Still catching up!
We finished April with another visit to Manchester for my grandson's birthday. As there is a playroom and the railway doesn't have to be put away, railway building has reached new heights!
May saw me finally get a diagnosis for my back problems. I have scoliosis apparently, the consequence partly of my spinal fusion following a car accident 20 years ago, and partly to my breaking 4 ribs 40 years ago in another car accident. Lots more physiotherapy, daily exercises, I'm wearing a shoulder brace and I have a TENS machine to help manage the pain. In the meantime, I can wander about muttering 'Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this sun of York...' or 'A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse'! (Richard the Third had scoliosis, he wasn't a hunchback.)
We finished May and the start of June with another visit to Manchester for half-term; we stayed in a hotel this time, as my son and his wife are trying to sell their house and it's hard to keep the house immaculate with people living in the playroom and sleeping on the sofa bed. That was our bed at the right side of the photo of the wonderful railway layout. You need to switch the light on if you get up in the night to visit the loo - or you stub your toe and you have to listen to the howls of rage from the railway builder next morning.
Below is the kitchen, awaiting viewers.
It's quite an effort keeping the house this pristine!
Later in the month, the Cambridge friends came to stay with us for a few days. We managed a visit to Standen on a beautiful day.
I won't post any more interior photos here, but below is a new section of the garden, which isn't open yet.
It's still under development, but was already looking good - and quite a lot of the gardening is done by volunteers.
The following day, we visited Ightham Mote for the Antiques Roadshow. It wasn't such a nice day! We had to queue for most of the day so the experts could view the two paintings left to us by Paul's parents.
Sad to report, neither of them is all that valuable.
It was a fascinating visit though - we saw Fiona Bruce and all the experts. But I think you see more of it if you watch it on TV.
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