Freezing on a Tuesday night...

...but the Clarets gained 3 valuable points in a lacklustre game at Turf Moor.
By the time the final whistle blew I was chilled to the marrow (hey! it's football...it's full of cliches!)
I'm not proposing to report on the actual match, as other do it so much better..but I was amused to have my bag searched on the way in - must look like a middle aged hooligan!
Then I managed to drop my ticket (it was a very windy night)...despite NOT detaching it until I was actually inside the turnstile...Luckily it was handed back to me .
Leaping to celebrate the 2nd goal I managed to hit my shin on the seat in front (I hate all seater gounds!)..
And I think that an extra layer (or two) of clothing is called for to ensure that sitting on a plastic seat, in the path of the wind, watching a football match on a cold evening , does not lead to hypothermia!
BUT...we won.That's the main thing!!
(and I've learned how to put a link in a post...)

In the summer,a colleague of my husband ran from John O Groats to Land's End, raising thousands of pounds for charity (link added - Mark's next big run).
Mark is planning to run across the USA in 2011, and his blog will be following his progress.

Dozy bee

Well...it was a bit chilly for taking photos (I'm such a wimp!), but I was quite pleased with a couple of the photos.
I've cropped the one of the bee as best I could.


The camera is still new to me and there is a lot to discover about its capabilities (I'm still mainly shooting on the auto setting - how lame is that with a fully featured digital SLR?!!)

Anyhow - picture number 2 is of 2 trees in the local park. I thought they looked like the shadow of each other.

Worth waiting for?...

4 months between posts...
Still, that's got Christmas, New Year and Valentine's Day out of the reckoning...and the birthday of my younger children - having 16 year old twins makes me feel so old!! (But not as old as realising that firstborn - Beiderbecke anyone???! - will be 20 in October)

Today was a beautiful crisp , clear, sunshiny day here in the North West of the UK. So I took the camera out to see if I could capture the first flowering of Spring.

Crocuses, snowdrops, and the occasional daffodils were in evidence. I even saw a bee trying to get pollen from a crocus - but it was camera shy,, and all i got was a blur...

However, it took ages for my hands to get warm again - and at midday there was even ice to be seen on water in a bucket in the garden.
I fear the bee may not survive.

Yet again I have proved that I can witter on about nothing in particular.
Now that our youngest is settled in a residential school for autism, I can attend football matches again - it's been 20 years since I went regularly!!
Now i have a season ticket to the best club bar none...Burnley FC.
Watch out for a football themed teddy bear sometime in the future...claret and blue of course..
Just don't hold your breath....!!!

In the meantime - here are some photos of mine on Flickr. Today's will be there soon....
http://www.flickr.com/photos/smiley-riley/