It's Friday so time to take a pause and look back on the good things from the past week. Susanne reminds us to do this each week and we link up here.
1) Sunshine today! We've had a lot of wind and rain over this past week but today the sun was shining. Always a lift to the spirits.
2) An evening out with Hubby last Saturday - we went to a concert with The John Ongom Big Band at the local church which was really good and it was to raise funds for our Foodbank.
3) My daughter and her family are safely back from their holiday in the United Arab Emirates. A good friend of theirs and his wife are currently living and working in Abu Dhabi so they visited them and also Dubai. Not the best place for a gay couple with children to visit but they were celebrating with their friends who recently got married. Judging by the photos they all had a great time.
4) I've finally read Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen. It's been on my TBR list for a while and now it's done! It took me a while as I have a hardback copy of the complete works of Austen so it's a big heavy book with very small print - difficult to read in bed.
5) A brief visit with my son and his family tonight - they are driving to us and staying overnight as they're off on holiday tomorrow. They're leaving their car here and I will be driving them to Stansted airport in the morning.
And a bonus - we get an extra hour of sleep on Saturday night as our clocks go back. Sadly it will be mean it gets dark even earlier!
Have a good weekend all.
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Sunshine does lift one's spirits. The band sounds fun! I liked Sense and Sensibility better than Pride and Prejudice, but Persuasion is my favorite. Our time change is next week. I love he extra hour but not the early darkness.
ReplyDeleteWe have another week or so for our time change. I wish they would just leave it alone. Nice list, Wendy, and good times with family!! Happy weekend! xo
ReplyDeleteI am in France at the moment and luckily their clocks go back this weekend as well so I will still gain the extra hour. I do not like the dark mornings and lack of light as we move forward towards winter.
ReplyDeleteHow fun to have a concert date night and to spend time with your son before they leave on their vacation.
ReplyDeleteI don't know much about Dubai at all.....I'm glad your daughter was safe!
WOW so you folks set your clocks back a week before we do...interesting. I wish the States would just choose one way or the other and leave it!
I love sunny days. today is cloudy but I have 6 people signed up for a deep woods hike in a very remote section of the Adirondacks....our goal is to get to the river which is a 3 mile hike one way. I have a feeling since the high is only going to be 40 F that we will stop at the lake (1.4 miles one way) and then call it a day.
Happy Weekend!
The whole week was awful, rain, very strong wind and just a stay at home weather ! Fortunately we have our activities here each afternoon, that's good when you can't get out.
ReplyDeleteIt was nice to get some sunshine yesterday after all the rain we've had this week. Today has been bright too but ever so chilly!
ReplyDeleteI am glad everyone had a great time in the United Arab Emirates.
Have a lovely time with your son and his family! Thanks for the reminder, I forgot about the clocks changing.
I have no interest in visiting the United Arab Emirates and I have never read anything by Jane Austen
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