Day 4 books

Day 4 in 30 days/30 things is My favourite book.

I LOVE BOOKS! I do think this is an understatement to be honest. My house is crammed with books, piles of them, in all the cupboards and under the bed, we are a house of books.

So to pick one is almost an impossible task. I read a very varied book list, from biography and history to crafts and fiction, you name it and you can bet somewhere in the house there will be a book about most subjects.

But because I HAVE to I will say one of the books I love and have read more than once is The Magic Apple Tree by Susan Hill.

It tells the life of the author throughout a year in her cottage in an Oxfordshire village. It is a delightful book and I thoroughly recommend it to everyone.

Today is St Swthun's day.

St Swithun's day if thou dost rain

For forty days it will remain,

St Swithun's day if thou be fair,

For forty days 'twill rain no more.

Guess we can expect a wet summer then!

I have my own magic apple tree in the garden.

I have not been up to see it for the past week but I expect there to be lots of little apples swelling with the rain.

Two craft books I love at the moment are these.

I keep buying these craft books, better start to use them I think!

day 3/ TV programme

Day 3 in 30 days/30 things.

Favourite TV programme.

There are lots of TV programmes I enjoy and some, like Friends I can watch over and over again but the one I choose as my favourite is Anne of Green Gables.

Based on the book by Lucy Maud Montgomery published in 1908, Megan Fellows played Anne Shirley in the 1985 TV Mini series. I read the books of Anne's life and bought the VHS of the series to find in had been cut to within an inch of its life. I keep promising myself the DVD boxed set as a special treat to myself.

It's a proper curl up on the sofa on a dull or rainy day sort of thing.

Favourite film

Today's subject in 30 days/30 things is 'favourite film'

Another tough one for me as I do enjoy a good movie. Shan and I watched some drivel in the late 1980's when as students we discovered a Thursday was £1 day at the local run down cinema.

I do have a list of favourite films on my side bar, way down at the bottom and at first I was going to pick this as my favourite.

French Kiss with Meg Ryan. Made in 1995 it's Meg Ryan and Kevin Kline at their comedy best. Click on the link for a scene from the film.

But no, I did not pick this movie for my favourite. Would it be this one?

The Railway Children.
Celebrating it's 40th birthday this year. Regular readers of my blog know how much I love this film and how we often walk the area where it was filmed 40 years ago. That last scene on the platform gets me crying every time.
No, I had to pick a favourite and I decided on this one.

Yanks. made in 1979 and filmed around Yorkshire and Saddleworth. My favourite era and Richard Gere, what more could I ask for?

30 days/30 things

To stop me from boring you all stupid with my recovery (and because I have NO camera at the moment) I am going to join in with LissyLou's 30 days/30 things.

Day 1

favourite song.

This is so hard for me, as I have lots of favourite songs-if that's possible?

but the one that popped into my head first was Louis Armstrong singing La vie en rose.

A special song for hubby and I.

Day by day...

......getting better.

All thanks to a wonderful, wonderful hubby.

I have some wonderful friends too, Diane sent me a get well card and some magazines to read while I have my feet up. And Simone and Shan sent me lovely cards too. Lots of cards in fact from family and friends and the bright and cheerful flowers were off my mum.

Hubby bought me some cherries and I have had the chance to read magazines and books and do some crochet.

So today as a reward for being good and not doing ANYTHING! Hubby let me walk around the garden with him (I wanted to make sure my little cabbages and kale plants were still there-and they were!)

I was itching to do something BUT I was good, just looked around, pointed out some things that need watering and we came back in. I plan to take it easy a little while longer so I don't mess up my recovery.

The roses were smelling wonderful and did me the power of good.

I have lent my camera to my father in law so he can catalogue and photograph his military items. I have lots of photos of things we have been doing over the past few weeks on my computer so my next posts will still have plenty to look at so don't worry!

Oh that hurts!

I am home, a bit sore, can't laugh or cough-it hurts too much!

Done a few slow circuits of the house to try and get my body back to normal. Had some lovely cards and flowers (Thank you ladies!) and also a BIG THANK YOU for all the comments to my previous post.

I have done a bit of reading, no crochet as yet and this is the first time the computer has been switched on. Hubby and Lucy both doing a grand job.

Will be back soon. X

Sending a smile.

This lovely little card (ATC?) was sent to me by Ann in our friendship swap a few weeks ago. Now Ann hasn't got her blog up and running yet but if the lovely things she sent me are anything to go by, I can't wait for her to get blogging!

I sent her these little tokens. We are going for the chunky look here! A chunky friendship bracelet, a rose brooch and a button heart.

I plan to take my lead from Lucy for the next week or so. Put my feet up and relax.

I am going into hospital for a small operation tomorrow and need to rest a while after. It does of course has it's compensations- I can't drive, lift, do the ironing or hoover for two weeks at least, so my hubby will have to wait on me and I get the rest of term off work so no school for me till September!

I do hope to get time to post and read your blogs, read my books and maybe I will finish off that crochet blanket I started many, many months ago?