Half term well-being

So I am near the end of my spring half term holiday. We finished the week at school with an INSET day on Well-being. It was really very interesting and I found it quite useful. The lady who delivered the day was very informative and made you feel relaxed, it wasn't too 'airy-fairy' either.

I have been putting into practice a few of the things mentioned on the day. One of them was 'eat the frog'
The idea being you prioritize the things you have to do. The one big slimy frog is something that must be done but you put off. You have to eat the frog before you can move on to tadpoles (Should be done) and the nice things that you would like to do. I have been doing this all week now and it does actually make you feel better if you eat your frog as soon as possible and then you can enjoy the day!
Sounds crazy I know but seems to be working for me......at the moment.

Snowdrops in my garden

 Half term week started with snow!

The garden

 Misty decided to stay in bed where it was warm!

Milo decided he would rather stay in the box than in his basket!

I love this shop in Sowerby Bridge, always very imaginative with their window display

 Lunch from the deli

 In the deli I noticed this succulent in a teapot......

 Maybe I could do similar with mine?

 I have managed to do some sewing this week too for #stitchaweek

my valentines from Dogs Trust from my sponsor dogs

 

Daisy wanted to help with my stitching

 On the Tuesday I met some friends in Manchester......

 We had booked ourselves High Tea at Grand Pacific 

Hubby and I went in October last year for our wedding anniversary and I wrote about it here in this post.

 We had a few cocktails too!

 It was a truly memorable meal

 Manchester was getting ready for Chinese New Year

The end of a lovely day.

 Lots of lovely hearts around our house on valentines day.

 I called in at Touchstones one afternoon

a lovely exhibition called Heart Beat

and a small exhibition called Postcard from Rochdale

 and a little pressie from Hubby for valentines

I will be back with part two of my spring half term soon.

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.