Today we visited Morpeth for the afternoon.
Jamison complained bitterly about wasting his Sunday having to go to Morpeth. In fact he was down right horrible and we had quite an argument before we even left to go! BUT once we arrived and our first port of call was the old lolly shop and we did some ginger beer tasting and honey sampling and he got to stroll through the aisles of gourmet food and cooking utensils (his favourite thing!!), then he decided that Morpeth wasn't too bad after all.
Here's some photos from today.
Feeling a little fragile today.
It's the anniversary today of my mum's mum - our Nana and she is often in my thoughts, but more so today. I have very few things left from her these days but I do have a pair of teeny tiny glass bottles filled with blue (my favourite colour as a kid) seed beads. She gave them to me for my 12th birthday. Tucked amongst my other presents. She always had the knack of buying thoughtful presents, carefully chosen for each grandchild. Never anything expensive but always thoughtful and meaningful.
And the seed bead bottles were an instant success for a craft loving 12 year like myself! And they became quite a treasured possession. They have travelled with me on all my moves around the place and I am very particular about them - not letting Capri touch or play with them!!
So tonight I was on the computer and Capri was telling me some big long story and she absently picked up one of the bottles off my bookcase, fumbled with it, as only Capri can do, and accidently dropped it. It smashed into a million pieces on our wooden floor. Blue seed beads everywhere.
I looked in horror and promptly burst into tears. She looked in horror back at me and promptly burst into tears as well.
I know they are only seed beads and that I have another bottle still but I was very fond of my PAIR of bottles. They sat together side by side for so many years, through so many moves and in so many houses!
And now I have one lonely bottle left.
Once I settled myself down I explained that I didn't have many things left to remind me of my Nana and that it's important not to touch other people's stuff!! And her eyes filled up with tears and she said, "I'm sorry about your Nana and I would want to keep my white teddy from my Nan forever too."
and it was all ok again...
Just lousy timing really. Being my Nana's anniversary as well as the news of Jane Mcgrath's death which we got half way through our lunch at Morpeth. We had been expecting the news for several days as my cousin knows the family so we knew Jane was not good all week as we had been getting regular updates. I couldn't stop thinking about her and her lovely family all week. So sad.
Anyway, thanks for reading..just wanted to get all this down on my blog..
KIMx