This week we have mostly been..........

Outside !!

Phew hasn't it been hot - as you know I am a Winter gal so have been a bit of a misbo in the hot weather. 

 However, I was home from work on Friday afternoon by 4.10pm, in Twiglet's paddling pool with a glass of Pimms in my hand - respect !!!

We break up for half term tomorrow, and have been very busy bees over the last 2 weeks.  

Twiglet also had a school trip yesterday and I was down at school this evening for their jubilee disco !!

We have done a lot of work on the lottie, see above, and spent a lot of time in the paddling pool !!!

It was Twiglet's birthday a couple of weeks ago and he managed to celebrate for a week - culminating in a trip to the Lego Experience in Manchester.

I promise to be back soon with some makes, we are off to the Railfest at York Train Museum on Saturday and parties at Nana's and Grandma's Sunday and Monday - but I might get time to make something !!!

Righto, off to watch The Apprentice semi final now, anyone watching, who do you think will win?  

I really wanted Gabriella to win but the lovely lady got the boot last week - shows how much I know.

Have a great half term.

love

Twiggy x

Wow Twiglet is 7 !!!!

Where did the time go?  

Happy 7th birthday beautiful boy!!!

Tons and tons of love

from

Mummy & Daddy xx

It's nearly that time again !!

Preparations are being made, parcels hidden,tickets bought. forget the Diamond Jubilee it's Twiglet's 7th birthday on Saturday !!!

7, where is the time going???

Anyhoo, we have been such busy bees recently, and Twiglet is having a week long birthday as usual, we went out for dinner last Sunday with Nana and Grandad, out again tonight with Grandma and off to the Lego Experience and Manchester Airport on Saturday !!

As we managed to have a bit of sun on Saturday we finally got up to thee lottie - it was very soggy so Mr Twigs had to dig a trench, then it was filled with topsoil and we then planted some sweetcorn, pumpkins and sunflowers.

We still have these lovelies to plant out, however, they will have to wait until lovely boys birthday celebrations are over.

 I'll leave you with a pic of my men working hard.

Twiggy x

A few makes and a recommendation.

(We have plants growing all over the house at the moment).

Due to the inclement weather I have done a fair amount of stitching and a lot of reading over the last few weeks.

The house and greenhouse are full to bursting with plants for our lottie but when the rain stops for a couple of hours we are busy and vice versa!!

My main sewing project is a cross stitch which I am doing with a view to entering it into our local Country Show in August - but more on that when it's finally finished.

To break up the boredom of that - it involves sewing a lot of grass - I have done a few other little bits and bobs of cross stitch - my very favourite  craft.

Firstly, here is a little card for my Big, Big Sister's birthday - the kit came with one of my Cross Stitcher magazines.

Secondly, here is one of the little Easter bags I made and filled with choccy goodies.  

I also did a duck and an Easter chick but my annoying netbook deleted the pics - grrr!!

I love this bag, but do think the rabbit has a touch of the Donnie Darko about it !!

Now onto the reading, we visit the library a few miles away every week for DVDs and books, I have read SO many recently.

I love libraries and love the opportunity to try something new.  

I picked up a great book called The Sugar Camp Quilt by Jennifer Chiaverini a few weeks ago and loved it. 

 I chose it because the cover was so pretty but wouldn't normally have chosen this type of book (I'm a crime fiction kind of gal when I'm buying).

Anyhoo, I enjoyed it so much I ordered a couple more and they arrived today for the princely sum of 80p each - 80p to order a book sure beats the RRP on Amazon.

I heartily recommend them, great books and very pretty to look at, give them a try.

 Read any good books recently?

That's all for now.

Twiggy x

Big Camp = Big Fun !!!

Well we had a terrific time and came home sunburnt !!

Pirates ahoy !!

Twiglet gets climbing......

even higher - yikes!!! (I was proud)

 A bit of kayaking.

 Time for the helter skelter

 I'm glad we didn't camp though our Beaver leader had to go  out and buy hot water bottles and extra blankets as it was so cold at night - brrrrr!!!

If you want to see more pics and info take a look here http://www.facebook.com/CountyBIGCamp

Twiggy x

Wish me luck

That got your attention didn't it?

I've been watching North and South for the millionth time this week while I do my ironing mountain

 - phwoar !!!

Huge apologies for going AWOL, I've been very busy with real life stuff.  

I was going to post the other night and lost all my blardy photos while trying to transfer them to my pesky netbook!!

Anyhoo, just back from Twiglet's mate's 7th birthday party and what do I need the luck for?

We're going to the Beavers/Cubs/Scouts Big Camp tomorrow - a full day of huge excitement with 4 to 5 thousand young 'uns !!

Wish this old lady luck - must get an early night tonight and I promise to be back soon with news and interesting photos !!

Twiggy x