This week had been so busy – however did I find time to work? The new fridge freezer arrived yesterday and is humming contentedly in the kitchen while our old Smeg is somewhere in Geordieland. I managed to get a trade in deal which made the process easier as it was one in and one […]
I have always love pink blossom and I am longing for my trees to come to life again – then I will be posting about the pest of clearing up all the fallen petals. Something so pretty up on the tree turns into a wet brown mush blocking my drains and sticking to our shoes […]
I have no idea what the answer is to this question but it is freezing cold here today. The sun is shining and outdoors beckons but as soon as a foot is across the threshold you begin to shiver. I am longing to get my garden into some kind of order but have had to […]
Yet another very busy day and trouble with my freezer door hasn’t helped! I went to see what I could dig out for tea and the door was already open and it looked as if it had been for some time. Worse still we had just bought a load of stuff from Iceland and were […]
This was my Granny’s local church now long gone (though a bit of the stone wall is still there) I found this on the web: Designed by Edward Birchall and John Kelly The partnership between Edward Birchall (1839 – 6 March 1903),[2] who had practised in Leeds since the early 1860s[2] and John Kelly (1840–1904)[3] […]
A while since I wrote anything on here as I seen to have been running about like the proverbial cold bottomed fly! My Spring cleaning has started slowly – this morning I have scrubbed out the back porch, washed the nets and put everything back. The thing is although I like the finished cleanliness I […]
At last I have finished the two cushions made from this yarn… I used it double and fisherman’s rib, the backs are one strand of this and one strand of a neutral pure wool I had stashed away. the chair belonged to my Grandfather, who had it made to fit his wide girth. We have […]
February is our Wedding Anniversary month – under 40 years and over 35 years! This month in tribute to this I have given my dresser just a mini update with some wedding photographs. These were passed on to me by a cousin down in the West Midlands. He found them when clearing his Dad’s house. […]
Puttin On The Style 