Sweets for dinosaurs.

Picked up my first freecycle 'purchase' this morning - a bag of retro sweets! The lady had been sent a care package from her sister, had picked out the ones she liked and didn't want to throw the rest away. She'd said she'd be in as she had 2 small children so I took round a couple of dinosaurs to say thank you and was met at the door by her and her 12 week old son... It turns out she had a big bleed on Christmas Eve and believed she had lost the baby so it was lovely to see him all happy and healthy. She also has a 20 month old daughter but had lost a baby at 10 days old after a premature birth three years ago in September so every year her sister sends her a care package on the anniversary to cheer her up! I have eaten the flump, one of the drumsticks and am moving on to the candy necklace next. Bliss...

Outing

Braved the outside world the other day (very exciting) to meet some friends in town for coffee. Took Dom with me (just to be safe) & got on a bus to the tube station. After going about half a mile in around 10 minutes I decided we should give up & walk the rest of the way - another half a mile - as I was feeling fine. Strode out for about 15 seconds and felt like I was going to collapse! Absolutely ridiculous feeling - really didn't appreciate the effect 6 weeks not moving can have on physical fitness. So we finally made it to the station - stopping every few yards for me to gasp - and found that all the proper seats on the platform have been replaced by tiny ledges to perch on. No good at all - ended up crouched on the floor. (yuck). So Dom went to ask the guy in the ticket office for a newspaper or something I could sit on and the lovely man brought out the comfiest office chair & set it right next to me! (Had lots of jealous stares from other people standing - so for once didn't try to hold in my tummy!) Anyway - made it in to town, had coffee & spend the rest of the day hunting out chairs in shops whilst Dom looked for summer trousers to take to Athens this week. (Very hot there still.) Need to start working this week so am learning to take every opportunity to sit rather than stand and be transported rather than walk...

1st purchase

Very excited - have bought the first baby thing. Well, not very babyish - but it's for the nursery. Have bought a lampshade. The room's quite small so I want to keep most of it white on the walls so it's still light, but there's a picture rail two feet from the ceiling so I'm thinking I'll paint (get Dom to paint) the top of the walls & the ceiling light blue and sponge some fluffy white clouds over it. My new purchase is a paper globe shade in yellow - to look like the sun! Hm. Was planning a new carpet - maybe a dappled greenish thing to make it like grass... Am I going too far... ooo oo flowers on the walls...