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Wednesday, 11 April 2012

100 ways with a salad.

yep its that time again, summer, salad, diet, yawn. ok yawn is maybe not the right attitude. Today we had chicken and grape. tomorrow will be greek. Friday will be ham and egg. not sure about Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, .............repeat I have a lovely new lunch pot. yes lunch pot.


It is fab, LSP has had one for a while but picked me up one when she came back down from Scotland last week. 

it is great for salad, stew, soup etc. the 2 containers mean that you can have pudding as well. 

I have to get ready with the angel delight later. yum. 

other than that today is a no news day. back at work so head is full of work stuff. 
(I keep thinking its Tuesday) 

Tuesday, 10 April 2012

90% done

Phew, the bedroom is now 90% done. I have spent a lot of time in it today mainly sorting through all of the sewing bits and pieces. It has been lovely. The room is lovely on a sunny day and today was lovely and sunny. Today has just been LSP and I at home pottering. I have been upstairs in the bedroom and LSP has been sorting out the Bathroom. Its so nice just being at home together.

I made pancakes for lunch and home made vegetable soup for lunch . Then a chicken salad for tea. bliss.

I will let the pictures speak for themselves. I am very pleased with how the room has come out. There are still a few things to be done as I said it is 90% there.

I am so pleased with the blind, I love the fabric its Laura Ashley green gingham, I bought the fabric half price in a sale. I love the fact I have made it myself at a fraction of the price of getting one made.

It was LSP's idea to be able to use it for sewing as well. So it has a lot of the sewing and knitting stuff.
We have the easels so that YD can use it for painting as well. Once it is finished, time to spruce up the hallway.(old houses are never truly finished) I have had a great day off. Back to work tomorrow.
















Shopping and Heroic Dogs.

Well yesterday was the bank holiday in England and Wales. In the south west of England we had some light rain. So we drove to Wales where there was much more rain!

We went to Cardiff, Instead of seeing the sights we headed straight for the st Davids centre and went shopping.

We were mainly shopping for OD and YD. We went round lots of clothes shops! However some of the display's were interesting.




(how cute) 

When we were not in the clothes shops we were here. 

yes the apple shop.....

It was a good morning. It was so nice just to have time with both of the children together. 
They are so busy with University, it is nice to get a full day together. 


In the afternoon we went visiting. 

While we were visiting, we learned the story of a hero dog. 

There are 2 dogs that live in the house we were visiting, Alfie and Mojo. 

Alfie and Mojo are very lovely (but can be a little bit naughty) 

Alfie and Mojo were taking their people for a walk in some woodland. 
As they were walking they came across a family who were upset,
 they had lost one of their dogs. 
They had been looking and looking but could not find the lost dog. 
Alfie and Mojo's people said they would also look while they were on their walk. 

Some time later, Mojo ran off suddenly, without warning.
Now Mojo's humans thought he was just being naughty. 
They followed Mojo as he ran though the woodland.
Mojo came to a stop at the bank of a stream.
Mojo, barked, and barked and barked.

As Mojo's humans got closer Mojo continued to bark. 
Mojo was frantic, barking and clawing at the edge of the bank.
The bank at that part of the stream was sheer. 
And there in the water was the lost dog. 
The dog was exhausted he was old and blind. 

Mojo's male human (being tall) climbed down into the stream. 
He passed the lost dog out of the stream.
He then had to wade downstream until he came to somewhere he could get out. 
Mojo, Alfie and their humans took the very cold and tired lost dog 
to its people, who were very grateful.

Animals are amazing. 



Sunday, 8 April 2012

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. 

Saturday, 7 April 2012

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)




Friday, 6 April 2012

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.






Thursday, 5 April 2012

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.