You cannot be serious

I hope you've all had an enjoyable day. It's been authentically autumnal walking on the beach weather today and in spirit I've been out there. In practice I've just had the windows open to hear the wind better and have looked at the white topped waves through my binoculars. I'm so grateful I have binoculars and a bit of a view of the sea!

Last night I was wakeful after much dozing on the sofa during the evening but amused myself with damnyouautocorrect.com - chuckling the insomnia and the blues away. It's not just the strange things swype comes up with but the droll way recipients react...and then of course there's all the companion sites with funny pictures and so on. I realise it's not to everyone's taste, especially perhaps those of mature years and the female gender but I've been in touch with my inner teenage boy for a long time. I mean seriously...why wear heels when there are so many different sorts of baseball boots to choose from? I give thanks for some of my favourites from over the years...the special edition leather Converse All Stars spring to mind and some pretty flowery ones I bought on my last trip to Santander...

It was blowy yesterday too and to keep the pepper and salt afro it is my cross to bear since recovering from alopecia from scaring the natives I had it covered up as I walked down the hill to meet Clive. A man and two young boys passed me as I was replying to a text from him and the boys kept turning round and looking at me. They looked nicely brought up and was I wondering whether they were waiting til out of earshot to ask their escort why that old lady was wearing a hoodie and texting. I imagined the man saying 'Lads, not everyone's like your nan. Some of them have tattoos and listen to Green Day!'. Pause to give deep respect and gratitude to Green Day for Basket Case...one of my all time favourite in all ways inappropriate tracks!

Anyway, I've been resting up a lot of today, but in an effort to celebrate my outer middle aged woman I've had the sewing machine out and started customising a pair of plain beige curtains in keeping with my particular taste in interior decor. I give thanks to Laura for assistance in purchase of some of the materials and to myself for the choices I made and how well they are going to look in my living room when the rest of the decor is finally done. Long way to go but very pleased with them so far. I'm also really appreciating the little improvements Clive made for me yesterday. Holding a picture pin in one hand and hammering it in with the other is very challenging for me now so even just having a few pictures back on the kitchen walls is a real treat. Thank you, once again!