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A unique way to leave church .... hopefully not to be repeated

As Jean Louis kindly carried our amp downstairs, I hurried to catch him up to open the car so he could put in it. In my haste I tripped and experienced that horrible moment when one realises that a bad is going to happen and there is nothing that can be done to prevent it. I fell over my own feet and tumbled down the stairs, It's quite a long flight of stairs with lots of hard bits. It happened quite quickly and before I really knew what was happening I was crashing into poor Jean-Louis legs as he reached the bottom of the steps with the amp. I'm told that had he not stopped the fall I would have achieved a full somersault.

Fortunately our church family includes several members of the medical profession so I was well cared for. Of course, I said I was fine and that nothing was broken, but was persuaded to sit on a chair for a while while the Community Centre management panicked about filling in an accident form. At some point during my little sit down I flaked out and found myself lying on the floor with Dr Joss taking my pulse and Nurse Christine holding my legs in the air. A rather worried Andy looked on.

After a while I was fine if a little shaken and as the adrenalin dissipated so the aches from the bumps took over. The arm was the fiercest pain and once we got home and looked we weren't surprised. I sported a rather sensational lump, quickly discolouring and very tender.

Now a day on I have found quite a few other bruises and feel quite stiff and sore. The best looking bruise is of course on my bum. It's getting to be quite a habit!

I'm not one to make a fuss, but being honest it took rather more out of me than I was prepared to admit at the time. I have needed the day off work I took today and am slightly concerned about going back tomorrow, though I'm sure I'll cope fine.

Thanks for all the help and prayers at the time, the concern expressed and care shown. I'll try not to do it again.

It snowed!!!

It began at lunch time and to start with the snow just melted as it landed.
Then it began to snow more heavily.
Soon there was a layer on the ground.
Two hours later there was pretty snow on the trees.
There was enough on the ground to make a snowman.

Happy Amy-versary

Amy rises again. This is her fourth flowering. She has remained in her glass plant pot supported by gravel and fed with plant food through the summer.

This year she honoured Jason by opening her first flower the night he stayed after the Quintessential gig. Awwwwww. :-)

Amazing.

Posting the glass

I went down to the glass recycling place this morning. As I dropped the bottles and jars into the containers I wondered how many other people have such a fantastic view from their glass bank.

DIY Christmas present

I knew that my mum-in-law was into DIY when, the first time she visited us, I found her standing on a table, screwdriver in hand, putting up a curtain rail in the bedroom. That visit also included building a set of kitchen drawers and several visits to the local DIY shop.

So I wasn't surprised when our Christmas gift from her was all the bits needed to make up a flower display of our very own for our veranda. In fact I was delighted. It proved a very sensible idea. To carry the whole thing, assembled, up the stairs would have been quite tricky, whereas to carry all the separate bits and assemble them in situ was very easy.

So .... here we have it ...... Build-your-own .... Planter

Christmas presents

It's a lovely thing getting presents. I'd be hard put to say which present was my favourite. Among them must be my new celtic silver jewellery, pendant from Andy and earrings from Ruth and Matt. Then there is the new camera case from Ed. Louise got me a dressy top from Monsoon. I wasn't too sure about the colour ... purple, Andy hates purple. Maybe I'll find a similar one in another colour once the Monsoon sale is over.

Another thing that Ed bought was a stripy pan. I've always wanted one and never had one. This is a Le Creuset one, very posh! I had fun cooking my lamb steak the other day.

Christmas bonanza

I really enjoyed Christmas this year. We were honoured with the presence of all of my offspring plus Ruth's fiancé, Matt and Ed's 2 dogs, Asher and Storm. The only downside was that Matt got 'flu. I felt so sorry for him. It's bad enough to be ill at Christmas, but to be ill and away from home is even worse.

Still, we made the best of it and tried to include all the family traditions in our day. We began with sausage sandwiches (Matt's family), then we opened our Tree presents (Andy's family), then we opened our Stocking presents (my family). After this we took the dogs on a Christmas Day walk.

Storm is a Border Collie with a bit of Whippet in her ancestry. The Whippet seems to have come out strongly in her. She is very fast and she can jump. How she can jump!!!

After blowing the cobwebs away we settled down to eat our Christmas meal.

Honestly, we really did enjoy it despite the photographic evidence to the contrary.

The next day it was the Boxing Day Dip. Ed manfully decided to take part. There was lots of people dressed up and the Life Boat men turned out in force.

Ed said the water wasn't that cold, but then he did have a wetsuit on unlike the many who dipped dressed as pirates, darleks, clowns etc. All in a good cause!

The next day we went up the The Alnwick Gardens. It seems that anyone who visits here has to visit Alnwick and Ed hadn't. It wasn't the best day, but we enjoyed our brief outing. It was a good opportunity for Ed to show the features of his new camera. It felt very scary as he lowered it under the water and he got many incredulous looks from the bystanders.