A post Card From London

So in April I......

Made an Easter egg hunt for Anthony (yes my 35yr old husband had an Easter egg hunt...think i need some kids of a playful age quick!)

Ate easter eggs

Took the car and William and went up to Liverpool to see friends and family.

Visited the Tudor town of Chester (My eldest brother Danny lives there with his family),


Was a famous actress for a day.....( so i did some arts/theatre workshops with some kids on Mudchute farm in east London, when making puppets a little girl came up to me and asked 'who drew the cows head?' I answered :'that would be Mary, she's the artist'.
The little girls eyes widened and mouth opened with a gasp...shortly after that Mary had a que of children lining up for her autograph...the little girl had told all the other children Mary was a famous artist. To divert the attention Mary told them that i was an actress!!...and then i had children coming up to me all day asking 'miss are you a famous actress?' and 'can I have your autograph?', in there east London cockney accents. Of course i couldn't disappoint there little amazed faces so i signed the autograph trying to explain that i wasn't famous but i don't think they wanted to hear that so i just gave up! My autograph now adorns about 20 seven year old bedroom walls in east London, how proud i am!)

Had my sister Jo Ann and her boy Reuben come stay with us for a few days,


Took the boat down the river Thames to Greenwich (with my sister and Kelly),


Had a picnic in Greenwich park,




Went to Lindsey Plantins film themed party (i didn't dress up as i came from a youth dance id been helpin out at....was a little sad i didn't dress up!)

more photos and film to follow!

Did some sunbathing in the lovely hot weather,

Read The Help by Kathrine Stockett, ( bit disappointed with the ending),

Bought some running shoes and enjoyed sniffing them for that lovely 'new trainer' smell they had, expected them to make me skinny just by purchasing them (same way i expected the Davina fitness DVDs and big pink exercise ball to make skinny on purchase...still waiting! meanwhile Anthony is getting sick of a huge inflatable ball cluttering up our tight on space flat!)

Finally used new trainers and have started running in the morning along the river at the back of my house..i love it!(have to keep reminding myself that i do each time i go) however am disappointed am still not skinny after a couple of runs! i don't understand why???

Went back up to Liverpool as Anthony had to fix up his Liverpool house before re-renting it so i got to have more catch up time with friends (Becky, Forest, kia, Lindsey, Ruth, Anna...) and family.

Celebrated Big sis Jo Ann's 30th on a windy beach! ended up just hiding from the wind in the sand dunes before giving up...I had warned them it would be windy as I worked on Crosby beach in June 08 and it was windy every day, but the fact that there is a wind farm built next to the beach is also a big fat give away!!

Got Sick. That just about sums up April...