Froglet

Congratulations Zigzag - he's lovely! Love the smile on your face too - you brought one to mine!

I remembered! I'm feeling pretty proud of myself this week - I have done my daily walks well... daily for the whole of the month so far and I have also done a couple of things I find tricky which is motivating me to keep doing more of them! Today (after my walk!) I'm making some English muffins, continuing with the spare room sort out (there is actual carpet in there - it's been hidden for ages!) and trying to find an electrician to install an extra socket for when I turn the spare room into a craft room. I'm planning to go to an arts festival on Sunday and on Saturday probably seeing my mum and dad. Take care everyone!

Oops, just realised it's Saturday which means I forgot Friday! I have had a productive week doing lots of jobs that I normally avoid. Day out at Hardwick Hall too, sampling September's 'scone of the month' - apple crumble, it was good. My smallest small person is two very soon and grandpa (my dad) is making him a mud kitchen so has been consulting me on it - can't wait to see the finished object. His big sister has a birthday a couple of weeks after that and I'm crocheting her a 'ballerina doll' as per her request at the start of the year - I'm hoping she hasn't outgrown the idea! Have a good weekend all and a lovely week ahead of you!

Sunnyday - sending lots of good wishes your way.

Louby - that sounds like just the right amount of a TDL. Sunnyday, I’m glad this week has been better - I hope DIL’s mum is doing ok. I have done a fair bit of crocheting this week - making birds from a subscription I have. They’re lovely and sit in my front window watching the world go by! I also cut back loads of ivy in my garden and painted the shed which is looking very smart. I’m trying to think of something to do next week. I have that new year feeling but think that I will feel unsure of myself when everyone else is going back to work. I’m pondering a fire pit for my garden - I quite fancy some cosy autumnal evenings sat out in the back garden. It’s far to hot to sit there in the summer!

Oh Sunnyday, I’m so sorry to hear about your tough week. Sending good wishes for you and your family. Apart from lots of long walks with my doggy house guest I have done very little. I am feeling very lazy and need to do something about that next week!

I knew about snowploughs and gritters - some of them have fantastic names. Always make me wish I'd been part of the naming meeting!

Love that! I hadn’t realised fire engines got names!

Cait, that is such a tough job. I’m glad that there will be other enthusiasts that get to enjoy it. I have to admit to doing a fair bit of my own hoarding of ‘just in case’ bits - especially what I think of as ‘good cardboard boxes’! I have had the laziest of weeks - I’m hoping that it is the heat and that I haven’t actually become a sloth! Sunnyday - I am dog sitting a ‘something doodle’ next week (I can’t remember but she’s visited before and is lovely.

All ok here! Enjoy your me time Sunnyday and hope you get your printer sorted. Louby - I feel your pain, I am still decluttering my spare room. Some days it just feels like I move stuff around. Nothing in particular planned this weekend so a quiet one for me(more time for decluttering! 😉😂)

I’m reading a lot more now I’ve finished at school and I’ve just finished ‘The List of Suspicious Things’ by Jennie Godfrey. Really good - definitely recommend if you haven’t already read.

Hello all, The elbow is a little better - I'm trying to do things for just short periods of time and give it lots of stretches and rests. Have made lots of progress on sorting the room of doom this week - including rediscovering the EYFS pink folder! A couple of walks round the park and a day catching up with a friend - nothing in particular for the weekend! Louby - you reminded me of when my nephew (now looking at universities) was little and I would have to play 'stories' with him and I was invariably the big bad wolf/giant/villain of the moment!

I went to the leavers concert dress rehearsal at my old school this morning and then spent a quick 10 minutes catching up with my old class. Most of them seemed to want to ask me to guess how old they were or to tell me how many sleeps it was until their birthday! I have been trying to arrange for jobs like gutter clearing and I also want to make a 'snagging' list for my house - all those little jobs that need doing. I'm not good at this kind of thing so I really have to make myself! I think that all the knitting and crochet I've been doing whilst it's been good for my head hasn't been good for my arm - my elbow is painful when I move it and all the googling I've done tells me I need to rest it but it's really hard to know what to do with myself! There is tons of building work happening in my road at the moment so I'm looking forward to a peaceful weekend without it and with the opportunity to actually park outside my house!

That is so pretty mouse!

My brain’s a bit mushy today - only just realised that it’s Friday! I have done some epic weeding and miss clearing on the path between mine and my neighbour’s house - looks amazing if I do say so myself! 😉 I find that I keep going to check on it’ 😂 Haven’t got any plans for the next week at the moment - my old school doesn’t finish until the 29th so please send some sympathy their way - next week will be a struggle!