Tuesday, 14 February 2012

Exceeding Expectations

This weekend had been in the diary for months as one to look forward to. Two of my favourites had booked in a visit as something of a retreat; we all have busy lives and January had taken its toll. In the days preceding, (my last few of term), each of us had our little challenges, but exchanged regular, excited texts, tweets and emails in anticipation of the weekend.

Generally when visitors arrive at mine, we have a list of plans and expectations for their inevitably too-short stay. Most of my friends still live in London, and so there are obligatory visits to pretty, provincial towns, markets and usually some time spent in Bath, but this weekend, we decided to cancel our plans in favour of just hanging out at home.

We chatted, we drank good coffee, good wine and a bottle of prosecco left over from my sister's wedding, toasting all the good things in life. We took a walk and came across some lovely men planting trees, who kindly let us join in and plant an oak tree each, and then we crafted - two of us cutting out letters for my market sign, and one of us making a collage for a lovely boyfriend.










It was a wonderful weekend.