There is not a lot of news this week, but I did have a lovely meet up with an old friend from Spain. Chris and her husband Phil returned to UK a few years ago, mainly for health and declining mobility problems, but we have kept in touch by video calls and this week she had a hospital appointment near us so we arranged to meet in town. I didn't invite her here as I knew she couldn't manage the front steps , nor the stairs up to the bathroom, so we met at 'The Old Schoolhouse', a small but cosy café/restaurant in the grounds of the big parish church near here. It had been highly recommended to us, and we enjoyed a nice lunch while we chatted and caught up on all our news. Just before they had to leave, my Chris took this photo of us which I know my friend Chris will share around others from Spain that she has kept in touch with.
I did manage to do some more crafting this week, and the pile of cut out pieces I showed last time, are now a set of 12 Christmas cards. They are basically all the same design with some small differences in layout and backgrounds. Now I am working on a new design to make another batch from.
My walk through the park to the shops is now very autumnal, with the ground carpeted with leaves in every shade of green, gold and red, and the trees are looking barer. You can see a suirrels drey up in the branches of this one.
I chatted to one of the groundsmen this week. He spends every day sweeping the leaves off the grass because it ruins it if they are left to rot there. He told me his team aim to have them all cleared by Christmas when most of the trees will be completely bare.
My real news this week is that we have a new grand-daughter, born at 11.15 this morning. I won't share a photo or her name yet as I haven't asked her family if it is OK to do so, but maybe next week I can. It is lovely to have another little girl in our male dominated family, and I can't wait to have a cuddle.
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