Memos, Mail, Me on Monday

A cheerful Monday morning wave to Sian and the other Mondayers. 

Mail first ... I actually received quite a few parcels during the week but I'm only going to tell you about two of them this morning. The rest were destined for the garden so you will hear about them later in the week when I do a garden update. I'll start with the not-so-happy mail; I had some book tokens to use up so ordered a photography workbook from Amazon and when it arrived I was disappointed to see that a lot of the pages were ripped. Most definitely not what I expect for a brand new book. It's on it's way back for a refund and I'll use the money for something else, but I don't know what yet.  If I'm honest, I'm not too disappointed as a quick glance through confirmed that the contents were too basic for me, so I probably would have returned it anyway. 

I forgot to take a photo of the book, but I did take a photo of my definitely-staying-love-it happy mail.

It's not the best of photos as it's still covered in shrink-wrap and I struggled a bit with reflections, but this canvas will be on the wall in the third bedroom once it's decorated. I saw it advertised on Wayfair, fell in love with it, and a few days later, here it is!

On to the something new ... Ancestry is now showing 107 possible connections to me. I read up on how to use the information to identify common ancestors and from that have identified four links as the most likely to lead to the information I need on my paternal line (from the data available to me at present). Genealogy is usually a winter pastime for me but this is quite simply too exciting to wait!

Another 'new' is finding a new-to-me local walk, over fields towards the river instead of my usual route along the canal towpath. No photos of that yet though.

I don't have to work this week and will be spending most of the days at home, pottering and waiting for deliveries of plants. Tonight there is a band committee meeting to agree marketing material (it's going to take ages, I can feel a headache coming on at the thought of it!), and tomorrow night it's the monthly book group meeting (which'll be good because the pub where we meet does the best bowl of chips ever!). I had friends to stay on Saturday night so I cooked us a meal and we talked the night away, catching up on all the news. They've gone on down to Devon now but will call in on their way home mid week and stay overnight again. 

On Friday, it would have been Ced's 78th birthday. When he died I decided that I'd do something special on or near his birthday in celebration both of his life and our relationship, but I still have to decide what I want to do this year. Whatever I settle on will happen sometime this week.

Hope you all have a good week and have lots to look forward to.