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

Damp cloths at the ready !!!!!

Two Treats Thursday - Treat Number 2 - A Giveaway !!!!

Hello campers, cor we've had loads of rain here this week, the water butts are full and the allotment is loving it - yipee!!   

(More pretty sweetpeas from the garden, don't they look lovely on the gorgeous little quilt I received from the very talented Heather?)

The rain is  inevitable really with it being Glastonbury this weekend - we will enjoy watching from the sofa and chatting about the muddy time we had there.

So did my avoiding the laptop work? 

I could have avoided it a whole lot more but did manage to do more making than I have recently. 

I spent a back breaking 3 hours weeding at the allotment on Saturday and then came home and made this scrummy Irish sea food chowder accompanied by my very favourite soda bread.

 

 Twiglet made this very excellent Fathers Day card for his Daddy !!!

 I have done a lot of work on my cross stitch which is beginning to look most lovely.

 I also made these little earrings.

 Considering I've done a lot of overtime and attended a Governors meeting on my day off today, not bad time management really.

Right here's the treats.

Treat number one, a little giveaway of handmade goodies.  

A litte felt flower brooch, pretty pincushion, handstitched card and handmade tags.

I'll probably throw in some choccy and buttons and stuff too.

What do you need to do?

Well I've recently caught up with the rest of the world and saw Donnie Darko a few weeks ago and thought it was fantastic, so tell me about a film you've seen and that I really should watch.  

Doesn't matter how old it is, why is it good?

I also saw Citizen Kane for the first time a couple of weeks ago, which was terrific - I'm so out of the loop!!

If you want to enter twice, let me know if you're a follower if not, become a follower.

If you want three entries pop a link on your blog back to this post and let me know you've done it.

I'll ask my beautiful assistant to draw a name from the lurid Ikea bowl the weekend after next.

 I really do spoil you.

  

Prepare to get rubbing your trousers in a Vic Reeves Stylee. 

See above post.

Mr Rickman - ooer - I'm off for a lie down.

love

       Twiggy xxx

Holiday post

At last, as promised holiday photos !!!

Here we have our cute little cottage.

 

 Fantastic view from the cottage.

 Twiglet takes to the sea !!

 Beautiful Inch beach - yes I realise it's sideways :)

 We spent a lot of time on Inch Beach as it was 5 minutes away from where we stayed, so we had many an evening walk after dinner, as it didn't get dark until just before 10pm.

 A fantastic and thrilling boat trip out to the beautiful Blasket Isles.  

We had to go out to the boat in a little dinghy with a motor !!!

 Little cottage on the island, a lady comes over every Summer to do a little weaving and crafting out here during June - September.

 We spent a lovely few hours on the wonderful beach, can you see the black and grey dots in the sea? They are seals, they watched us, watching them and at one point we counted 13 !!

Twiglet thought they were so funny as they were surfing the waves right up onto the sand next to us:)

 The very steep walk down to the jetty for the boat trip!

 The beach where the boys did some body boarding.

 Twiglet has taken to this like a duck to water, he is fearless and can't actually swim yet, he his soooo brave.

 And finally, here's the lovely view from our little cottage again, I would never tire of looking at this.

We took many photos, but as all three of us spent most of the week cavorting around in the sea there is not photographic evidence of our seaside japes.  

We spent SO much time in the sea and on the beach.

It was heavenly and we all want to go and live at the coast now.

Roll on next year :)

Twiggy xxx

Lucky Me & News of a Giveaway

Aren't these sweet peas lovely?

 My first from the garden this year, I love the smell and pretty colours.

How's your week going, I've been very busy and it was lovely to finally have a day off work today, I got my chores done and we've been to the Metrodome in Barnsley this evening for a good splash around.

Anyhoo, on to the pretties!!  I recently took part in Lucey's Button Swap and was lucky enough to be paired up with the lovely and talented Heather over at The Patchwork Heart.

Here's what I received, Twiglet kindly helped me unwrap my goodies:)

All beautifully wrapped in my favourite colours.

 Goodness me what a load of loveliness, a cute tin full of buttons, pretty buttons and ribbons, a gorgeus soft hanging heart that Twiglet has claimed to hang on his bed.  Look at the totally lovely little wall hanging, isn't it gorgeous?

 

 

 A beautiful lavender heart in my very favourite colours and a divine little quilt.  

Not only all that fabbyness but a bag of giant choccy buttons too!!!

Blimey

Thank you so much Heather, you are a very talented and generous swap partner. 

I hope you like my offerings when you receive them:)

Twiglet told me today that he hadn't put his hand in a bowl and picked a winner for ages.

Good point young man, so I think I'll have a little giveaway this weekend, so keep your eyes peeled.

Take care.

Twiggy x