Schools out - pools out!!!

 The new pool is filled to the very deep brim, the gazebo is up and sun cream at the ready - hooray for the Summer hols !!!

6 weeks with my boy and 1 week with both of them when we go up to the beautiful Mull of Kintyre in August - yippee !!

As ever Twiglet is going to do the library reading challenge, I intend to read at least one book a week, I'm currently reading the Wrong Boy by Willy Russell and can't recommend it enough.

We've spent a fair bit of time at the lottie and will need to spend many hours there as the weeds are HUGE, I still have sore thighs from crouching and weeding on Sunday.

We've scoffed some lovely stuff that we've grown, gooseberries, strawberries, beans, peas, beetroot and potatoes so far!!

We have a lovely programme planned this week, including our first Summer hols car booty sale, trip around the chazza shops, visit to my lovely Mums and a morning out with my good pal C and her lovely boys who we haven't seen for ages.  I also intend to finish my cross stitch,  Twiglet and I have ordered a loom band kit and we are going o learn how to make some groovy bracelets.

Here' a photo of one of the pizzas Twiglet made for tea - yummy !!

Top fun, whatever you get up to enjoy !!

love

Twiggy x

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