Heading home

 Had a restful morning once I was packed and had the last cuddles with Aurora. Anya took one of us together yesterday evening.

Anya drove me to the station and saw me onto the train at 12.52 pm I had a good seat and there was room for my case on the rack so all was well. Anya took a couple of pics of a Pullman train on one of the other platforms and sent them to me.

I arrived at Edinburgh about 3.40 pm but had plenty of time to go to the loo and get a snack. Great bike storage on the second train.

Arrived at home at 19.38 pm, we had called in the shop on the way back to the station, Tina met me and pulled the case back which was nice. Have had my feet up and watched Katie Boulter get into the semi final at Queens. Won’t be late to bed!

Another nice catch up and a fantastic exhibition.

 Weather wise the day has not been good, it started raining as I made my way to the bus stop this morning and hasn’t let up since. I was meeting Mike in Peterborough and we had a coffee once I got there. I had passed Paddington on my way through Queensgate!

Then we went to the cathedral to ‘The Longest Yarn - A Thread Through History’. An exhibition of the events of the Second World War recorded it knitting and crochet. I took about 100 photos so will be selective in my posting. The were long panels covered in poppies, flags etc, all knitted and several post pox toppers and then 80 cabinets of different episodes of the war with incredible detail and ingenuity. Also some dressed dummies, it was really quite mind blowing. So I will endeavour to pick out a selection and not get too carried away!

There were many more, eighty in all. As an extra bonus the dinosaur was still there.

That’s it for photos. We went and had fish and chips and then I went to get the screen saver replaced on my phone and we wandered through Queensgate. We caught a bus to Lincoln Road and had a drink in a new cafe I had spotted and then Mike walked home and I caught another bus and arrived back at Rachel’s soggy, but it had been a very enjoyable day.

Back to Anya’s tonight and heading back to Scotland tomorrow.

Lovely visit and evening meal

 This morning Rachel took me into Peterborough so that I could visit my sister. Two of the ares that know Margherita well met me at the door and were very excited that I had come. They came up in the lift with me as they wanted to see her face when I went in. Margherita was in good spirits and looked well. We chatted for getting on for two hours before I had lunch with her. A bit later my niece arrived to visit her mum nd and stayed for another hour or so with them both. 

When I left I think I went a very long way round to get onto Lincoln Road where I could catch a bus. 

This evening I went to a restaurant with Rachel and Skip and their children and their partners. Their grandchildren were there as well.

There were a couple of fun paintings on the wall opposite where I was sitting.

I will pack the case this evening as I am going back to Nyas tomorrow night after I have spent some time with Mike.

Nice catch up and phone saga

 Angie came to pick me up at nine this morning, had great difficulty finding a place to stop as the mums taking their children to the nursery school were parking everywhere! We went to The Harvester at Hampton and hd. Really nice breakfast and then we went to her place and she saw my photos and I looked at all her cards and presents from her retirement do. Then she dropped me off in the city so I could have a wander round. Niles’s girlfriend spotted me in Rivergate so I had drink in the cafe she works at. Then I went and bought some rubbers for Rachel in what is now TJ Jones. Saw a cow and an advert for the dinosaur at the cathedral.

Took this photo as the storm clouds were gathering!

I went into Queensgate and thought I would get a new screensaver for my phone. Vodafone didn’t have any so I went to another phone shop. The young man said he could do it but when I took it out of the case he said the battery was swollen(which it was) and it was dangerous, could catch fire and I would lose everything on it! Firstly he said they would have to order one but then realised that they had one. He asked if I could go away for forty to fifty minutes. So I wandered off, went in a couple of shops and then sat on one of the chairs dotted about. When I went back I got a bit of a lecture bout looking after my phone and he said that the screen had come away so he had to stick it down so could I come back in twenty minutes!

When I collected the phone and paid it had several elastic bands round it so I couldn’t actually use it and he said to leave then on for at least half an hour.. so I made my way to the bus station later than planned and when I got Rachel’s I took the bands off and I could get the phone open.

I bought an A6 sketch book yesterday, so a really small on and I did a drawing of Rachel’s flowers as Skip and Rachel were both out. I have given it to Rachel now.

As I sit here Rachel is working on my feet which is great.