Sunday, 23 September 2012

A good day today at the football festival and then we watched Lincoln Ladies v  Everton

Monday, 17 September 2012

Hey Sis happy now? xx
It's been lovely having my husband at home for almost the whole of the summer holidays although the reason that he's been with us is not so good.  He has been signed off work for six weeks due to having a  Cholesteatoma in his ear.  This has reduced his hearing and has left him with lots of pain and dizzy spells especially when he tries to do too much.  He went into hospital so that the consultant could have a better look at it so that he could make the best choice for removing it.  Sometimes they can be removed through the ear canal, at other times through an incision made behind the ear.  A CT scan shows that it has spread to the bones in the middle ear which is not the outcome that we would have liked.  We now await further news from the consultant.

As we are on the subject of hospitals, I took No. Two to the hospital so that they could look at a mole that is on her foot, they whipped it off there and then!  She had ten stitches in the top of her foot so couldn't put her foot down.  She has mastered the art of the feeble voice calling, 'Mum I need a cup of tea'

I don't need tea, I need gin!

My new purchase!

I am really loving my new breadmaker! I read lots of reviews online and it really did come recommended.  It's a Panasonic SD - 2501 that I bought from Lakeland. I know that I could have got it cheaper online but the service that is had from Lakeland is always second to none.  This is the third one that we have as we had worn the others out!  The quality of the loaves that we get are much better with this one than with the others.  This is my first loaf with it...

So after a break without a breadmaker I am making at least one loaf of bread everyday.  I do like to wake up to the smell of warm bread!   I must recommend this flour from Waitrose.  I don't normally shop there but traffic was horrendous going across town so I called in!

So glad that I did!
We hired the bowling lane for the whole afternoon...

My friend tells me that apparently crazy golf is all in the stance...

Fixing the turkey house, which really had seen better days...

It's always important to have a firm bottom...
Not much work going on here...
Son working hard with the power scythe, it was a mystery how the water pipe was cut...
Taking down the tent marked the end of the summer holidays for us...
During the summer holidays we went to the wildlife park at Doncaster.  It was a lovely day out albeit a little chilly.  It was so lovely to be up close to some of the animals and we were even given food to feed the wallabies.  If you were patient enough they would feed from your hand...

We also went to the Steam Rally, which is always a lovely day out.  Three and Four took it in turns to drive the bumping cars...
Then it was time for a shoot off...

We just managed to get back to the car before the heavens opened!
That evening husband came home with a stray dog, she'd run out into the middle of the road and he'd almost run her over. It was dark and despite spending over an hour looking for her owners he couldn't see them.  She was very friendly and jumped straight into the car! We had no choice but to bring her in for the evening, she quickly made herself at home!  The next morning we put lots of posters up and at about half past ten her owner came to collect her.  She greeted her owner with a wagging tail and then when she's had enough of a fuss, turned and went back to bed!  Apparently she normally sleeps outside - little wonder that she liked her new found abode!

Happy 18th Birthday!

No 2 turned 18 during the holidays.  Excuse the dodgy photo I hadn't had a cup of tea at that point and it had clearly affected my functioning!

We all went out for breakfast before going off to York for the day.




All in all a lovely day!

About time too!

When I spoke to my sister on the phone tonight we discussed many things - one of which was my blog!  When I told her I was posting tonight she told me that it was about bloody time!  Twice a week she visits and she is fed up of reading the same post dated 30th July.  Sorry!  I must say that I am ashamed that I have been away for such along time without blogging about my swaps.  I was lucky enough to be paired with two amazing bLoggers for my recent swaps.  The first swap was the All things British Swap and my very generous partner can be found hereIt turns out that my swap partner Rosa Lily lives very close!



The second swap with partner Clobelle was the Jar Full Swap and boy was  it a jar full!  It burst out as soon as the lid was off...
Inside were lots of lovely and thoughtful gifts including these crocheted gloves which were made using the colours of my blog...










All the lovely gifts from two very lovely bloggers are being well used and I am thrilled with every single one! Thank you so much to both of you!