What have you been doing today?

[mab19]

Wow Chookie that's a big mushroom.

Getting ready for our holiday.  We are going to Echuca for 4 days.  DS and family have booked us on a overnight dinner cruise on one of the paddle steamers.  This is a combined birthday present for us.  We will come home for two days and then head off to Narooma for a week and take a slow trip home from there.  We are really looking forward to getting away and hoping that the weather will be good.

[judydawn]

A button mushroom on steroids Chookie.
It sounds like a couple of nice short breaks Margaret, enjoy them both.

[Cuilidh]

Wow Chookie that's a big mushroom.

Getting ready for our holiday.  We are going to Echuca for 4 days.  DS and family have booked us on a overnight dinner cruise on one of the paddle steamers.  This is a combined birthday present for us.  We will come home for two days and then head off to Narooma for a week and take a slow trip home from there.  We are really looking forward to getting away and hoping that the weather will be good.

You'll love the paddle steamer.  I know Chookie and Ral have done a trip on one of them and 2 years ago we went up and did a lunch trip, it was great and very memorable.

[cookie1]

I love Echuca Margaret especially the paddle steamers.

What an enormous mushroom, a meal for two by itself.

This morning DH and I went to the specialist for his back. He was still suffering after supposed sciatica 5 months later. The specialist said his back is ok and will recover slowly, no sign of sciatica, just age!

[judydawn]

That's good news that DH's back is OK cookie, maybe he just has to take things a little easier to enable the pain to ease.  Not much he, nor anyone else for that matter, can do about ageing though unfortunately.

[achookwoman]

Cooking and gardening.
Mab, lovely breaks away. Have a great time.
Cookie, tell DH to take it a bit easier. Getting older is a bugger.

[cookie1]

I will pass on your sentiments to DH, thanks.

We went to a funeral this morning. Poor lady had been in a wheel chair for about 5 years and absolutely hated it. Her family have looked upon it as a blessing as she has been in so much pain.
It makes paltry aches and pains seem so inferior.

[mcmich]

Sounds like a lovely trip Mab.
DH and I are off to Forster next weekend for our anniversary, taking the van. Just love Forster, will probably retire there.
Although everywhere we go on holiday I want to move to. 

[Cornish Cream]

Although everywhere we go on holiday I want to move to. 

LOL 

[judydawn]

LOL Michele, I know what you mean.  I used to be like that.

[Cuilidh]

Although everywhere we go on holiday I want to move to. 

LOL 

I was like that too, until we got our home in Guildford.  Just remember, going somewhere on holiday and living there are two entirely different things.

[mcmich]

So true Marina. I would like to live in a warmer climate and Forster is only 2 hours north of us so wouldn't be much different weather wise. As DH pointed out
we would still have to come back to Newcastle for any specialist etc.

[droverjess]

Although everywhere we go on holiday I want to move to. 

Love this quote and the sentiment McMich... we stayed in a lovely flat in Cornwall for a week in October overlooking the sea, fab but as CC says Cornwall is just too far from everywhere.

Walked 3 miles today and got office ready for delivery of secondhand desks tmro and been planning my secret santa too  

[astarra]

Although everywhere we go on holiday I want to move to. 

I'm the opposite, Mich... every time I go on holiday I just love getting back home!!!
Holidays are nice tho!

[Katj]

I'm like you Astarra, I love a nice holiday or quick getaway, but always love to come home.

I've made a Salad for tonight to go with some steamed salmon, also made quick mango Icecream from Isi's recipe here on forum. Hers is done with frozen raspberries, but I 'Ve used mango this time, whips up beautifully with the egg whites with the butterfly in.
I made a green smoothie for lunch too. We ate a lot on the weekend, having a light day today.
Off to babysit at DD's for a few hours, so I like to have dinner sorted.