63 Days to Go...

Saturday - I love it - lie-in and starfishing!!  I was good today though because I got up early to get some washing in - otherwise John will beat me to within an inch of my life for not fulfilling my housewifely duties (not really).  Plus I was meeting Sally Allan in town for an early coffee and a sticky before going off and playing the 'shoe-fairy' and using Mum's Clark's discount card to get Molly some school shoes.

Coffee and Stickies in Tamburino's was great and it was good to catch up with Sal who is organising a 'Swishing' event to raise money on Thursday night at Lanes.  If you don't know what 'Swishing' is well Google tells me  “Swishing is a growing trend, where a gaggle of fashion-loving women get together, feast on nibbles, guzzle wine and swap their clothes. Eco-fabulous recycling at its best.”   John needn't worry because I wont be swapping as we are busy trying to reduce the amount of clothes that we have - it will be an opportunity to take some clothes there for others to have rather than taking it to the charity shop.

Anyway school shoes were purchased - why is it all kids shoes come with Velcro nowadays??? How are they ever going to learn to tie laces???

Left Sal trying to find an outfit for her girls night out tonight and went to have my hair cut which was not before time as it seems to have put a real spurt on over the last few days.  I only have two more cuts left with Kim after about 10 years of going to her.  All I can say is thank God Mum's neighbour is a hairdresser - not only English but worked in Sherborne - what a small world it is!

Laura came round this afternoon with an early birthday present of a lovely black Jane Shilton handbag.  It was really kind of her and she is so sweet to take notice of me saying that I wanted a new black bag.  She and Mark are off to the Masons Arms tonight with Sam and Matt before Matt gets deployed to Afghanistan.  Let's hope he has a really uneventful tour of duty.

Managed to catch up with John this afternoon.  He had been out walking with Dad today and having a day off from the dreaded 'ToDo' list.  He really seems to have had his finger on the pulse and got a huge amount sorted over the last couple of days - I do love him for taking this all on without me being there - I just know that he will make a brilliant job of turning our house into a home.  I also love Mum and Dad for all that they are doing to make our move as easy as possible.  Mum just make sure you do a decent job of cleaning the windows tomorrow!!!