Summer Time

 So half way through my summer holiday.

The first week was spent in the garden.

I did some more of my Helen Hallows online course.

My sunflowers were growing fast...

The sun finally returned...

lots of meals were taken in the garden too.

I made deep filled blackcurrant pies...

Hubby and I celebrate our silver wedding anniversary next year and we booked a two night stay at Burgh Island Hotel....a dream come true for me!

Then we went away on holiday......

Nine Years

Nine Years ago I started this blog......nine years! and there wasn't even a photo on my very first post on the 1st of February 2009!

 nine years ago this little lady appeared a lot on my blog

 Now these three are the stars!

 So the last few days of January and the beginning of February and what has been going on?  The new sofa and chair have arrived for the lounge.

 The wall paper is going and we are in the middle of trying to pick its replacement.

 I marked out the pages for my embroidery sample book for #stitchaweek

 and I enjoyed watching The Miniaturist 

 We have had too few crisp winter days and too many grey and rainy days

 cake and hot chocolate helped!

view from the staff room at lunchtime

 We found a bargain on eBay......an original 1930's fire surround

here it is leaning against the one one we have at the moment

The lounge is far from finished but I will keep you up to date with its progress.

 I started my stitch-a-week

 The fire surround will be tiled and we have decided on these turquoise/teal ones. plain on the hearth and the smaller mosaic ones around the fire!

 we are busy planning our summer holiday, a week in August.

A walk up to church with school

There seems to be more photos of Daisy than the other two. The reason is she is the most sociable and is nearly always in the same room as us and she is so photogenic, Misty runs away when she sees me pointing my camera or phone at the her and Milo doesn't seem to show up very well being mostly black!

have you noticed we have managed to get a collar on her too!

They still have crazy time!

 We had a sprinkling of snow earlier in the week...

 This is a little green lane I pass on the way home and I often pull over to take a photo of it.

 This is the same lane this morning.

Titanic homework by class 3

In order to commemorate Votes for women I re-posted this photo on Instagram from November 2014 when I made a suffragette costume.

I popped into Touchstones one evening after work to pick up the latest brochure and have a look in the lovely little museum there. 

And so we are heading for half term.....I will no doubt have more chance to get out and about and have something to write about here so will be back before the end of February.