Hilarious Child!!!

Last night we spent the most hilarious half an hour being entertained by Miss Marlowe who is a little comedian and loves an audience.
She has quite a range of words she can say now and her favourite is ball. Anything round is a ball and we all just about collapsed with laughing when she pointed at her Mummy's chest and said "ball" .
She just loved that we were laughing and so then everyone's chest became a ball. It was so funny.
I have been invited to go to the school fayre with The Doodles on Saturday and I will be looking after Marlowe while Ruby and Mummy do a 2k sponsored run. I can't wait.

Thank you all for your comments about my back. Thankfully the pain has gone.
I know how easily it can be put out and you don't really have to have done anything to put it out. I once picked up a telephone directory and put mine out. I ended up bedridden for six months barely able to move. It was horrendous. My kids were only eight and five at the time and little DD was coming home from school and making meals for us as Andy was at work and that is probably what put her off cooking....lol.
Another time I picked Ruby up when she was a baby and put my back out again and again I had it for six months or more and was walking like John Wayne for all that time.....although that was preferable to being bedridden.

For tea today I am making Fabulously Fresh Frittata Bites....a recipe from the latest A**a magazine. I will be reworking it a bit though as I can't imagine anything more tasteless than globs of mascarpone so that will be replaced with mozzarella and the pesto which I can't abide will be be replaced with some Italian herbs. Everything else can stay as it is and we'll see what it's like.
There is still a little salad left so we'll have that with it.

Nothing urgent to be done today. There are jobs on the big list....most of which I can't be bothered with so I am just doing whatever I feel like today....which isn't very much...lol.

Hope you are all having a blue skies and fluffy white cloud day like we are having here.
Sheila-x-
 

An Absolute Bag Of A Day!!!

Well yesterday was OK for a while.....until my back decided that it didn't want to play nice. I don't know what happened. There was no heavy lifting, reaching or stretching going on....it just went while I was preparing the pork and beans for tea. So I spent most of the day hobbling and shuffling like an old lady.
This morning it has gone so I don't know what that was all about.

I woke up feeling vaguely housewifey so got straight on to the jobs for the day apart from the hoovering which will have to wait until the mister gets up and I have no plans for much else apart from preparing tea as Miss Doodle will be here later.
Her order for tea today.....Philadelphia Flip and Dip cheese, Herb and Garlic soft cheese and hummous with tortilla chips, bruschetta bakes and veg sticks. I may have the same but Andy would kill me if I gave him that for his tea so he and DD will have a ploughmans which should use up the last of the salad ready for new supplies when I go shopping.
Lots of chopping then but at least I don't have to have the oven on......oh poop....yes I do as I have to cook the part baked baguettes😒

Still can't settle to any sewing so once Ruby has gone home tonight I am going to sort out all of my UFO's into bags and put them all together in one place so that when the mood strikes me I can just grab a bag and go and work on it until it is done.com.
I'll need to order some more batting soon as I think there is only enough left for a couple of the quilts.
Once they are done I am going to start on Christmas projects as I still have two Advent Calendars I need to make.

It's feeling pretty warm here now so I think a cold drink today with lots of ice rather than a coffee and then on with the chopping.

Have a wonderful day y'all.
Sheila-x-

 

Cooking For A Cooler Day!!!

By mid afternoon yesterday it was extremely hot here and very uncomfortable but this morning is overcast with a cooling gentle breeze....much better and definitely more conducive to cooking one of Andy's favourite meals......spicy pork and beans with baked sweet potatoes.
I thought I had better make it because he had a bit of a panic on when he couldn't find any of the hot and spicy beans on the shelf in T***o. Then they had some in and he went rather mad buying them to put in the store cupboard so I now have about a dozen tins to go at......although he does take them to work as part of his pack up sometimes.

The day started off well with a quick visit from Miss Doodle who was being taken to school by Grandad. Just seeing her for ten minutes gives the day that extra bit of sparkle.

I didn't get the laundry finished yesterday so a couple of loads still to do and a bit of tidying is all that is on my job list today. Not sure what I will do with the rest of my time but I do need to have a sort out of my sewing magazines which are getting a bit out of hand so I will probably bundle some of those up to go to the charity shop.

What are you all up to today? Anything exciting?
Have a fab day whatever you are doing.
Sheila-x-

A Hot Mess!!!

Well I don't know if it's just me but I am finding The Loch just one big hot mess. The sad thing is that now I am going to have to watch it through to the end as I need to know if they will ever find that poor guy floating at the bottom of the loch.
Thank goodness DD and I will be able to get back to watching Oz tonight. It's a pretty brutal, far fetched prison drama but we are totally hooked on it.

I slept like a log last night but have woken up feeling very achey and out of sorts. I'll soldier on through the jobs though and cobble together a meal for tonight. I have put some chicken to marinate in Cajun spices so that with some salad and some roasted Charlottes should make my pair happy.

The herb table is all planted up now.......

We have rosemary, parsley, spearmint, garden mint, chives, sage, Silver Queen thyme and lemon thyme. There is also a pot of oregano on the bottom which we need to find a container for as DD forgot that there were only eight compartments in the table.
I can't wait to be able to start using them now.

Quite glad of a quiet day today.
Hope you are all having a good day.
Sheila-x-

That Was A Weekend That Was!!!

I think it's going to take me a week to catch my breath after the busy weekend we've had with our Miss Doodle.
We have had a lot of fun despite my plans being scuppered by the resident drivers. Things were just done differently but Ruby still had a great time including helping to make these.......

Strawberry cupcakes with strawberry frosting and tons of glitter.
The chocolate decorations are little Troll biscuits in the shapes of the characters.
We also had glitter jelly which we had found in the supermarket but trust me when I say....that is where it should have stayed. Ruby loved it but I shall not be partaking of that again....anytime let alone anytime soon....lol.

Today we met DS and the gorgeous Marlowe at the pub for lunch and to hand Ruby back. It's so much easier to do it on neutral ground as she does get a bit fractious when it's time to go home....not because she doesn't want to go home....I just think she doesn't want the fun to end and go back to the Sunday routine of bath, hairwash, reading practice and homework.
Never mind....over the next few weeks we will be planning what we are going to do when she comes to stay for the week at the end of August.

I am whacked...lol....so all I will be fit for now for the rest of the day is reading the papers and schlomping on the sofa to watch The Loch later on.

Hope you have all had a lovely weekend too.
Sheila-x-