A lonely Easter

Its Easter Sunday and I am sitting here on my own, the third day of the Easter weekend alone :-( The danger when I am on my own is that I go online shopping...... so I booked myself a holiday in September - alone. It was a lot of heart searching as to whether I should or not and just went with it in the end. I'm off to Ireland on a minibus tour and will also spend a few days in Dublin - so scary, but I'll use this as an opportunity to take loads of photos and practice.

This is the first Easter I haven't put up the Easter tree that I have every year since I got married - there didn't seem much point, in fact I don't feel like it is special at all. I ended up cooking a roast for just me. My husband turned up with Easter eggs for all three of us - I didn't buy him one. He stayed and watched me eat my roast as I was just serving up when he arrived. It was all very odd and very sad.

I watched 'The Help' yesterday which was a wonderful film. I spent a lot of it crying.... in fact I've been doing a lot of that so far this weekend. Its times like this when everyone is spending time with family that it really hits you.

My eldest daughter told me last week that she is having 'a break' from her boyfriend. That made me so sad and then yesterday I discovered that his dog that had been in the family for years had died. His mum is so upset  :-(

My youngest daughter completed her first weeks training and has her first shadowing sessions next week. She got her uniform - a lovely light blue tunic that suits her very well.

I sent in my second assignment for this OU module and have already got my results back - passed with a reasonable mark. I am behind with my reading. For some reason I am finding doing this module harder than last year. I have no idea why but I just can't be bothered to do anything. I'm OK once I do, but procrastinate so much these days.

And I'm in a planting mood - I now have potatoes, onions, parsnips, lettuce and herbs planted. I have a chilli plant on the windowsill which I will put out when the weather warms up and  have cucumber and tomato plants arriving later on. Hopefully they will all grow well and I'll have some lovely fresh veg :-)

I so want to lose weight but again can't get the enthusiasm up to do anything........