England, glorious England - oh drat, it was actually Wales!

I have just spent the most wonderufl (that's a lovely new word!) week-end in the Brecon Beacons. We had the whole gamut of weather, rain, sun, heavy wind, almost freezing, fog, low lying clouds etc etc.

On Saturday the rain ruled the roost, so we went into Hay on Wye to visit a few book shops, coffee shops and other girlie shopping, you know - clothes, jewelry etc. Then we emulated the intelligentsia nd went to the Hay Literary Festival and visited a few more book shops, the stalls giving freebies - wine, crisps and yogurt from Shropshire!! Then back for food, wine and much hilarity around the fire. Did you know that disposable barbies have a wonderful second role in life, cook on them then put them under your garden chair and they warm the posterior in such a gentle manner - ooooh! Go on, try it!
Sunday saw us trolling around the countryside, not just any old part, but the Lord of Hereford's Knob - yep, you read this aright. There was a cairn at the top so I celebrated reaching this most incredible place by walking around it three times clockwise. When I asked what we did next, I was told 'Go down....' so I just laughed, and laughed and laughed. What else could one say! I went to visit an elderly family friend of 89 years who was thrilled that I had been there! Oh I know it well she laughed! (So I am not the only with this sense of humour.)
Today we went to visit a crooked church which really made us feel seasick. I must find out the name of the place, it was wonderful. (Got it - St Martin's Cwmyoy.) Then there were the bluebell woods, oh how lovely they looked and smelled. This is the time to be in England - oooops sorry, Wales!

Try to imagine that I am creeping in under a closed door .Please?

Tami has just sent a message telling me that it is a month since I last blogged - aaaargh! I didn't realise it was that long.
If I say that today I have cleaned my fridge - DLG will know how traumatic that can be for me, sorted out all the small change in the various piggy banks and taken it into the local health food shop to be exchanged for paper money, yes there was a full pink piggy bank waiting to be sorted.

In fact I have started to sort out my little house and garden, the first time for ages.
I find it very difficulat to motivate myself to do this, perhaps that is part of living on my own - laziness! However, I have started and I mean to go on.
The lawn is being mown daily because I left it too long after the spring so it was ankly high (I like that little typo error!) and my little mower does not like long grass, so that's my punishment for that!
I have accumulated piles of paper from work yet again and so those are being sorted out and chucked out wherever possible.
I am sorting out all sorts of things that I really don't want to keep and I am going to sell those in the summer - either in ebay or in the local auction house. I have never done either of those so I will need to have some trial sales and see which gives me the better sellling 'buzz'.
Have you noticed that each one of these paragraphs begins with 'I'? Well, that has to stop too! So, there is a spring cleaning of the house and garden, but mostly of attitude going on here in rural Shropshire. There is no guarantee that it will lead anywhere, but we shall see!
Meanwhile, it is now the dressing table's turn. Just the top, I am not brave enough to sort out the drawer of old and smouldering make-up. Some of that has been in my life for many years - I even have some Mary Quant false eye lashes, oooh what a sad person I am!
See you after I have hoovered under the bed.