HAIRDRESSERS...

... today.

Only a wash and blow-dry, in readiness for a strange event I'm going to tomorrow with my Mum and sister.

Fifty years ago, Helen and I were bridesmaids to my cousin Anne. She married Rodney.

Rodney died about three years ago, but Anne is still having a party to celebrate the Golden Wedding Anniversary.

This leaves us with the problem of what to buy as a gift. What is appropriate when one of the couple is no more?

Anyway, by the by, all this means is that Charles and I, along with our newly shorn girls, will be leaving for Yorkshire at the crack of sparrows tomorrow. He and Bill are going to have a very nice day together with four dogs in tow, while we go off to this weird celebration over in Lancashire. Fortunately it's a daytime, drop-in do, so we probably won't have to stay too long and can then get back to Helen's where we can all have a good chinwag - probably about the Take That gig which is only a matter of days away now!!!

James and Claire are off on their hols tomorrow. Hope you have a fab time you two! See you on bank Holiday Monday for a BBQ, then it's Take That the next day - certainly worth coming back from holiday for!