Raining Strawberries at Wimbledon

So glad we are covering our King and Queen’s Royal Tour of Australia.

I’m a royalist, will always support their position in our country and along with many others look at the financial spread sheet which unequivocally proves they put more into UK Ltd than they take out. 

It’s a sunny day here in London and without even putting my nose outside I feel in a good mood. Always amazed at how the colour of the sky can have such a profound effect but we’re creatures of the earth shaped by its energy, light and rhythms so today I’m either in tune or just British and grateful.

Thank you My Weekly for supporting Breast Cancer Awareness month. We can never talk about this subject enough as the statistics are still frightening. Anything you can do to help yourself and others goes into ‘The Good Pot’ 

Does the ‘To Do List’ ever get finished and what if it did, is that it? The end?!! I was, in all seriousness thinking about this, worried about what would happen to me if there was nothing to do. I discussed it, (mentioned) to Mark while dropping him off at Heathrow for a 2-week business trip to the US. He laughed, said ‘impossible you’ll always find something to do, it’s in your DNA’. 

Wonderful, Wonderful Copenhagen and in my 14th year on this planet, it was. Up until 1974 I’d never been on a plane but in this year of my teenage life all was about to change. Dad, who’s company ‘Turner and Son’s’ made display cabinets for Wedgwood’s Pottery, had a business trip to the famous Daell’s Department Store, Copenhagen and as a treat I was allowed to tag along. 

You can only imagine the innocent excitement, a new outfit, probably involving purple, (Donny Osmond’s favourite colour) and the best bit..  I was allowed a lip gloss!

My Weekly this week is talking my language ‘Get Fit Without Trying’ is the way to go.

To be honest I’ve banged this drum for years and have mentioned it when writing to you. From standing on one leg while cleaning my teeth, to parking at the far end of the supermarket carpark so I walk back, taking the weight of my 2 heavy shopping bags, to engaging and strengthening my core muscles by walking everywhere with shoulders right back, to my whole dog walking routine. This is a little crazy but very effective particularly when walking a pooch with a magnetic attraction to every lamp post, tree, wall corner and random patches of grass where another dog has already peed. 

So excited to learn in this week’s magazine that Richard Osman has a new fiction book out, I’m a big fan.  I chomped through his last 4 on various holidays and loved every page turned. If you’ve not read any of them, treat yourself, great characters all with colourful back stories and by the time you get to the last book ‘The Last Devil Too Die’ they will be your friends. I wish I had time to read more. 

 Mary Poppins is 60! Now that ages us, we are the generation who learnt, a spoon full of sugar makes the medicine go down and proud of being able to say Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious and those who learnt it backwards were just showing off!