Weekend roundup!

I have had a really good weekend; my sister and her husband came to stay in the Shire on Friday night and went home this morning after breakfast. We had a lovely meal on Friday night at the new Carluccios restaurant that has opened in town; we all love Italian food so there were no complaints! On Saturday we slowly woke up and had breakfast then my sister and I went to have our hair cut and coloured. I really love going to have my hair done and it has taken me ages to find a hairdresser that I like but she is lovely and the salon is nice and they do hot chocolate and love hearts- what more could a girl ask for! We deposited the men in the pub so that they could watch the rugby and we took ourselves off into town for some retail therapy. I rarely get to go shopping with anyone other than Mr S so my sister helped me spend some more of my birthday vouchers on a dress for next weekend. Saturday night was very chilled out after a busy day, watched X factor and ate trifle! I am so glad that Daniel has gone; he's a lovely man but he was never going to win and it didn't seem fair that better singers were being voted off over him.


Today I have been REALLY lazy; we took Alfie for a walk this morning in the park and then gave him a bath. Through the power of BT vision I watched the first in the series of Jane Eyre that was on last year. I was reading the book when it was on so I had not wanted to spoil it by finidng out what happens before I had got to it in the book. It is a really good production though and made me want to read a good old classic so I have got my copy of Tess of the D'Urbervilles out which I have been meaning to read for ages. I didn't do any Hardy during my English degree for some reason so I am hoping that he is somebody that I will like as I know some people say that he is too heavy going.


So as you can see I have had a good weekend; I still don't feel 100% though. I feel like I am kind of on the outside looking in a lot of the time because I have so much on my mind. Maybe I will just get used to that or maybe it will change and gradually things will feel normal again. I am so lucky to have such supportive family and friends and I do truly appreciate that but I am starting to realise that it is down to me to change the way I feel and move on with life.

Let the weekend begin!

I am REALLY looking forward to this weekend! My sister and her husband are coming to stay tonight and are stopping until Sunday!! It will be like a little mini holiday!! The ladies are going to get their hair done tomorrow and shopping and the gentleman will be watching the rugby in the pub and drinking lots of beer! Good stuff!!

All over the place

Nothing really went to plan this weekend! My sister and I were supposed to be having our hair done on Saturday morning and then all four of us were going to have some lunch but their car broke on Friday night so they had to cancel. Then on Sunday Mr S and I had planned to go to Victoria Park for the Remembrance Day Service at the war memorial but when we got up Alfie was really poorly so we had to make do with watching it on TV instead whilst taking it in turns to clean up Alfie's little presents! In some ways it probably did us good to have a quiet weekend as it meant that we both relaxed a bit. Everything has been rearranged for next weekend and my sister and her husband are coming to stay for the whole weekend which will be lovely!
I have read loads of my book this weekend and I am really enjoying it. I was a bit worried as I loved Elizabeth Noble's first book The Reading Group but then I haven't enjoyed the others, however, this one is really good and quite hard to put down!
We are going back to Birmingham this evening as our friend's boyfriend is an actor and he is in a play. We have never been to a play before where we know one of the cast, I think I will find it a bit odd. I said to Mr S as well that he must look like he is enjoying it even if he isn't as we don't want to offend anyone. Sounds like quite an interesting play anyway so we shall see!