What is This Life ...?

Well, disaster, darlings!

We had a thunderstorm and a lightning strike directly overhead.   A thunderous single crack lasting no more than a few seconds.

 I happened to be sitting in the room where the wifi router is located.  I saw a flash of light in the room, for just a second.  I fear I may have been Frankensteined!

No surprise that I discovered later that we had no broadband connection on any devices.

So we've had a few days of trying to sort things out.

After many helpline conversations and fault finding missions, I picked up a new router today but we're still not there, it's not functioning and the hotline A Team are now on the case.   I'm typing this on Kindle as weirdly the router log-in has managed to piggyback off someone's WiFi in the hood onto this device. It's the only device that's functioning which means I'm on slow one-finger typing.  What a palaver!

Has this happened to you?

How did you cope?  Did you carry on regardless or run around like a frustrated headless chicken?!

The house benefited from my off-line status. With no keyboard twiddling to be had, I took to cleaning and organising the house.  That pleased The Photographer and, surprisingly, me too!

I hope it'll be business as usual for me soon.

But anyway, me and my one finger are here, so let's move on.  

Earlier in the week,  I enjoyed two school sports days spread over the one day.

I count my blessings that I am such a lucky granny to be able to participate in my little treasures' special days.

I felt inspired to take a selfie for you half way through the day.

And to show you the lawns on which sports day is held.

I am on cloud nine when I get to go this type of event.  I get a little over-excited and am close to tears of happiness.  

So emotional.

All the children did wonderfully and were so happy, enthusiastic and energetic.  What an amazing experience.

The school kiddies were lucky enough to have their special event on a glorious day.

It was hot, I doubt they noticed ... but grannies do!

So when Son and DIL invited me round for a refreshing Jacuzzi whilst they and The Photographer watched the first of the new series of Game of Thrones (I don't follow it), I jumped!

 I quickly slipped on a long Primani maxi.

This is its first outing this year.  It was excited too!

Under the maxi I wore my black tankini from Bravissimo, ready for some bubble action!

What a pleasure it was to soak my body in that bubbling Jacuzzi, looking up at the beautiful summer evening sky.  Watching the smokey wisps of cloud drift by, listening to the chatter of evensong, then letting my mind drift away as the sun itself began to drift behind the trees.  And to add to my pleasure, a hunky Samoyed was watching over me as he lay on the nearby sunbed.

What bliss.

What is this life if, full of care

We have not time to soak and stare.

With apologies posthumously to W H Davies for tweaking his words ever so slightly to make his poem Jacuzzi-friendly.


A perfect day, from start to finish.


Have you been lucky enough to tag along to any sports days this summer?


Now, dear reader, something special is happening in Pout World. I'm getting close to 100,000 reads.
Yes, I'm more than a little excited!
I'm displaying the number in the top right hand corner of my page to mark the event.  If you just happen to be the one who tips it into six figures, I'd be thrilled if you let me know in the comments box that it was you who crossed that magical threshold!


A la perchoine

What I Did In The Holidays #2

Our schools' term ended on Friday for a belated Easter holiday; OK  a tad after Easter but it spreads the holidays up a bit better.

For her first day of school holidays Granny wore M&S taupe jeggings, Next printed jersey tunic top and Woolovers Pepper cashmere/merino edge cardi, with M&S snakeskin flatties..

We had a super day.  Fun, sunny and warm.

This is a great piece of kit if you have children in the family.  It's easy to use.  Some soft toys were made and a cute iPhone handbag.  Great entertainment, great learning, great work.

Then we went out for some fresh air and seaside fun. 

L'Eree was our playground today - nature provides us with some wonderful adventure paradises.

In the distance is Lihou island; it can only be accessed via a causeway at low tide.  The house on the island is rented out to big groups.  It's a real Enid Blyton-style holiday for families staying there.

We watched the waves crashing into the rocks, then waterfalling through the gaps.  

The waves' spume looked like milk pouring into a frothy milkshake.

We stopped a moment for some quiet thought at the memorial to a ship wrecked off the coast some years ago.  The Le Hanois lighthouse lies off the shore to protect vessels but sadly this one hit the rocks in a storm and many poor souls lost their lives.

Our favourite little cove, where the playing began. 

We threw stones in to the sea as far as we could;

a few even managed to skim the surface!

A fine collection of cuttle fish were amassed.

Photographs were taken of some of the many varieties of wild flowers, here are a few.

We took time to smell the gorse - heavenly when its warmed by the sun. 

And then we had to say a la perchoine to our little play-cove, for it was time for lunch (chocolate biscuits and ginger beer maybe?!).

I hope you enjoyed your trip to the seaside.

A la perchoine.