I've just come home to a clean and tidy house, courtesy of Lovely Younger Son. Tony and I spent a week staying with my sister in the upper reaches of North Northumberland and I couldn't possibly tell you all about it, so here are some highlights -
- the views from Bamburgh Castle and Boulmer over the sea, and the view from Bamburgh to Holy Island
- the walk down from Shepherd's Law on a stunning evening - lambs in the fields, a pond with tadpoles and reflections, soft light over the hills
- all the white tulips and apple blossom in Alnwick Garden and, of course, the tree house
- lunch outside in the sun
- Barter Books in Alnwick, probably one of the best second hand bookshops in the world
- seeing my wise old friend Mary, who is well into her nineties with a big heart and a mind like a razor
- the sunshine, which is almost unheard of in the North-East at this time of year
- the cats
- watching the Royal Wedding with good company. So the next blog, unless something strange happens in the meantime, will be my highlights of the Royal Wedding. If you're not into things like the Royal Wedding, you can always do what my brother-in-law did - make disgusted harrumphing noises and go out to shovel horse manure.
2 comments:
Hmmmm... by all accounts the Royal Wedding is much more interesting than mucking stables... perhaps your brother-in-law's indifference can be accounted for by the fact that men are not particularly, as a rule, interested in weddings. Maybe they just don't appreciate the interesting clothes, which is one of the best parts in my opinion.
It's men and romance, I think. And when women talk about dresses, style, veils, and the look of a thing, men think we're talking a foreign language that they're not meant to understand, and become suspicious. However, he didn't object to the champagne!
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