilagh

Day at Zoo

Ralph here,

Here are some of the photo's I took yesterday while on a Photography Course at Chester Zoo, which was a Valentine's Day gift from Sheilagh. I learnt a lot and I hope you can see some of it in the photo's above.

Spring is Sprung

Don't you just love this time of the year. 

So fresh, so vibrant, so new.

You cannot fail to smile at the flowers of Spring.