Outings and celebrations . . .

It's been a very 'social' weekend. Number one son and I went to the Monteczuma Exhibition at The British Museum on Friday evening. I have to admit almost total ignorance of Monteczuma before the outing. Like many people, I recognised the name (at least I'd heard of 'Montezuma' at any rate!) and knew he was something to do with the Aztecs. We tended to concentrate on European history at school so the name of Cortez was more familiar to me but for some reason I hadn't realised the connection between the two.

After furthering our education, we had time to go and have something to eat before our coach left at 10pm and we found a lovely little Italian restaurant nearby so it was a very successful trip all round.

Yesterday evening we had our annual Teams celebration in a local church hall. Every year around this time we celebrate the founding of Teams of Our Lady in Paris. This year, being 50 years since Teams began in England, was extra special.

Finally, this afternoon was the last Rosary and Benediction for the Holy Souls in our parish which was a beautiful way to complete our busy weekend.

A busy weekend ...

It's going to be a busy weekend but hopefully good fun.

Tomorrow I'm going on another 'Works Outing' with a girlfriend to see the Grand Designs (of Kevin McCloud fame) exhibition in London.

It should be very entertaining seeing how 'the other half' live and drooling over all the super new products and maybe laughing at some of the ideas over coffee and chat - at least I hope there'll be plenty of time and places for that very important ingredient in a Girls' Day Out. I expect the Paterfamilias is already bracing himself for my return full of 'great ideas' of things to do to our own humble abode.

I hope the coach is more or less on schedule. We need to go to the Vigil Mass so that we can get away early on Sunday morning as we're off to Nottingham at the crack of dawn - well about 8 O'clock at least - to drive northwards to see some of our family who have other relatives visiting from overseas so there'll be quite a few of us, adults and children. Then back again the same day so we'll probably be worn out by the time we get home.

Test your knowledge ...

I've been whiling away a few minutes doing quizzes and I finally found one that I did well in - you don't think I'm going to post something that says, 'You're rubbish at this!' do you? hehehe!

There Are 0 Gaps in Your Knowledge

Where you have gaps in your knowledge: No Gaps! Where you don't have gaps in your knowledge: Philosophy Religion Economics Literature History Science Art

Do You Have Gaps in Your Knowledge?

No, I'm not a genius! I expect it would be pretty difficult to get a bad score in this particular quiz.

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Sorry, I should have started a new post for this but haven't time to start again now!

Our older son and I are off to the Byzantium Exhibition tomorrow at the Royal Academy and I'm really looking forward to it. I've heard very favourable reports from everyone who's already been.

We're going on a 'works outing'. That expression seems to have gone out of fashion but that's basically what it is and we try and go on these 'jaunts' whenever we can. It's so liberating to be able to get on the coach and let somebody else do all the worrying. No need to think about where to park, how long we need to allow to get there, should we take a train or a bus etc. etc. We get dropped off at the door (or at least as near as the driver can get to it!) and picked up there afterwards. There's nothing like a charabanc trip!