Gingerbread Life - Mai 2020

We Will Remember Them

Today we will remember them, our thoughts are with them, their families and loved ones and all of those affected. I will never forget hearing the news.  How devastated I was, how devastated and shocked everyone was. People I know were there.  People I know, knew people who were there.  Families were shattered, lives were forever changed, loves were lost they will not be forgotten.  The world will not and cannot be the same.

22-05-2017, Manchester’s 22 Angels

Gingerbread Familia - Mai 2020

Happy Mutter Tag

I feel like I should be saying it’s a strange one but for us it’s normal to only see each on Skype and to pass greetings via social media or text messages it’s how we have lived our lives for over twenty years.  For the last 9 we’ve been living in three countries always apart but always together in our hearts.  

Happy Mother’s Day to the funniest, weirdest, feistiest and lovely mother’s I know.  She is great at her job (mumming) and has, “even if I say so myself” done a wonderful job of raising two decent human beings.  Lovely you lots Mamilein.

Gingerbread Haus - Mai 2020

We are massive Marvel fans, it’s not something that we introduced each other to it’s something that we discovered together.  One thing we always said is we’d love to have the time to watch all of the movies in chronological order.  Well, now we have the time, we will not do it in one sitting but will spend weekends making our way through them all.

Gingerbread Travel - April 2020

As travel has been put on hold for the foreseeable we had a chat about where we would still like to travel.  As I am now one country behind I get to choose the next country we visit.  Our lists look pretty similar (I’m the first ticks) to be honest.

Tokyo ✔️✔️

Morocco ✔️X

Cuba ✔️ ✔️

Iceland ✔️✔️

Kenya ✔️ X

Finland ✔️ ✔️

Prague X ✔️

Mexico ✔️ ✔️

Peru ✔️ ✔️

Thailand ✔️ ✔️

Croatia ✔️ ✔️

Gingerbread Haus - April 2020

I ordered a paint by numbers kit for Papichen for Christmas but it didn’t arrive until January and then when it did it was the wrong photo.  As we went into lockdown I had so many plans, one was to complete some crafty activities.  I began Wednesday 25th March and finished today.  I am pretty impressed with how it has turned out and now I’m thinking of buying another one. 

Gingerbread Liebe - April 2020

Happy anniversary to this guy, my partner in crime, my world, my everything. 

I can’t put into words how much you mean to me so I’ll let someone much better qualified say it.  Keep smiling my love 😊🧡❤️

“If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love.” — Maya Angelou.

It’s not how we would like to celebrate, due to lockdown........   wait, hang on......   staying in, having a lovely meal together, playing boards games and going for a walk, we had a perfect day.  

Gingerbread Life - April 2020

January brought fires raging through Australia luckily none of our family was too badly affected.  February gave us flooding throughout the. UK and the desolation of towns and villages on my commute. March introduced us to COVID19 and the world on Lockdown.  Let’s see what we will experience in April. 

Gingerbread Life - März 2020

As the year began the rumblings from China about a virus that was causing respiratory problems and death were getting louder.  We carried with life, made plans, visited friends and family, we even attended a wedding (ahem).  Then the stories of it reaching mainland Europe began, Italy became over run followed by Spain, France and Germany.  A tourist on a skiing holiday brought it to the UK and within weeks the country was placed into lockdown.  We were confined to our houses, only able to leave for exercise and food but the shops were virtually empty as everyone had panic bought and stockpiled in the days beforehand.  People began downloading Zoom and Houseparty to stay in touch, working in pyjamas became the norm.  We all “met up” on a Thursday to clap for the NHS and other Essential Workers.  Lockdown 2020 had begun.  Our Lockdown Adventures can be found here.  As it is such a strange time, I decided to give Lockdown 2020 it’s very own page, which can be found at the link below.

http://gingerbreadmurray.blogspot.com/p/lockdown-life-2020.html?m=1

Gingerbread Familia - März 2020

Whoops!

So we have a confession to make, as we stood looking at the seating plan an uneasy feeling washed over me.  Your name was there but mine wasn’t.  It was then we realised that we had gate crashed the wedding.  On closer inspection of the online invitation, it became apparent that we hadn’t been invited to the whole day, only the evening.  Rather than make a fuss you graciously made room for us, GO found it amusing.  I was mortified, so took it upon myself to make sure you wouldn’t regret letting us stay.  It was a lovely day and the hotel was amazing.  Your family and friends were extremely welcoming and my enduring memory of your day will be GO and your mum dressing up at the photo booth.

Gingerbread Haus - März 2020

We had been invited to a wedding, a whole day invite not just the evening, which meant one thing we needed to buy GO a new outfit.  In the past we’ve purchased his suits from specialised tailors and had them altered.  He is a weird shape that means he has short arms and broad shoulders.  We have always left it to the professionals, they know what they’re doing surely?  It’s never really worked out.

The black one was smart enough but it pinched his arms and was a bit tight around his middle.

He looked very smart in his morning suit but it appeared to drown him slightly.

The grey suit was way too big and loose.  No one seemed to be able to fit him with a suit.  Then we realised he was like me; I can’t really but a whole outfit in one go, I’m much better when I buy separates and mix and match.

So we headed for Blackpool (with a pit stop at Guy’s Hamlet) to buy him a jacket and a pair of trousers with a fitted style in mind.  It was like Goldilocks  some were too big, some were too tight, some we too long or short.  Eventually we found a jacket and trousers that were just right.  

I think that after all of these years looking for a suit, we finally found one that is perfect.  I think we can all agree that he looks gorgeous.