Weekend of August 12th - 14th, 2011 - What are your plans?

Nothing much planned besides cleaning, gardening and reading!

Oh, I would also like to try to see some of the Perseid meteor shower but the bright moon will most likely interfere. As will my need for sleep. :oD

What will you be doing?

Gardening, reading, FOOTBALL!

No bog hopping?

In-laws will be visiting. Gah.

EEP! Don't let your M-i-L into your garden with shears again!!!

Manchester's Carribean Carnival is in town, so weather allowing we'll go and listen to some regee and steel bands.

Going for a ramble in Surrey on Saturday, then there's our annual choir party in the evening. Sunday I am taking part in a choral workshop then going to hear a performance of the same music at the Proms. (Britten's Spring Symphony.)

>3 clamairy:
We'll see. Things have been a little...strange around here lately.

Usual weekend lists: clean up the havoc the zombies have made on the first floor, including clean out the refrigerator. I think there may be some zombies hiding in there. Then, clean up after them on the second floor. I like blaming them for all the messes which need to be cleaned up.

Gardening, Reading (must finish the Sci Fi group's book). Attend my poor little old ladies group. Prepare for the next week with kids.

I am looking forward to Friday and Saturday's good weather, rumors have it that cool and rainy is the prediction for Sunday.

FOOTBALL! Oh, how I've missed you. An orgy of violence. Almost as good as reading fantasy!

Nothing special planned for the weekend. Since we're both retired, we mostly just do what we want when we want to.

We are also waiting, biting our nails, that our granddaughter will hear soon from Fort Walton Beach Police Department that she's got a pin-on date and a job! She's been told she's hired pending final paperwork from the hospital on her physical and drug tests. Supposedly the hospital sent them. I hope they aren't lost in the bloody mail!

A quiet weekend for me, finally, and the weather is supposed to be hot (27-28C). Looking forward to doing a few chores, puttering in the garden, reading, and knocking off a few small items from the job jar. Oh, and catching up on Torchwood, which is waiting on the PVR.

Also watching the cat and trying to decide if the time has come or if he's okay for a bit longer :(

I start the weekend by coming back home, as of about 16:30 this Friday. Yay!
(That was about two hours ago).

Perhaps we'll have guests, for crayfish and chanterelle/Västerbotten cheese pie, tomorrow Saturday. Else, no plans other than changing gears ;-)

>12 Busifer:: CHEESE PIE!!! Oh that sounds amazing. Hope it turns out as delicious as it sounds!

I have dance class and board games on Saturday as usual. On Sunday, I'm going to a movie with a friend - either Cowboys & Aliens or Rise of the Planet of the Apes, we haven't decided - and maybe a library book sale too.

12> Crayfish and chanterelle, oooh! What's Vasterbotten?

It's supposed to be pleasant tomorrow, so I'd like to get a good walk in. Sunday's supposed to be rainy, so perhaps I can catch up on some inside stuff. Or karaoke.

Blue, for what it is worth, I saw "Rise of the Planet of Apes" and I thought it was only an average movie. Not quite a total waste of time, but almost. I wish I'd not bothered. I saw "The Help" today and I do recommend it, unreservedly.

Maggie - It depends who you ask. My sister and mom both really liked it.

A lot depends on what's available at the theater we're going to and when, too - it's kind of an "experience" theater (dinner and a movie in one) and they have a limited selection.

I will be visiting my mother, visiting my garden a little, and reading reading reading Dance With Dragons.

bluesalamanders, I could not agree more. Hope you have a great time.

maggie - Regardless of the quality of the movie, hanging out with friends is always a good time :) Thanks!

12 - Perhaps we'll have guests, for crayfish and chanterelle/Västerbotten cheese pie, tomorrow Saturday.

Ooo! Ooo!!! Pick me! Pick me!

I know, only in my dreams. Or in spirit. :) Enjoy and welcome home.

These are the intended plans, unless more things blow up at work.
Sunday husband and I are driving through some wild and primitive parts of N. Calif., hopefully ending the drive in a town called Weaverville and staying at an old hotel. Monday, leisurely traveling home. Tues. trying to do as little as possible and savoring my probable last day off for quite awhile.

We shall see if it happens or not.

Manchester's Carribean Carnival is in town

Hope they don't play loudly enough to keep me awake. Will be sleeping during the day as I'm working nights this weekend.

We're going to our friend's daughter's quincenera tomorrow. Should be fun. Otherwise, it's just watching the Giants lose and hoping the sun comes out before 4 pm.

Well, it is Saturday afternoon and we have been to hockey this morning (can't wait until the season is over...is that bad?) then to the garden centre where we bought two crabapple trees and a macadamia tree. This afternoon we planted aforementioned trees. Now bathing kids and going to order in pizza and have a movie night with the kids. Tomorrow...no idea. Nothing I hope.

#15 - Västerbotten is a district/county up north and the Västerbotten cheese is local, made only in the dairy in Burträsk (a small village). It is kin to cheeses like parmesan/parmigiana - a hard cheese with a strong flavour.
Anyone who is into cheese and can find a piece should try it, imho, even if it is on the "ouch" side of expensive.

BTW one of the intended guests have been troubled by a stomach bug so we postponed the crayfish/pie occasion :(

Also, got a phone call from a person whose flat we've shown interest in - scheduled a showing for Sunday afternoon. We'll see, we don't really know if moving is the right thing to do but we'll have a look and then discuss it. Between laundry and restocking the fridge and making plans for fall (finding a swim school for son, et al) I think my weekend is accounted for ;-)

welcome home, Busifer!

>26 Busifer:
If you do move, will Busifer Jr. be able to stay in the same school?

#28 - Yes, for now that is one important condition; ideally we want to change municipality, mainly because while the surroundings here are great the people living here is not so much so - lot's of nouveaux-riches who can't behave in a civilised way, and we don't want our son to take his manners from those people (beside us being fed-up with getting irritated by peoples' "me-me-ME!!!"-behaviour), but son's school is VERY good and as it is a public one he won't be allowed to stay on if we change municipality.

A reason for us to move now would be to find a (still local) area where there's more kids - there's no one around here now, which means playing with someone is kind of a project. Not to mention the general situation we have, which still could go any way - either we gamble on a win for us, which would mean getting to buy the house, or we lose, which would mean a landlord with whom we're in conflict... which isn't good.
Undecided, yet, what to do.

#27 - Thanks :)
I have NO IDEA how I'll get up to date on all the posts here!!!

Welcome back Busifer. It always feels good to be home again, even when Holidaying has been fun!

#23. Alexander Park, Mosside (so we didn't stay after dark!) don't know how near that was to you. It was pretty damm loud. Louder than I wanted to be near, even when I was a long way away from the stages. The bands were all OK, the main DJ in a seperate bit of the park was excessive. Good fun. Lots of people watching to be done. Good food. I had Saltfish and Ackee, with Festivals and fried plantain = (more or less) fish in a sauce and long doughnuts and banana. Lots and lots of goat curry around and jerk chicken, something that I don't find other than at festivals.

Hello All! I apologise for missing the last couple of weekend threads - I've been a little busy (but that's really no excuse). Still, I bring a couple of new photos, so hopefully that makes up for some of my absence?

I have had a pretty quiet weekend (thankfully), and it has given me a chance to finally catch up on a few things (house-stuff, and online-stuff). I've also just picked up a copy of Peter Jackson A Film-Maker's Journey and I look forward reading through that.

Anyway, enough of my waffling, here are a couple of pictures - I hope you like them?

The Ruins of Tintern Abbey:


Tree & Sunlight:

Sun & Tree by Scott Fisher

Hope everyone is having a good weekend?

Great shot of the birch :)
(The run is great too)

Visitors coming! Visitors coming!! DUST/"PICK UP"/get dressed!!!!!!

Went to see Mr. Big on their reunion tour last night. So tired. Need coffeecoffeecoffee.

Gosh its over before it began!

Nothing much. Just hanging out with the local wildlife.

ACK!!

I witnessed a senseless act of violence this weekend.

I saw a cicada killer sting this defenseless critter to death, then fly away without even taking the carcass to feed her offspring.

*sobs* that is so UNFAIR!

no one ever said life was fair, maggie! *pats back gently*

Had a very nice drive and overnight away with my husband. Only I got a bit put-out with him when he always "missed" the opportunity to pull over so I could play in the creek by the road. There were only a couple of times when it was accessible, and in his mind he had perfectly good reasons for not stopping then but going a bit further "down the road." However, we did pull over in a beautiful spot where I sat on a stump enjoying the endless view of pines/forest, the sound of the wind soughing in the needles of the trees, the distant bubbling of the inaccessible creek and the SMELL, oh the gorgeous smell of the forest.

We stayed the night in a lovely restored hotel,

http://www.weavervillehotel.com/