Happy July 4th!

Happy Indepedence Day to all our US friends. Today is also my Mum & Dad's anniversary so something I can never forget!
I didn't do any stitching on Friday because we went to an evening wedding reception (hubby's cousin) but made up for it on Saturday when I stitched my way through the entire Live8 concert. My favourite acts were Keane, who I can listen to over and over again without getting bored, Dido, who comes across as a down to earth, lovely person, and Robbie Williams, who is always entertaining. I did a lot of stitching yesterday as well and this is the result. If you look at the bottom of the picture you can see where it has grown from the last one, although I do appreciate this is not the most exciting part of the design. I'm going to stitch another 10 rows and then move onto Celtic Christmas.

We've just booked a holiday at Glasnacardoch Lodge in Scotland for the October half term with Mum & Dad and my two brothers, with my eldest brother's family. I'm so excited! I've seen very little of Scotland. The holiday is to celebrate my dad's birthday - he is 70 this year. Our earlier holiday this year in Lanzarote was supposed to be the birthday celebration, but my Dad was ill and couldn't fly, so we had to go without him, which kind of defeated the object of it being to celebrate his birthday!