Life Lately at the Duckpond

Howdy, long time no blog it seems! You know when you get ill and then life gets hectic and then time just seems to run away with you (#bloggerclichealert - how is it July next week?) - well, yeah, that.


So life lately's included...

• being ill and ending up with a week off work, which of course under any other circumstances would be great but spending a week sleeping and feeling sick wasn't exactly what I had in mind.

• quite a good while afterwards still feeling tired and just "not quite right".

• taking Andrew's lorry out to Selwood Steam Rally for the late May bank holiday weekend.

 

• celebrating the wedding of two friends at their evening do (they had their big day with family on holiday in Cyprus!)

 

• knitting a stuffed dog called Fudge which came as a free kit on the front of Knit Now magazine.

 

• seeing comedian Tommy Tiernan at Wells Comedy Festival.

 

• seeing another funnyman, Rich Hall in Salisbury (a gig which I saw Eileen (on her blog) went to as well - one day, we really must meet up!)

• spending a weekend at our local heritage railway station where they were having a wartime-themed weekend and asked Andrew to take his lorry (even though technically it was built in 1952...)

 

• getting out the old-fashioned candles during a mini (30 mins) blackout in our local area one evening.

 

• packing in our ancient LoveFilm DVD subscription and joining the modern age of Netflix (tell me, what should I watch first?)

• introducing the ladies in my office to the Only Connect connecting wall game online - resulting in a substantial reduction in the amount of actual work completed over the last few weeks.

• spending one lunch hour online browsing and then buying some wool (to make a dinosaur with). Does that make me a grown up?

• really enjoying 'No Offence' on C4 - it seems to have been a bit lost in all the TV mags and reviews but it's actually really good.

• buying tickets for the shows we want to see at Edinburgh Fringe in August. This year we're there for 7 days and I've managed to shoehorn 30 shows into our schedule.

 

• getting severely behind in blogging (Really? You hadn't guessed?). My drafts folder still has stuff from our Easter holiday in it and owe Bon Marche a sponsored post which is already incredibly late.

• and buying a new car! Our good old Citroen C3 was getting a bit life expired (we'd had it 8 years) so we traded it in for a slightly bigger and newer car. I'm most impressed with the fact that in the new one I can plug my phone in and the music plays directly!

So...tell me all, what have I missed?