So another week has passed by and we are now firmly into the second half of May. This seems very scary. Where does time go??? It's now been 8 weeks since I first met my boyfriend, and it still only feels like yesterday.

So what has happened in this last week since I blogged about my sign language course. Not  a lot really! I waited in on wednesday for British Gas to come and do the yearly gas inspection required for my landladys homecare agreement that she has with them. This I find a pointless concept as the only gas related appliance in my house is the boiler and if there was a problem with it they would know about it. So I don't really know why they have to come and look at it and run a test on it to check its working ok, when I can tell if its working or not (My thermostat rarely goes below 20degrees and i have yet to actually turn my heating off completely this year).

So after that pointless excercise I then had beavers with the 7ths colony. It was actually a very fun evening filled with lots of exercise type challenges. It was here we discovered I can't draw a large figure of 8 with chalk on the floor without getting very dizzy and nearly falling over and without making the lines very wibbly. I also discovered I cannot walk round this figure of 8 with a book balanced on my head, I can still hula hoop whilst doing the macarena and I'm not a fan of star jumps. Most importantly the kids enjoyed it.

Thursday I met up with one of my friends who I hadn't seen in over 6 weeks. She is now moving back to her home town so I'm not really sure when I will meet up with her again either :( However we had a good few hours together and we went out for lunch to a local pub where I thoroughly enjoyed my duck enchilda :o). In the evening it was my beaver colony meeting, where I was also then running the cub pack meeting straight after. So my thursday evening was filled with planting sunflower seeds in eggboxs, fat ball making for birds and bug collecting. Well I didn't so much do any bug collecting nor let any of the cubs bring their containers filled with bugs come anywhere near me (I'm not a huge fan of bugs especially when they have 8 legs). I did the best thing a leader can do and that is delegate to my young leaders to check their bug collecting boxes for the kind of bugs they had collected.

Friday was the ever delightful food shop day again with my grandma. Now whilst I love my grandma to pieces, food shopping with her can be very draining. Normally me and my mum go (because quite frankly it needs the both of us to keep each other sane!) but my mum was away this week so it was just me. I normally leave my house to go food shopping at 8.15am, if I get by home by 11am it is a good morning, it is usually nearer 11.30am! So we shopped and I then had the standard cup of tea when back at my grandmas house (anything to keep us there longer!). Just as I was about to leave she asked me if I could photocopy some knitting patterns for her. So home I went, put my shopping away and then spent half an hour photocopying knitting patterns for her. I then went to the pharmacy to collect my prescriptions (a sign you are well known when you can walk in and they already go looking for your prescription without having to ask your name and know they need to look in the 'big' area as opposed to in the tiny plastic baskets) and then take the photocopied patterns back round to my grandmas. She tried to get me to stay for another cup of tea but I pleaded I was busy with jobs and escaped within 10mins of walking into her house (practically a miracle).

My weekend was spent with my boyfriend and for a few hours on the sunday with his little boy also. The weekend consisted of a lot of lego!!! I really don't think I've ever seen so much lego in my life in one room that wasn't a nursery/classroom or similar type setting!! After this weekend I think I'm almost savvy with all the required lego talk (well there was definitely less puzzled looks from my bf towards the end of the weekend and 'i need to see the diagram' to work out what lego piece I was after). The point of all this lego making?? To work out which lego kits he didn't want anymore and whether they were complete. I was also then informed on the saturday morning that there was football that evening that he reallly really wanted to watch. I was then given the remotes for the whole day up until the football started. I feel I chose well when I saw that the sound of music was on. Also who knew football could go on for so long!!! However to give him his due, he cooked for me all weekend and apart from the incinerated chips for one meal it was all very yummy and he made lots of cups of tea. So I think I can cope with football :o)

As for the upcoming week- well who knows what will happen???? things in the diary (something I can't live without and if I don't have it with me then I have no idea what I am meant to be doing or when) include sign language, babysitting my god-daughter, beavers, my mothers birthday and my nephews birthday! I'm hoping my friend will be free for a cup of tea and catch-up and get me out of taking my grandma food shopping this week.