A post from Twiglet - Car Booty.

Last Wednesday I went to a car boot sale for the first time.

I bought 3 Star Wars toys, R2D2, Yoda and a Super Battle Droid for £1 each.

I bought loads and loads of Lego, including a Lego carry case, a huge box to keep it in and a posh Harrods bag for £10.  

At first the man asked for £15 but we finally got them for £10.

 I got Dr Who Top Trumps card and Ace Trumps - Tanks for 50p for them both.

I then bought a Dr Who jigsaw from the Prince of Wales Hospice shop for 50p !!

The car boot sale was good.  

I will go again.

Twiglet.

Zoom - where did week one go ???

Isn't this pretty? my lovely colleague bought it for me at the end of term.

I also received a little gift and some lovely cards from the Head Teacher - bless!!

I said thanks and he said well thank you for your dedication and hard work - how nice is that?

I told him I love my job and to be honest getting paid as well, is the icing on the cake :)

The good news is, my 6 month trial period is up and I'm now a permanent member of staff - yay !!

Anyhoo, what have we been up to?

 Well we made an I'm Bored jar - idea nicked from lovely Taz. 

However, we haven't been at home most of the week and time is zooming by.

I'm loving spending lots of time with my lovely boy.

We are certainly cramming a lot in.

We've been up at the lottie painting our new (to us, donated by our kind neighbours)shed.

We went to our very first car boot sale - Twiglet will do a post about this later. 

We had a budget of £5 each to spend, I spent nothing, Twiglet spent £14 !!!

We had a couple of days over at my lovely Mums - we will be spending a lot of time over there during the hols!!

Played in the garden, played in the paddling pool, had a trip to Whitley Locks, went to Selby for lunch!!

Visited Cannon Hall yesterday and watched the sheep racing :) phew it was hot.

We've been swimming today as Twiglet started swimming lessons on Monday and we need to practice.  

We've also fitted in some more lottie and a Yoda puppet - I will show you our fab Star Wars craft book next time.

The boys are going to have a Lego fest this evening while I wash up.

Twiglet and I are meeting up with my old schoolfriend tomorrow for breakfast and a bit of shopping and sightseeing.

Phew - We need to go back to school for a rest.

Righto the oven has just binged, so I'm off to dish up the apple crumble I chucked together !!

Catch you later.

Twiggy x

And breathe...........

Ooooo it's the holidays - have I mentioned that ???

Unfortunately my camera charger has disappeared so I am having to rely on Mr Twigs for photos.  

Of course we went away for the weekend to Filey and didn't take a single pic so you will have to take my word for it that it was good fun. 

Lots of messing about in the dinghy and body boarding !!

Today we've been shopping, painted half of the lottie shed, done some weeding and Twiglet has started swimming lessons, as well as cleaning and playing games - no wonder I'm tired!!

Thought I'd have a little catch up post really. 

First mention is to Mr Twigs and to wish him a Happy Anniversary - our 15th!! for 6th July.  

Also a Happy birthday to my lovely Mum for the 7th July.  

Check out her cake - it was scrummy !!

My crazy boy had his paddling pool out recently and decided he could just fit his dinghy in it - barmy!!

 Here are the teachers pressies for this year, shop bought I'm afraid due to time constraints, Body Shop goodies, we did go to town with the wrapping !!

 

 Twiglet's lovely handwritten cards - bless!!

I promise to search for my camera charger as I have much to share.

Bye for now.

Twiggy x

School's out !!!!

Woohoo - more on this story later !!!

Twiggy x

It's the final countdown........

No not the dodgy Europe song from the 80s but the last week and a bit at school before the BIG HOLIDAYS - yay !!

We are VERY busy at the moment, the amount of blardy paperwork and stuff that has to be done before the end of the school year is mind boggling - it's been a real eye opener for old Twiggy.  I'm doing a lot of overtime at the moment and can't wait for the hols. 

Thanks for the get well wishes, I'm better now but I am having a few problems with a very sore tum, so I'm having to lay off the usual suspects, coffee, alcohol, dairy - (I had IBS for many years and it always flares up when I've been ill) so it's peppermint tablets for me at the moment.

We are looking forward to the weekend, Mr Twigs and Twiglet are picking me up after school and we are taking off up to Filey for the weekend as my SIL has rented a cottage for a couple of weeks - thankfully it has an indoor swimming pool as the forecast looks a bit pants.

However, Twiglet wil love being with his little cousin.

Righto, must get on with the ironing as today is my only day off this week!!

Twiggy x

Urgh/Yum !!!

Urgh I'm lurgified.  I was sitting on the sofa at around 10.30 pm on Thursday and said to Mr Twigs, I really feel like I'm going to............ ran hastily upstairs and proceeded to be sick on and off for the next 6 hours - yuck!!

Had to have the day off school yesterday and arrange for Mr Twigs to take Twiglet to school and Nana and Grandad went to his green assembly and collected him from school - hooray for inlaws!!

I've stopped being sick now but still feel VERY tired, so have spent the afternoon on the sofa with Damian Lewis - yum !!

Twiggy x

Twiglet's patented cool swing and a giveaway winner...............

Feeling hot? 

too sunny for you? 

then get your wetsuit on, jump on your swing and ask Daddy to set up the sprinkler under your seat - magic !!!

  Now for the winner of my little giveaway.

And my lovely assistant dips into the lurid Ikea bowl, drumroll please........................................................

Our winner is Jackie at Jackiescrafts - hooray and well done.

Would you send me your address please Jackie and I'll send your parcel off to you this week.

Twiggy x

Mad dogs and Englishmen (and Twiggy) go out in the midday sun !!!

Crikey it's up on't hill today.  

I've just been outside sowing salad seeds and messing about in my greenhouse, too hot for me.

I should be doing some ironing ,so instead I'm blogging and eating my ice lolly of choice (it's a Nobbly Bobbly - fact fans!). 

While the boys play Lego Star Wars games.

So hope you've had a good week, they are flying by at the moment.  

We've had the paddling pool topped up for several days.  Twiget decided it was missing a little something..............

A tractor of course !!!

We had a short week at work as our school was closed due to the teachers strike on Thursday and we took our Royal Wedding Day on Friday.  

Twiglet and I spent a lovely Thursday over at my Mums, cake and garden centres - yay!!

Friday Mr Twigs had booked the day off work so we went off to lovely Filey and had a LOT of fun in our dinghy and had a splash about in the sea.  

Twas superb, though I'm a bit delicate today as I sun creamed Twiglet up and forgot to do my arms so I'm a bit lobster!!! 

I treated myself to some lovely Rose and Violent creams (I actually asked for violent creams too - oops!)from my fave choccy shop while Twiglet went for a fish on a stick!! 

We then had fish and chips from Inghams for tea along with bitter shandy and wine - sophisticates.

I'm afraid I have no photos as we were cavorting in the sea so didn't take the camera, you'll have to imagine it.  

Would you imagine me as a size 10 please :)

I do have some photos of the garden though (scattered throughout this post) and promise to take some of the lottie as we are going up later when it's cooled down a bit, it's coming on nicely now. 

Our nice neighbours gave us their old shed so our next job will be to put that up.

Proud Mummy alert - Twiglet went to Beavers for the first time ever on Tuesday and loved it (so far, so good) I was proud of him as he didn't know anyone and just joined in and said Hello, I'm Twiglet who are you? that's my boy.  

Righto, that's all for now, the giveaway will be drawn tomorrow evening, so if you haven't put a comment on my giveaway post, feel free to do so.

Bye for now.

Twiggy x