Quiet Easter

After two intense weeks at my new job, manically trying to learn people's names; how things work; and a little bit bit about mechanical seals ;-) - it was nice to have a chilled Easter weekend. On Friday we walked down to Millhouses Park where Vera enjoyed the playground and a bouncy castle. On the way back, we stopped at our local cafe, which has just re-opened. On Saturday, we had prepared an Easter Egg hunt in the garden, which Vera greatly enjoyed! Then I made my life's first Pavlova snd then went to have my hair done! On Sunday we went for a walk to the wonderful Ecclesall Woods, full of ancient trees, dens and spring flowers. Today Vera and I met one of my new Sheffield friends Becky, her husband Simon and their daughter Maisie, who's just turned three, in Endcliffe Park, for the annual Duck race. Each duck cost £1 and about 1000 of them went into the river Rivelin. The weather was beautiful and we sat on the grass, had an ice cream and the girls were playing and running around! Vera is doing really well, we've nearly cracked the potty training, with a few set backs. She wants to chose all her own clothes every morning and is really enjoying nursery. She has her set of friends who she plays with every day and is enjoying all the activities that they get up to (movements to music, gardening, drama, painting etc). She is very forward and social and has been looking after the smaller children who've just moved up to the Big Bears room, by giving them cuddles, sweet! I'm really settling in her in Sheffield. Last Thursday at my WI meeting there was a really interesting talk by a guy from Warp Films, a small film production company based here in Sheffield. They make independent films such as the awarded Ths=is is England. WI support a charity every year and this year it's the Young Women's Housing Project - which is a project for young women aged 16 to 25 who have been affected by sexual abuse, sexual exploitation or sexual/domestic violence. Part of this year's events to get money for the charity include a cake stall at the Sheffield Food Festival at the end of May, for which I've offered to bake and work on the stall. Should be fun, but what to bake?!