Our weekend

We have had lovely Spring-like weather here for the past few days....winter may be almost over (touch wood!). Stephen was feeling marginally better on Friday, so I dragged him down to King Street for a bit of fresh air...and an ice cream from Pop's, eaten at the Marina (in the best tradition of summer). We walked up and had coffee in the new cafe/bistro that has opened on Washington St - very French, very nice! On the way home we passed the Hotel Monaco which was having its Grand Opening....with the obligatory Scottish Pipe Band!! Lots of people in posh frocks getting out out limo's...now where was MY invite??

We did a lot of pootling about doing chores yesterday - including an essential visit to Michael's to buy canvasses, paints and gold leaf (I was feeling a bit creative!). Just to wind him up after our visit to MOMA I suggested to Stephen that the blank canvasses were good to go, and he could go ahead and hang them up.....

I did a spot of gardening yesterday, in between the running around to the dry cleaners and the mall etc etc. It felt good!! It's the first time I've really felt inspired since I got here...it felt a little odd last year - it wasn't "my" garden - PLUS it was either far too hot, or far too cold to do much!!

I also popped into Barnes & Noble and bought a copy of David's book...I was chatting to the manager (who had helped me find it on the shelves) and she said that next time he was in the area, to let her know...he could go in and sign copies and they would display them prominently. So David, there you go...you could do a book signing!!

We went down to Morag and Simon's for dinner last night. Alison was in very bouncy mood - Stephen still has the magic touch with children! He doesn't actually need to do anything now - he just needs to be sitting still in the room and they go nuts!! I apologise again to all the parents of all the children that he has wound up to fever pitch over the years!!! Lizzie was zonked out. They'd all been to the zoo for a birthday party and the walking (and lack of afternoon nap) totally wiped her out.

A word of warning to John Walker - you may want to avoid reading the blog around mid-late April...as I have just spent 4 hours booking flights and hotels to HAWAII !!! WooHoo!! We're going to do a few days in San Francisco to kick the holiday off, the onto Kuaui, then back to Napa Valley for a few days at the end. Sounds bleeding fantastic doesn't it!!!