Week notes for May 5 – 11, 2025

Things last week

What happened this week? Eh, do you know what, I have no idea. No, really, I feel like these days one week just blurs into the next. Talk about the banality of my life these days. We are yet to experience spring here, what with the weather still being all over the place. So I haven’t begun my trips out to do my usual spring visit to all the parks. And so, I feel like I’m going stir-crazy indoors walking like a hamster, round and round in circles, endlessly getting nowhere.

You’d think I’d be thin by now. Ha! Nope, like any good hamster worth her salt, I’m soft, round and still plump enough to be cuddly. But that’s not what you came here to read about.

I’m over half way through reading A Death In Diamonds by SJ Bennett, book three in the the QEII mystery novels but, for some reason, have found this one heavy going compared to the previous three, which I thoroughly enjoyed.

Unlike previous years, we didn’t spend Mothering Sunday with the Mil, as my SiL was taking her our for a car trip into the countryside for lunch, but we did send her flowers. A large bouquet which, from her phone call last night, she loved to bits. It seems the florist did a really lovely arrangement, which I’m really happy about.

Saturday saw us finalising buying advance tickets for our anniversary trip to Montreal this July. The OH likes to make sure we have everything to hand, which is unusual as the OH’s family is always last minute and disorganised. Anyway, we now have the train booked, the hotel booked, and several things booked to do while we’re there. These include the Botanical Gardens, the Biodome, the fine arts museum, plus an evening at the Planetarium, and a walking food tour of the Jean-Talon Market.

Count me in for anything food related.

We’re also provisionally booked for Afternoon Tea at the Ritz-Carlton in downtown Montreal. Something I’ve always wanted to do. I’ve done London, I’ve done Paris. We’ve even done here, at the Chateau Frontenac hotel. So I’m excited to see how the Ritz in Montreal compares to the others.

Of course, I’ll let you know. Sorry though you’ll have to wait till July, just like me, for the results.

I just hope that by the time we head off to Montreal, the pollen count will be such as I’m not sneezing all day long as I have been this last week. The trees are in full blossom mode, leaves unfurling and my eyes and throat are not happy. Not at all. I haven’t had bad hay fever like this in almost a decade. I’m toughing it out for the next week knowing it should subside, fingers crossed and, if it doesn’t? Then I’ll resort to the pills.

At least I have a horde of N95 masks to fall back on.