mousey mousey.........

i was off work on tuesday and took my mum out for lunch to Eden Pottery......very pretty with cute hens roaming about outside...its so close..i am wondering why its taken me so long to go..........lunch was lovely and i had brought along my Thailand guide books to let mum look through the pictures..... more for my enjoyment i think....when we were about to go our separate ways and head for home......she announced that she had hardly slept a wink the night before....due to a chewing sound coming from her attic.......before i knew it i had been talked into her car and on my way to her house to help catch her rodent intruder.............it didn't matter that i was protesting the whole way there ...declaring what little help i would actually be if something tiny and furry made a sudden move in my direction.......she wasn't taking no for an answer.....and with much giggling and shrill screams.........we managed to set out the cheese for mousey.........hopefully he will decide to move house on his own..........

surrounded in seconds........

we went to our local duck pond today for a walk with jude....wearing about ten layers each..and armed with old bread for the geese and ducks......as soon as we rounded the corner all the geese locked eyes on my bread bag and made a B line for me....within seconds i was surrounded with giant birds....i was a tad nervous......incase they got impatient and began a pecking assault.....as you can see one from one of the pictures...i even dropped my bag...such was the urgency to give the bread out quickly to save myself...:-)...........although i have always had a soft spot for these birds since i watched the movie 'fly away home' many years ago........................

exploding yogurt and bottomless bags of apples.........

tonight stuart talked me into to going grocery shopping...i wanted to put it off cause i have a great dislike for it....but he lured me with the promise of Costa coffee when we finished...so i agreed........now before we actually started our rounds of the aisles...i set up some guidelines..strict i hear you say...but necessary......as when i shop with stuart i spend my time phoning his mobile asking ....where on earth are you...as once he gets behind that trolly its like i don’t exist ...one minute i am right beside him....stop to look for something...glance up to talk and he is gone...................well this shopping trip turned out to be a comedy act...and i was the act.......i was in the fruit aisle choosing suitable bag of apples...found the perfect type....lifted the bag to put in my now vanished trolly....and the bottom fell out of the bag and the whole aisle was covered in rolling red apples....and of course i had no one to laugh with as stuart had disappeared.....i looked up and immediately noticed a girl at the till had seen the whole thing and quickly averted her eyes...so i wouldn’t see her snigger...so red faced and flustered i started chasing apples and picking them up so the passing elderly didn’t need an ambulance.....................i quickly trotted a few aisles along and was reunited with husband and trolly and quickly gave off for him disappearing and that i had no one to share my embarrassment with.........so on we went to the dairy aisle...and i was trying to choose which yogurt i wanted...i had the ones i wanted turned round ....and you guessed it .......he and the trolly were no where to be seen........muttering about what i was going to do and say to him.....i realised my hand was sticky looked down and i was covered in yogurt....out of hundreds of pots..i had chosen the exploding pot.....and again i was alone covered in yogurt.....and no one to share it with............so i rounded the corner found an assistant and asked for something to clean my jacket..so i didn’t start smelling like baby puke (and for those that know me..yes it was my north face puffa)...one of the assistants kindly offered me his sleeve......by this stage i was fit to be tied........i was sure this shopping trip was a set up.....it took me at least five minutes to locate my lost husband and trolly.....to which i crumpled and insisted on leaving....he wanted to know why my coat was wet..and why i was clutching a big handful of tissue paper........we started sniggering and he convinced me to stay.....i took hold of the trolly for the rest of our trip...and didn’t let go till we reached the checkout..........phew.......an ordinary night out with stuart and alison at the shops......

the barbarian way................

started this book today....i love the title 'the barbarian way'......speaks volumes in itself of what it is to really lead a christian life...not a religious life that attends church on Sundays and then lives a double life the rest of the week........but a life dedicated to following Jesus...whatever the cost...wherever He leads.......so challenging......it moves me to be reminded...how easy it is to tame the Lion of Judah...so that we enjoy our salvation....but not have our lives and comfort interrupted.......He died a brutal death on the cross for us to win our freedom..........the least we could do is follow Him with everything...........

butterflies in my tummy........

stuart left at 7:15am this morning for his first day at his new job.....he was so excited to get started at something totally new..a whole new chapter..........ion the other hand i seem to be carrying his butterflies in my tummy....what a supportive wife i am..........this is the first day of a whole new way of life for us.......exciting.............i love it...............its like God has just opened the holding pen and released us into the wide open expanse with endless adventure awaiting to be lived..............praying you have a brilliant day stuartie...............xx.......

significant day......

tomorrow will be a significant day for stuart and i.........we are going to church....no that's not it we do that all the time............we will be going to church and not leading anything...wow.....just being there.......worshipping.......fellowshipping...........all those sort of normal things.........its the first time in many many years.......wonder what it will feel like....will it be heavenly..or will i feel like i have forgotten to something................:-)...........anyway we are looking forward to it CFC here we come...home again.....

lovely husband.....

what a lovely husband i have been blessed with....stuart is off for a couple of days till he starts his new post on monday...and i had to go to work..........when i arrived home tonight.........dinner was being lifted out of the oven....smelling amazing........and a roaring log fire ready to warm up my cold toes............welcomed home.................