Hi guys
Thanks for all the encouraging comments!
I have been off work for a week but only had one stitching day out of it

Sill got lots done ...
Finished page 1 (bar one or 2 confetti) and have gridded up for page 2. I am afraid my earlier mistake was a miscount in one of the grid squares - I mistook the line edge which means I have ended up with one row too many BUT on the upside it's at a point where it can easily be fudged over!
I don't think I am getting on too well with this pen gridding lark. Maybe cos it's a 25 count fabric or maybe my pen doesn't work right but it doesn't seem to make nice even lines and to get the lines to show up I have to draw 3 or 4 times down the fabric. For the 2nd pages gridding I used pins to mark out the grid and a ruler to help draw the lines so I hope that I'll do better this time but I hadn't got the grid count wrong last time it's just that the lines were not clearly defined enough!
Think I am going to get some gridding thread or as someone on the forum suggested, fishing line, and try stitching a grid next time!
Well hope to do some stitching later today and maybe a bit tomorrow morning which is my last day off.
Wish me luck with page 2 - I get a feeling I'm gonna need it!