Phew! Where has this week gone?

Sophie and Mike didn't, in the end, go to London today as most of Sophie's friends had dropped out and although Keith and I contemplated going in their place, we decided not to, as we knew it would be a long and pretty expensive day. We have Sophie's birthday to look forward to in a couple of weeks and she wants to go to London then anyway. Needless to say, Sophie and Mike were very disappointed and I do wonder if her friends dropped out because of the terror attack? If so, that would be very sad.

Sue came around very early and asked if I wanted to do two hours of ironing which I readily agreed to. Keith went for a walk and I made a start with the clothes, some of which were quite complicated to iron!

Again, it's been a glorious Spring day today with abundant sunshine and blue skies. Sophie and I went to Beckworth in the afternoon and I bought some more pansies and violas. I also bought a beautiful red poppy that will flower, hopefully, all through the summer.

As it was still such a lovely day Sophie and I sat in the garden with Monty when we got home and enjoyed a cup of tea and a biscuit. Monty, unfortunately, is still banned from the house but he does enjoy being with us in the garden and loves to soak up the sunshine!

The weather was a little different four years ago on this day: