GOOD NEWS

Hello on this wet and windy evening.  I don`t really know what I`m going to write today.  I was going to say that I`d beaten my higher score on Bookworm....wrong. I`m now only a Master Librarian which is better than Senior Librarian but rubbish compared to Archivist ( or Anarchist as one of the comments posted said ! lol )  I was also going to say that I had finally planted my new plants.....wrong again.  The weather put paid to any thoughts of digging, anyway the Magnolia is in flower and I have it sitting outside the back door in a large container so I will wait now until the flowers are done for this year.  That`s my excuse and I`m sticking with it!

 

There is some very good news I have to share with you.  My daughter Kerry went for her second scan today and I can reveal that she is expecting a little boy! We are all thrilled, but I was certain she would have a girl, but the sonographer at the hospital said she was 110 per cent certain.  We know why that is then !

   Grandson number 1

 

Tomorrow I am out shopping with Kerry for more maternity stuff.  That should be great fun....hmm, we`ll see.  For now I`ll sign off with a poem I found in the Sunday supplement. I found it quite meaningful.  Bye for now!

NOW and THEN

`Now that I`m fifty-seven,`

My mother used to say,

`Why should I waste a minute?

`Why should I waste a day

 

Doing the things I ought to

Simply because I should?

Now that I`m fifty-seven

I`m done with that for good.`

 

But now and then I`d catch her

Trapped in some thankless chore

Just as she might have been at

fifty-three or fifty-four

 

And I would want to say to her

(And I would have to bite my tongue)

That if you mean to learn a skill

It`s well worth starting young

 

And so, to make sure I`m in time

For fifty, I`ve begun

To do exactly as I please

Now that I`m thirty-one.

                                    by Sophie Hannah