Christmas Doings

Did you have a nice Bonfire Night?  

It was good fun at the Beaver's Bonfire at the Scout Hut on Wednesday and we raised £140. 

We had fireworks and hot dogs at Nana and Grandad's last night.

Twiglet and I have been busy in the kitchen today and made the Christmas cake we intended to make during half term (we ran out of time:) 

 

The house smells lovely, I love little rituals.

There is still a fair amount of real life crap going on at Twiggy Towers so, to take our minds of it we are keeping busy. 

We had a smashing walk along another local public footpath this afternoon.  

We also saw our first Robin of the year - yay !! (and lots of sunbathing bunnies).

 The weather has been glorious, so sunny and bright.

We're ending the day with a bit of stargazing using Mr Twig's fab new birthday pressie, isn't it ace?

Twiglet and I have also started making a few Christmas pressies but more on that story later.

Take care.

Twiggy x

Very busy half term hols !!!

Well I've just finished my first day back at work and lovely Mr Twigs has made some scrummy allotment soup (home grown, parsnips, and potatoes) in the slow cooker, which we're about to eat with some warm crusty bread - yum!!

Anyhoo we had a really, really lovely half term break, so I'll let the pictures do the talking.

Here is bestest baker making scones - see above with home made blackberry jam, they were scrumptious - if you want the recipe shout !!!

 Tolson Museum.

 and playground..........

 The very beautifully refurbished Greenhead Park - I love parks !!!

 The glass house was derelict for years and is now a snazzy cafe.

 The fountain was also derelict for years.

Excited face, must mean we're at the train museum in York.

 The very beautiful Duchess of Hamilton.

The Mallard - gorgeous.

 Called in at Twiglet's favourite garage on the way home, we're being invaded!!

 We also found time for a local walk along a nearby bridleway - the hedgerows are laden with berries.

 We bumped into a local hunt - what a surprise !!!

 Must not forget Mr Twigs birthday on Sunday - cake made by me and Twiglet, again scrummy, first time we've made it, it was lush.

 We rounded off a fantastic week with a trip to lovely Filey for Mr Twig's birthday.
Had a great time rock pooling.

 The sun shone so..............

a very cute and very crazy boy went for a dip in the sea on the 30th October !!!!!

 Halloween squash

 Halloween cutie !!!

 Hope you enjoyed the photos of our whistle stop half term.

I blimmin love this time of year, once we're all home there is nothing nicer to me, than getting my pjs on, drawing the curtains and doing a spot of Christmas stitching.  

Too cosy !!

Keep cosy and stay safe on Bonfire Night - we're going to the Beavers Bonfire tomorrow night at the Scout Hut :)

Twiggy x

Just checking in.............

to let you know we are still here but VERY busy, having a tip top half term. 

I will be back with photographic evidence soon.

love

Twiggy x

Lovely things when life gets tough.

Blimey we have a right pile of real life crappola to deal with at the moment, talk about one thing after another.  

So in a bid to forget all that stuff, we'll concentrate on the good stuff.  

We've had a very busy but lovely weekend. 

Twiglet and his Daddy went sledging at SnoZone with Auntie and little cousin, top fun was had by all.

He then had a swimming lesson with his new swimming teacher who is fantastic. 

We later went out for dinner with Mr Twig's family here, to celebrate my lovely, lovely Father in Law's 80th birthday !!!

What a top geezer he is and what a fab time we had.

Here's Twiglet on the slide !!

Our little social butterfly then had a birthday party to go to on Sunday, he did all this with a grotty cold and cough and never complained once.

In fact he lost his voice at one point yesterday :(

I offered to let him have the day off school today as he looked so whacked out, but he bravely went into school and I topped him up with medicine at lunchtime, what a star!!

Our little school (76 pupils) had an Autumn Fair last Thursday and raised a staggering £730 !!!

It's our Harvest Festival on Thursday, the children were practising their singing while I was working this morning and it sounded beautiful, I can't wait.

 Here is a pic of my contribution of home made marmalade.  

I've also had some lovely and interesting stuff in the post that I thought I'd share with you.

 

I bought this from the super talented Sparklehen, for my friend C's birthday it's called Knitwear For Birds :)

I liked it so much I had to buy Is That You? for me ...............

 Lovely Heather threw this gorgeous print in as a free gift, how fab is that ??? a very talented and generous  lady.  

She is running a buy 2, get one free offer at the moment, so get on over there !!!

 Twiglet made this fabtastic pine cone hedgehog at school isn't it ace?

More birthday gifts for my pal, a cute set of magnets from the uber fab Asking for Trouble.

 

 Finally after weeks of searching found myself a Winter coat - I searched high and low and I'm so,so,so happy with my lush coat from Joe Browns.  

It's even fabber cos I love their stuff but can't usually afford it but this had been reduced by £40 so I snapped it up !!! 

I also found some perfect Winter boots after much searching but I'll save those for next time.

My cross stitch masterpiece that I began in February is finally finished and waiting to be framed so..... looky here, a bit of Christmas crafting !!!

Ta ta for now, keep warm.

Twiggy x

Well would you believe it...........

It has taken me a week to get around to doing this post as we are all SO busy !!!

  

Working, swimming classes, Beavers, meeting up with friends at soft play areas for tea - lots of fun but blimey I'm cream crackered.  

Even Twiglet said Mummy can we not do anything this weekend please :) 

We are going to a kitchen sink science workshop tomorrow though which sounds top fun.

Anyhoo, what a difference a week makes, here are the photos of what we got up to in sunny Filey last Saturday, after our torrential downpours, hail and wind yesterday it's hard to believe we were swimming in the sea last weekend - hey ho!!

 

 After playing in the sea for a couple of hours we had a cliff top stroll.

 

 We saw LOTS of ladybirds !!

 

 A gorgeous coble collecting lobster pots - looks like a model from the cliff tops.

We had a terrific time, we usually get a last hurrah of glorious sunny seaside in September but to get one on the 1st of October was just magic.

Enjoy your weekend.

  love

 Twiggy x