Last week was a bit hectic because I had to fit so many things into the time I had available, especially because I had visitors stopping this weekend and I needed to prepare for them too.
Friday and the time of the visitors arrival finally arrived but there was no sign of the visitors… The evening had a tight time schedule involving a Chinese takeaway and a visit to see my parents early in the evening, before my Dad got too tired (because of his chemo treatment). After a phone call it was established that the guests were sitting in a local pub!!! And they were hastily rounded up.
Following that saga my early Saturday hair appointment was quite welcome, I find having my hair done quite relaxing. I was having light perm which means sitting around for a while for the treatments to set. I had to smile when my stylist gave me some magazines to read to stop me getting bored. The rack is full of those tacky, gossipy, tasteless magazines (which I would never read) but she rifled through the rack and brought me the Shropshire Magazine, Shropshire Woman and Country Life. I think she has got me sussed out 
After my hair appointment the plan was to go out for lunch and I had said what time I would be back for. When I got back everyone was sitting around drinking tea and reading papers and not at all ready to go out!!!
Eventually we left the building and made our way to Attingham Park where we enjoyed the sunshine and lunch. We made a tour of the house, it has had a lot of renovations done to it recently which has brought to light some interesting details about the property. I also had my first glimpse of the walled gardens which are a fairly new introduction to the property. On the way back home we visited Sunnycroft which was also interesting and it was nice to see the grounds with very few people around.
The weather was equally as good today so we visited Sudbury Hall and the museum of childhood then came home to a meal that had been bubbling in the slow cooker since this morning. There was a slight technical hitch, but it was delicious anyway.
I have booked the day of tomorrow so that I could have a lie in to recover from the busy week and weekend. Unfortunately the heating system broke on Saturday and although I have turned the heating off it still turns itself on at the allotted times. Today it decided to heat only the upstairs radiators, that should not be possible with the system installed! Anyway, enough of that technical stuff, the bottom line is that I won’t get my lie in because they might just arrive at 8.00 in the morning :-/
mommyyyyyyyyyyyyyy, let’s try the hearts too ???
Flora
Hello Flora
xoxoxox
ok, Flora but if they don’t work here, i truly don’t know
♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
You will have to let me in on the secret of how to do that!
xoxoxoxoxoxox
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the plans of mice and men, Cherie!
Sometimes things are not quite what we expect…and we just have to roll with the punches, like flying from Holland to Atlanta!!!
We do have to roll with the punches. I think all life’s little hassle make us that much stronger in the end
I do hope you get a flight sorted out soon
I hate those glossy magazines at the hairdressers too , i now usually take a book with me, having visitors can be such hard work so enjoy your day off even if you did have to get up early
I usually take my book along too but I forgot to pick it up on my way out.
I had another little snooze on the settee after I got up
Then read my book for a bit and now I am here. More reading later I think and a nice relaxing bath 
It’s all go over your way, Cherie! And I don’t even get to a hairdressers to see those tacky magazines – how disappointing.
I think if someone handed you those tacky magazines you would throw them down in despair.
Those magazine are unbelievable, sometime you just have to read them for a laugh.
I used to love my hair being done but am so short of time, I go to a man’s who just cuts it! It sounds as though you needed the peace! hope you have a lovely rest of the day…….
I only go once every 4 weeks, but I consider it my pamper time
I am enjoying the rest of my day, thank you
Now you see the main reason I go to the hairdressers is to catch up on those tacky gossipy magazines!
Going to the hairdressers is a pleasure almost – but not quite – confined to ladies. Few chaps would admit to the quite liking the sensations of someone (esp another chap) playing with his hair whilst lying back, luxuriating.
But I still recall those of the chap I used to go to in what is now called Kampung Palau-palau. (back in the swinging 60’s) Down at the harbour in what was ‘Victoria’ on Labuan Island, Borneo. The seating was on the pavement in the street and the hairdresser chap was all wire and bone. People would be passing by and he would be chatting nonstop to all of them whilst lathering you up for a shave, which went with every haircut, want it or not, and massaging your scalp with his hard fingers. The shave was with swift, sure strokes of a cut-throat razor but seemed to last ages; the scalp massage was long and slow and ….just how deep can a scalp go?! He was well worth the small change but largely because he would rarely talk to you.
Mmmm… Yes a scalp massage is always relaxing and invigorating too. Sometimes I get put under a contraption that puts out steam that accelerates conditioning mosturiser that has been placed on my hair. The best thing about that is that it seems to clear my lungs and sinuses too!!
Your chap from the 60’s sounds like quite a character
A chap has to draw a line somewhere, and ‘contraptions’ at the hairdressers is it.
Scissors, comb, clippers and razor are (is?) the full suite.
I have to say that if I had know what my hairdresser was going to do in advance I would probably have drawn the line too. On the first occasion I had that treatment (a few years ago now…) my hairdresser had got out of sync sync with her schedule, so she provided that service as a complimentary treatment whilst she got back on track. It was my hair which is so fine and fly away that had caused her the problem, she was new and learning. My hair was and still is a challenge
I don’t know if the strange contraption had any effect on my hair but as I mentioned it did wonders for my lungs