And The Rest of the Week

Some more snow photos which I finally got downloaded. Here a couple of roads away from where we live there were some brilliant snow buildings - a Tardis and a Dalek. They looked fantastic and hung around for quite a bit of time, very clever and talented builders!

I was spending quite a bit of time doing college work as assignment deadlines were looming! But I was also looking forward to the Flower Club annual dinner which was at The Navigation at Cosgrove. I seem to be spending quite a bit of time in and around Cosgrove these days!! It was a very enjoyable evening - well it was once we found the place!! It did take us a couple of drives around to spot it, but we are looking forward to heading back again possibly in the summer for a drink or two and enjoy having a look around, as it appeared to be on the canal side.

It was lovely to be able to have a good natter with some of the members of the club, which it isn't always possible to do at the meetings and lovely to take husbands and meet husbands - Mike even enjoyed himself. We were sat with June and Steve and it was lovely to meet Steve and have the chance to have a chat when I have usually been dropping June home after the club meeting and helping her in with her raffle won arrangement!!

The food was excellent and for starters Mike and I both had Maple and Seasame Glazed Chicken (yummy), mains Mike and I both had (its not often we both choose the same things so much!! - probably because we were choosing from a set menu) Steak and new potatoes and then for desert we both had Ginger and Plum Crumble (I had made a bit of a boob and ordered Mike the wrong thing!! which turned into a bigger boob when he saw the desert he should have had!! Chocolate Caramel and Peanut Slice (which was huge)) but all in all an enjoyable evening with lots of new friends.

As I don't have too much else to natter about, due to the college work (!) here are some more piccies of the snow, Mike with Binnie, Jamie and his friend Kian, we had been out enjoying another walk in the snow.

Despite the snow there had been a lot of sunshine and the outside lighting (solar powered) had come on, which was quite disconcerting to see in the snow, it somehow looked wrong! although later on it did give the snow a lovely eerie quality.

Ducks waddling about on the frozen pond, they are lucky as they are very well fed ducks and didn't seem to be struggling too much despite the poor conditions. They must get fed several times a day and are fairly tame, they are always happy to see people especially when they turn up with bread. They do wander all over EV too and have been seen in our street and as far away as Teletubby mound (if you know EV you will know where that is!)

A warning to everyone near the pond - although the ducks weren't paying any attention!

Back home and in the warmth again, Jamie and Kian boxing on the Wii, Mike was probably working on his Friars website and I was working on as assignment again - well I was after taking the photos!!

Ciao

Sue

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Reading challenge 10/16 - I was currently reading Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkhaban until it disappeared so am now reading Songbird by Josephine Cox.