Me on Monday

Still busy making cards using a http://www.clearlybesottedstamps.com/ stamp and inspiration.

Waving to Sian and everyone else visiting my blog at this busy time

Me on Monday

It's been several weeks, with a few interruptions but we are finally coming to the end of decorating the spare/craft room. Ian fitted all those doors himself with a little help from a friend.

Behind them is all my craft stuff and my little red camping table is out ready for me to do my Christmas Journal.

This is what it looked like, very masculine and dark. I hated the curtains but they did hide all the mess.

Hi to Sian and anyone else visiting my little blog.

Me on Monday

This was actually Saturday, just before my little visitor went home, the two of us spent a lot of time in my bedroom with the door closed as we played, my full attention was needed!

Today I am getting ready for my favourite time of year and decided to spoil myself by buying Shimelle's Christmas in a box. I've been doing her Christmas class for several years now and really enjoy it.
 I've already bought lots of presents in an attempt to feel more relaxed this year. We have been decorating the spare room which is also my craft room so I haven't made any cards yet. Hopefully it will be finished in a few days and I can get some done. It always amazes me how quickly Christmas is upon us, I have so many plans and not enough days it seems, still that is the fun of it.

waving to Sian and all my other blog friends on this rather miserable Monday x

Me on Monday

enjoying knitting a simple cowl with some gorgeous wool I treated myself to last week

the weekend included celebrating this young man's 17th birthday, how time flies

waving to Sian and anybody else visiting my neglected little blog, hopefully I will start doing something worth blogging about soon!!

Me on Monday

It was a quiet weekend of finishing these socks

so I could start on this blanket, a kit designed by attic24. I'm loving the colours but finding it a little bit more fiddly than the ripple blanket I crocheted last winter. I thought I might also have a cowl on the go so have been searching the free patterns on the internet for something simple.

waving to Sian and hoping you all have a good week.

Me on Monday

Waving to Sian this miserable Monday afternoon but secretly pleased the weather has changed as I can get on with some scrapping instead of more gardening. We spent the morning out there and it's not one of my favourite jobs.

The weekend was a peaceful one for us with walks by the sea and watching the boats whilst sipping  coffee and eating cake, it's a hard life!!

Me on Monday

enjoying a cuppa and teacake and the calm before the storm. I'm going to have a houseful at the end of the week as nearly all the family arrive to enjoy Folk Week

Hi to Sian and everyone else dropping by, I hope you all have a good week x

Me on Monday

 Relaxing  in my knitted socks after a busy but fun weekend

 We all went up to the Olympic Stadium to see the Anniversary Games

 Not being lucky enough to go during the 2012 Olympics it was exciting to see the stadium before West Ham takes it over

We were quite near the long jump so got a good view of everyone taking part and enjoyed an afternoon of races and field events.

The youth team paraded round, I wonder how many of them will be future olympic champions?


joining in with Sian and wishing you all a good week x

Me on Monday

 Relaxing after a busy weekend with visitors.

 You never know what you are going to see when you go for a walk here. We were entertained by this Tiller Girl and a very good singer who had mixed with the likes of Vera Lynn, Ann Shelton and Lonnie Donegan, way before my time but I enjoyed joining in the singing.

 We took a guided tour round Canterbury and found some very weird buildings.

 as well as some beautiful old ones

and I was able to leave this book on the train for someone else to read as part of my book club scheme ( I did worry someone would come running after me saying I had forgotten it!)

I'm hoping this week will be a quiet one as I need to recover ready for more visitors.

Hi to everyone joining in with Sian

Me on Monday

Today I am recovering from a busy but lovely week with my mum and smiling over the photos I took

 Mum was 92yrs old last week and came to us for a "little bit of sea air"

 Always happy to pose for her picture, I was able to snap away as she opened her presents.

 One of her favourites was a little dvd capturing some old cine film from years ago. Here she is at my sister's wedding with her three brothers and sister, her youngest brother died at 10yrs old having fallen from a cliff trying to get his football. Mum is now the only one left from her large family.

We had got a wheelchair for the week so were able to get out quite a bit. There were lots of walks by the sea followed of course by a little sit down with a coffee.

I'm very fortunate to still have mum around and apart from short term memory loss she is in good health. She always likes to tell us stories of her youth, she certainly led a much more exciting life than me. I do think it's important to record those stories while mum is still with us.

Joining in with Sian again and hoping you all have a good week x

Me on Monday

Enjoying sitting in the garden finishing a good book, The Martian by Andy Weir.

It's been a good weekend, enjoying a French Market in Sandwich

and taking in the beauty of an old church. I hope your weekend was as enjoyable.

Joining in again with Sian and wishing you all a good week x

Me on Monday

Me on Monday in desperate need of a haircut. There has been a lot of knitting and reading over the weekend as the weather has been awful. My socks are coming on slowly and already I've started to think about what I will do next, another blanket I think.

It was a different story last Wednesday when the sun shone and everyone was enjoying the beach. We've been promised a good June so here's hoping they are right!

Joining in again with Sian   and wishing you all a good week.

Me on Monday

I’m cheating a bit as this was me last Monday enjoying a pleasant day at Slimbridge

So many birds to see but I just love the babies

including these little coots

and this adorable moorhen

the reason for our visit, a few days looking after our granddaughter while mummy was away

we had a lovely time holding the animals, this little chick was a favourite

and feeding the lambs

there was time for some adventure as well

she managed to climb up there and come down on her own, it was far too scary for me!

We had a lovely few days, I really should have lost weight all the running around we did.

This Monday sees me tired and a little sad it is all over.

joining in with Sian and wishing everyone a good week x

Me on Monday

doing what most mum’s do, cooking a favourite meal for one of her sons.

The weekend was another family one involving a lot of food and not much exercise, unless I can include the hours spent preparing the meals!

waving to Sian and also joining in with Cate's blog everyday in May

I hope you all have a good week x

Me on Monday

attempting to knit my first pair of socks, how the weather has turned had to find a blanket to keep warm.

it was a lovely family weekend of looking for treasure on the beach

destroying sandcastles

and playing with nanny’s buttons

waving to Sian and all my other blog friends and wishing you all a good week x

Me on Monday

Waving to Sian and everyone else stopping by this sunny Monday.

 

We are recovering from a couple of days in London where we went to the Harold Pinter Theatre

to see Sunny Afternoon, the story of The Kinks. It was a great night out and I thoroughly enjoyed myself.

We also took a tour around The Globe Theatre which was very interesting and walked around Regents Park on what turned out to be a very hot day.

Having walked about 20,000 steps a day I was relieved to sit down on Sunday and finish off my coastal ripple blanket. I need a new project now, socks perhaps?

Thanks again to Sian for starting this meme and I hope you all have a good week.

Me on Monday

Crocheting the border round my coastal ripple blanket, nearly finished now. The weekend saw us walking over to feed the cat and chicken before welcoming home a tired family with a roast dinner. It was also a triathlon and grand prix watching weekend and a getting ready for a night away to see Sunny Afternoon in London.

Hi to everyone else taking part in Sian's Me on Monday meme.

Me on Monday

Playing around with some pretty paper and photos after a busy but mainly enjoyable weekend

It was Kent’s Big Weekend and we received tickets to the Canterbury Roman Museum. We tried on costumes

Played a roman board game

and enjoyed making a mosaic.

The less enjoyable part? Ian had two teeth out on Sunday.

Joining in with Sian who is discarding her crochet for a while and knitting some socks!