Crikey, doesn't time fly?

Hello peeps

I didn't mean to leave it this long between blogs......

So what have we been up to, get yourself a drink and make yourselves comfortable.

Well you might have heard that Le Tour had a couple of stages in Yorkshire :) and I do believe the whole of Yorkshire turned out to watch it - yay !!

Festivities started on Friday night when the Emley Moor mast was lit up for two nights - awesome.  You could tweet and request colour combinations, I asked for bright pink and got it - fab !!!

Our photos don't do it justice, so have borrowed a couple too.

We had a lovely day on Saturday with my family celebrating my

lovely Mums birthday and Sunday saw us in the busy and most lovely Holmfirth.

Nice selfie!!

Here they come.

GIANT MIFFYS - I nearly fainted.

 Gorgeous homemade bunting and displays EVERYWHERE !!

 Ahh finally the cyclists.

Look at the crowds on Holme Moss, this is where we go to sledge in the snow!!!

                        Check out the official Grand Depart song, it really is lovely.

                             http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hilxQHMfJ-w

                  Friday night saw us at a Classic Car Show in Thornes Park, Wakefield.

 Hello, the lilies are looking good in the garden this year.

 The allotment is looking good, although we haven't had chance to go for a week and I'm told it's bursting with life and weeds !!!

We're off to lovely Filey for the weekend on Friday night, so busy busy.

I can smell the Summer holidays and can't flippin wait.  Will have lots of time to blog then.

Take care

Twiggy x

What to do on a rainy Saturday??

( Look at this cheeky little gardening snail Mr Twigs found next to our front door this morning !!)

Make chilli jam - or in this case chilli dipping sauce, I changed the recipe slightly and it is quite runny !!

Anyway tastes great and the combo of garlic, chillies and ginger has really cleared my sinuses.

Went over to Huddersfield and bought this little lot for £3.50 from the market!! the peaches are called UFO or doughnut peaches and taste divine.

The tomatoes are 3kg bags at £1 each - blimey !!

Popped into here for some fish sauce, if I'd not been in a rush would definitely has a good look round as it is ace and sooooo cheap, 4 huge chillies for 34p, that massive bottle of fish sauce was £1.68 !!  love the fact it's called SQUID.

We had to get off for Twiglet's swimming lesson though, so a mad dash round.

What have you been up to today?

Twiggy x

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