The Weekend

On Thursday my friend Loony and her daughter came up to visit. She lives in Bristol where we met whilst working for Nat West there.

Loonies little one - Amy - who is my "Odd Daughter" (no, not god daughter, but similar). Amy is two and has got cute down to a fine art. Its lovely to see her doing little things for herself, like eating, and wiping her mouth when shes done!

I worked on Friday, but she and Douglas went into town and had a good day - I wished I was with them too!


This is the cheeky little lady herself.


Today, Saturday, we had a late start, and headed off to a local villiage carnival which Id been told about through work so we decided to give it a go. It turned out to be a rather small afair in the local park.

We didnt stay very long, and when we got back to the narrow side road where we parked, we saw a single decker bus parked nearby, the driver sitting on the road nearby, and some police near our car! My first thought was that the bus had hit our car, but as we got nearer, we realised that the gap left between our car and those parked the other side of the road was too narrow for the bus to fit through!!

We moved our car as fast as possible, apologising profusely to the bus driver and the police for causing an obstrcution. As we loaded Amy into her car seat, I chatted to the policeman, and explained we had no idea that it was a bus route. There were no markings on the road and no bus stops visible. The policeman said he was new to the area too, and agreed it was not clear. Had we not arrived as soon as we did, we might have got back to find out car had been towed!!!!!!!!!

The police (i hope) put bollards on the road to stop anyone else innocently parking where we did, and make sure that the same problem dosnt happen again in years to come!!

Tomorrow, Douglas and I are off to a garden centre that has a farmers market happening!! Loony sadly says she is too tired to come with us, so she will stay home whilst we go out and give her some peace.