A Lot Of Fs.......

 
Saturday had a lovely visit from Son and fiancé as they could finally come with my birthday flowers and card and treated us all to Chinese takeaway as it's my favourite.

My mum (first on the left) was the youngest of eight, these are six of the siblings. Sadly none of them are with us now. 

On Sunday some of their children, grandchildren and great grandchildren managed to meet. This happened now because one of my first cousins came over from Australia with her husband to see a daughter and grandchildren for the first time since all covid travel restrictions were lifted and she put out a request on our family Facebook page to meet up with as many family that could make it. 

25 of us did make it and it was wonderful, meeting up with those we hadn't seen for so long and telling all the old stories and also meeting the family we had never met in person before and getting to know them. Apart from the Australians, Hubby and I travelled the furthest with a drive of just under two hours each way and was one of the first to arrive there and almost the last to leave. Our group managed to take over almost all of the cafe outside seating area, (well we were all spending in the cafe so they didn't mind at all). It was a wonderful afternoon. 

Lovely making it to this week's coffee morning on Monday having missed the last two. One extra neighbour makes it when it's a bank holiday as he normally works on a Monday. Everyone was very chatty but when talk got round to politics and how Sunak is so wealthy how could he know what will help the poor. Then the same highly opinionated couple kept insisting the media is making everyone hysterical about national poverty which they don't think is real because one person interviewed on tv had her nails done.....I just said that us sitting there were lucky to be so affluent that we shouldn't assume anything and criticise. Hubby and I agreed it was time to leave them to it. 

On Tuesday I was treated to a meal out at The Ocean Fish Platter as my birthday gift from friendHM. Neither of us had been there before and at first glance it looked like an eat-in fish and chip shop, but turned out to be a lovely restaurant with extensive menu and really friendly staff. So good to have a just the two of us catch up. 

Wednesday Daughter came for lunch with R, O and the dog. O is teaching himself guitar with the help of various Web pages and treated us to a few songs he's learned. Managed to get this lovely pic of him totally chilled out strumming.

FriendM is back from her long month in Spain so this week we were back to our normal six for Wednesday night, eating in Prezzo first then onto the pub for the guys to play pool. Another good catchup. 

It's that time of year when the apples are ready, but as they are mostly bug attacked around the core there's a lot of prep ahead. For now we've taken them all off the tree and placed them not touching each other. Hopefully I'll get round to peeling, chopping and freezing quite soon. 

I brushed my second toe of my right foot against a piece of furniture briefly in passing and thought nothing of it, then a very short while later it throbbed and made it really painful for me to walk (yes I swore a little bit). I'm guessing it didn't take much of an impact as it was one of the toes I broke a while ago. 

NeighbourC knocked asking Hubby if he could help install a new TV as her daughter had tried and failed. Of course he did and she insisted on paying him something, no matter how much he protested. He's always so happy to help everyone but he had to take it. 

So that's a Fiancé, Flowers, Favourite Food, Family, Facebook, Friends, Fish, Fruit, one little F word and a Fix on Friday. 

Hope your week was Fun Filled.

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