Bit of art and yet more charity shop gold.

SoTwiglet and I have had a lovely, if soggy half term.  

We were going to go to the cinema on Thursday but decided instead to visit The Hepworth in Wakefield - we love it here and it is soooooo child friendly.  

The staff are really helpful and welcoming, we did the art trail around the gallery which is fab.

We also had a go at the Artigami workshop, check out our versions of Barbara Hepworth's Winged Figure - pretty good I think !!

Friday saw us at my lovely Mums.  

I took a little walk up to the shops and it would have been rude not to visit the Sally Army shop, look what I found !!  

Fab and groovy Golden Hands mags, a vintage Vogue knitting pattern book and look at this vintage beauty complete with original embroidery transfer.

These are some of the patterns in the Vogue knitting book - gorgeous !!

My Mum really enjoyed looking at them, once I've had a good look, I might pop a few on Ebay, so watch this space.

I also picked up 3 new (to me) tops for work from my favourite chazza shop in Pontefract - so an all round successful trip !!

Righto, better think about making something for tea.

Ta ta for now.

Twiggy xx

PS Twiglet says thank you for all your birthday wishes !!!

Can you believe it???

(I've popped on some photos of a walk we took down the lane before the rains came - the hedgerows are full to bursting with blossom at the moment and our lottie has gone barmy - must be all the rain).

BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY ..........

Our lovely boy was 9 recently!!  

9  I tell you!!  where has the time gone?

 (please ignore loo in background).

Anyway many happy returns to the gorgeous one.

We had a really lovely day at Lightwater Valley with one of his pals, thankfully before all this grotty rain arrived, it was glorious and we were there for 7 hours.  

It was great and so quiet we went on several rides 3 times!! (I didn't go on the big ones as I am a total wuss).

So here we are at a very soggy half term, we visited Magna for the first time on Sunday with Twiglet's little cuz, once we'd negotiated the flooded roads and rerouted through Rotherham - top fun.  

I will have to put some photos on here once Mr Twigs has loaded them up.

Went here for dinner on Sunday night, very nice it was too.

Old Twiggy doesn't go out that much but I even went out (whispers) on my own with the ladies from work last Friday for a retirement do - crikey, whatever next.

We spent the last dry day here on Bank Holiday Monday weeding the lottie, glad we did too as it's tipped down ever since.

Twiglet and I have spent the rest of our time so far, watching films, playing on the Wii, he tried to explain the complexities of Minecraft to me but as I'm not a 9  year old boy, I just don't get it ;)

We made cookies and hob nobs yesterday, it's lovely to have a bit of Mum and Twiglet time.

Last night saw Mr Twigs and I attending the opening of the Doncaster Literary Festival opened by Stephen Booth, what a lovely evening we had and what a thoroughly interesting and nice fella.  Like many of his fans I chat with him on Facebook so it was nice to meet in the real world so  to speak, and assure him I'm not a stalker - lol!!

I'm cracking on with the cross stitch - see photographic evidence, but still have a long way to go.  

I must admit I'm wasting far too much time online faffing about rather than doing stuff, must try harder.

On that note I feel I've neglected my blog but find myself using Facebook as I suppose it's quicker to use.  I don't seem to get many comments on my blog these days so I suppose really I keep it going as a kind of journal about Twiglet's childhood as I do enjoy looking back as what we've done.

Would you believe this is my 400th post!! what a gasbag.

I think I might well have a giveaway, watch this space.

I'm now going to try to figure out how to put a link to my Facebook page so  do feel free to come over and say Hello and tell me to stop wasting time playing on line games.

Have a good half term folks

Twiggy x

Bear with......

Can anyone explain why it always rains at 3.20  just in time for the walk to school to collect the lovely boy ? we even had thunder.

He's a happy bunny though jim jams on and a plate of homemade hobnobs!

I've just uploaded photos from last 2 months off my camera, so a mixed batch but enjoy them !!

Lovely boy has started making dinner for us on a Saturday - when we are at home.

Here is his very scrummy lasagne.

So I mentioned that my hours have been reduced at school.  

While I'm looking for more hours elsewhere I'm intending to do more stuff so watch this space.

 I'm starting walking with a work friend (sounds much nicer than colleague!!) and I must get my flippin cross stitch done.  

Not only as it's been lingering for 2 years  but my fantastic niece told us recently that she and her hubby are expecting their first baby!!!!  

How exciting,  must get stitching soon.  

Ace news !!!!!

We've also spent a lot of time at the lottie recently, these pics are from April, everything is beginning to sprout, so I'll take some photos next time we are down there.

 Twiglet's fantastic Easter Bonnet, we see your yellow Easter bonnet rules and ignore them. 

 Who says you can't have an Easter Tardis bonnet !!

 Next to the Tardis Easter bonnet, is the pop up pirate ship we made at Easter !!!

 Ooooo hello more London photos, well we did have a fab time.

 Pizza made by little fella and I for tea last night, yummy !!

 Chazza shop gold, bought this in Easter Hols from my fave chazza shop, a complete retro sewing kit, with all the hessian, wool and instructions required for a princely 2 quid !!

I really love it - note to self stop wasting time playing games on Kindle and get crafting.

 Heap of homemade hob nobs waiting for the lovely boy on his return from school today, I made a crapple crumble from the sad old crappy apples in the fruit bowl too - must get another job soon or we will all get VERY fat !!

 And finally we have a few more snaps from Filey, cos I love it, so there.

We thought we might have a buyer for the house, but he was ahem a bit of a time waster to put it politely.  

Honestly hope we sell soon, keeping everything tidy is killing me ;)

So anyway up, hope you enjoyed the pics, bear with and I'll be back soon....

Twiggy x

A trip to the big smoke......

Hello everyone

Hope you've had a nice Bank Holiday however you've chosen to spend it.  We were lucky enough to stay with my lovely SIL who took us country mice into London for this trip!!

Top fun but not for the faint hearted, 35 miles per hour at times at a 45 degree angle to the water - crikey !!

Twiglet was VERY, excited, his first time in London, his first ride on a tube train all topped off by a trip to the heart of the West End, for dinner, we had a super time and he pronounced it AWESOME and EPIC !!

Who are that barmy bunch at the back of the boat???

 We the went here for moules, frites and lovely, strong Belgian beer !!   

Look how happy Mr Twigs is now he has a beer in his hand.

It was most lovely, I've got to say living out in the sticks I thought the crowds and underground etc would freak me out, but it all seemed very good natured for a Saturday night.

 The moon was visible above the many theatre signs on Shaftesbury Avenue as we went for our tube and train and well there was a lovely buzz about the place.

Twiglet took it all in his stride and both the children were wiped out by the end of the day and after 2 VERY late nights.  

He slept for a solid 10 hours in his own bed last night :)

Here's the little fella in front of the London Eye.

My favourite view though had to be the Houses of Parliament - wowza, we were so lucky to see it on a gorgeous sunny early evening, just perfect.

top fun indeed.

Twiggy xx

Happy Easter !!!!

Well we are half way through half term and having a lovely relaxing time.

Spent quite a few hours at the lottie - so lovely to be out in the sun, but not so lovely to get sun burnt!!

Twiglet and I had a jaunt to Pontefrct last week and fund some chazza shop gold (will take a photo and post soon) and we spent a lovely but cold morning at Newmillerdam with our friends and their new puppy.  The crazy lady, ran straight into the lake as it's the first time she'd seen still water.

 Good Friday saw us at a very sunny Filey - bet you'd guessed where all my photos had been taken hadn't you?

 We got soaked on the Brigg but were busy seal watching, so didn't care - the waves were massive.

Just had a lovely Easter dinner after an industrious afternoon at the lottie again - will post some photos soon.

Happy Easter to you all, however, you celebrate.

I have started putting a few updates on Facebook recently, so will try to pop a link on here.

After the Easter hols. my hours at school are reducing, so hopefully will have a bit more time to blog properly.

love

Twiggy xx