Oh naughty.

I got this knitting book for my friend, she loves knitting soft toys, but said recently she was bored with animals, I think this should be a nice change for her. She loves knitting, it was for her birthday in May. But they have the builders in, so I have given it to her early for stress relief. 

I am rarely disappointed with books, below are 2 which I started reading and had to stop, strangely the Jojo Moyes book I have tried to read twice, but I can't gel with main woman and the setting does not help, so I will pass it on with the other book, which after a few chapters I knew I had already read, back in early 2020.

This book started much the same as the book above, I think I have read this before, I checked all my list, and no this title was not there, but still I kept thinking this is so familiar. Then the story opened up and it's bringing back villains from another book, in a new twist to their deeds, not all villains have been caught in his stories, I really enjoyed this book. Book 16 read this year. 

I have followed 'All on the board' on Instagram for ages, I am always reading out quotes to hubby, they have now entered them all into a book. They started just popping words on their board in a London underground station, in 2017 to cheer people up, now there are boards in many stations through out the country. Hubby got me this book, it was new, no chance of any second hand ones yet. 

This quote is from yesterday, sad news our Queen has Covid, not nice at any age, I like so many others, wish her well soon, she is and has been a perfect female role model all my life. 

We have not done much in the past few days, the weather has kept us inside most of the time, I'm bored, not interested in any crafting, maybe knitting, but nothing to knit, so I read. Our book swap is still going strong, but as I am the quickest reader, I still have to find more books, charity shops help, but I must get back to our local library. 

The main event this week was Will's 5th birthday on Friday, we did not get to see him on his birthday, the weather kept us away. I did drive to theirs 9am on Saturday, passing loads of broken fences, branches off trees, but no big trees down, I was very amused to pass a summerhouse roof, dropped on the outside of a fence, by the road. We are lucky where we live, few huge trees and no trampolines, we had nothing extra in our garden. The fence is done for, but next door has propped it back up, it won't last, hubby will write to her, we will have to pay in full for the replacement, but she will make it as difficult as she can, sadly it's what she does best. Storm Franklin has a yellow wind warning in our area for 24 hours ending today at mid day, there is only so much you can say or want to read about windy days. 

I sat with Molly on Saturday morning, whilst everyone went to Will's party, plenty of space to run around, the venue did all the party stuff and provided all the food, other than cakes.  They were all back home by 1pm, I stayed most of the afternoon, Will had loads of Lego packs, and a whoopie cushion, which he loves. Sunday was a day inside, watching the weather again, it's boring, but it's how our winter is. Lucky for us, we have power, no snow, and as Sue says in Her in him out2, how we live is much better than our parents, warm home, food and plenty of media to feed our minds.