Our early visitor Saturday morning, beautiful but sadly with our fishpond under scrutiny he was unwelcome. He flew off as soon as Hubby opened the patio door.
We were far more friendly Saturday evening when we joined our friendsN&T for the Great Horkesley W.I. quiz night. FriendN does a lot of the organising and makes all of the ploughman's plates for the interval. Hubby and I have been part of this team for quite a few years now so it's lovely to catch up with those there we know. We didn't win the quiz or the raffle (not even close) but always good fun.
Long story coming but bear with me cos I think it's a definite series of wow's.
Last week I was thinking about O needing props for his 1976 reenactment weekend and I thought we had some old maps (no GPS or smartphones in the 70's) unfortunately nothing suitable in the very large ring binder of maps I still had. Deciding I really didn't need to keep them anymore this week I offered them to neighbourT who does a lot of collage art and told her to throw away any of it she didn't want.
A few days later she brought back the ring binder with the empty plastic sleeves and said she'd found plenty of very useful stuff. She had also found an unopened envelope.......
Wow how old is this?
How did it get mixed up with the maps?
Neither of us could remember those names as a couple we knew?
Thanking us for a Sunday, did we entertain them?
The photo enclosed was Hubby's brother's wedding which was before I even joined the family, unrelated?
Hubby thought he possibly recognised the handwriting but wasn't sure.
Later Hubby took the ring binder upstairs......
Later Hubby took the ring binder upstairs......
Wow there on my desk was a small pile of old photos waiting to be put away and on top was this.....
And today we got up to a very wet day, a pleasant change that is long overdue.
That's our garden, there's children playing and there's Gordon with a woman we didn't remember so that must be Joan? Hubby emailed the photo to the guys, his three school friends, and they were amazed and between them thought it was about 1990.
Coincidence, magic or was something unseen pushing things in the right direction? And today we got up to a very wet day, a pleasant change that is long overdue.
May all your wow's be ones to smile about.
.