Another of my Beautiful Birthday Cards

Good Morning Ladies,

Today's post will be fairly brief as we got in at about ten last night after a another 12 hours travelling.  We were doing fine as always until we got to Calais, now by comparing today's traffic at the port to the last weekend of the holidays that we usually travel on it was clearly a very quiet day, until we arrived, after we had driven into the port we were excited to see so many empty lanes, both the French and British Border Agencies only had two booths open, so traffic soon built up, they then decided to close one, so all the traffic from that queue were supposed to 'merge ' into our lane, but people just don't understand the word 'merge', they all think it's ok to drive up to the front and try and force their way in,then to add insult to injury a French Army lad decided he'd like to look In our roof box, the look of horror on Paul's face was a picture, he had to enlist the help of Sophie and Lucy to close the darn thing, but just as Paul turned the key and went to lift it up the lad was satisfied, don't get me wrong I totally understand their reasons for doing it, I think it's just a case of by the part of the journey we just wanted to get home, I still think that Calais is a very disorganized port compared to Dover. 

I'm not going to start on the topic about the state of the house when we got back, I just went and sat in my bed and had a little cry!! 

The boiler isn't working at all, so no heating or not water!!

I was soon cheered up though by the pile of absolutely STUNNING cards, with verses that would bring a tear to anyone's eye!  You are all just the most amazing friends any girl could wish for, so thank you so very much.

Today's beautiful card was made by Lilian, believe me when I say the photo does not do it justice, the sparkle in the flowers is and grasses is enchanting, the butterfly shimmers prettily in the light too, a lovely soft green background with a stunning vibrant pink on the base of the flowers that blends out perfectly to a softer Pink at the edges of the leaves. 

Such a beautiful card Lilian, I feel very touched that you put so much work into my card, thank you so very much. 

My craft room is going to look so pretty with all of these lovely works of art, after I have tidied it of course, not sure quite what has happened while we were away, it looks like a Hurricane has been through the house, it managed to devour a whole box of unopened Thorntons chocolates, a 1\2 thick chocolate plaque with my name on, five packs of handmade fudge, all from a shelf in our bedroom, Matt wanted to blame Milo and Bella, but they have never been interested in chocolate and you can tell when They have ripped packages open as they claw if, these packages had huge rips in, so my guess is Harley ! Plus he has eaten both chocolate and fudge before from Matt's room! 

Today will be spent trying to restore order!! 

A nice clean bed is awaiting me, (I always change it before we leave), I can't wait to get in it, while we were away we tended to go to bed at about 11pm and we were up by 7.30am every morning, partly for a trip to the loo but also because it was too hot to stay inside any longer, plus we like to make the most of every day, it was a wonderful holiday, we spent lots of precious time with Sophie and Lucy, as it may well be their last 'family' holiday with us, Sophie has already been asked to go to 'Cannes' next August with Lewis (her boyfriend)'s family. I thought it was a bit soon as they have only been together 2 months, but it was nice that his Parents like her enough to invite her, she will of course be 18 by then too, which I forget as they are my babies and I still tend to see them as that, mind you I think they quite like it too!  It melted my heart seeing Paul with them in the sea as they were all getting to grips with the paddle board.  They clearly have fond memories of the place as they asked a few times if Paul and I would still come with them and our Grandchildren, we laughed saying that it was probably a long way off but nothing would make me happier.

So much for a quick post, lol !! 

Have a lovely day my amazing friends,

Love and the hugest hugs to all of you,

Sandra

xxxxxxx

Ps...... It was lovely to not have to ask to be taken for a wee tonight 😉😉😉