Friday's Fave Five - 10/10/25

Thanks to Susanne as always for reminding us to stop and count our blessings each Friday.  You can find out more here.

1)  A visit from our daughter and her family last Saturday.  We made dinner for them although it wasn't a long visit - both of the grandchildren had things on earlier in the day but it was nice having even a brief visit with them.

2)  Dry weather.  It's been much chillier (our heating has been on a few times this week) but we were able to get out for a couple of walks and haven't yet needed wet weather shoes.

3)  A meet up with the daytime book club on Wednesday.  There were only 4 of us but we had a good discussion about the book we'd been reading (A Single Thread by Tracy Chevalier) and we've picked our next book.

4)  Our flights for our trip to Vermont at Thanksgiving are booked!  Thankful that we are in the position financially to be able to make these trips.

5)  A successful shopping trip today - I braved Westfield in Stratford which is a big shopping/entertainments venue next to the 2012 Olympic Park.  Can't believe it's 13 years since that event.  The area has continued to be developed since the Olympics with a lot of building work still ongoing but the main stadium remains (now used by West Ham United football club), plus the Velodrome and the Swimming centre and the parkland.  It's a busy area but not easy to get to from here on public transport so it means a drive and navigating the car parks.  I make a point of taking a picture of the car park location and remembering where I come out into the shopping area so I can find my car when I'm done!

My son and his family arrived this evening from Nottingham and they will be here until early Sunday afternoon.

Have a good weekend all.