Friday's Fave Five - 3/10/25

Each week Susanne reminds us to look back on the week and find the blessings/things we're grateful for.  You can find out more here.

1) I missed last week because I was here:

Dunkerque!

We spent the weekend at Hubby's sister & brother in law's house with 2 of his other sisters, one with her husband, plus their 2 daughters, one partner and 3 children.  One of the French nephews was also home for the weekend. 

We had a lovely time and although we've been to visit them many times I've never made a point of visiting the memorial for the battle of Dunkerque during WW2.

 

Quite hard imagining my Dad being on that beach waiting to be rescued.  But thankfully he was otherwise I wouldn't be here!

Still can't take a decent selfie though lol.

The picture below is (L-R) Henri (French Nephew) Jean Marie (French BIL) Voldi (BIL) and Ellis who is Voldi's daughter Natalie's partner.  Ellis is so helpful to Voldi and his wife Clare who are both blind.  He and Voldi made their way to Dunkerque on Voldi's tandem.  They cycled from Voldi's home to Stratford International Station and then got a train to Dover.  They then made their way to the ferry port and crossed to Calais.  Henri and Jean Marie met them there and guided them on to Dunkerque.

Anyway we had a lovely weekend, Anne Marie (Hubby's sister) is a great hostess.

Other good things this week:

2)  I got my flu jab on Wednesday.  My arm has been a bit tender but other than that it's all good.  I definitely don't want to get flu!

3)  It was Knit and Natter time on Wednesday evening and despite all the nattering I think we all made a little bit of progress on our WIPs.  This is mine:

It was actually something my daughter started (she made the granny squares) and now I'm trying to make it into a blanket.

4)  There seems to be a glut of carrots at the moment - we had so many at the foodbank that volunteers were encouraged to take some so I made carrot and coriander soup today.

It was delicious and there is a little left for tomorrow and a good sized portion in the freezer.

5.  Today was a productive day.  I was up and ready for the day reasonably early - didn't want to greet the person delivering our shopping in my nightwear lol.  Apart from making the soup I managed to get all the laundry done and hoovered and cleaned all the upstairs floors.  Being retired it's very easy some days to fritter away the day so I'm glad to have a day where I can look back and think I've achieved something.  I also managed to do a bit of tidying up in the front garden during the week - the Christmas tree that came with the house got a good trim.  Hopefully I haven't cut it back too much but it seems pretty healthy.

I'm at the Foodbank in the morning and then we have my daughter and her family coming for dinner.  It will be nice to see the Grandkids as we haven't seen them much recently.

Have a good weekend all.

And a bonus blessing - our hosts for last weekend have just become grandparents.  Their youngest son and his wife are now the proud parents of baby Oscar.