Praise Be..........................

Monday nights are phwoar again.

Hooray for Spooks being back on TV and lovely Richard Armitage obviously.

Feel free to make up your own puns about undercover operations etc, etc.......

Twiggy x

Mmmmmmmmm food my favourite.

To quote Homer Simpson.

Have you been blackberry picking yet? I've made 4 jars of jam for the first time ever, very scrummy.

This is a post about food - hooray!! My boys are both working late today. The big one is doing some work on a network with BT, the little one is much more excitingly having his first session at the after school Environment Club.

My baby is growing up it's the first time he's asked to do an after school doo dah. I had a chat with his teacher this morning and they are weeding the school allotment and planting Christmas spuds. This made me laugh as I asked if he wanted to help me weed our allotment last Saturday. He said, hmm no thanks Mummy, think I'll ride my tractor instead :)

Anyoo, this morning I've made 12 buns, two apple puddings and 2 pizzas for dinner - Supermum !! I love homemade as it's always a much more interesting shape than bought, eg. pizzas.Look at our homegrown tomatoes, lots of interesting shapes, plum, Beefsteak and Gardeners Delight! they are very tasty.

I did a marathon weeding session up at the lottie this weekend and we came home with this little lot. Lovely spuds, tomatoes, turnip, a handful of green beans and peas, onion and a carrier bag of the most lovely apples. (The apples were given to us by a smashing old chap who has had his allotment for 53 years!!!!!) I spent Sunday evening peeling and cooking the apples, along with a load of rhubarb Mr Twigs pulled up from the garden, so we now have a nice full freezer!!

I know you'll find this shocking but I've started crafting again. Just a bit of cross stitch - yes I realise I said after the wedding sampler that was it but........... well I've done a little something for my friends birthday and I've started some Christmas cards - will show you when I've progressed a little more.

I will leave you with this photo. You know that I enjoy drawing faces on vegetables. I must say it is even more satisfying when you've grown the vegetable yourself, here's photographic proof :)

Righto, off to do some ironing and watch the Bake Off programme on IPlayer, is anyone else watching it?

I love it.

Ta ta for now

Twiggy x

Whistle stop tour and the Scarborough Flyer

Righto here as promised is the whistle stop tour of some of our Summer hols !!! We had a lovely time together, despite the rain.

Canal side walks.Fishing in Filey.

Canal boat trip and a pub lunch in lovely Skipton.
Twiglet wanted to stay at a B & B so we stayed at a lovely farmhouse near Whitby.
On the beach at Robin Hoods Bay.We also did lots of walking, baking and making but the highlight has to be lovely Grandad buying us tickets to go onThe Scarborough Flyer, what a perfect day we had.

Waiting for the train to arrive.What a beauty, there were people in fields and on platforms all way there and back taking photos of her !!

Scarborough Castle.

Fun on the beach, of course Twiglet ended up in the sea in his pants !!
A trip on North Bay Railway - traintastic day.

A ride on the big dipper.

Home to bed after a fabulous day.
I love school holidays.

Twiggy x

What a lovely day.

My niece's wedding on Saturday was just lovely.

She looked gorgeous, everyone cried, all the children made new friends, the weather was fantastic.

It was divine.

Dapper chaps and my lovely Mum

Twiggy in a frock - shock horror!!!

Lovely big cousin played with lovely little cousin ALL day.
Just perfect.
(I haven't included any pics of the gorgeous couple as I'd like their permission first and they are away relaxing at the mo).

And in other news. We have been growing and making agogo at Twiggy Towers. Jars of blackberry jam - yummy !!! Look at the size of our marrow (we've just had half of it stuffed for tea - very yummy !) and one of the onions !!!So there we have it romance and vegetables.

This is an ecletic blog indeed.

love
Twiggy x

New Tunes

I've changed my tunes, being an old rock bird I like loud, so have changed my list accordingly, with a few quiet tracks to give you a rest. I am pleased that I've found a recording of the Pogues from when we went to see them, sounds a bit ropey, but picture old Twiggy blubbing in the audience and you could be there.

(Above is a photo I took at Scarborough last week isn't it pretty?)

Righto, I'm supposed to be tidying the house, doing my ironing mountain (will take weeks) and making preparations for my lovely nieces wedding tomorrow - how exciting a new generation of marriages - woo hoo. I spent most of yesterday running about trying to find a suit and shirt and tie for Mr Twigs, who announced Wednesday night oh, would you get me someting to wear for Saturday, I won't have time. Yeah, thanks for that. He is now sorted, conservative suit but not too dull. If it were up to me he would be much more flamboyant, but he is his own man.

Twiglet has his first shirt and tie and looks just gorgeous in his new togs.

His first day at school yesterday went brilliantly, he just said, yes, bye then Mummy, lots of new stuff to play with !!!!

Must go and do stuff, have a great weekend.

Cheery bye

Twiggy x

Staying out for the Summer and Serendipity......

Playing games in the rain and sun and wind and well.............. you get the picture.

Firstly, thank you so much for the lovely comments on my last post. The support from my family and friends have made me feel my glass is becoming half full again. Sometimes things jump out at you and turn your world upside down and now I'm in the process of coming to terms with what's happened and moving on.

So did you enjoy the hols? We had a super time but only seemed to manage about half the things we'd got planned. Mr Twigs has all the photos on his computer, so when I can get hold of them I will give you a whistle stop tour.

Here's the serendipity bit. Mr Twigs was going out to our old high school today - about 20 miles from where we live - so as me and Twiglet fancied a trip out I said, we'll come, drop us off in the nearest town and we'll have a mooch and meet you when you've finished your call out.

So we had a look round the little market town that was my old stomping ground when I was growing up, a mile from the village I grew up in. We bought some fruit and lunch, then Mr Twigs met us. We were just heading back to the car and I felt a tap on my shoulder, there in front of my was my best mate from school, who I haven't seen for 8 years, since my Dads funeral in fact !!!! We both burst into tears, laughed and hugged and hugged, passers by probably thought we were barmy. How amazing, she lives miles away and was back to visit her parents and had decided on a whim to look round our old haunts - Twilight Zone music time.

S and I were like sisters, I first met her when we were 5 and her family had moved from Skegness, our teacher said, this is S, will you look after her and be her friend. We were friends throughout school, junior, middle, high school, first boyfriends, marriage and then apart from birthday cards and Christmas cards we lost touch. It was so, so, lovely to see her and I've given her my email address and we've promised to keep in touch. How fabulous that we both acted on spur of the moment whims, we have so much catching up to do and I can't wait.

Right, off to sew labels into Twiglets new uniform now, back to school tomorrow !!

Twiggy xxx

PS I've read the comments you left on Twiglets post and he enjoyed them !!!

Post number 2 by Twiglet

I like my big pumpkins and my parsnips and potatoes. My peas and beans are lovely too (Mummy didn't take any photos of those though!)

Here is a big marrow.And one of daddys really big onions.

Daddy is making a lovely fence made out of doors.We have put up a greenhouse.We have picked some tomatoes.
We have had a fun week, I will tell you about it later.
Twiglet

Signing off

Righto, I'm signing off for a bit. I've had some very horrible medical problems this week and want to go and lick my wounds with my boys and try and get over it all. So bye and I'll be back probably much later.

Twiggy x

What a lovely week we're having.

(The Stargazer lilies are through now, I love them!)

I'm sneaking on here as Twiglets mate from school has come for tea and they are currently playing upstairs, it's gone very quiet, hmmm....

Anyhoo not only has this week been lovely, it's been cheap too. Frugal living rules ok!!
I already told you about our at home day on Friday. Well we spent the day up at the lottie on Saturday and it's looking great. We spent Yorkshire Day at lovely, lovely Filey and Twiglet walked out on Filey Brigg with us for the very first time, what a big boy!! The last time he did it he was up my jumper, so I don't think we can count that :) We took a picnic and played on the beach and took a net and spent ages examining rock pools, just lovely.

At the beginning of the week we spent a couple of days over at my Mums and had a sleepover.

It was so nice, My Mum has a fab garden in a smashing quiet spot, I must confess I did fall asleep with a book on my face in the summerhouse while Twiglet played with Grandma :) We had a little walk up to the lake nearby and hit the local charity shop, look what goodies I found. This single duvet set is by Monsoon, isn't it gorgeous? great for Twiglets bedroom. and I couldn't resist these curtains, (oops sideways pic, but you get the idea). might use them for a project. I'm not telling you what I paid for them cos you wouldn't believe me!!

The lady in the shop took a real shine to Twiglet and gave him a free book and a Jeremy Clarkson DVD (he is VERY into Top Gear). The funny thing is she gave us the video as it didn't have a label on the actual tape and apparently this has happened to her before. Unfortunately a man stormed into the shop and told her off for selling a porn film to his 5 year old son - oops!! thankfully it was a car video :) We then noticed the local youth club was celebrating National Play Day so Twiglet had a good old play again for free. The next day we had a little bus trip and the bus driver said oh just pay for your fare love, the little one can have a free ride - how kind is that??

He obviously has the sort of face that will ease his passage through life!!
Well he is a beauty!!

Here he is on his bike, his Daddy forgot to pack his cycling helmet, so he improvised!!!
We live across the road from a very old house that has just been sold and they are practically rebuilding it (our neighbours are having some building work done soon too - yikes) so there is constant drilling and hammering at home at the moment, so it was so nice to get some peace and quiet !!

We did a little baking today, Twiglet made Thomas cakes. I made lasagne yummy - I'm a big cheat and chuck in a tin of ratatouille, very nice it was too.So that's all from me for now, a little catch up.

love Twiggy x

Happy Yorkshire Day

We spent our Yorkshire Day in our most favourite place, the most lovely Yorkshire resort, Filey!

What a super day we had.
A Happy Yorkshire Day to everyone.
Twiggy x