Plane Drama and Lovely Visit

I'm finding Blogger is being weird. I'm not seeing new posts - sigh. Hopefully, it's just complaining that I've been away too long lol. 

Thanks for all the well wishes for the trip. I am so glad I ended up changing my flight on the way there as the plane that left from Kalamazoo was late and I would have missed my connection. As it was, I made it well on time. My poor walking friend - who was supposed to be leaving 31st August for a trip to Ireland, ended up missing her flights and, because she was with a group, they couldn't be rescheduled for another week! Yikes. 

My flight on the way back from London was on time, but (thanks Chicago - last time flying that airport for a while lol) when I got to Chicago the flight back to Kalamazoo was delayed and delayed and delayed and finally, I had to spend the night in the airport. Not how I wanted to end things. Sigh. Next year, I'm planning on saving a bit more and going the other way (through Detroit) instead.

While over in England, I had a lovely time. I stayed with my middle sister C. We had a great time walking and going places. I met up with my other sister D and my brother M and a variety of nieces, nephews and great nephews. It was lovely. I was really lucky with the weather too as temps had cooled down and we only had a little rain. The worst day was when we were having a family get-together (of course!) and the children couldn't play outside as much as they would have liked. 

I got to visit Mum's bench, the most memorable time on her birthday. A lovely Robin came to sit on the seat beside us just as we were taking photos. It was a lovely moment. 

I still have lots of catching up to do. I've given myself the rest of the week and then next week I am going to get back into the house-y things and getting back on track with some decluttering and goals. 

I'll post more photos over the next couple posts. 

Weekend

 It's hot here again. I was hoping for cooler days when I got back as they had a horrible really hot few weeks when I was gone. Unfortunately it's hot again. The air conditioner is back on for a little while longer. 

Thanks for all the wonderful comments. I have missed the blogging community, but I just haven't felt like posting most days. I am going to make an effort to get back to posting even if I'm not doing too much. The days are passing and some are good, but some are filled with sadness and some tears. I'm finding it quite difficult some days. I know that things will get better with time. 

I am slowly sorting through photos I took while in England.  I made sure I got out each day even if it was for a walk. There are a couple of lovely parks in town and I spent a lot of time there and took lots of photos of the gardens and the birds.  I managed to catch sight of some lovely birds. Nature certainly makes things a little brighter. 

Two good upcoming things:-

* while I was in England my sister told me that my neice was having another baby in the New Year!

* daughter is getting married next month.

Photo for today :- a lovely English Robin. I loved seeing these little birds. Some of them were so curious and came quite close.