Lovely couple of days - Pete was working-a-wedding all day Saturday- beautiful affair he tells me - Church-do, marquee in the gardens etc. fantastic weather for it but hard work catering in that heat I bet! I spent a day with the doggies - John came round to talk "pictures" concept and plan for a fantastic new installation piece he's working on - really pleased to be part of it!
Sunday-Stew&Sim came round armed with 3 hounds too - remarkably uneventful I'm glad to say - 6 dogs - no problem (well for a day at least).

Carl & Nicki had their baby - Molly Rose - sent me pictures and I spoke to him also - he sounds completely overwhelmed and relieved - I was too on their behalf...you always trust things will be OK but you never know do you? Any how she is beautiful and the "apple of their eye" I'm so pleased - can't wait to give our gift to them all.

Goodness me...weddings/babies certainly reminds one that time is ticking....well we've done the marriage thing and have furry 3 babies of our own...who knows what the years will bring - only time will tell.

Meccano, Meccano, Meccano - what a crazy bunch of old duffers!!! In the nicest possible way - must admit though the life size, fully working Grandfather clock was pretty impressive! So 2 accidents and 1 ambulance later the day draws to a close - best weather they've ever had I think - 2 more days to go....but not for me - I have a "Long Weekend Off" fantastic - although Peter is working all day and night tomorrow...started my weekend of relaxation with Friday night is music night and a few weighty Gins - always a classy show - I don't care much for the male vocalist this week though - Tim Rogers - too much vibrato darhhhling..
Any hoo - discovered a fantastic art project by called "Play Me I'm yours" by Luke Jeram (guy who did the glass virus sculptures) visit the website www.streetpianos.co.uk to read more but what a delicious concept - music impromptu - often bad but true! Love It!!
Maybe tomorrow will be a day for me to play - I'm sure I'll never forget but may be a little rusty - we'll see.
Hope to finally start my new book too - hoping it to be good.

Quite exhausted this evening so an early night methinks.
Roger - over - and - out!

Had a lovely morning with Peter - trailed around a car boot fair buying only eggs and Sweet Williams then a few charity shops (high st. shops are overpriced rubbish - much better things to buy in 2nd hand shops!) where I did very well - 2 pairs of shorts, trousers, 3 pairs of sandals and a hat! Had a cream tea and called at the garden centre on the way home - I bought Peter a very "middle-aged" type early birthday present of a pair of garden chairs - wooden steamers actually! Tres Chic - it did make us both feel old; I for giving and he for receiving with equal enthusiasm! Ha ha they tell me it comes to us all.

Am looking forward to lounging in them tomorrow evening with a VERY LARGE G&T!!!

And then to work...when your In-Box gets past 350 e-mails all more important and urgent than the previous you know you're getting swamped...the little coloured flags used to mark importance appear to be uniform in colour - RED for urgent...needed it yesterday.

I'm very grateful to Aimee today who at 10pm (when I realised that I really could not afford a day away from the theatre tomorrow even if I did work past midnight tonight) agreed to attend an all day meeting 1hr 1/2 drive away on my behalf! What a relief - I know when I go these things they always result in more work for me....at least Aimee will be able to filter out the stuff I really don't need to know! Phew!

So many balls in the air at the moment - bound to drop one sooner or later!

I think Pete has tried them out the new Garden chairs this evening - I hope so - he has been working so hard recently that a "day-off" is just what he needed; makes me feel bad for working late though...that doesn't help.

Beginning to realise I'm a little whingey tonight so will sign off cheerily looking forward to more beautiful weather tomorrow! Until then x