Volvo revisited

Good news! The insurance people have let us know how much money they are giving us for the volvo and it is pretty exactly double what we had bargined on so, after buying the van, we are only about a grand down now. Come then everyone HAPPY DANCE!

I took the monster to Lily Hill Park which I haven't been to in AGES. And they have added a bunch of sculptures to the park which I haven't seen before. Sherb posed.

Getting home I realised that one the sunflowers that Ryan (my nephew) had given me, was flowering! Amazing bearing in mind my ability to kill plants just by thinking about them. And it is a wonderful red color, I haven't seen a red sunflower before and didn't believe him when he told me!

When John got home he was desperate for something sweet, so under the pretext of spending some quality time with me, he opened the chocolate scrabble. I won but there was some dispute, that took a while to sort out.

The chocolate was disappointingly cheap so John gave it to me and, hey, chocolate is chocolate.

Mourning

OK - it took me longer than I thought, as we had people over all weekend and I couldn't ignore them, but I finished it. That is right. The last in series. Over and Done. No more Harry. No more Hermione. No more Ron.

AND IT ROCKED!

BEST book of the series - had me sobbing uncontrolably while my hubby looked on a bit bemused and I am going to read it again ASAP BUT I think this time I will read the previous 6 books first in a Potterathon.

Having said all that, I am truely heart broken that the series is finished. JK Rowling deserves every penny of the money she got for this truely splendiferous series.

Rain and Cars

We have had a bit of tooing and froing with the volvo, first being told it would be written off, then told they would repair it and finally yesterday they told us they were definately going to write it off which is a result as we have already bought the VW.

It has been raining for ever (or so it seems) - certainly the only good weather that we had was the weekend of Tewkesbury, which is now pretty much cut off by flooding. Today the rain finally eased off around lunch time and the sun came out and it was gorgeous so I set out for the park with the monster. When I got there, this is what I found:

So once Sherb had ambled round the park, and pootled in the shallows, I headed back to the house to get Thai and grabbed my camera. Thai LOVED it and dashed around like a maniac while kids played in the water too. At one point we wandered along the tree line and Thai fell in the ditch and, despite the fact that her head was above water, she began to panic. So I had to wade in and rescue her and I ended up SOAKED.Luckily the weather was SO gorgeous it wasn't cold and I wandered round for a bit longer before finally ambling home. It was one of those werid occurances that was just magical and the lake was gone by the next day.

Sherbie recovers

Sherb had his stitches out today and I have to say that it is AMAZING how well he has healled this time round. There has been no redness very little swelling and he has had very little discomfort compared to the previous instances - I am a very happy bunny. Even the vet was impressed by how well he had healed and how good he was looking. He likes Sherb and always says he is one of the few German Shepherds that he would trust to take out stitches without muzzling him and Sherb has never so much as nared his teeth at him, despite being in huge pain in the past with his bottom.

Dissapointing end...

We had arranged to meet Ben and the kids and go on the battlefield walk in the morning, but we over slept and my head ache was still there so I opted to go get some breakfast and then head home. This decision was augmented by the fact that my shoulders and face could been seen from space as a bright shining red blaze. Firefighters kept being called in to try and put me out. So we drove home and, despite a small detour, we had quite a good run - very little traffic unlike the other direction. When we got home we split the stuff in the van between Kris's car and the house and then she headed off, while I slept on the sofa curled up with my hubby.