A slow start

Hiya strangers

How are we all enjoying our summer holidays so far?

We'll things have been kinda up and down here with a mix of really exciting new's and rather bad news. That coupled with the fact that my little man has been away for the first two weeks of the holidays has left me feeling rather .......... well ......... Lost to be quite honest. But hey that's not what you want to hear about is it lol.

So let's take a look at the positive side of things.

1. River being away has meant that I've finally had time to finish this....

Hexagon Patch work, Baby quilt. All finished and waiting to be washed :)

2. My little boy is on his flight home as we speak :)

And will soon be driving me mad as usual lol

3. In just under one week, this little cutie.....

Will be Joining us for a week to do a spot of camping and to visit a few of these places........,.

Plus what ever else we can squeeze in lol.

So here's me looking to the future :)

Fishing and the wannabe Joules model !!!!

Hello folks How are we all doing?
I just thought I'd pop by and share a couple of pic's I took today on our little fishing trip........






..... it was about ten minutes after this that River decided to fall head first into the sea hehehe.... and about 2 minute after that I discovered that We didn't actually take any clean clothes with us .....Soooo.....




........... Do you think joules will take him lol???

Hope you have a lovely week.
(((hugs)))

Meet Rusty

Hi folks, How are we all today? Good, I hope.

Today I thought I'd take a bit of time to introduce you to the newest member of our family. But if you could just humour me for a little while I'll start at the beginning.

Do you remember Kate?

Yes ... That's the one ....... Well a couple of months ago now she decided that she wanted to be a mummy. So Hubby and I ( being very unprepared for this ) took a trip back to the chicken breeder and asked him for some advice. An hour or so later we found ourselves armed with a broody coop ( in the form of a rabbit hutch lol) and 8 fertile eggs!!!! So we slipped the egg's under Kate and crossed our fingers lol. Over the next few day's Poor Kate managed to break 4 of the egg's but sat tight on the other 4 quite happily for the next 21 day's.

So anyway to cut a long story short two of the remaining egg's turned out to be infertile, one tried to hatch but sadly didn't win the fight and well .... That leaves Just one doesn't it ............

So ..... Meet Rusty .................

Here she is at not quite a day old ................ How cute...... It's been great fun watching her develop over the last few week's. I have really enjoyed Watching Kate teach her baby how to peck, scratch and perch and all he other things That chickens do.

Here are some snaps I took about an hour ago.....................

...................... Hasn't she grown ................

She's about 6 week's old now and is Growing rapidly and happily getting into lot's of mischief lol.

Of course I'm saying she but really we haven't got a clue as to what sex it is, we shall just have to wait and hope that it is a she because unfortunately if it turns out to be a he we shall have to Re-home him. But we won't think about that Just now will we?

Yes dad but my way is sooo much easier !

So ... You hold the stick just like this and you've got to get the ball's to go into the pockets hmmmmmm ....

OK Dad I think I can do it all by myself now ................
Hmmmm I think maybe it's a bit harder than I thought............ Perhaps If I wear dad's hat I'll be able to play just like dad..........
....... Hmmm maybe not ........ Oh well, " look dad This is a better way !"
... Yippee I got one!!!!!!!! ...........

Hiya folks

I just popped on quickly to say I'm so sorry about my serious lack of blogging over the last few months. I've got Lot's to share with you so I'll try my best to catch up with you all soon.

Hope your all well and enjoying the sunshine.

((((hugs)))

Swap parcels

Hiya How are we all today ?
I'm sorry my blogging has been a bit of a rarity lately I just don't know where all the time goes. I seem to be awfully busy with this and that at the moment.

Anyway the reason that I popped on today was to share with you the lovely swap parcels that I recieved last week. The first swap that I signed up for was Alex and joanne's Mothersday swap. It was a bit of a swapping circle and I recieved my parcel from the lovley nicola from over at smilernpb and ... well ... look.....

Thankyou so much nicola I Love it all, especially the very cute chicken, dip bowl and the lovely cross stitched bag is just perfect.

The second swap that I entered was Faerie nuffs Springtime tilda swap and I was paired up with the lovely linda Who sent me these cuties .......

Once again thankyou so much linda I love them both, they now have pride of place in my living room.

Right I'd best get moving and get a few more jobs done. I'll leave you with a quick pic I snapped at lunch time. This Is why you should never leave River and his dad aloan with paint. hehehehe

egg 'n' cress

Take an egg , some seeds and a little cotton wool

........... and wait..................................

.................... and wait .................

............. and wait .......................

................ TA DA................



and what to do with the egg out of the shell.................


...... an egg custard tart pehaps .......

Today I .....

Today I took one very excited 4 year old here.................

To see.......



Who went on "a very royal mission".

What did you guy's get up to this weekend?

Welcome to my world .......

Hiya everyone. How are we all?? did we all survive the half term holidays hehehe.

The other day a bloggy friend of mine (Libbie) invited us into her home to take a looksy round her bedroom ( in the hope that we would do the same because she's just toooo nosey hehehe). So in an effort to make this blog a bit more about me and my life and in an effort to satisfy Libbie's curiosity lol I thought i'd share a few pic's that I snapped this afternoon of my bedroom .... uncut ..... unedited and unstyled .....
.....because you know what, nobodys perfect, nobody's life is perfect and nobodys home is as perfect as we'd sometimes like to think here in blogland.

So welcome to my bedroom.... oh but please don't trip over the laundry basket on the way in hehehe..........




We live in quite a small two bed semi and don't have the luxury of a laundry room ( oh how I would love to have one of those lol) so clothes airers and baskets of laundry are a familiar sight in our bedroom







and as much as I try to keep things tidy and looking nice we always end up having to use top's of wardrobes as storage for things and a king size duvet on a double bed neatly disguises my handbag collection that's lurking underneath hehehe

but I do love to have my pretty things around me.......

I just want to stop there a minute and show you the beautiful blocks that I received from the very talented Annie over at birdcages and butterflies in my Christmas swap parcel. I do love them very much.

Right just a little bit more to show then I must be off.....

So there we are, a little snippet of my world. I do hope I didn't bore you lol
and I do hope you will join me and show a little bit of your home's ......

uncut...unedited and unstyled...

Speak to you all again soon

(((hugs)))