Happy Birthday Romas.

Happy Birthday to Romas, 34 today.

As well as working full time in Stoke Romas has been busy with his music not only with a full schedule of gigs but with producing tracks in the studio. He and the other band members fitted out their studio this year too.

Earlier in the year he and Laura went to Sicily for a friend's wedding. I do like the suave Italian look.

Of course for me the highlight of the year was seeing Romas and Laura in October when they spent the afternoon here on their way home to Stoke. 

No Italian warmth here for us today unfortunately. Just the same old sun and showers. 

The builders came early this morning so when not making cups of tea I've been tucked away in my study. While they're not exceptionally noisy it helps to play music while I work. Everything from Nightwish to The Incredible String Band, Donovan and Einaudi. I've made good progress on the next crochet square, there's a possibility it might be ready for Christmas. Each time the sun came out I raced to the kitchen hunting for rainbows with not a lot of luck. One can be seen in the photo below if you squint at it.

Bathroom progress today. - The walls are almost done and the toilet plumbed in. Even if some of my ideas weren't feasible at least the position of the original window made it possible to have a niche in the shower for things like shampoo and shower gel. 

Coming back from Pilates tonight it had just begun to rain which was a shame for all the parents wandering around with their children (sort of dressed in Halloween costumes). Many of the houses here are holiday homes/rentals and only some of the others had decorations out indicating they had sweets to give out. Some people simply had a bowl of sweets outside the house by the decorations but that of course gets abused by the greedy few. A few houses had lights and spooky music to add to the ambiance. In general despite supermarkets and manufacturers of tat trying to promote what is an American tradition  it hasn't really taken on here.