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It's a nice may saturday evening, birds chirping etc, but as I look out at our mediterranean blue wall and lovely green fruit trees, the wind is HAMMERING all the plants and .. oh, I have just seen a few hailstones, and I think that is rain about to start...this is soooooo depressing! After a lovely start to the week, so nice I wore a dress on Monday, it took a turn for the worst on Wednesday and has been crappy since. Sewing class on Wednesday was good - we did pleats - who knew there were so many types, ..knife, box, inverted and two directional, I'm sure there are a few more too that the ladies weren't brave enough to show us ! We also did French seams so all of that was pretty good. We got presented with the certs of achievement from our last course and a photographer from the local paper called in to take a pic, so we might make it in this week - fame at last !! Next project is an apron - but a one with fancy trim and pleated pockets - hmmm... to be honest I am a bit skeptical about it, but I shall reserve judgement and enjoy making it and see how it turns out - I am of the simple apron school of thought ! I got some nice green fabric for it - a remnant from the local home furninshings shop, and it was fairly reasonably priced. I went to my usual shop and the only suitable fabric was a migraine inducing gingham that was hideous. I am not anti-gingham but this one was dreadful - and they were charging €15.95 pm for it - I actually felt my jaw drop when I heard the price of it - think I may have offended the sales lady but what the hell. I might use some of my leftover cushioncover fabric for the pocket just to make it more interesting. I am finding it soooooo hard to get funky fabric that I like - it's either ebay, or shops like S&P which are really great, but I would just prefer to be able to touch it before buying :( It's at times like this I wished I lived in somewhere like London or NY for the super fabric buying it would allow. Ah well, never mind, I will keep internet shopping I guess, at least I will spend less that way!

Yesterday Beloved and I went north of Dublin to the Irish Open Golf, held in Baltray which is a lovely little place near Drogheda. The weather was drizzly and cool but it was ok, I had a nice day in fact. We got kinda lucky actually - the car parks ended up being flooded so they were sending us off to some retail park to be shuttled by bus to the course, but then we met a nice Garda who advised us to park in a mall and get a taxi to the golf which she reckoned would be much faster. So we took her advice and were just leaving the car park and heading for a nearby hotel for a taxi when we came into the line of sight of the hotel shuttle bus driver who told us to hop in - turns out he was taking some of the PLAYERS and other important looking people to the course!! So we did, and I got to sit next to Colin Montgomery !!!! Now, I am not a huge golf fan, but having lived with my Beloved for almost 10 years, I have gotten to know a lot about golf. (And rugby!!) And golfers. So I was very impressed. I didn't ask him for an autograpgh - hate that kind of thing, but we exchanged pleasantries and he seemed like a really nice chap! AND, our shuttle had a pass to get through the security barriers so we were delivered right at the course. Cool ! We had a really nice day, saw all the big guns, got some sunshine and had a nice walk, and then were delivered back to our car by the returning hotel shuttle. The drivers were so nice - I think they realised we weren't hotel guests but they probably didn't mind two extra when they weren't full anyway. We got back to our car around 6pm, changed out of the muddy trousers (well prepared for once!) and hit the road home full of the chats about the golf!! We even stopped for a frappucino on the way home too - my favourite treat - all in all a pretty good day !

Rightio, best go and eat, and then head off for a bath. Superdrug were selling my fave Original Source bath stuff today for €1.25 per bottle - so cheap they must have made a mistake - so I stocked up big style ! Memo to self : have more baths - much more relaxing than showers !