Tuesday at home

I have spent the last couple of days doing my cross stitch, not as much as I hoped, I can only sew for a short while. I am working through the 4th set of squares on my cushion front.


I am not enjoying stitching with the shinny yellow, it frays and breaks very easy, I am using it on this pattern below and for the centre of each flower in the 5th square design I started. I have 2 and 1/2 squares to finish and hope to do them in the next couple of days.


I spend alot of time in our sitting room looking out on the garden, in our tree we have a huge nut ball for the squirrels, we have to fill it twice a week, yesterday for the first time we saw three squirrels together at the back of the garden. They are a pest, but I do love to see them playing.

When we moved in there was very few plants in the garden, this peony was in the corner of our decking,
I have done nothing to it, but it has produced buds and now is poised to bloom, just in time whilst I'm off work to enjoy each flower.


Fliss has popped in this morning, she pops in most days to check I'm OK, Kev is having a early start game of golf and will be home soon. so it's just Grace and me, the sun is shinning but it feels cool this morning, we have nothing planned for the day.

Sunny Sunday

It's a another sunny Sunday morning here, Kev is on the golf course and will be home soon, Grace is sunning herself in the garden. I have had my op and I'm feeling rather good. Slow on my feet but Ok. Yesterday when I came out of hospital both Fliss and Su and their other half's came to visit and Josh had done this beautiful drawing of his favorite group The Wiggles.


Our floor has been laid and I am very pleased with the results, we are almost there, but for the mo everything is on hold. For the next few weeks it's recovery time for me.

Just so you can see the results so far.

The garden is coming along well,
we had our first strawberry yesterday and there are more to come.

The veg plot is doing well, Kev now has the task of watering each night.

Our flowers are doing well, I love the reds, pinks and purples in these blue pots.

I have not done any cross stitching as yet, I need to rest my top half, but I have read a brilliant book called " What Alice Forgot" by Liane Moriarty, Alice knocks her head and wakes up forgetting 10 years of her life, in which she has three children, that's all the plot you will get from me, just a gripping read.

I'm home now for quite a while, I have had a mastectomy and my other side reduced, so I have to be careful whilst the wounds heal. I feel very lucky to have a great husband, who has been beside me all the way, I have seen some horror struck hubbies following their wives around the unit, but my man walks beside me. Two daughters who are such fun and give me loads to look forward to this year, Su getting married and Fliss expecting our second grand child. My sister Leanna, who is there for me but gives me space when I need it and the greatest bunch of friends.
I hope this information does not upset you, life is strange at the mo but it is worth living.

Su's hen weekend

This is the coast in Dorset, we stayed in a large converted barn near Dorchester.

The weather was perfect, we spent Saturday morning in Monkey World,

and the afternoon at Lullworth cove.

The views were stunning, the weather was perfect.

Sorry the photo is the wrong way, but we were stunned to see this bucket tree, great fun.


The fridge at the start of the weekend, I am pleased to say we did not drink all of it and took home loads of bottles. This photo was taken before we did the weekend food shopping.


My daughter Su is getting married in August and her hen night was always going to be cat themed, we all wore ears and our cat names. As this weekend included the "mums" it was more of a fun time, the younger one's are out clubbing next month for their big night out.

This is just before our BBQ, which was cooked without any male present!!

We have the wooden floor being laid today and tomorrow, it was started yesterday and so far is looking good. I hope to have our furniture back in the dining room by mid week. It will be so nice to have everything almost back as it should look. We will have to add the skirting boards, but I am back in hospital this Friday for another op, so I want the place looking sorted for a while, the hope is no-one will notice the unfinished bits.

I will have loads of time in the next two weeks for cross stitch, I hope to have most of the work done for my red cushion front.

Mid week catch up

After our week in France, I am settling back into work and home life. My tan has started to peel and work is as busy as ever.
I am now preparing for this weekend away with Su, it's her hen weekend and we are off to Dorset to share a large house on a female only 4 days.
Kev is having a blissful weekend home with Grace our cat, he has planned for a motorbike ride and a Sunday morning round of golf.



My sewing is coming along well, I am pleased with the amount I have done, I have done one third of the stitching, I have added my fifth pattern out of ten, I have all patterns ready, but I keep changing my mind on which one to put next. I won't take it with me this weekend. But I will have plenty of time in a couple of weeks to get loads done.

In the garden

I hope you can see our garden squirrel, he is a cute friendly thing, and I do love to see him eating the nuts we hang for him, BUT last night I was chasing him away from my garden, I found him digging up my newly planted seeds. Photo's are not great, he would not sit still!


My veg patch is coming along well, I have had to string some shinny bits to keep animals away, I am so pleased Kev is going to make me a second small area. I have also planted two tomato plants and two courgette plants, I have never grown courgettes before, Joshy passed them to me so I will have to ask him how I get the best results. I have also planted 6 sunflowers, for seeds for the birds.

My final photo is of another free Orchid, this one has been sat on my bathroom window sill, I left it most of the winter and started feeding it last month. I hope to have more flowers soon.

I am now preparing to go into hospital for a third operation on 11th, I will be home for at least two weeks after resting. I am planning to spend my time cross stitching my cushion front. I have a small ABC heart to do whilst I'm in for three days. So yet again fingers crossed, this should be the last op this year, I will need another but not until next year.
We are also busy with Su's wedding plans, so plenty to do.