On Saturday, having been youngest offsprings birthday the previous day, we went for our first visit to Xscape with Snozone in mind. For those who don't know Snozone has real snow although it's inside.

We duly arrived, later than planned but those who know my other half will find that as no surprise but at least it was still light outside!

I had thought toboggoning (sledging)would best be suited to a 9 year old and a 7 year old but of course they actually fancied a skiing lesson. However we were unable to get a lesson (not having booked)so toboggoning it was.

What a great time I had! Yes I know we were there for the kids but who was it that said you couldn't enjoy yourself in child orientated pursuits. Personally I thnk people just get too tied up in how to behave for "their age" and start to forget how to have fun. So what if you look silly, who cares.

The kids did enjoy it too even though they had a little squabble when snow was thrown but it's the best £10 I've spent (£10 per adult per half hour, £8 kids)for a great half hours entertainment when I didn't have to remember I was an adult and all that that entails.

p.s. next on the list is roller blading

On Saturday I was in Glasgow to meet D who'd travelled down fron Inverness. She's recently moved from Arizona (although she is in fact German... Phew!). Anyway we had a lovely time chatting for 17 hours.

Of course Saturday was also the day that Scotland played France (or should I say beat France but we won't go into that :-) )and as such Glasgow was full of men in kilts. And what a variety there were of both. I was however only looking at the kilts! Some of the new modern ones (kilts I mean) are really good looking and it amazes me how easy they fit in with various shirts and t shirts. However it must be said trainers without socks do absolutely nothing for a kilt so guys please take note. Now chunky socks and boots they are a different matter as well as that nice open necked laced shirt (no not as in lace but as in laces that you do up or undo as the case may be) but please definitely no to trainers.

A woman stopped by unannounced at her son's house.
She knocked on the door then immediately walked in.

She was shocked to see her daughter-in-law laying on the couch,
totally naked. Soft music was playing, and the aroma of perfume filled
the room.

"What are you doing?" she asked.
"I'm waiting for John to come home from work," the daughter-in-law
answered.

"But you're naked!" the mother-in-law exclaimed
"This is my love dress," the daughter-in-law explained.

"Love dress? But you're naked!"

"John loves me to wear this dress," she explained. "It excites him to
no end. Every time he sees me in this dress, he instantly becomes
romantic and ravages me for hours on end. He can't get enough of me."

The mother-in-law left. When she got home, she undressed, showered,
put on her best perfume, dimmed the lights, put on a romantic CD, laid
on the couch waiting for her husband to arrive.

Finally, her husband came home. He walked in and saw her laying there
so provocatively.

"What are you doing?" he asked.

"This is my love dress," she whispered sensually.

"Needs ironing," he said. "What's for dinner?

I got a letter yesterday from someone I hadn't heard from in 11 years and it brought a smile to my face. In these days of texting and emails I'm glad to say I'm still one of those old fashioned folk who enjoys writing and receiving letters and all the better if they are handwritten. Don't get me wrong, I text and email too and they are great for speed but sometimes it's just really nice to sit down and read a real letter and even to get out old ones and re read them (yes I'm guilty of that too and hoarding!

I've always been one for having penfriends from near and far and have been since my teens. Over the years I have made some lovely friends and also been fortunate to meet some of them. Unfortunately I have also lost a few too as letters get more infrequent and finally stop often the only reason being that life takes over the time you would normally spend writing.

I often wonder what some of them are doing so yesterday's arrival was doubly good as it answered that question and now of course gives me the opportunity to write back.:D

I know that normally I bemoan the fact that everyone seems to have decided that summer is over. However this morning when I came downstairs to a cool and misty morn I wasn't glum as I looked out my window at my little tree out back and there was a lovely display of spiders' webs, the type which normally you only see on a cold and frosty morn.

Whilst I was on holiday my darling teenage son never watered my peace lily and consequently when I returned it was a very sorry looking sight and appeared dead. It was as you can imagine rather brown and dried up after spending two weeks on the window sill! My initial reaction was to put it in the bin but decided to chop all the dead bits away and wait and see.

Anyway I'm very pleased to say it's now fourishing and has several lovely new green leaves! Hurrah!

It's getting to that time again when the summer is apparently declared over and the kids return to school. Already the shops have decided winter is on the way and flip flops have been replaced by winter boots. Personally I still wake up in the morning expecting the sun to be out and the day still hot enough to not need a jacket and those that know me know I like the heat!

Whilst on holiday I got a BIG red fleece that has become to me as Linus' blanket, a great comforter! I was in a state of panic when my husband told me he'd put it in the tumble drier last week (he doesn't like it! The fleece that is)but fortunately for him it was still in it's same condition.

Anyway I'm still holding onto the idea that it's summer even though the nights are getting darker earlier but when you still get wonderful sunsets like there was the other night summer it will stay!

Hurray! Woke up this morning just after five to discover a lovely sky which got bluer as the morning went on

Isn't it funny how you can get so used to the warm sunshine and almost go into shock when it rains. Mind you I must say I did enjoy the rain the other night thundering down, nothing like a good old thunderstorm and hopefully lightening to go with it.

I love thunderstorms and the one we had a while back was truly magnificent. I sat for ages watching it, eagerly awaiting the next flash of lightening to see how many forked bits there would be. Such power! Sheer bliss! Easy pleased I guess but who cares it was brill

I mentioned to a friend the other week how I would love to be on a beach with massive waves, watching a thunder and lightening storm and they remarked how I'd best be careful just in case I was the tallest thing there and might be the lightening strike! Hadn't thought of that one just wanted to watch all that power combined - might need to wear my wellies then!

Ok I wasn't going to write about this and indeed it's nothing major but just brought a chuckle to my pal and I and yes it was at her hubby's expense and being bad scorpions well... it was funny...

Her hubby had bought a MP3 player on Saturday and had loaded some songs on it but when he went to play them it wouldn't work so called me (who's hardly a technological genius, far from it and after some carefull instructions was still no further forward.

Anyway having looked on the players' website and seen nothing but bad reviews, decided just to return it and get a more expensive replacement.

I went round to see him yesterday to see how he'd got on and he had got a nice new one and there was no problem at all getting the songs loaded. Then came the moment of truth.... turned it on and still no sound!! I had a look at it and lo and behold he hadn't pushed the headphones right in. Obviously it just needed a woman's touch I mean it's not rocket science (makes me wonder about the first one!)

I went for a walk in the park yesterday and was amazed to see that there were already conkers growing on the big chestnut tree. Now I may be a bit naive but I really felt it was early on in the year for this or am I totally wrong and it just takes a couple of months for them to develop before dropping off.