Plans and more plans

Day 2 of waking up with a headache, not a hangover I hasten to add, although two glasses of wine certainly tells on me now and last night I had another two at Jeanette's 40th birthday party.
This is Julie's niece and the whole of Julie's family have always warmly welcomed me and made me feel a family member, which is really lovely... thank you guys!
It was a lovely evening with lots of laughter, good food and good company. Jeanette's father-in-law roasted some chestnuts outside on the BBQ and they went down a treat with a glass of wine as it had turned really nippy.

Took mother out for a picnic at Maldon again today to blow away the cobwebs.
I say a picnic, but it was more sitting in the car eating our picnic lunch with the windows open overlooking the river. The thing that had me chuckling though, was if you looked to the left or to the right of you, there was old biddies doing the exactly same thing in nearly every car! I even sat contemplating buying a thermos flask for next time... Sweet Jesus shoot me now!
It is lovely sitting there though and there was a huge visible difference from last weekend. The blue skies were still there fair enough, but less leaves on the trees, people had coats on buttoned up around their ears as there a fair old nip in the air and less people about, apart from sitting in their cars!
I was planning my retirement party in my head as we sat there. That felt weird. I did say I'd have an old me party and a new me party, so I guess I could have them all rolled into one?
I also sat thinking about buying a walking frame thing as well, so i could do a bit of walking when I'm off and get myself a bit fitter. That has got to be easier getting one of them out the car rather than dragging my wheelchair out so i can lean on that. Maybe they do a rough terrain one as I used to love walking over the fields?????

Ah well time to make myself a cuppa and put my feet up in front of the TV. That's the life!

Lots of love Debbie x