The Sun Has Got Its Hat On......

 
Sunday was Mother's Day and both Daughter and Son messaged me early. Son and fiancé came here early afternoon with flowers and a card and a chocolate bar with my favourite marzipan filling. They also brought hot cross buns. Just as we were on our second cuppa Daughter arrived with R and the dog. She bought me a new rose for my rose bed. We all had tea and buttered buns yummy. Much later we debated on choices and phoned in a very large Chinese Takeaway order and when it arrived Son paid for it all. Yummy and spoilt what more could a loved mummy want. 

After the happy and busy Sunday, Monday was a really tired day so after coffee morning with nothing else planned that's what I did, nothing! 

I'm not sleeping all the way through at the moment, normally I would go back to sleep after every toilet visit but things aren't normal yet. Surgery, medication changes and lots of thoughts running through my head it's not surprising Tuesday caught up with me and I  was having a bit of a feeling down day. I know it's all temporary so no extra care needed.... well maybe some extra chocolate would help. 

Hubby is on the patio maintenance project again, a little harder as he's ignored it for a few years. We get a lot of white spot lichens which had really built up and needs treating but all has to be swept and cleaned first. 

This paving goes round three sides of our house, one side is just path between house and garage, it's where we keep our wheelie bins plus the giant water butt and a compost bin and leads to the back gate. The side in this photo is path and wall the full length of the back of our house and the other side is our main patio surrounded by the wall. So a big job, especially when the original colour of the slabs pressure washed on the left are nearly all as dark as the ones Hubby is pressure washing now. 

I'd had two bunches of "get well" flowers that were mostly tulips and some were starting to droop over although their heads still looked pretty, so pinched off and floating and still looking pretty. 

There were a few roses amongst them that still looked happy so they went in with my mother's day flowers Son and fiancé bought me. 

With the anti-lichen treatment all over the patio that Hubby didn't want to keep walking over and he'd also done the anti-moss treatment all over the grass which Hubby didn't want to keep walking over, but the sun still shining and Hubby definitely wanted to be outside he suggested we took a trip out. We chose Alton Waters

That's not a good picture but best of the bunch hahaha. 

The views all around us on a lovely mostly flat walk are beautiful. 

Son and Daughter are both serious walkers, as you know, and told me all around the reservoir is eight miles but I was proud of my two and a quarter, as my life is basically quite sedentary these days and expecially through the cold wet months. 

   

I sent them my screenshot and they replied with suitably impressed comments. 

We had earned lunch in the on site tea rooms.

I really ached at the very end of our walk and stiffened up having sat in the cafe, struggled to get into the car and then to get out of the car once we were home. We got home quite early afternoon and knowing how easy it is to stay sitting till bed time I made myself have a walk around the house as often as possible. Pleased to report my step counter went over 6,000 before bed. 

Hope you've managed to enjoy the sunshine.

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