Love to go for a nice long walk when I can and I often walk ten plus miles! Last Saturday I set out nice and early and was only about 1.5 miles into my walk when there was a tap on my shoulder… and my youngest son ran past me!
We live a number of miles away from each other and the reservoir we were walking/running by was the only short stretch of our routes that we were taking where our routes came together!
What a coincidence! I carried on and had a great walk seeing the lovely wild flower meadows!
Well another visit to the zoo in Blackpool and yes the raccoons remember Elsea.You wouldnt believe how they just come to you and let you touch them, as you can see they have no fear at all.
And as for Elsea she has no fear either , Im not sure Id be the same had I have been there.
They have a yearly pass so can visit anytime and as they live so close and its very intuitive for my granddaughter.
She likes to interact all the time so Im pleased shes got no fear of anything right now.
Last Sunday was my birthday! I decided to take the next day off of work so that I could really relax. I had a lovely day starting off with some presents from hubby, including a beautiful bunch of flowers.
After a delicious lunch of veggie prawn cocktail, made by hubs, my daughter, son-in-law, granddaughters and Cookie the dog all arrived.
I was spoilt with even more presents including another colourful bunch of pretty flowers, some comfy pjs and some plants for the garden.
All my favourite things! Then they all sang Happy Birthday while I blew out the candles on my Birthday carrot cake.
I really enjoyed a lovely relaxed day.
Im sure most of us will be aware that June 6th we celebrated the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings.
A Key strategy in helping us win WW2.
As I was watching the various celebrations in the UK and Normandy on the TV it was sad to hear that a lot of young people and children had no idea what D-Day was about and why it was so important to us.
One thing I can say that was not the case in my grandsons school. With the school being on an RAF base the children were celebrating and were asked to attend school in 1940s War costume and my grandson Harry dressed as a child evacuee.
Not only that he wrote a little piece in class which I wanted to share. 80 Years ago there was a war.
No one to be scared. Europe is going to fight Germans in France. Lets be very brave, work as a team. Come on we got this. Help us win the war against Germany.
Finally our new walk in pantry is pretty much done. Benchtops and flooring still to be done but those will be done once our kitchen is also completed. Looking now at the EOFY sales are coming up to purchase an all freezer upright freezer that will go into the pantry.
Also looking for a fridge, preferably all fridge, which will go in the kitchen. The room we have made the walk in pantry in we think was supposed to be a dining room as there was a small pass through where the door way from the kitchen now is.
The pantry is all new walls as we extended the small walk in robe in our bedroom to make that bigger and formed the new wall for the pantry.
Unfortunately we couldnt do a full length wall as where the microwave is in the corner, there is plumbing for the ensuite toilet behind that and also there is a big window that the wall wouldve ended up in front of one end.
So finally I am able to pull crockery, glassware and other kitchen items out of boxes and give them a place.
Corner pantry is huge and I just love how much stuff I can put in there. Weve started pulling the kitchen apart now (the pantry that was in there) is already gone as I now have its contents in the walk in pantry.
One happy Mumma here and so looking forward to the kitchen renos now. Its a good feeling as hubby and I custom built the entire walk in pantry. Took us a while but we did it!!
My youngest granddaughter is absolutely obsessed with animals, my daughter takes her to their local zoo more than once a week.Elsea loves to touch.
She at the moment has no fear of anything, which is a good thing in someways but obviously not in others.Here she is at her local zoo holding the Racoons tail. , I am not sure they are supposed to be touched but when I was with them they came right up to you and wasnt scared at all, and of course you walk through their compound so Im presuming its ok.
I think if wed let Elsea out of her buggy to walk she would be in amongst all of them.
Well the animals and birds are all in the middle of breeding season here, the birds are especially busy and all in my garden.I counted 8 robins all feeding on my new fat balls they seem to love them.
They are so full of goodness for them, however at 20.00 a box they should be.The robins are quite tame I can sit out at my table and they come so close.
In fact they sometimes sit on the table and dont seem to be worried Im actually there. Just be show the wild can sit with you.
Oh the drama of Golden Retrievers. I had to give Sam a medicated wash and shower, as he has a skin condition. Sam was sitting in the bath, being a very calm boy. But outside the closed door was a very vocal Billy being an absolute drama Queen!
Once Sam was out of the bath and being dried, he joined Billy in a crying competition through the closed door.
As soon as Sam was free they ran into the garden and had a big play fight, then curled up together to go to sleep, while Sam dried off.
Cats are curious creatures, it doesnt matter what they are there to investigate. Bailey, my cat is certainly no exception, big or small if something is open he is there to check it out.
The other day I was clearing stuff out of my wardrobe and ottoman.
There was so much stuff that had accumulated that I didnt use or didnt wear, so I was filling bags for a journey to the local charity shop.
The ottoman particularly needed a good sort out, but as soon as I emptied it I turned my back for a second and there he was checking the ottoman out.
He viewed it as a large cardboard box and was about to claim it.
Thankfully I managed to claim it back to store bedding.
This week my husband and I celebrate the 15th birthday of our little furbaby Cassie. A gorgeous fluffy, cheeky little Lhasa Apso or as we often refer to her, a Lhasa Asbo!
From the day we got her when she was ten weeks old to today shes been our little bundle of love, shes run us ragged, cost us a fortune but we wouldnt be without her.
Sadly, old age has got the better of her, shes blind, deaf, incontinent, has to have a special homemade diet because of kidney problems, hasnt got many teeth and arthritis cripples her so she cant walk very far.
But, she still loves a cuddle, shes still a happy little girl and she still loves her food, what more could we want.
A few of the pics are from the day we first got her, the rest are more recent at home, in the garden and out on a walk in her new poochy stroller we bought so she can still get out and about to sniff and investigate everything in the big wide world.
For her birthday tea she had her favourite. Roast chicken. She was one happy pup :-)
… again … another weekend … another Mini League meeting! lol This time we went to Bingham Athletics Track in Nottinghamshire.
Both of my youngest grandchildren were competing. Austin age 9 was in a throwing event plus 2 races and Olivia aged 12 was in 3 races.
Austin is only just old enough to compete and so hasnt been running for very long but he did really well in his events but wasnt placed.
Olivia has been running for a while and she won both of her races, in fact she won the 800 metres by about 100 metres!
Her last event was the 4 x 100m relay where she was the last to run … when she was passed the baton they were last ….
But she managed to move them up a few places! The Mini Leagues are all about working together as a team and each event goes towards the teams score!
While visiting one of my friends, she wanted to show me something that had appeared in her garden. Of course I was immediately interested and curious to see what it was. She took me down to the bottom of her garden where a dead tree trunk lay on the ground.
Its surface was covered with two types of fungus, one a bright orange the other by coloured in neutral tones.
Hmm.. very interesting but what type are they? With a little bit of research I found out that the orange fungus was called Scarlet Bracket and apparently is the most common as well as being colourful that can be found.
The other turned out to be a Trametes versicolor.
Amazing how wonderful and diverse nature can be.
I have reached 10,000 Sales this week. I would like to thank you all, for buying my designs and making it possible!! Its been a hard slog ! But got there. My design is the freebie this week ! What a way to say thank you!
Hope you all like making up the kit. Happy Crafting to you all !! And wishing you all a wonderful Sunny summer! xx
I love creating designs for myself and others to make cards from, but I also love to paint. Ive been painting in watercolour now for over 30 years and every Friday morning I go to my Art Society for a social painting morning.
Its very friends, we all paint in different mediums, and a lot of chatting goes on, sometimes more chatting than painting.
Today, however I got stuck into what I was painting which was an English Blue Tit, and Im pleased with the result, which I have this afternoon turned into a card design.
Thank you to Crafts U Print for providing me the platform to let my creativity fly into card designs.
The weather has messed up the plants around here. Tomorrow is the first day of winter and plants are sprouting new leaves and covered in flower buds. Someone didnt tell them that all that is supposed to happen in spring.
There was a hibiscus here when we moved in, not doing real well and not even a foot tall. Now its nearly three feet high and covered in buds with flowers appearing on a daily basis. This gorgeous hibiscus is one of them. I was sad when we moved that I couldnt bring some of the big hibiscus bushes with us as we had some pretty colours.
Red hibiscus is pretty much the norm and everyone has them but we had some oranges, yellows, peachy colours and purples back in Hervey Bay.
So Im stoked to have this pretty creamy one that has the deep pink/magenta centre. I will continue to nurture it as the flowers are huge as well as pretty.