Royal Wedding Stitch Up

Grandma loves this knitted Royal Wedding and will give it to her granddaughters. It has been knitted by  friend Julia Barbe using Fiona Gable's pattern book.More of these knitted characters will be  for sale at St Botolph's Church Cambridge on 2  May 2011.

                   Prince Harry,Prince Philip, Queen Elizabeth, Kate and William,Camilla,Prince Charles and a corgi

Bluebell Burst

If the weather is warm this weekend look out for a bluebell burst  .

Woodland Flowers from England

This is a good year for woodland flowers. Many can now be grown in containers in your own garden.The wild plants should not be picked. I have found my favourites, violets and primrose plants for sale on Cambridge market, they become well established quickly.

Grave Digging

Spent Sunday afternoon in London Road Cemetery, Coventry looking for my great grandparents grave. Inspite of getting a map and advice on where it is I could not find it so will seek more advice and look again another day

 This cemetery is very attractive on a sunny spring day with about 2000 graves, many of them Victorian ,  they are very elaborate with interesting inscriptions.Primroses, violets and bluebells have grown up among the gravestones and squirrels and baby rabbits play happily in the grass.

Manchester

Grandma is in Manchester where Grandpa has been working.
Grandmas has been seeing old friends ,shopping in the excellent shopping centre.
The City Art Gallery is a good place to visit, very focused on Victorian and northern artists.
Grandma has not won any money on the Grand National but Grandpa has.

Cambridge Weather

Cambridge was the warmest place in England today at 23 degrees.
Had to look out some cooler clothes.
If you are thinking of visiting Cambridge remember that it can be very wet and rainy in the spring.

Cambridge Today

The Grand National

Grandmas everywhere have a flutter on this race.Even though she never watches another  horse race all year  this one is a national event and this Grandma backs  horses for herself and several family members so they can gather around the TV on Saturday afternoon and scream hysterically for their horse.

Grandma fancies Midnight Club.
Grandpa fancies State of Play

It  is easy to do online, not like the old days when you crept into a book makers hoping the neighbours would not see you.
My Grandmother, Henrietta Hancock owned a bookmakers premises next  to her corner shop in Adnitt Road, Northampton when I was a little girl.
She often had a flutter for me -- I would get the winnings quite frequently.
Always nice to have extra pocket  
ladbrokes.com makes it easy

The New Phone

Still struggling with new C3 Nokia and Emails. Asked a professional to help, partial success. Emails can come in but not go out.Downloaded a 32 point advice plan from Nokia .
Grannies at the life drawing class all admitted to difficulty setting up new phones. These are very intelligent ladies, it must be the phone companies salepersons and confusing instructions that defeat us.

Mothers Day

Visits from children and grandchildren.Nice cards.

Pleased to see them after a busy week.Bought a new mobile phone, Nokia C3-- must now attempt the 15 point instructions on how to get set up Email.

Swinging

Today I can see Grannies in the park watching their grandchildren on the swings