Lilian's beautiful card

 

Good Monday Morning Ladies, 

Welcome to the start of  a new week, I hope that you all had a good weekend and that the rain didn't spoil your plans too much.  We were quite lucky, Saturday wasn't too bad at all, the afternoon stayed dry, Sunday was lovely to start with, especially in the sunshine, when it clouded over though you definitely needed a jacket on,  it stayed dry up until about 3.30, then the heavens opened, we were in a school lesson at the time, it was so reminiscent of the tiny village school that I went too (that has since been turned into fancy apartments).  Paul got told off because his letters weren't formed correctly, the Headmistress told him that his 'copy book' would be blotted, which you needed to to show prospective employers, she told him that he would likely be only to get a job as a door opener in the mine.  Then came time to show your hands to see if they were clean,  she was not impressed that I had  varnish on my nails,  so everyone pointed and chanted 'shame on you'  i think my face went the colour of my nails!! ☺️

We then went to an old fashioned cinema and saw an early Laurel & Hardy film, not my but Paul loved it, I simply don't find 'Slapstick' funny!  But it was a fun experience,  the rest of the day was spent chatting to the people that play the original,  families or shop keepers, they have the first Self Service Co-Op store,  it had a little challenge where you had to get the ingredients to make a jam roly-poly using your rations and things that were on a point system in the store at the time, I think it was set in 1946, it was fascinating to see children and young couples trying to fathom it out.                         Just as we were thinking about leaving the heavens opened and there was an almighty thunder storm.  We got a little bit wet, so made our way back towards the entrance,  Paul wanted to do the mine tour but there was no way I was putting myself through that after the canal underground experience,  so I sat and chatted to a lovely old fella while he went down the mine,  he did say when he came out that I wouldn't have liked it.                        All in all we had a lovely weekend,  we felt very spoilt, the hotel staff couldn't have been sweeter, we had a lovely swim to get away from the football madness, then got ready for dinner and by the time we got down to the bar it was almost empty!  

Today I am sharing a card that I received from Lilian last week, it is so beautiful,  the colour is so bright and vibrant, it looks like Lilian has stamped and painted on to Linen paper, the texture is lovely and doesn’t affect the detail of the stamped image either.  

Thank you so much for such a beautiful card my lovely XXX 

I hope that you all have a lovely start to the week, 

I will be having to show all of my 'extremities' this week as I have Mammogram tomorrow and Bladder clinic Thursday!! ☺️

Karen I hope you have a lovely time in Bournemouth x

Love and hugs to all of you,

Sandra xxx