No Walking or Bloggingg during the day for me today.

My mum, Dad and Nephew came to visit us which made a nice change and a chance for my boys to see their cousin , who we don’t see often enough.

While the boys played football , my Dad had me out in the garden, he gave my grass first cut of the year, then re-laid some patio slabs that needed doing…. I had tried to do them but had to admit defeat !!

Then I had a lesson on how to put air into my car tyres… so that’s another thing I can now do on my own.

All I need now is Longhurst homes to come and mend my Garden fences, it broke my Dads heart seeing them in such a mess, knowing how hard I had worked last year to get it all looking nice. 

While Welshcakes and Anne blog about Girlie Shoes , I have been finding more Funky wellies….

Having moved about so much in my life,I don’t have many close friends.

You learn to move on and make new friends.

One person I have stayed in touch with has been Anne, we have laughed together and cried together alot over the years and have always been there for each other day or night.

We must chat on the net almost every day, when I am feeling lonely I know she is always there on line.

She has just done a very touching blog post about our friendship and brought back many memories for me.

Two new people on my Blog Roll, go pay them a visit and say Hello……

Newmania  and James Higham……..  🙂

Home now from a fantastic few days at Glyn Ceiriog nr Langollen in Wales.

Got 3 full days of walking in, covering almost 60 miles, and I don’t mean Norfolk miles.

First time I carried my full Ruc-sac aswell so feeling quite pleased with myself if a little tired.

Philip and children were great company and looked after us well, shame they were not up to walking with us 🙂

Before I go off for the week-end, I must say a Big Thank you to Andrew Berry from the TGO magazine , as today I received a photocopy of an article about the GR20.

It was in the November 05 issue so I have been lucky to get a copy.

I will look forward to reading it over the Week-end.

Weird Darren pointed me in their direction so many thanks to him too.

Now I must go and pack…. HAPPY  WALKING !!

Had a  letter today from the Inspector of taxes.

Informing me that my tax code has changed and I can now earn £45 more a year before paying tax.

So that’s £5270 a year or £101 a week.

Why should I be getting this extra £45 a year , well its a laundry Allowance as I wear a uniform for work.

Wonder how many people know about this Allowance ??

Certainly no one I work with knows about it.

Thanks to a friends Husband I found out about it  but do wish I could have had the £45 in cash……..

After getting off to a scary start with them saying we will patch this up and that up, which left me with images of a patched up bathroom.

Then seeing them take a hammer and literally smash up my old bathroom.

It now seems to be turning out ok.

Old flooring was taken out and new lino will be laid, a good 1/4 of my tiles have been removed and will be replaced with a white border.

Which is far better than just patching up here and there.

It will be a few weeks till its all finished but I think I can live with that.

At the moment I have a half fitted bath but no sink or Loo, thank god they didn’t take downstairs Loo out just yet.

Just hope Princebuild can cope with out me around to give them cups of tea….

 

The nice man from Longhurst homes did come to see me, told me nothing I didn’t already know but assures me he will look into the matter, see how old my heating system is and when its due for replacement. He also said he would get someone out to check my meter too.

So lets see if he keeps to what he said.

Funny thing was he knew all about my blog and my garden fences, can only think they  do a web search on technorati for Longhurst homes.