The sun has arrived....but thankfully not the high temperatures as there is a good strong breeze blowing and keeping it quite cool today. I am dreading the very hot weather.
Too late to save my beautiful peony which I never got to enjoy before it was battered by rain but other things are coming into flower now for us to enjoy.
Lots of birds still visiting the feeding stations....a greedy pig of a crow who keeps flying off with the half coconut shells, loads of squabbling starlings and the other day a bird which I think was a Hobby. It didn't stay long but oh it was beautiful.
One very excited Ruby came for tea yesterday. She has such a lot going on again. Off to London at the weekend, the school play (she loves her drama and singing) and two induction days at her new school which she moves to in September.....I've never seen a child so excited about school....lol.
I have the job of making her costume for the play and luckily it is a fairly simple make and the remit from school quite precise so I am hoping it goes well.
I am still cross stitching like it's going out of fashion and have finished a fairly large chart of a Winter Alphabet which I am going to make into a cushion for the girls. It was worked in the called for DMC colours but there was pink in it which I didn't like so I am doing another version on a smaller count of fabric with my own chosen colours.
I'll show pics when they have been washed and pressed.
We haven't anything much planned for the weekend I'm just glad we won't be having a repeat of last Saturday when we had a guy here cleaning all the outside of the house, soffits, fascias, gutters, windows and doors. he did a smashing job but he was here for four hours.
This Saturday we are going to visit the pet crematorium where they are going to transfer Smudges ashes into a casket for us as I have decided that I don't want to scatter him in the garden after all.
Andy is sleeping well today so I am off to see if I can sneak in another hour of stitching before he gets up.
Hope you are all having a fabulous day and that you have sunshine to enjoy.
Sheila-x-
Thursday, 27 June 2019
Tuesday, 25 June 2019
Starting Over!!!
OK....let's start again shall we?
The last three weeks unplanned break from blogging will not go down in my history as the best weeks of my life and the rest of this week will be a little tense too but I need to get back to some kind of normality.
I don't know where it came from or what triggered it but I have had quite a bad bout of depression and I still don't feel entirely like myself but I'll keep soldiering on and hopefully it will bugger off eventually.
There was a rather baffling wobble with Ruby who decided that she didn't want to come to our house anymore and she wouldn't interact with us when we visited her house. This went on for a couple of weeks until she was eventually able to tell her mummy what it was all about and it turned out that she was missing Smudge and was frightened of us talking about him and getting upset.
It's all sorted out now and she is back to visiting again thank goodness.
On top of all this I am still dealing with regular phone calls from brother in law about his ongoing problems but we are hoping that the next three days will see some light at the end of the tunnel and a solution set in stone that will enable him to get on with his life.
We did have a lovely family meal out in the garden for DS's birthday on Sunday. I cooked his favourite roast lamb and the weather played nice so it really was a nice relaxing day. He loved it and is now angling for an August Bank Holiday barbecue so we can do it all over again.
Today it has not stopped raining and it's thoroughly miserable although I suspect I will be wishing for rain and cold if we get this very hot weather that is being predicted.
Well I had best get off and get ready for Miss Marlowe. I am watching her for an hour while DS goes to an appointment and then Ruby will be here later......Andy is on standby to pick her up from school if DS isn't back in time so two little rays of sunshine to brighten my day.
Hope you are all well. I shall come back and have a catch up with some blogs later on after tea.
Sheila-x-
The last three weeks unplanned break from blogging will not go down in my history as the best weeks of my life and the rest of this week will be a little tense too but I need to get back to some kind of normality.
I don't know where it came from or what triggered it but I have had quite a bad bout of depression and I still don't feel entirely like myself but I'll keep soldiering on and hopefully it will bugger off eventually.
There was a rather baffling wobble with Ruby who decided that she didn't want to come to our house anymore and she wouldn't interact with us when we visited her house. This went on for a couple of weeks until she was eventually able to tell her mummy what it was all about and it turned out that she was missing Smudge and was frightened of us talking about him and getting upset.
It's all sorted out now and she is back to visiting again thank goodness.
On top of all this I am still dealing with regular phone calls from brother in law about his ongoing problems but we are hoping that the next three days will see some light at the end of the tunnel and a solution set in stone that will enable him to get on with his life.
We did have a lovely family meal out in the garden for DS's birthday on Sunday. I cooked his favourite roast lamb and the weather played nice so it really was a nice relaxing day. He loved it and is now angling for an August Bank Holiday barbecue so we can do it all over again.
Today it has not stopped raining and it's thoroughly miserable although I suspect I will be wishing for rain and cold if we get this very hot weather that is being predicted.
Well I had best get off and get ready for Miss Marlowe. I am watching her for an hour while DS goes to an appointment and then Ruby will be here later......Andy is on standby to pick her up from school if DS isn't back in time so two little rays of sunshine to brighten my day.
Hope you are all well. I shall come back and have a catch up with some blogs later on after tea.
Sheila-x-
Tuesday, 4 June 2019
Same Old, Same Old!!!
Life seems to have settled into a bit of a rut here at Tea Towel Mansion. The jobs are getting done in the mornings and I am spending most afternoons cross stitching.
There is nothing exciting going off but thankfully nothing on the other side of the coin either.
I do however seem to have developed a slight dislike for the computer and have hardly had it on for the last week....just the odd hour or so here and there for domestic admin and checking for messages from The Doodles while they were away last week. It could be to do with the fact that the flaming thing has decided that it likes to turn itself off now and again....usually when I am in the middle of something....for no apparent reason. I hope to goodness it is not on it's way out.
Now that we have finished watching Game of Thrones DD and I are watching Line of Duty and thoroughly enjoying it. We finished season two last night so we'll start on season three tonight as I have no plans to be going out anywhere....the top up shop can wait until tomorrow as I have enough salad for tea tonight.
Anyhow....I hope you are keeping well. I will catch up with blog reading either tonight or tomorrow and see what you have all been up to.
Sheila-x-
There is nothing exciting going off but thankfully nothing on the other side of the coin either.
I do however seem to have developed a slight dislike for the computer and have hardly had it on for the last week....just the odd hour or so here and there for domestic admin and checking for messages from The Doodles while they were away last week. It could be to do with the fact that the flaming thing has decided that it likes to turn itself off now and again....usually when I am in the middle of something....for no apparent reason. I hope to goodness it is not on it's way out.
Now that we have finished watching Game of Thrones DD and I are watching Line of Duty and thoroughly enjoying it. We finished season two last night so we'll start on season three tonight as I have no plans to be going out anywhere....the top up shop can wait until tomorrow as I have enough salad for tea tonight.
Anyhow....I hope you are keeping well. I will catch up with blog reading either tonight or tomorrow and see what you have all been up to.
Sheila-x-
Wednesday, 29 May 2019
Wednesday Witterings!!!
Good morning 😃
Well we managed to watch to the very last episode of Game Of Thrones and I have to say that I found it very disappointing and weak to say the least. Tonight though DD and I are going back down to watch an end of season episode which goes behind the scenes. Andy has work so he will not be coming with us.
We had a wander around the garden centre yesterday as we didn't want to go too far and it was lovely. Andy treated himself to a metal whirly thing to stand in the garden and he also treated me to more threads than I actually had on my list so that's a few more ticked off ready for the Christmas chart which should be arriving today.
I have just started the border on the last of the four Halloween pieces and will be glad when it's finished now as if I never see another cross stitched pumpkin it will be too soon....lol.
Not much to do on the housework front today....laundry is up to date and everywhere is tidy. There is some stuff I could do upstairs but Andy will be going to bed before long to catch up on some zzzzz's before his night shift so that can be shuftied over to the weekend.....guess I'll have a bit of stitchy time then 😄.
Have a lovely day.
Sheila-x-
Well we managed to watch to the very last episode of Game Of Thrones and I have to say that I found it very disappointing and weak to say the least. Tonight though DD and I are going back down to watch an end of season episode which goes behind the scenes. Andy has work so he will not be coming with us.
We had a wander around the garden centre yesterday as we didn't want to go too far and it was lovely. Andy treated himself to a metal whirly thing to stand in the garden and he also treated me to more threads than I actually had on my list so that's a few more ticked off ready for the Christmas chart which should be arriving today.
I have just started the border on the last of the four Halloween pieces and will be glad when it's finished now as if I never see another cross stitched pumpkin it will be too soon....lol.
Not much to do on the housework front today....laundry is up to date and everywhere is tidy. There is some stuff I could do upstairs but Andy will be going to bed before long to catch up on some zzzzz's before his night shift so that can be shuftied over to the weekend.....guess I'll have a bit of stitchy time then 😄.
Have a lovely day.
Sheila-x-
Tuesday, 28 May 2019
Good Grief.......!!!
.........I can't believe I haven't done a blog post since Friday. Where did that weekend go?
It's not like I have been up to much other than domestic things and a bit of stitching really but just lately the days seem to blur into one another and sometimes I have to stop and think what day it actually is.
Last night we went down to DS's house to start watching season eight of Game of Thrones and we managed three episodes before we called it a night and headed home. We'll be back there tonight and we're picking fish and chips up for a treat and we'll try and finish the rest of the season plus the special that was on. There's a lot to take in so I'll be glad when it comes out on dvd which will hopefully be September and then we can watch it again.
Andy has an extra day off today as he has a dental appointment for a filling. When he gets back he wants to go for a ride out but I don't feel like going far today so it will most likely be the garden centre which will be handy as I could do with picking up a couple of skeins of thread I need from the craft shop.
I'm hoping that the weather in Ireland is better than it is here as that is where The Doodles have gone for their holiday.
Ruby and Marlowe went on a plane for the first time yesterday and judging by the smiles on their faces in the pic that DDIL messaged me.....they loved it. I doubt I shall hear much about it as it's going to be a couple of weeks before I see Ruby again and by then she will have forgotten all about it and be on to the next exciting thing....lol.
Anyhoo....I had best go and make myself presentable if hubby is taking me out for an airing...lol.
Have a wonderful day.
Sheila-x-
It's not like I have been up to much other than domestic things and a bit of stitching really but just lately the days seem to blur into one another and sometimes I have to stop and think what day it actually is.
Last night we went down to DS's house to start watching season eight of Game of Thrones and we managed three episodes before we called it a night and headed home. We'll be back there tonight and we're picking fish and chips up for a treat and we'll try and finish the rest of the season plus the special that was on. There's a lot to take in so I'll be glad when it comes out on dvd which will hopefully be September and then we can watch it again.
Andy has an extra day off today as he has a dental appointment for a filling. When he gets back he wants to go for a ride out but I don't feel like going far today so it will most likely be the garden centre which will be handy as I could do with picking up a couple of skeins of thread I need from the craft shop.
I'm hoping that the weather in Ireland is better than it is here as that is where The Doodles have gone for their holiday.
Ruby and Marlowe went on a plane for the first time yesterday and judging by the smiles on their faces in the pic that DDIL messaged me.....they loved it. I doubt I shall hear much about it as it's going to be a couple of weeks before I see Ruby again and by then she will have forgotten all about it and be on to the next exciting thing....lol.
Anyhoo....I had best go and make myself presentable if hubby is taking me out for an airing...lol.
Have a wonderful day.
Sheila-x-
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