Eastertide

Thank goodness it's the holidays again. My two are absolutely worn out, run ragged and generally run down. They're ready for a rest and so are we. Shame the weather's not up to much. Today has been positively grim with sleet and hail filled storms lashing our valley and gnawing at my bones with damp, chill cold.

Brrrrr. Not nice. But inside our home feels very cheery and cosy. After a morning battling the elements in town it was a joy to come home, snuggle in, pop a few pretty things about the place and knock up soup and sanwiches for a snuggly lunch with my littlest boy and my chap (the eldest still being at school).

There seems to be a glut of my most favourites daffs around at the moment. These beautiful sungolds smell divine and bring a bolt of welcome sunshine on such a dismal, dreary day.

Hope it cheers up a bit soon. We've got a "rare-as-hen's-teeth" day to ourselves on Friday as the boys usual end of the week treat (tea with Grandma and Grandad) is being extended for the whole day.

There are lists as long as both my arms of stuff that needs to be done (decorating, cleaning, shopping - you name it, it's on there) but we're being rebels and will either spend it up at the allotment if it's fine, or else pootling about musty bookshops in the rain and searching for a cosy place for coffee.

Lunch with the family beckons on Sunday and a big service up at St Edward's later on and hopefully we'll squeeze a visit to a favourite, hill top farm for the lambing festival on Saturday. So come on Mr Sunshine, get your act together - or else!

Have a lovely Easter weekendxx

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P.S Katy reminded me that I hadn't mentioned our London trip, seive for a brain that I am thesedays!

Well it was a great experience, apart from the small incident of leaving a much-adored bear on the platform at Stoke station! Thanks to a most marvellous Virgin Trains guard (or train manager or whatever they're called thesedays), Brown Teddy got to spend a wonderful day scoffing pop and crisps in the Customer Services office (Lost Property to you and me). A big PHEW all round let me tell you - I swear the world stopped for a minute.

We only spend around and 2 1/2 hours in The Smoke and literally had lunch and saw the dinosaurs, plenty of excitment for our two though. Cath, the V&A and Liberty and some favourite haunts from the days back when I was a city girl for a while, are on my list for a grown's up trip some day soon.