The good stuff - my daughter Sophie got married in July in what was probably the most perfect wedding ever - and she organised almost all of it. Now we have the happy news she is pregnant. What a weird and unexpected feeling the the knowledge you are to be a grand parent brings. I thought I was ambivilent aout it - didn't mind either way. But the morning she told me a quiet nugget of joy crept into my heart and lodges there still.
We had two lots of visitors - family and friends and it was just lovely to share our tiny corner of paradise with people we love.
I acquired two puppies - one was planned, the second found abandoned 10 days after I got the first. Georgie my first is tan with touches of black and white and has kohl-rimmed Cleopatra eyes and very short piano legs and is named so because I got him on St George's Day. My Cypriot husband calls him Kokkos, which is a Cypriot nick-name for Geoge. Tina our second mutt was found on St Constantine's day - hence Constantina - Tina. She is long-legged (for a small dog) with charcoal grey curly fur and peeps out with dark olive bewildered eyes at you and at the slightest admonishment rolls over in submission. She is dumb but sweet. The good thing is they make me walk twice a day which helps the battle with the bulges no end.
Costas had a heart procedure in London which was challenging for a week or so but touch wood, fingers crossed and three spits to the wind the results so far are good.
I have just returned from three weeks in New Zealand where I spent happy hours with my father and sisters and every day was astounded by the sheer beauty of my homeland and its people.
