Easter Day.

What a lovely day.

This morning we had hot cross buns and coffee for breakfast. A lovely way to start Easter day.

This was my Easter egg. 

Then it was time to open my swap parcel from the lovely  Marina in Lissy Lou's Vintage Easter Swap.

It was all wrapped in Sheet music how fab. ( I am ashamed to say I did not wrap mine) 

I was so excited as I unwrapped it all. 

There was so much, I am very spoilt as Marina was very generous. 

Look what I got, A lovely Vintage tin, a violet teacup and saucer, a hand knitted chick, 3 little chicks, a glass milk jug, some lovely tea towels, a felt broach and a fantastic vintage tea strainer. 

Now the tin is now holding my sewing bits and pieces, The milk jug is with my collection on the shelf, the chick is sitting in an egg cup, the teatowels are ready for use. Oh and I am eating the eggs....

We did some spring cleaning today. While LSP tackled the downstairs cupboard, I was able to turn my attention to the spare room. I have finally got the ladybird books in. 

(sorry about the bizarre shadow)

look what came out. 

I am finally making the Roman blind for the room. 

I love sewing, I have not finished as my hands were getting sore.

but how lovely is the action of sitting and sewing.

I have put some bits and pieces on the bed. But the room is still not quite finished so I wont share it all yet.  

Dinner tonight was lovely, 

It was not very traditional but, it was lovely. Linguine,

butter, garlic, shallots, mushroom, spinach, prawns, mussel's. squid. with parmasan and black pepper.

Was delicious. 

(even If I do say so myself.) 

Altogether it has been a lovely day. 

Giant prawn cocktail.

Tonight I had a giant prawn cocktail for my tea, (no pictures that would be too much)
Why?

Well today I did battle with Tesco.

Yes Tesco on a Saturday,

The Saturday before a bank holiday,

Am I mad? (probably)

Was I on an Easter Egg hunt (no I am actually organised) (unlike the crowd in the Easter egg aisle)

Despite the whole supermarket being full. There were still bargains to be had. for us it was half price fish and seafood. So we ended up having king prawns for dinner, and what better way than in a classic prawn cocktail on lettuce with some brown soda bread. yum yum yum,

The Gerbil is in her new cage...or should that be cages, yes she now has 2 new cages joined together. She has busied herself with moving sawdust all around her cage.

Now we put her sawdust and bedding in 1 cage and her food into another.The sawdust cage  is the one without bars so she does not flick sawdust everywhere and the food cage is the one with bars.

What do Us Humans know? we got it all wrong. she has spent the past hour moving everything around noisily including flicking her sawdust out of the cage..... oh when she is not running on her new wheel..(noisily).

After my last post, where I outed myself as a believer in god, I lost a follower, it could be coincidence, but nevermind.

Tonight I watched a film..Its called Submarine and is a Welsh film, its about a teenage boy, set in the 80's. Its quite good. - good if you like British movies type good. It centres on a 15 year old boy, being 15 is hard.  I remember being 15, It was horrid. I was horrid. (although I just thought I was not)

My carpel tunnel is very bad at the moment and my right hand is swollen and locking up lots. so making is well and truly having a hiatus. I am going to try and concentrate on my photography for a bit and have a chat with my GP.

I have had a busy day today but a nothing day at the same time. I love days like this, This is the ordinary life, the day to day, the routine.

yes a very rambling, nothing type blog tonight. (I promise some creativity soon)

Good Friday.

This morning I did indeed flit around the house with my duster to the tune of radio 4. The house was lovely and spick and span in time for 12.00. LSP was doing something special today with a guest. So I amused myself upstairs and I have sorted out a full bag of clothes for the charity shop. I have gone through all of my dresses and worked out which ones I will not be wearing again and have put them into our charity bag. We now gift aid our donations. It works in the same way as if you donate money. The charity are able to claim an additional 28p per pound. All of our charity donations go to our local Hospice shop. We have a card which has a gift aid serial number on and our donations get labelled with that serial number so they can track how much money is made off of our specific donations. We received a letter recently that said they had made £71 off of our donations. Wow £71.

I am so pleased.

I cant wait to see what all my old party dress's make.

last night we moved the gerbil into her new home......this morning I had to move her back into her old one.
She could not climb upwards in the tubes and kept burying her water bottle.

I got to watch the Preston Passion today. It was very good, very moving. To me, Good Friday is more than just a day off, its a day for thought, prayer and reflection. I sat down to lunch with our guest and LSP. LSP is currently agnostic and our guest is a buddist. Its like a bad joke, what did the Buddist, Agnostic and Christian talk about.We had a lovely lunch of quiche and salad, our guest provided the quiche and I made the salads and pudding.

We did indeed talk about God and Christianity. I am the worst person to debate God and Christianity with. Because for me it has always just made sense. I believe in God and Jesus. I believe that Christianity is not always about God as politics get's in the way. I believe that God is infinite and created the universe, the world and us. The wars that have happened about religion have been made by man and not god. It is often said that god is a bad parent, I think that we are bad siblings. We do not do enough for one another and it is greed that makes us selfish. I believe that God sacrificed his son for us. However after a short talk about religion we mostly just talked about work!    

After lunch I settled down to watch High Society on the TV, it was great. The music, the dress's and the hats. (I am hat obsessed). We are now going to have a lovely night in before the weekend commences. I am hoping to take some photo's with the big camera this weekend and look forward to sharing them at some point.

hope you have all had a good weekend.

back to normal.

LSP is home, Work is finished for the week, and I have 5 days off. ahhh.

I have become a friend of latitude. its fantastic, I was able to track LSP all the way down to the house.

I had a hot cup of tea and dinner waiting.

Despite having driven 100's of miles home. LSP is now wrestling with the new gerbil cage.
Following the incident where Tiffany jumped out of the cage we now have a multi-roomed habitat. Officially its a space station. !!!!

Now I tried to assemble it myself while she was away but failed miserably. Far to technical for me.

I am just watching the soaps. Coronation street is quite sad, Lesley's story of early onset Altzheimer's is so very sad. It is such a cruel illness. I was in M&S the other day and got talking to the lady behind me at the till, her husband had Altzheimers and she was finding it very hard. we talked about carer's support and then before we knew it, it was time to go as I had got through the checkout.

I am so looking forward to this weekend. I am looking forward to getting the spare room finished. I cannot wait to post some pictures.

Talking of photo's. At the weekend when I said hello to my friends baby I took photo's. with the big camera, I enjoy taking photographs, of people, of things, of everything. well I posted them on facebook for her to see and she loved them. The best compliment for me was that a friend of hers thought she had hired a professional to come round and take photographs! I will be going back to take some with the baby's dad in as well.

so that's it the weekend is stretching out ahead of us....

In the morning, I will be doing the housework so that we have the rest of the weekend clear. LSP will have a lie in, there will be me, radio 4 and a feather duster...bliss.

wingeing again

Hi all.

I am so looking forward to the weekend. I will be off for 5 days as I am having an extra day off.

my winge..... For some reason, my carpel tunnel syndrome is really playing up. my hands are locking up lots which means I cannot do any fine work at all at the moment. I can barely hold things like a book or a magazine without my hands locking. I cannot even contemplate a knitting or sewing needle.

I am hoping to manage the sewing machine this weekend so I can finish the spare room. I cant wait to share it with you. other than this I have nothing much to report. Working hard, coming home tired, eating and going to bed.

having turned the heating off I am now turning it back on as its cold.....down south we do not have the snow unlike my Scottish friends,. who had lots of very pretty snow. I have a busy work day ahead tomorrow, but am looking forward to the evening. LSP is coming home and we have the weekend ahead.

all by myself.

LSp is away in Scotland and I have been here all by myself.

well me, 2 dogs, 1 gerbil and a barely here daughter.

I have come to realise 1 thing. I miss her so much.

We have been together for 15 years and we are apart for 1-2 weeks per year. So I should be used to it by now. I am not.

Silences are more silent when you are in a room on your own. I am very comfortable with silence. I can sit in silence with someone else in the room for a long time. it is hard having the silence of having no one else there.

we do a lot of things together.

I drag her round lots of shops she hates. I hate going on my own, I want her view, her perspective even when I know she will disagree.

I cant imagine life apart.

and when she gets back we have 5 days together.  Bliss. x

In other news. I will not be watching Titanic in 3D although I would like to sneak a bubble machine in for when the ship sinks.

Yes I think strange/cruel thoughts like that sometimes. After watching the woman in black I though how funny it would be to hide in the cinema, (dressed as the woman in black) and then when it was getting super scary to just stand in the corner of the cinema.

happy Tuesday everyone.

1st of the month

ok lets start with the bad, last month I failed to get my monthly make done or complete the photo challenge. my swaps are ready for posting though!

Ok lets crack on and start April.

I don't like change so will have to get used to this new blogger.

This morning on Facebook I proudly announced that I was going to undertake my first pole dancing lesson.
1 person believed me. (Apil fool)

Archer's and pottering occurred once I had woken up. (The Archers radio programme not the drink). I had a disturbed night as the dog had woken me up in the early hours of the morning. I have no idea why? he had been to the loo and had a drink before bed, he just got it into his head that he needed another wee.

Yesterday I did not achieve much as as I was in a bad mood. (I think its ok to have a bad mood day sometimes) Now LSP is away which may account for some of my bad mood.

So Today my besitie took me to Marlborough for a shop, lunch and visit to the friend who had her baby last week.

 I took the big camera. (as LSP has taken my charger to Scotland) This was good as I was able to do some nice photo's of the baby and my Bestie's lovely daughter.

For the blog, I took some photo's of Marlborough.

Now I was in Charge of the buggy whilst our very important small person insisted on being carried. I need to remember that when I stop to take a photo, the buggy does not automatically stop! yes it did wander a few times.

Now, Marlborough has a new addition since we were there last.

Little bit of Cath....yes I did. x