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Jul. 24th, 2006 10:25 pmMy parents invited all their children and grandchildren to help celebrate their Golden Wedding anniversary this weekend. We all stayed in some chalets in Darwin Country Park in Derbyshire which was a lovely venue for a family get together. We spent some time in smaller groups - some of us going shopping/cycling/visting steam railways/going to look at rocks/etc, while others took other choices from the list. Then we all got together in the evenings and chatted/played games/went swimming/played with the two smallest children/embroidered/watched DVDs.
I greatly enjoyed simple things like going shopping in BAkewell with my mother and my sister CArolyn. It's so rare that we can be together and just do something relaxing that we will enjoy together. We browsed charity shops (got a great dress for my sister and a book on plant names for me) and the Edinburgh Woollen Mill (lots of cheap CDs including duplicates of Roger Whittacker, Stanley Holloway and Paul Robeson - it's surprising how similar our tastes are) and a pair of cord trousers for me. We had lunch in a shop that sold the most fantastic glassware. Luckily, I have nowhere suitable to put that kind of stuff, otherwise I might have been tempted to spend a fortune.
It poured with rain. As I was just wearing a thing silk top and trousers that I knew would dry out in no time and I didn't have any shoes on (as per normal this summer), I took great delight in waltzing down the middle of the cobbled street getting happily wet and dancing in the puddles and smiling at all the people huddled in doorways!
WE spent a very long time in the most fantastic embroidery shop I have ever been in. Fantastic stock and incredibly helpful staff who really know their stock and who all, obviously stitch themselves (including the bloke). http://www.wye.co.uk/ THey were able to answer my questions on all sorts of things and are mail ordering me some small kits I wanted that they didn't currently have in stock. They also told me where my best chance of finding a pattern I wanted that had just gone out of print was. (ie. Really helpful even when they can't sell it to me themselves) I'd recommend them very highly for cross-stitch/needlepoint/drawn-thread work/crewel work information/materials/kits.
On Sunday, went cycling with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
waveney and my sister Gillian. We went along the route of the old CRomford and High Peak railway which is now a cycle trail with wonderful butterflies and wild flowers. http://www.derbyshire-peakdistrict.co.uk/thehighpeaktrail.htm The pictures here really don't do it justice.
I also went swimming with my sons and my brothers-in-law and my two nephews. Also had fun playing fribees with nephews and reading stories and playing other games and generally doing auntie things. Kids have masses of energy when they're 2 and 4 respectively, but they're great fun.
Can you tell that I had a good time? Happy smile.
I greatly enjoyed simple things like going shopping in BAkewell with my mother and my sister CArolyn. It's so rare that we can be together and just do something relaxing that we will enjoy together. We browsed charity shops (got a great dress for my sister and a book on plant names for me) and the Edinburgh Woollen Mill (lots of cheap CDs including duplicates of Roger Whittacker, Stanley Holloway and Paul Robeson - it's surprising how similar our tastes are) and a pair of cord trousers for me. We had lunch in a shop that sold the most fantastic glassware. Luckily, I have nowhere suitable to put that kind of stuff, otherwise I might have been tempted to spend a fortune.
It poured with rain. As I was just wearing a thing silk top and trousers that I knew would dry out in no time and I didn't have any shoes on (as per normal this summer), I took great delight in waltzing down the middle of the cobbled street getting happily wet and dancing in the puddles and smiling at all the people huddled in doorways!
WE spent a very long time in the most fantastic embroidery shop I have ever been in. Fantastic stock and incredibly helpful staff who really know their stock and who all, obviously stitch themselves (including the bloke). http://www.wye.co.uk/ THey were able to answer my questions on all sorts of things and are mail ordering me some small kits I wanted that they didn't currently have in stock. They also told me where my best chance of finding a pattern I wanted that had just gone out of print was. (ie. Really helpful even when they can't sell it to me themselves) I'd recommend them very highly for cross-stitch/needlepoint/drawn-thread work/crewel work information/materials/kits.
On Sunday, went cycling with
waveney and my sister Gillian. We went along the route of the old CRomford and High Peak railway which is now a cycle trail with wonderful butterflies and wild flowers. http://www.derbyshire-peakdistrict.co.uk/thehighpeaktrail.htm The pictures here really don't do it justice.I also went swimming with my sons and my brothers-in-law and my two nephews. Also had fun playing fribees with nephews and reading stories and playing other games and generally doing auntie things. Kids have masses of energy when they're 2 and 4 respectively, but they're great fun.
Can you tell that I had a good time? Happy smile.
