Some Pictures taken by me at the Toowoomba Flower Festival...the majority of the photos (about 40 odd!) are on my Facebook page...
It has been brought to my attention it has been 2 months since my last post! Eeek! Sorry guys...really didn't think it was that long but lo and behold yes it is true. I won't try and rehash my last 2 months as to be honest I don't really remember now what I did! I did however have one fun outing with my mum and her sister. We went on a bus trip to the Toowoomba Festival of Flowers. Wow! It was great! I had never been and yes, it was on my list of things to do before I turn 50 :) A friend of mine suggested I should also go see the Melbourne Flower and the Chelsea Flower Festival in the UK...So that is now on my list!
The bus trip was fun except for the fact I was the youngest person there...the majority of people are 55+ mostly bordering on 70, 80ish but they all loved me lol...Maybe because I was helping them get on and off the bus and because it was raining I was very gallant and held my umbrella over the darlings heads as they were getting their coffees :) One lady told me I was a "lovely little girl" lol. But I do love old people and one old gent there reminded me so much of my dad in his final years so it was hard to not feel for them. For $70 the trip was great value...trip to Toowoomba, plus a stop for morning tea where they provide tea, coffee and an assortment of yummy cakes and lunch at the local club which in this case was a buffet lunch at the Golf Club. Next month they are doing a mystery shopping tour around some of the shopping warehouses in Brisbane so I have my name down already! Christmas shopping here I come!
Ok moving forward this weekend I did a lot and was happy because all my plans actually came to fruition. Saturday morning up early and got a heap of washing, vacuuming and dusting done then I rang mum to see if she wanted to come with me to Spotlight which she was definately up for. So half an hour later we were in the car and off. I really only wanted to get some card making stuff to make my Christmas cards and mum was in the market for buying some curtain material for her downstairs lounge area which she is doing up. Neither of us actually ended up with what we wanted! However I did find some awesome butterfly decals for my craft room wall. My craft room is slowing undergoing a metamorphosis and the butterflies look so nice on my newly painted blue walls!
Sunday was actually fine and the sun was out! So I pottered around the garden for a bit, cleaned up my back deck and sorted out my haning plants which all need re-potting. MM and I decided to make a trip to Bunnings to get some supplies...he to get some silicon to seal up some spots on the back deck which has been leaking a heap of water under the house because of all the rain; and me, I got some paint to paint a timber wishing well plant holder the kids bought me many years ago which is fairly weather worn and I have decided to paint it up and some potting mix to re-pot my hanging plants. So all in all a successful weekend.
Sunday night I decided to cook a lamb roast. Now it has been years since I cooked a roast as we never have time to cook it but this weekend I decided it was going to happen. Of course once Miss 22 found out we were having roast she invted herself for dinner lol. Which was fine as we had heaps of roast and hubby always peels way too many vegies! So we had ample. Was a really nice dinner.
Today was Monday and like all Mondays I find it hard to get organised and motiviated! We have Monday morning meetings and usually they are okay but today I wasn't in the mood for it. I went to bed last night inexplicably upset and cranky...still not really sure why but I had a really bad night. This morning was no better...was still feeling a little teary but by the time I got coffee and was heading to work all was good. Then at lunch time I stupidly put my half full bottle of Coke in my bag but somehow the cap came off so I had a handbag full of Coke and now everything is sticky and yuk. Made my mood even gloomier! But by the time I got home tonight I was feeling much better. MM for some reason must have sensed my mood because he actually gave me a huge hug and sat me on his knee for a kiss which he rarely does! So that was nice and we talked about our day which we normally do but usually with him at his computer and me at mine! So needless to say I'm feeling loved up right now lol.
Anyway that's my blog entry for today. I'm about to post some photos of my Toowoomba trip so enjoy the show :)
The bus trip was fun except for the fact I was the youngest person there...the majority of people are 55+ mostly bordering on 70, 80ish but they all loved me lol...Maybe because I was helping them get on and off the bus and because it was raining I was very gallant and held my umbrella over the darlings heads as they were getting their coffees :) One lady told me I was a "lovely little girl" lol. But I do love old people and one old gent there reminded me so much of my dad in his final years so it was hard to not feel for them. For $70 the trip was great value...trip to Toowoomba, plus a stop for morning tea where they provide tea, coffee and an assortment of yummy cakes and lunch at the local club which in this case was a buffet lunch at the Golf Club. Next month they are doing a mystery shopping tour around some of the shopping warehouses in Brisbane so I have my name down already! Christmas shopping here I come!
Ok moving forward this weekend I did a lot and was happy because all my plans actually came to fruition. Saturday morning up early and got a heap of washing, vacuuming and dusting done then I rang mum to see if she wanted to come with me to Spotlight which she was definately up for. So half an hour later we were in the car and off. I really only wanted to get some card making stuff to make my Christmas cards and mum was in the market for buying some curtain material for her downstairs lounge area which she is doing up. Neither of us actually ended up with what we wanted! However I did find some awesome butterfly decals for my craft room wall. My craft room is slowing undergoing a metamorphosis and the butterflies look so nice on my newly painted blue walls!
Sunday was actually fine and the sun was out! So I pottered around the garden for a bit, cleaned up my back deck and sorted out my haning plants which all need re-potting. MM and I decided to make a trip to Bunnings to get some supplies...he to get some silicon to seal up some spots on the back deck which has been leaking a heap of water under the house because of all the rain; and me, I got some paint to paint a timber wishing well plant holder the kids bought me many years ago which is fairly weather worn and I have decided to paint it up and some potting mix to re-pot my hanging plants. So all in all a successful weekend.
Sunday night I decided to cook a lamb roast. Now it has been years since I cooked a roast as we never have time to cook it but this weekend I decided it was going to happen. Of course once Miss 22 found out we were having roast she invted herself for dinner lol. Which was fine as we had heaps of roast and hubby always peels way too many vegies! So we had ample. Was a really nice dinner.
Today was Monday and like all Mondays I find it hard to get organised and motiviated! We have Monday morning meetings and usually they are okay but today I wasn't in the mood for it. I went to bed last night inexplicably upset and cranky...still not really sure why but I had a really bad night. This morning was no better...was still feeling a little teary but by the time I got coffee and was heading to work all was good. Then at lunch time I stupidly put my half full bottle of Coke in my bag but somehow the cap came off so I had a handbag full of Coke and now everything is sticky and yuk. Made my mood even gloomier! But by the time I got home tonight I was feeling much better. MM for some reason must have sensed my mood because he actually gave me a huge hug and sat me on his knee for a kiss which he rarely does! So that was nice and we talked about our day which we normally do but usually with him at his computer and me at mine! So needless to say I'm feeling loved up right now lol.
Anyway that's my blog entry for today. I'm about to post some photos of my Toowoomba trip so enjoy the show :)
4 comments:
interesting love toni
Whoo. Welcome back. The photos are tres lovely! Glad you had a good time.
Lovely photos. Thanks for coming back into the blog fold - we missed you!
Hope you are feeling somewhat better now. Nothing worse than having a dose of the grumpies. Take it from an expert! lol!
xxx
I was nearly going to send you a text this morning saying how blog-slack you were getting, lucky I didn't hey, because I checked your blog first! Purdy pictures of the gardens! I might take mummy down there next year because there was a bus tour from here.Glad to see you're getting out and about old girl! Love Shaz
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