Lovely walk by the Nene

Today Skip drove me into town to save me catching the bus so that I could meet up with Mike. I took some photos before I met him, one of the guildhall, one of the cathedral and one of a statue if a person on a roof top!

We had breakfast and went into Smiths where Mike bought a couple of things he was looking for and I looked for a book that I had seen in Waterstones in Hull. Smith’s didn’t have it but the Waterstones did, it is called The Right Sort of Girl and is by Anita Rani, and it is a signed copy as it had been in Hull.

We walked through Rivergate shopping centre and along to the river. I was sorry we didn’t have any food for the swans.

Then we had a lovely walk along the river side, it was very peaceful nd looked lovely.

We took a path away from the river through an area I had never been before, there was a nice green nd some lovely bungalows. The we got to River Lane and this store had a great painting above it.

The little homes were absolutely adorable!

We ended up at the steps leading up to the town bridge near the station.

It had been so quiet when we had walked past the houses and right to the steps, the noise of the traffic at the to was quite a shock. We crossed over and there was quite a nice view of the cathedral in the distance.

It looked like it might rain then but luckily it didn’t. There were some unusual paintings on the underpass leading to the station, just took one photo.

We went over the bridge to Queensgate and had a drink in the M&S cafe as we had been walking for a while. So munch so that I was rubbing a blister on my bunion, so had to go into Boots to get plasters! We had a wander round the market where I got a to for £5 and then we had fish and chips at Parrots.

We caught the bus and went to Mike’s for a couple of hours and he gave me a little sign that he had made some time ago for me to paint.

We had enjoyed a really lovely day together. Skip came and picked me up just after 4pm. I had a quick chat with Rachel who wa still working and then I had an hour in the hot tub, followed by a shower!

A relaxing evening and lovely sweet and sour chicken with rice for tea.

Seeing Anya and Isobel tomorrow and a friend from years ago who just happened to get in touch with me last week!

Greetings from Peterborough!

Today was travelling day, my first journey to Peterborough on public transport for over eighteen months. The bus journey in was fine, Tina came over to the bus stop with the case. Had nearly an hour so got myself a drink at the station and then waited for the first train. I sat in the disabled/bike area and had it to myself!

Caught a glimpse of the bridge before I dozed!!

The train stopped just as we were nearing Doncaster.

Rachel met me at the station but then had to get back to work so I spent some time talking to Olivia and relaxed in the garden.

I saw both the boys and had a chat with Skip then chatted with Rachel when she finished work. We had dinner quite late and then I sat with Rachel in the hot tub for an hour. That was fun and almost dark when we got out!

Hopefully that will make for a good night, although the hands have been quite troublesome today, but fingers crossed. (if I could!)

Machining for a while

This morning we didn’t go to the boot sale as it had rained hard in the night and was a bit grey today. We did go to the sea front and had breakfast at Lily’s cafe. Took a couple of pretty uninteresting photos of the sea because we were there!

Sorted a bit more for the trip and made a list of things to remember in the morning, and had a chat to Anya. After lunch I tried to use the hula hoop again, not very successfully, going to take it with me to see if I can get any tips! After that I decided to have a play on the machine. A few days ago I had been doodling and drawing arrows and thought I could do something similar on the machine. I had bought some.curtain material a little while ago that was on offer and  it had flowers on, so used a piece of that.

I was really pleased with it and had a frame the right sort of size so put it in straight away.

I wrote a couple of notes so walked down to the post box. Saw this classic Triumph car in great condition.

Just over the road from home there is an area where people can sit and relax, a lovely flower bed at the front and then I sat on one of the benches and quite a nice outlook.

A nice hydrangea as I was leaving too.

In the garden I couldn’t resist insect shots!

Tina cooked dinner which was lovely and after that when we had a short walk on the sea front. So will finish with a couple of shots from there.

Cakes made

I put the last two replacement cakes in fairly early, they are cooled and wrapped now and the tins put away for another year. I did the usual Saturday morning shopping and the we had the food delivery. Tina held Pandora today and I administered the drops. She freaked again and ran outside, it was pretty late evening, not long ago that she came in. We had called her and she kept running away. 

Yesterday I had spilt suet pellets all over the floor of the greenhouse when the handle of a large container broke, so went down and cleaned it up.

My funky weighted hula hoop arrived. It will take a lot of tries for me to keep it going!

Tina had a go as well butI was warned to keep the phone alone!

I have sorted out what I am taking next week and have done screen shots of my train tickets.

I wandered round the garden, wanted to take a photo of a lovely gladiolus.

A marigold with a hover fly, and the some of the geraniums with lovely variegated leaves.

Pandora eventually came in ravenous and has now forgiven me enough to be in her usual place!

New plants in the garden

This morning I cooked the square cake for a second time, four hours to see if it is okay this time. Bel came round for a cuppa and chat, she does really well but is really out of breath by the time she has walked here using her walker and has made her way up the stairs. We had a good catch up and when she went home I went to the shops to get something for lunch and the ingredients I was short of to make the round cakes again!Got the cake out just before we had lunch and it seems fine this time.

This afternoon I went out to tidy up the front bed with the sign in. Got a bit carried away and did some pruning and removed dead plants, especially along the sign. Didn’t take a before picture so have gone back a few weeks to show what it was like.

Had a bit of an insect day again today!

Blue loves boxes, as you can see when she was out in the garden with me.

I worked hard out there today and my wrists are complaining at the moment. I got all the new plants into that bed.

After a bit of a break I watered both gardens and then got all the ingredients weighed and the tins lined for the last two cakes (hopefully, fingers firmly crossed!)  Dod the shopping order with Tina and got up here after 8pm. I would like to think I will sleep well tonight, but not holding my breath!

That’s the way to do it!!

I will start with the explanation of the heading today. We left here about ten and headed straight for Hull and Tina’s dental appointment, we were surprised that the area we parked in was protected by legal spear like fencing and illegal razor wire! Bet they don’t have too much trouble with the local vandals!

We had stopped on the way to have a drink and breakfast near to a very fancy fast charger which Tina made use of.

We went to shopping area near the river where the PC World that Tina had an appointment at later in the day. We checked we were at the right place and then went and h ad lunch at a very nice, and reasonable local Italian restaurant group. We had a quick look in Pets at Home and there was still about hour and a half until Tina’s appointment. It was sunny and quite hot then and Tina said she would go to Macro and see how to get a card for use by the church. I said I would take a walk along the new path by the river. The bridge was a long way off and you could only see one of the uprights.

I walked quite a way along, passing this interesting building.

I actually passed the Macro car park and spotted Tina’s car right in the middle, the blue one half covered by a tree!

I walked far enough to be able to see most of the bridge, but still a long way away!

Tina phoned me and asked if ai had had enough walking by the river, she suggested we go to B &Q garden centre, so I headed back and she walked along to meet me. We bought lots of reduced plants so a gardening weekend I think.

Also managed a photo of an unusual insect and a bee!

I sat in the car while Tina had the laptop sorted out, I played my word game on the phone and read an interesting article about the living Dead in India!

I like the reflected trees on the window of the store.

We had tea and cake in the same restaurant before heading home. We passed one accident between and car and a van and another where a bus had hit a deer!

I watered the plants when ai got home and have prepared everything to remake one of the Christmas cakes in the morning.

My hands have been bad today, have just about managed to finish this as they are getting more painful by the minute.