I am no longer.....

knitting - eek!

I am back to cross stitch, for a friend for Christmas.

Yarny Loveliness

I have nothing to add except The Yarn and Fiber Company ROCK!!!!! I cannot recommend these wonderful people enough....I ordered this from the US on 29th of July, and it arrived today on the 4th of August...I don't think I would have got a quicker turnaround from a UK company... this travelled.

Must go, I have stitches to cast on.

Still no knitting, just a couple of pictures to prove I am alive!!

DDs lunch yesterday

View from said lunching place!

Off to stalk DT, I have knitting and a camera!! Hee hee, you just never know...watch these photos ;-)

The last day of school really takes it out of you...

DD and I went off for our annual "last day of the school year piece of cake and a cup of tea", well actually we had smoothies and DD had macaroni cheese (wtf??) and then we walked home. DD now has 6 weeks stretching ahead of her, so what did she want to do...she wanted to pair the odd socks...she was working away with Topsey for company, and whilst I was cooking dinner I realised things had gone quiet...I could no longer hear "mum, come and look at this", "mum, look at me and Topsey", "mum, do these socks match??"...so I went upstairs with the camera as I thought it might be worth a picture, and look what I found....

Aaaawwwwww!

I managed to get the glasses off her...she is fully clothed, rather hot and sweaty, and the bed is covered in cat hair - nice!

I am off to knit - honest!

Still no knitting...

But DH went to London and came home via Cyber Candy . He got me Moomins...look!

And when they are released from their box there are 2 tins....

fronts and backs

Aw, Moomins!

You know there is nothing on telly.....

...when you have finished putting the shopping delivery sway and catch DH watching horse racing from Yarmouth.....

Anyway, no knitting (what's new?) BUT a few photos...for no particular reason, and no particular order...

First up: my new recycling bins, thank god I have a garage to put them in

I won't bore you with the details of which bin does what, but suffice to say what used to go in one doesn't go into it any more, it goes into 2. Which is good because now they are only collected every 2 weeks, but not all bins are collected the same fortnight. We have a piece of paper telling us what to do, and when....it all starts August 4th, so then will begin the fun - hee hee!

Next up: my honeysuckle cos I love it - sigh! And the smell is heavenly!

Next up, one of my favourite portuguese snack - tremocos!!!! A photograph, cos I can, and now I am going to eat them - yum!

And finally a photo for Bezzie - jeez you would be so proud of me....I went to a local supermarket and picked up a few bargains.......in fact we happened to get there when the lad with the price gun was marking stuff down.......to 20p ($0.40)!!!! Yes, I am fucking with you not ;-) 20p!!!!!!!!

Look at this list, it has the original prices and the price I paid, and yes a pack of sausages went through the till at 2p ($0.04!!!!!!!). I added it all up and I spent £2.22 ($4.44) instead of £23.53 ($47.00)

This made me very happy :)

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One tramopolene free to a friendly american ;-) Bounce you for it!

Still no piccies....

and a very busy weekend.....
yesterday was my day off, I spent the morning thinking about what I should have been doing - you know the kind of thing; laundry, cleaning, housework. So I read the paper, did the crossword and sunbathed on the trampolene (you know how small my garden is), my excuse was that I didn't want to get hot and sweaty and then have to go out. At 1.30pm DD, DH and I went to our friends renewal of vows. It was a lovely family affair, and we all went back to their house and sat in the garden, catching up, meeting new friends, eating and drinking. The weather was warm, and we actually sat outside until 9pm - yes 9pm!!!!!
It was almost like Summer ;-)

Does anyone know how to.....

reply to people who leave comments - obviously not as a post (yes, I have done that!!), but via email. Sometimes I would like to say "thank you for your comment" or "goodness that is nothing, snails here can climb my 6' fence!!", or even "Sue, I won't blame you personally, but could you take it back for a refund??".
When I get emails saying that I have got a comment (I love those, you may have guessed that also get excited when the postman is walking up the street), the email address comes up as noreply-comment@blogger.com. Is there anyway I can do what I would like on Blogger? Anyone? Bueller??

I now have my weather frustrations in perspective.....we are not running from bush or forest fires - rain, get over to CA immediately!!. It is not hot, and our humidity is acceptable, certainly not a ridiculous 90%. And I am lucky enough not to live too close to a river so I am not getting more and more anxious when it rains. In fact my plants are thriving - except the caulis, they died a very sad death........my flowers are looking lovely, and my pumpkins are looking good.

Must go, DH has just freaked out the cats by yelling "there is a faller!!!" - he is watching the Tour.......

It is still fucking raining.....

for gods sake someone really is taking the piss....I buy new skirts, I buy summer shoes, I want to garden, so what happens on my one free day off this week.....it RAINS...it has not stopped ALL day, literally ALL BLOODY DAY!!!!!!!!

Rant over.....oh a final FUCK!! there, I feel slightly better now....

so what do you do when your day looks like this

Bezzie look! I have runner beans (just sprouting), 2 courgettes (a lot of dead snails - hence I still have 2 courgettes), emergency courgette (in case I don't kill all the snails!), something in a pot that hasn't sprouted (I think it might be watercress?), aspidistra, and mah massice grapevine. Nowhere near as advance as yours, so maybe we should swap weather.

Whadya do? You bake....I bought one of these, I couldn't post my own picture, as we have fallen out....bloody thing. I hasten to add, I didn't buy it from here - it is just the only photo I could find. Aaaaahhhhhhhhh!

I turfed the kitchen out looking for all of my ingredients.....look at the mess I created, all to make gingerbread men (sigh!)

I followed the instructions - do I have gingerbread men??? Do I hell!!! I have a bowl of spongey ginger stuff...the mould is sitting in the dishwasher in disgrace...BUT I am not beaten, I will come up with a Plan B and I will have gingerbread men. I did have some stuff that you brush in the mould to make the men come out easily, but as you can see, despite getting all the cupboards out, I couldn't find it! I will blame it all on DH, he went to work at 6am, so I decided to get up too and in my enthusiasm thought I would bake - gggrrrrrrrr!

Anyway, I promised WIP Wednesday so here you go

Hangin' in front of the window

Hangin' in front of the window part II

Layin' in a provative fashion on the table..

Best interpretation of colour...probably photo No 2

Yes - I do knit!!!! And at times, better than I bake....

PS: Update on Epiphany......I am still blogging, no doubt boring 2 people to death, AND I am still wearing make-up...ok, not right now this minute....but it isn't yet a 5 minute wonder....I quite like this "settled (ish) in your own skin" ;-)

Is it still raining? really??

Wow - this weather is horrible. It feels like autumn out there. The house feels sticky and damp, the washing isn't drying, and I almost feel tempted to put the heating on - sigh! And tomorrow is my day off, so I guess I won't be outside..much...at all actually. The VERY heavy rain cloud that is sitting over this country is heaviest over Casa de Frango Maryannlucy. Just cos DH bought me 2 very nice skirts for my b'day, and I bought myself 2 very nice ones AND I bought my new sandals...it has pissed down with rain ever since...I know I have retail legs but god this is bad....so tomorrow I will throw myself with gay abandon into housework - YAY!! and after those 5 mins I may just knit. And as it will be a day after WIP Wednesday so I may even post some WIPS.....