My long-awaited and nagged-for new kitchen was delivered this week, and after 7 days of climbing over boxes of units and doors, lengths of worktop and a cooker, and not being able to get at the freezer in the garage, it will be fitted, starting Tuesday! I will not mind not being able to cook, wash up, do the laundry... I have a camping stove and a combi-oven, and the pub across the road does great meals.

I have craft fairs on Sunday and Monday, plus an evening stall on Tuesday, all of which will get me out and about, (after the last few weeks being stuck in the area and starting to sort out my mum's affairs), and mean some hard, late night catch-up work if the earlier ones do well. I will moan and groan and get no sleep, but I will be ENJOYING myself!! (No sleep, because the combi oven only runs for 90 mins at a time, and doughcraft takes hours to bake. It then has to be painted and sealed).

My friend in Wiltshire has sent me a root of a plant which a guy she knows has spent 7 years developing. It is the only specimen outside Wiltshire, as far as I know (gloat mode engaged). Yes, it's a "legal" plant!

I am going out for lunch with my brother in law. And I think he's paying!

I'm off with our dance side to Belgium at the end of the month.

Andrea