May

May has come and almost gone along with all my good intentions to blog more. It has been a good month though with birthday celebrations, a lovely few days away and an unexpected gift.

I wonder what June has in store!

Me on Monday

I’m cheating a bit as this was me last Monday enjoying a pleasant day at Slimbridge

So many birds to see but I just love the babies

including these little coots

and this adorable moorhen

the reason for our visit, a few days looking after our granddaughter while mummy was away

we had a lovely time holding the animals, this little chick was a favourite

and feeding the lambs

there was time for some adventure as well

she managed to climb up there and come down on her own, it was far too scary for me!

We had a lovely few days, I really should have lost weight all the running around we did.

This Monday sees me tired and a little sad it is all over.

joining in with Sian and wishing everyone a good week x

Me on Monday

doing what most mum’s do, cooking a favourite meal for one of her sons.

The weekend was another family one involving a lot of food and not much exercise, unless I can include the hours spent preparing the meals!

waving to Sian and also joining in with Cate's blog everyday in May

I hope you all have a good week x

a favourite quote

As it comes to the end of the day and I get ready to curl up in bed with a good book, I have this quote to share

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”

George R.R. Martin

do go over to Cate's blog and read more quotes

Five books I’ve enjoyed this year

Each year I set myself the challenge on goodreads to read over 50 books, here are five I’ve particularly enjoyed so far this year.

When Harry dies he always returns as a child with all the knowledge of his previous lives. When another of his kind tries to change history Harry works out a plan over several lifetimes to try and stop him.

an interesting very detailed story of a violent age, a few too many

 battles for me but I’m glad I persevered with it! 

So many things I remembered in this little glimpse back to my childhood

      When a child’s bones are found on a desolate beach , Detective Chief Inspector Harry Nelson calls Ruth Galloway for help. Nelson thinks he has found the remains of Lucy Downey, a little girl who went missing ten years ago.

   The bones actually turn out to be two thousand years old, but Ruth is soon drawn into the Lucy Downey case and into the mind of the letter writer Then another child goes missing and the hunt is on to find her and bring her home safely.

Every morning, Melanie waits in her cell to be collected for class. When they come for her she is strapped into  her  wheelchair with a gun pointed at her. She thinks they don't like her. She jokes that she won't bite, but they don't laugh.

Another book I wouldn’t normally have picked up but it drew me in, I wanted Melanie to survive.

joining in with Cate's blog everyday in May

two months gone by

This year seems to be going by so fast and I feel I’ve not been recording those precious memories like I used to. I saw on Melissa’s blog that she has decided to join in with Cate's idea to blog everyday in May and although I know I won’t manage to blog everyday I thought I would make a determined effort to blog more. So this is me at the moment enjoying family time.

With Ian unable to do too much since he broke his wrist in January we are slowly getting back to normal and going out again. I just need to remember to charge my camera as it died on me when we had a couple of days in London, I still feel cross with myself about it!