Sunday Sevens is a weekly blog series devised by Natalie at Threads & Bobbins blog . It features seven photos from the past seven days.
A damp start to the week
As much of the British Isles were basking in Mediterranean weather at the start of the week, we were donning our wellies and digging our waterproofs out of the back of the wardrobe! I’m posting this photo to make all you Brits feel better about the weather up North! I don’t grudge you having the sunshine one little bit, you deserve it. We, at least are guaranteed a long, dry, hot summer, thankfully this is just a temporary blip!
Watercolour class
This week, I tried my hand at orchids as my teacher had a lovely one in her house. As you can see, I had to take the photo while it was still wet, so the colours may have changed slightly by the time I get back to class to finish it off. It was a very calm, therapeutic lesson though. Us students joke that our teacher should charge more as she’s a therapist as well as a teacher! We can go and have a good laugh or a moan about things and we all come out feeling much better at the end and sometimes we even have a nice painting to show for our work too!
Feeling floral
I’ve been working on a floral crochet project of late, I’m hoping to be able to share a bit more of it with you soon – here’s a sneaky peak 😉
Here comes the sun!
At long last, after a very wet week, the sun came back to us on Friday. Oh it feels good to be able to hang your washing out outside again!!
A school trip
We waved our eldest off on a school trip on Friday night. He flew to England for a week long visit to an outdoor adventure centre. I know that he and his friends will be having a whale of a time but it was difficult saying goodbye at the airport.
Gazing around the parents milling about at the check-in desks I guess it was us grown ups who found the parting hard, the kids much less so. This photo was taken on our walk back across the runway to collect the car. The Rock looked majestic in the evening sun.
The traffic on Friday night was awful, there were a few planes landing, it was Friday’s rush hour – oh and Gibraltar had just been made the 211th member of FIFA so the the border queue was pretty slow heading into Spain…
Med Steps 5 Challenge
Well, we did it! 5 times round the Med Steps, that’s more than 19km in a time of 4 hours & 38 minutes. It was hot on the Eastern side of the Rock with our newly returned sunshine. When I last checked 140 individuals had registered to take part and 160 in teams of up to 5.
It was an excellent event organized by the Gibraltar Prison Service and to support the wonderful Cancer Relief Centre here in Gibraltar. Everyone was so friendly and encouraging. I’m very proud of what my team mates and I achieved and grateful to have been able to support this event and the charity it’s for.
Thank you to everyone who has supported us and put up with the incessant ramblings about this event. We have had some lovely good luck messages and your support has been very much appreciated. We have been feeling the love – thank you!
And finally…
A glass of bubbles to toast our five times round. The wrist band was stamped on the completion of each circuit – I promise it has 5 stamps even though you can’t see them all!
Well done on your achievement – that glass of bubbles was truly well deserved.
Our weather has been worse than the U.K. at the moment too – we almost lit the log burner yesterday 🙁 Hopefully, it will sort itself out before too long.
Thank you! Sorry to hear about your weather 🙁 I hope it sorts itself out soon! Log burners should’ve required in May surely!!
Congratulations on your fantastic feat!
Thank you Diana 🙂
congratulations on your Med Steps x5 walk! I’ve just looked at photos in previous post – your calf and thigh muscles must be screaming ^^
Thank you! They aren’t too bad today amazingly but I fear tomorrow maybe another matter!! 🙂
Well done you and the team. Phew what a week. Hope your boy is having a good time. Rest and recover now K xXx
Thank you so much! The school have been sending photos to us parents to show what they are doing. They made rafts yesterday and paddled them on a lake – they look like they are having a wonderful time! 🙂
Huge “Congratulation!” on your Med Steps challenge! Bubbles are well deserved and you must be so fit as a result of this and all your training. Does your eldest remember living in England?
Thank you! Yes he does he did a year in school before we moved. He’s happy to be heading ‘home’ for a while 🙂
CONGRATULATIONS xx You did the Med Steps, well done. I have loved following your journey towards this challenge, you’re fab.
Sue
Oh thank you so much Sue, despite the aching muscles I’ve really enjoyed the training and doing it for real. It was a real challenge – a first for me! 🙂
Many congratulations what a marvellous achievement for a wonderful cause. I bet your son has a lovely time. Love your delicate water colour.
Thank you Cathy x
Awesome! Congratulations! I knew you could do it! And I love your watercolor too. So beautiful.
Thank you so much! It feels good to know we achieved our goal! 🙂
Congratulations that would actually kill me. Bubbles are definitely earned.
It’s nice to have good weather in the UK again. I doubt it will last though.
Thanks! 🙂
Wooohoooo! Well done for getting your Med Steps challenge completed! I bet you can’t wait to put your feet up now :-0
Thank you!! 🙂 I’m really chuffed with our achievement. I’ve been lucky enough to have an easy Sunday to get over it all!
What an achievement! Well done!
Thank you! It feels like a dream – I can’t quite believe we did it!!