A bit of a catch up

I haven't blogged for a couple of weeks now as its been a busy time really. Lots of work to do and a couple of nice evenings out with friends has meant that I have been pretty tired and not had too much time. I have also had a lot of college to do recently too so have been pretty busy with that work.

A couple of weeks ago my lovely evening out was to the WI meeting again. This was my first official meeting with them so I was a little nervous about it as I wasn't sure what a normal meeting would be like. One of my friends said that she was quite interested in coming with me and seeing what it was like too so that made it a lot easier. At least I knew I would know one friendly face to talk to even if I didn't fancy chatting with some of the women that were already members. As it turned out it was lovely to have her there but straight away I bumped into someone that I knew as I used to work with her and the other new ladies from the walk last month were there again so at least we all recognised and vaguely knew each other.

This months theme was vintage craft and upcycling so there was a lady there who did a talk in front of the group about her business in which she makes things out of recycled fabrics mostly. I personally don't think I'll bother with the make again but it was really quite a nice evening. It was lovely to catch up with my friend and nice to chat to the people that I met last month as well.

We made this broach. Like I said, not really my thing but ok to make with people while I was there.

I was a little disappointed that it was a rose as they're really not my favourite flower, almost especially if they are red but when I got home Adam pointed out that it does match the England rugby rose pretty well. That made me like it a little more!

Also last week we went to a pub quiz with some friends which was good fun. I think we did worst out of all of the teams that were there but we were sat next to a table of very smelly old men who had bought their dictionaries with them! We didn't care as we all still had a good laugh. It was fun and made a nice change for a night out.

Last weekend really was one of catch ups as I managed to just about get up to date with my table runner. Back to mid temperatures this month, hence there are copious amounts of green coming though at the minute.

We ordered our wedding photos at last - it's only taken 4 & a half years! They're not quite sorted out yet but we have found the book that we bought before the wedding that they will go in but we plan to go through these and sort out the best ones for the album next week when we have a week off. We managed to narrow down our photos from about 1200 to 406 that we printed. There are still a number of duplicates within these but we got to the point where we couldn't tell the difference on the screen any more. We needed to get them printed and see them for real I think to weed out the ones where people have their eyes shut or that are too dark, at the wrong angle etc. I'm really looking forward to spreading these all out on the floor and looking through them all again.

Finally, the last exciting thing that has happened this week is that...we have a BBQ! The builder that we employed to make it has finally managed to borrow a saw to chop the bricks in half and here we have it - our new brick BBQ!

Please excuse the rubbish photo - it was taken v quickly when I ran round the back of the house as soon as I got home. He is coming back v soon to fit the patio slabs back down as well. He just needs to borrow the saw again to do it!

Now all we need is some nice weather and some time at home to try it out. Fingers crossed for a bit of sunshine during our time off next week.