Yesterday was a glorious morning and I went for a long walk along the seafront with my friend Sandy. It had been a very windy few days so we collected a couple of large pieces of drift wood for my front garden and hauled them back between us. At the moment they are sitting on the pea shingle, where they were dumped. I need to arrange them so they give the right affect, that is harder than it seems as I am most probably one of the least artistic people ever!

The weekend started well, on Friday evening we were with friends. It was a late night or should I say early morning as we didn't get in until 1.30am on Saturday. There were eight of us at Elaine & Brian's home. We had a great evening, it was a really sociable night, eating food cooked on a raclette and drinking rather a lot of Champagne. There was lots of laughter and lots of debate. I still can't believe how fortunate we are to have such lovely friends and all unknown to us until our move back to Hampshire.