My Life on a Plate

Absent Minded

I do worry increasingly about my mother's memory. Yesterday she failed to remember to meet me for the second week in a row. She was very apologetic later, but has probably forgotten she forgot today. lol

I was thinking this morning much as I'm not a 'blue month' fanatic, I have actually managed an entry every day this month and maybe I should go for it. It was only hours later I realised we're going away next Tuesday for a week, so it won't be possible. How can you forget you're going on holiday? Does this really mean I'm turning into my mother?

When we return from Crete I'll be spending the last weekend in July in London with my friend, Joy. We're going to see 'Phantom of the Opera' and staying overnight at a hotel, then visiting Covent Garden on the Sunday morning, before returning home. This will be a first for me. No, not London, I've been there many times. No, not Phantom, I've seen it before and not Covent Garden either. No, this will be the first time in twenty-five years I've ever spent a night away from home apart from with my mother or sister.

Hubby has never been able to get his head round why women enjoy a break away from males and has always created havoc if I've even been out with the gals for a meal. But in an effort to show he's trying, he's reluctantly given his blessing and I'll be interested in his reaction when I return. Smiles or sulks? Watch this space.

If it works out, then I'd like to do more with my lady friends, possibly even a holiday abroad. I believe a change is as good as a rest and we all need time out from our families at times. The cowardly lion is finally plucking up some courage...grrrrr. Are you trembling?