Hello July

Hello, hello, I hope everything is well in your world!  I’m not quite sure how it’s July already but according to the calendar, it most definitely is!

I’ve not been around on the blog so much over the last few weeks but all is well chez Winwick Mum and we have been filling our time with various things including a family break to Wales – this is the lovely pebble beach at Moelfre on Anglesey where we spent some time last week.  Oh, our dog so loved being able to walk to the beach every day from the apartment that we stayed in on another part of the island; his favourite part was wallowing in the shallow pools left by the sea and he spent his time as a very happy, very sandy boy!  We got to see all the weather from sunshine to showers as is the nature of a UK holiday, but we’ve come back refreshed and ready to … well, ready to rest some more, to be honest!

I posted June’s Monthly Musing at the beginning of this week and whilst I was thinking about what to write about, I looked through a few of the older Musings and it occurred to me that I’m very good at telling other people to take a rest but not so good at actually following my own advice!  This week, I’ve been playing catch up, as is the law when you take any time off, but I’ve also been doing my best not to hit the ground running and overdo it.

I’ve been out in the garden a lot this week (still buzzing with ideas from my visit to the Chelsea Flower Show), I’ve been sitting and knitting (socks of course, and a top for me – I have conveniently ignored everything in WIP bags that needs finishing and cast on something new 🙂 ) – and I’ve driven what felt like an unnecessarily large number of miles around the one way system of the city where not so small daughter is studying as we moved her out of her student accommodation into a shared house with three friends.  She’s not moved far from where she was – but it was just too far to carry everything on foot (oh my goodness, so much stuff – or maybe there were just more of us to carry it when she moved in) and so we had to pack everything into the car in several loads, avoiding traffic wardens who were circling like sharks outside the accommodation building as it seemed like everyone was moving out on the same day and there were cars all over the place and nowhere without yellow lines to park them.  It was a fun day!

On top of that, it’s been very hot in the UK and we don’t do heat very well here (we don’t do any extremes of temperature very well here!), so I’ve had lots of good intentions about doing lots of things … and haven’t done them.  It is how it is 🙂  It’s been hotter elsewhere and southern Europe is still in the grip of a heatwave so if that’s where you are, I hope you are keeping cool, safe and hydrated.

At some point, I’ll catch up with the photos and stories I’ve not shown you and told you about but for now, I just wanted to say hello and let you know that I’m still here – and I’ll see you soon! xxxx