Monday Meanderings

I love this little graphic, froggie looks like it is chattering away, just like me, I love to natter! so I could not resist it.

Well, what a rollercoaster ride the last week or so has been.  First we were all watching Live8 , a couple of days later, we in the UK, were waiting to see whether we would be awarded the 2012 Olypmics and there was great celebration when we were, the following day the London bombings and all the horror that went with them, even a bomb scare in Birmingham on Saturday night.  Now many Americans are being affected by hurricane Dennis. We live in a very uncertain world.

On an even more personal note, I heard yesterday that a good friend had passed away.  She was only fifty-seven. Although she had been ill,  she seemed to be doing fine and nobody realised just how quickly the end would come.  When I went to post on her Memorial site, I broke down I must confess. She and I used to play as a team in tournaments on a games site every  Tuesday and Saturday night. We spent more time laughing than answering the questions and we became very close, exchanging presents and cards and phoning each other.  Yes, you can be real friends with a person that you never actually get to meet. She touched the lives of a lot of people. That is another reason I used the frog graphic.  My friend had a frog as her symbol in games, she was dotty about frogs and I know she would have just loved this.

I have had a bad week with back pain which is still not right but hopefully getting better although very slowly and I am not coping too well with the humidity we have at present.

So now it is Monday again, what will this week bring?None of us knows but let us hope that for all of us, it is much better than last week.

Life in our household has gone on very much the same except that I have been lying down a good deal and Mike has been the Angel he always is preparing meals, doing the cleaning and taking the "boys "out. 

The garden is doing well except for the weeds which always sprout so strongly all over the place and I have not been able to attend to them.  Mike had to take over the watering and he did manage to cut the lawns and trim the hedges.

Only seven weeks to go now until we are Grandparents again.  We think it has gone very quickly but Becky says it has dragged for her.  She has suffered lots of back pain this time which is making things very uncomfortable for her, plus looking after Nathan and having the builders in.  She certainly has some fortitude, I doubt I could ever have coped with that all at once.  However, it will all be worth it in the end.

Becky has given me permission to share some pictures with you of the building work that is being carried on (you will see what she has to put up with). It will virtually double the size of their home

This is just one skip of soil that was taken out.

Back of their home, footings being dug. The fence is down and the neighbours had no privacy either!

Back of house again. Walls going up around their existing walls.

As it is right now.

Front of house.  It must be strange to see walls going up around you, outside your existing walls.

As it is right now. It is getting difficult for them to enter and exit. 

They have put most of their things in storage because as soon as the external walls are finished, they will have to move out whilst internal walls come down. They are hoping and praying the work will be finished before the new baby arrives.  I do admire her.  Having to cope with a young child,  being pregnant and all this, plus a few bits of hassle they have had and having builders tramping in and out of the house for drinks and to use the loo.  I take my hat off to her.

Well, that is about all the news from our little neck of the woods. 

Have a good week everyone.