Well that was a very interesting morning had a steam train ride, it was a Christmas present come late.

Fox & Edwards Events, from Ruddington to Loughborough.

A 90-minute journey, it was really good, comfortable on a sofa, very strange.

A desk one end with the cream tea, and at the other end were dining room chairs..  and a glass of Prosecco afterwards.

It was really lovely, the other choice had been fish and chips but I'm glad I didn't get the fish and chips train journey, because it was served in one of the other carriages sat at a regular table.. Still an old carriage, but would have just been a rail journey really.. 

Sofa was really comfy!

(Photo on left taken before we left while they were preparing the carriages..)

When I'm on my train to Liverpool next Saturday I shall expect a comfortable sofa and a cream tea and prosecco!

This week I won 15 pounds on the postcode lottery that was Thursday, and last night I won five pound 60 on the EuroMillion kerching!

Which makes up for buying a jacket that I saw on vintage for 15 pounds!

Walking back from ASDA just now needed some milk and bread, son messaged me about Snickers ice creams which made me have to buy some mint Cornetto!

Now I need to get home and eat one and relax for the day.

Talking into my phone to Blog then adding photographs makes for very disjointed writing! Apologies!

M.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Henry Stanley Haskins - 1875-1957 - Stockbroker - Author

 

Recently I have found this incredible band.. Burn The Silence.. listening to this as I write.. Half of You is gone.. 

Next Blog, I'll link to the first track I heard from this band from St Augustine, Florida, 2023.. 

What I've heard so far, their music is deep emotional and heartfelt.. 

Tomorrow's track.. all of the above, I was in tears.. of course! 

It's tomorrow already! Sat having coffee at Homemade, the cafe at the park near #1 son's.. 

No handle on the cup, bit like being back home! 

Wasn't going to get out today... you know, one of those days, but I forced myself out! It rained overnight, probably because I had watered the plants, my sweet peas are now in place with a lattice to aid their progress upwards.. and the sunflowers are actually looking like sunflowers now.. I think this is the first time I have ever grown them! Startling eh!

Yesterday was a trip to the post office, as I had Monday.. been having a bit of a binge on eBay.. selling, not buying.. 

Yesterday I dropped off a Cath Kidston tote bag I bought in a charity store when I was staying with my friend T. in Alicante area last year.. bought for €5 and sold for £5! 

Have I actually not posted since May 15th?? 

Sorry, been another rough time! My rocky road doesn't get easier.. must be those rocks I cast ahead of me as I walk! 

So! Going through my things out of storage, to slim them down again... I guess the .. nope that wasn't going well that sentence! 

I came across about 60 house listings from when we were selling our apartment back in 1981 and looking to move to Berkhamstead..

I put them in the 'to bin' section and moved on, came across a brochure from British Telecom and the phones of the day back also in 1981.. 

I took a photograph and put in the same pile as the listings.. something made me use Google lens and I saw that a brochure has been for sale on eBay... and sold! 

So I loaded it up, eBay suggested £5.65.. and that is what it sold for!?! Incredible eh?? A single piece of glossy paper, folded twice, of 1980's telephones!! 

The listings I sold for £2.00! I thought why not make those forty seven years of carrying them around worthwhile! 

My flabber is gasted! (Flabbergasted!). 

I also sent a commemorative book from 1902 King Edward VII Coronation.. The celebrations in Berkhamstead, Hertfordshire, filled with advertising and photographs from the day.. soft cover.. I guess my grandmother kept it... Also a tape measure from Wards drapers in Berkhamstead.. no point me carrying them around any longer.. they are now somewhere safe in the Berkhamstead Historical society..  Gone home, where they belong...

M.

In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.

Anne Frank - 1929-1945 - Diarist