Breezy Does It!!!

It's an absolutely gorgeous morning this morning. Sunny but there is a wonderful cool breeze that is is keeping things nice and comfortable.
Andy is outside sloshing preservative on the garden fence and Smudge is snoring very loudly in the living room.
I have just washed and cut up all the fruit I bought yesterday into boxes so that it is all ready to eat and I am just about to put some baking potatoes into the oven to make some filled jackets. They will be filled with tuna, sauteed green peppers and red onions and sweetcorn and will be served with a lime and ginger dressed baby leaf and cucumber salad....just for a change from our normal  salad.
Once they are in I am off to the sewing machine for a few hours.

Hope you are all enjoying a bright and breezy day.
Sheila-x-

Shopping!!!

There was a desperate need to refill the fridge so I have been out this morning stocking up on fruit and veg and meats.
The veg shop had some good prices on fruit....grapes, cherries and plums for £1 a large punnet, blueberries 2 punnets for £1 and peaches 3 for £1. I'll chop a load up into a box and we'll have it with some low fat greek yoghurt. Andy has been told by the doc to stop eating ice cream so he can have that instead.
Plenty of veg and salad stuff to keep us going for more than a week and meat to make tasty things to go with it.

Anyone who likes Yorkshire Tea....get yourselves down to B&M Bargains if you have one. They have massive bags of nearly 500 teabags for £9.99.
I couldn't carry one today but Andy is going to nip and fetch me one tomorrow.

Yesterday it rained all day so I had a very productive day in the sewing room and got three dresses cut out. One for Ruby with some fabric I already had in and two for Marlowe with the new fabric bought on Saturday. I don't know if I'll get time to sew today as I have the workers at home but at least I won't have to cook as there is gammon left from yesterday which we are all happy to have again today with yet more salad.

Hope you all had a good weekend.
Sheila-x-

He Came, He Saw, He Serviced!!!

Finally.....the boiler is serviced.
The man who came to do it was really lovely so worth waiting for I think and he will be coming every year now to do it so that we don't have the same drama we have had this year.

My threads arrived and we have got rain at last so this weekend is turning out quite well.

Our trip to Derby yesterday was lovely.
We decided to have a walk over to the old market hall and it was a right old trip down memory lane.....a cold drink sitting outside the pub where Andy and I got engaged, past the old fish and chip shop which was frequently visited when I was a child....now sadly closed and abandoned......and joy of joys....the discovery that the Hook & Eye sewing shop was still open opposite the market hall.
The market hall itself looks like it is undergoing some refurbishment but is still open and we were able to have a look round so I was happy about that.
Back into the Eagle Centre Market where I found two gorgeous fabrics for dresses for Marlowe and then home for a nice cuppa.

As I said earlier....we have rain. No drama of thunder, lightning or hail stones just a good steady downpour to soak the gardens and cool the air. We are supposed to be back to high temperatures tomorrow but the rest from the heat has been amazing and notched up my energy levels a bit.

Still no roast dinner today though as I cooked a small gammon joint yesterday and we are having that with some salad and new potatoes.

I hope you are all having a lovely weekend.
Sheila-x-

Waiting..........!!!

......for the boiler man to arrive.
If he doesn't come I think I am going to sit and cry.

Not much planned for this weekend.....just a quick trip into Derby Market and a visit to Hobbycraft on the way back for some machine needles.
Andy may want to call at the pub on Sunday for a drink but we won't be having lunch there as DD will be at work and it doesn't really feel right going without her.
I'll probably clear the sewing table today and start on some cutting out for sewing over the weekend.....if I can concentrate with this flippin' headache. It's really muggy here this morning.

Have you got nice plans for the weekend?
Whatever you do have a great one.
Sheila-x-

Very Trying!!!

I don't know what is wrong but this morning I am having a lot of trouble leaving comments on other people's blogs and even replying to comments here on my own.

I am just getting a grey box with a sad face in it and the comment just disappears. Others seem to be fine and I have managed one or two.

Now I have given up as a couple of the comments were quite lengthy and I just can't be bothered to try again in case the same happens.

Well it's a very grey day here today.....no cooler though unfortunately.

They say tomorrow will be thunder storms, hail storms and rain with flash flooding and then back to the sun and heat for the weekend.

This morning I have altered a favourite skirt that was just about falling over my hips when I put it on. It took me about two hours to unpick the rather over zealous sewing done at the factory before I could even take out the elastic to replace it.

All done now and it fits a lot better with new wider elastic.

Still awaiting the arrival of my threads which I thought would have been here yesterday. I want them for the overlocking on the next two dresses for Marlowe so I can't really start them until they arrive.

Andy will be on annual leave from Friday evening so next week we are going out to look at wallpaper and paint for the living room. The decorating won't get done until DD is on her annual leave the fortnight after Andy as I would like the paint to go on the walls and not on the dog where it usually ends up when His Nibs has control (or not) of a paintbrush....lol.

It's not a job I am looking forward to if this heat carries on but it needs doing.

As I can't sew today I think I will go upstairs and hunt down coat hangers as I seem to be a bit short of them.

Hope you're having a lovely day.

Sheila-x-