I had a really great weekend!
And I’m posting lots of pictures! Make tea…

Since I retired often the weekends can meld into the rest of the week but this weekend was different.
I had a few wishes come true.
I have wanted to meet up with fellow bloggers since I started my blog five years ago (next week). This weekend I did.

I have wanted to go on a photo walk around Bristol for ages. This weekend I did.

Why?

Why not?

Because he can. At least he was trying to…

We had such fun trying to guess what he was going to do as he tied ropes to the trees, and as we watched as a lady came walking along and didn’t see the rope!! Oh she was fine!!

I have wanted to walk in a field of buttercups and take photos. This weekend I did.

I have been looking forward to the Bristol 10K for months, from a photographic, NOT taking part, point of view! (If you knew me you would be laughing).

All these things happened over the weekend. It’s extraordinary how weeks go by with nothing, then, like busses, they all come at once.

So thanks to Helena for making the trip to Bristol. Oh! she is so lovely.

Friday After a lovely lunch and a walk, Helena walked with me in a buttercup field

And I was able to look at my hometown with fresh eyes, which is always nice.

Saturday Helena, Maggie, Barbara and I had a really nice lunch by the Floating Harbour in Bristol. Unfortunately Eileen wasn’t well enough to join us.
We almost adoped/kidnapped a woman who we thought was (Eileen) wandering around looking lost. None of us knew what Eileen looks like and we thought maybe she had felt well enough to come but couldn’t contact us. Blogging sure does turn a ‘nothing’s hapnin’ into a story!
Thanks to Maggie (so lovely) who organised the photo walk along part of the sculpture trail in the city. She did a brilliant job and she has a lovely post up on her blog about it.
Thanks to Barbara also absolutely lovely, who brought with her, tales from her life with her greyhound. Some of you will know that I share my life with a greyhound, so I was thrilled to talk ‘greyhound’ with her. I forgot to ask her about Geocaching but I’ll meet her again and she can tell me all about it.

Sunday The Bristol 10K was wonderful.
The sun shone, (they had forecast rain!) There were 15,000 runners and my boy and his girl were there among the throng.

They finished the race

made good times, had the biggest, widest smiles and raised lots of money for MIND.

We are so proud of the pair of you.

Thank you for your donations/good wishes/kind thoughts. It really does make a difference.

Thank you ladies for taking the time out to visit Bristol. I loved every second of it.

Thanks to Ben & Paul for coming along and taking group photos with each of our cameras (too funny).

After the race on Sunday we went to a beautiful Italian restaurant. The service was a little slow but we hung on. Those of us who had run the race were ‘pegging out’ as my mum used to say. Eventually our starters came and were absolutely beautiful, clean plates all ‘round which was a very good thing as about 15 minutes later a smell came drifting by. I thought the pork I had ordered had ‘caught’; Lotta thought someone’s hair was singed. The boys were blaming the smell on each other!
Staff came by and apologised but the kitchen had caught fire! After a lot of chat about staying or going and drinking the complimentary drinks the staff came by again to say that the chefs weren’t going to turn the ovens on because the smell of gas was far too strong. Yes we left, headed back into town to have our main course somewhere else.

So all in all I’m back at home and at the beginning of a new week and a new month having had a great weekend.

Thanks B&L for having us over the weekend. Another first, they were wonderful hosts.

Thanks Sian, Me on Monday is her brilliant idea.

Oh! and Happy Birthday to my lovely husband, thank you for the weekend.
Good Luck to Lotta who will be burning the midnight oil until 4pm on Wednesday.

I’m hoping it will still be Monday by the time I press ‘publish’
Phew! well done if you kept up. 🙂