HAPPY EASTER/BIRTHDAY

Happy Easter one and all.  I hope you`ve had a lovely day.  It`s been a very good day for me as I`ve just said goodbye to the family who descended on me for Sunday dinner.  It`s always lovely to see them but just as nice when they all go home.  Jim and I did a little jig and some air-punching as we shut the door...... shouting ` yes! yes! yes!`.  We do love them really :-) !

                                                

There`s been loads of chocolate...sigh.....much more than I hoped.  What can I do but eat it all.  I don`t want to offend anyone lol.    Back to diet after it`s all gone.

 

                                     

Of course, today is also my birthday...phew....53...where have all the years gone? Well I don`t feel any older of course, just the same as I always do. This morning I had a lie-in what with the clocks changing last night.  When I finally surfaced I opened all my cards.  They are all really smashing too.  I had the nicest one from Jeannette. I was so touched as it had lovely words inside.  I always think that is very important what the words say.  Thanks Jeannette, you are a true friend!  Jim gave me an I.O.U for a present and so did Danny.  Kerry bought me some T-Shirts, as she knew I wanted some.  Salina sent along a box of Eden chocolates from Thorntons which she knows are my favourites.......ummm....so much chocolate so little time!

I said at the end of yesterday`s entry that I thought Jakey was up to no good in the garden. Well, it turned out that he had found the last remaining un-chewed flowerpot and he was about to get stuck in when Jim hastily removed it, and , fingers crossed, he hasn`t touched anything else yet.  Of course, he doesn`t know we are going to plant a couple of trees at the bottom of the garden yet, but by the time he finds out they will be surrounded by a barricade of chicken wire!   While we were out yesterday,  Jake came running back to us with something in his mouth, he caught a young squirrel and brought it back to us a present.  It was completely unharmed but a little indignant at being carried upside-down in his mouth.  He has a very soft, gentle mouth that would normally be used to carry pheasants, so it was second nature to him not to kill the poor little thing.  I chased it back up a tree to stop Jake bringing it back again!

I looked on a website because I was interested what happened on my birthdate back in history, and I found these:

1788:  Birth of Louis XVII, King of France, second son of Louis XVI.  He would only live ten years and was poisoned.

1871:  The first International rugby match between Scotland and England took place at Edinburgh with a victory for the hosts.

1912:  Birth of Leonard James Callaghan ( Lord Callaghan of Cardiff), Labour Prime Minister. 1976-9.