A weekend of sunshine is...

[kathyh]

...not a usual occurrence when we go to Lincolnshire. Of course we managed to spend part of a gloriously sunny Saturday morning in the local library looking at newspapers from 1916 to find the story about the sinking of J's great-grandfather's trawler. We succeeded even better than we'd hoped but I'll spare you my family history ramblings.

I'm feeling a yearning for bullet points.

• The new bathroom looks fabulous, or will when it has wallpaper and some form of covering on the floor. The house feels much more ours now but I'm not sure whether that's a good or bad thing.

• I ate far too much. Once upon a time it was nearly impossible to get a decent meal in the town. Now we're spoiled for choice. Yummy Italian meal on Saturday, yummy lunch on Sunday, yummy breakfast on Monday...the diet starts now.

• Too much enjoying ourselves means that we didn't get a lot of the stuff done that we wanted to but we have at least prevented the garden from invading the house! Ma-in-L was a very keen gardener and her garden was lovely, but very high maintenance. Unfortunately we don't do high maintenance gardening at the best of times.

• Enjoyed Doctor Who, which we watched on Sunday, but I don't have anything deep or meaningful to say beyond the fact that Donna Is Awesome and I'm loving this season.

• The BBC iPlayer is seriously addictive. Now, now only can I get it on the computer, but on the TV as well. I never thought Virgin Media would provide us with anything I was grateful for but it seems they have. If I'm not around much for the next few weeks I'm either wondering desperately what to get my mother for her 80th birthday at the end of the month, burying myself in the family history stuff or glued to my screen watching programmes I hadn't thought to watch while they were on, and in some cases would never have thought to watch if they hadn't been sitting there so temptingly!

And finally A Very Happy Birthday to spikereader. Hope you're having a lovely day.