Well for some reason, lay in bed last night I decided to work out how many weeks it was until Christmas, it was 10 weeks to the day!! Do I care, am I worried? No not at all, because as always for the last few years, I'm well organised!! I start shopping very early in the year and even wrap things up, I have several friends and family that live a distance from us, so it's always done this way so that if we see them we can hand out the gifts!! We saw Barry's daughter in Augst and gave her their presents, saves on postage and with the strikes lately saves on worry!! In the past things have gone missing too, so I'd much rather give them even if it's very early in the year!! Anyway, we only have each other to buy for and Barry's email pal in Florida, but we are taking his with us when we go next March (we have a little something to post off so he has something to open on Christmas day) Our decorations usually go up about the end of November, I just love the house looking festive and never get bored of it, they come down about 6th January but Barry often has got fed up of it by then and wants it down. I ALWAYS feel very sad at that time of year! Kelly turned 21 last month and we went to the Gurkha again to celebrate with friends and family. Apart from a handful of people (all family too) everyone said it was well worth the money and really enjoyed it! Kelly looked stunning in her tiara that Alex had bought her for her birthday, as well as the beautiful yellow sapphire and diamond ring. She had a westie that she's called Zeuskelzeusmumdadkelal
Here are 2 photos, one showing her the day she picked up Zeus, he's absolutely gorgeous and is doing very well, he's had all his jabs and loves going for walkies now! The 2nd photo shows Kelly with her fiance Alex, and my parents. It's a lovely family photo and as my parents have split up this was a rare opportunity to get such a great photo!
We're off to Moose area convention this weekend, then a week later we're going to Derbyshire to check out family history.
We've been having dance lessons at Weymouth Moose lodge, the ladies are teaching us, we've only had one so far, it was the waltz, we all really enjoyed it and they were so relaxed about it, it's all very good fun. Kelly and Alex couldn't make it as he works late, but Steven and Hannah did and they managed to learn it too!! Next one should have been tonight but there was a double booking so it may be next week. We're going to teach them the Hungarian Waltz that we learn at the ceilidh dance each year!
Well I'll go now, will report back with how our trip went later......Happy Halloween!!!