A Riverside Walk

 

Hello Everyone,

I hope you`ve all been having a nice weekend, and to all you here in Britain, I hope you`re having a great Bank Holiday Monday.  It was pouring with rain all night and I thought it was going to carry on into today.  We`ve had some heavy showers, make no mistake, but in between it`s been really warm and sunny, let`s hope the sunny spells last longer than the showers!

Yesterday afternoon, Jim and I went out for a drive, we didn`t have any particular destination in mind so had no idea where we`d end up.  We drive up through Berkshire into Oxfordshire and back again into Berkshire, taking in the pretty countryside on the way.  We also tried to find my friend B`s house but to no avail, I`m going to have to get a map or I`ll get lost if I go there on my own, my sense of direction has always been terrible and isn`t getting any better with age...lol!

We ended up in Cookham Dean, an affluent, but very popular area by the River Thames.  We had a coffee in a nice little cafe and sat outside and chatted for some time, it was lovely to have some quality time together instead of having to rush off somewhere.  The only problem was keeping the wasps away, there were loads of them and most of them seemed to make a beeline for me.  It must have been quite amusing for passers-by to see me dancing around waving my arms in the air, I don`t mind someone having a laugh at my expense...lol!  It was a really hot Summers day, just as it should be in August and I even got a bit sunburnt.  We walked along to Boulters Lock whwere the boats were queueing either end.  The lock is a good size and can fit several boats in at a time,  which is good news for the boats owners as I`m sure they don`t want to be waiting around on such a lovely day.  I took loads of photos but ended up with just the fourteen, I took what should have been a lovely one of a family of ducks but for some reason it came out really dark.  Jim ordered two icecreams but was given three so instead of giving it back to the seller he gave it to Jake instead who  polished it off in no time at all.  All in all we had a really nice day out and I hope the weather stays fine so it won`t be our last this Summer.

When you read this entry it will most probably be because you` received an email that I sent you.  That`s because I went dog walking with Jim and had to turn the computer off.  What was I to do?  I had already added and captioned the photos that I wanted to share.  Then I had a cunning plan,  I saved the photos but put TEST ENTRY ~~~ PLEASE DELETE in the subject line so nobody would read it,  thereby saving the photos.  Then I copied and pasted my entry from notepad to email which I sent to myself.  When I got home again I opened the email and copied it back to notepad where I continued my scribbles.  Of course, because the saved photo entry had to be edited in order to add my text it wasn`t going to send out an alert, hence my email to you.

Today Kerry and Slava are supposed to be going to a theme park in Milton Keynes called Gulliver`s Land.   I just hope it stayed nice for them as they were really looking forward to it...I`m sure Roman will have enjoyed it too...lol!  Oh dear, it`s just started to rain again...I must go now, not because of the rain !!!  but I have journals to read and dinner to prepare.  Again I hope you all had a lovely day, take care and Bye Bye for now. :o)