Saturday, May 20, 2006

Some pictures









two pictures of the girls... Jemima asleep and Elspeth pulling faces in the mirror at John Lewis in Sheffield whilst mummy shops, the last bank holiday we were in York, yes it rained, but we had a great day at the Railway Museum, we have a wheel in Yorkshire... ok it's not as grand as London and the pod we went in leaked so consequently Sarah had a wet bum.. You can probably guess that Sarah's not too good with heights, even more when the wind blows and the cradle rocks... Elspeth on the other hand had a great time.

I'm sure there's a good view on a sunny day... the sun did come out later as you can see...


It's been a while...

An age in fact, since the last blog... Since then we've had sunshine and lots and lots of rain.

With the first feel of Summer came the influx onto the roads of the fair weather motorcyclists, you know the ones, they forget how big fast and heavy their machines are and spend the first few weeks of use re learning all those skills whilst everyone else tries not to be killed by them, the bikers appear oblivious, thinking that a) they're cool riding around in t-shirts and shorts 'cos it's just too hot and inconvenient to squeeze yourself into leathers on a hot day, and b) they're immortal... if helmet wearing wasn't mandatory I'm sure they'd go without. Hey stupid!! It's not as if the leathers have any other reason... I got off the soapbox when the sun disappeared and the rain came down as the fairweather bikers seemed to evaporate.

I am starting to think the birds have a collective eating disorder... They have been busy, the feeder has been empty and refilled every so often... I am so bad at keeping it topped up it often sits for days with the dregs at the bottom and then I fill it and it seems to go in 3 days, when I was regularly topping it up when it got empty it never seemed to be devoured so quickly. Surely they're not bingeing and then starving themselves waiting for me to refill the feeder...

Thursday, May 04, 2006

Summer makes an appearance

Could it be that Summer has arrived, or at least sent a messenger on ahead? The drive into Sheffield was pleasant in the misty summer/ late spring morning, the warmth bringing out the worst of some drivers, although from recent experience the weather has nothing to do with cr** driving.
The warm air had collided with cold at around 4 am so a thunderstorn rumbled around to the accompanyment of brief crying of a hungry baby, by 10 the sun was breaking through so that by 12 I was sweltering in a supposedly air conditioned office.
I hope it lasts into the weekend...