Shopping

Apperently as a woman I am supposed to love to shop...

Well I really don't...

Get it from my list to trolley to conveyer belt to trolley to car to house to cupboards...

Yea right I'm supposed to love that?!

Tuesday is my current day of choice to shop...

Today...well especially this morning it was wet...

Shopping and getting wet...such fun...

Having to go to more than one shop to get the things on my list...

Just about made my day I can tell you!

So it was with much gratitude that when youngest needed to use our printer and she brought Bella with her we headed off down to the woods for an amble...

Heidi loves to 'run' around with Bella...though she tires very quickly now...

These two really are the best of friends...

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Yet another sponge with jam and buttercream cooked and popped into the tin...

Does my hubby know just how lucky he is? Nah...

It's my duty as his wife of course!

This duty is not extending to much house cleaning today though...

The dreary weather is making me very tired...

And how come when I am so tired I cannot sleep well at night...

Crazy I tell you, absolutely crazy...

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Anyway...it'll soon be time to start tea preparations...

My life knows no limit on exciting...

Talk about exciting...did I mention the other week when our oil tank sprang a leak...

Our recently filled with 2500 litres of oil, oil tank...

I only went to check on the washing before going out...and it was lucky I noticed...a leak...

Also a great split was forming down the front of the tank...

Hubby luckily came home quickly...armed with oil drums and a pump...

He demanded a bar of soap...and it worked on the leak but wouldn't have stopped the tank blowing...

Our neighbour is now 1000 litres of oil better off...though hopefully eldest and family will be getting it when they move...so a new tank is on its way... 

Life is never dull for long around these parts...

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Blessings, J. x

Home

Lately being home has taken on rather a new meaning...being home can conjure up feelings of comfort...lazy Summer days...reading a book in the shade...listening to the turning of the water wheel...alfresco dining...carefree days...

This year though being home for some has become more of a sentence...I love my home...I am very lucky to live in such a beautiful part of the World...access to private woodland just down the lane...but for those who couldn't or daren't leave home to do regular chores it must have been a nightmare...

I had to venture forth from the very beginning...to work and feed my family...I am rather glad I needed to as I wonder how my mindset would be feeling if I had spent weeks locked in behind the front boundary of our property...

But anyway...time has marched on in its usual way...the nights are now officially drawing in though I hope it is a few weeks before we really notice a difference...

Tonight I am ensconsed on our sofa with a hot water bottle because it is just a little on the chilly side of comfortable...I love hot water bottles...a comfort thing I suppose...memories from childhood...oh the wonderful smell of slightly perished rubber!

Ok so now I am on the 'strange woman' list...actually I have probably always hovered around any such list and quite frankly do not care...what is a life if you cannot have your idiosyncrasies!

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So what's been happening around here then...well what seems to me like a ton of baking...all of which miracuously disappears with alarming regularity...

The move of the century has not yet taken place...I still await with baited breath...

Heidi is currently holding her own...thanks to some new tablets...she is eating into my budget in a big way at the moment...can I begrudge this money being spent...have you looked into those big brown eyes?!

Summer appears to have come in April and left again in May...the exception being last Thursday...painfully hot and stuffy...and yes I had to work in a mask...Friday saw me moping around with one incredibly thumping headache...no wine required...

The temptation to hop on up to the pub on Saturday has been removed by a well timed work shift...actually I don't think we would have ventured up there on re-opening night...far too many folks coming out of the woodwork and all that... 

Plans are being scribbled into books...numbers being totted up and shock and horror being expressed at just how expensive a largely self build extension might cost should we do it...I pretend that I don't hanker after a dishwasher with two drawers, and a separate larder fridge and freezer...our current fridge is just too darn small...or even a cast iron roll-top bath...ridiculous to want one of those...except I do want one...I really do...then add the comfort height toilet...great for occurrences of the dreaded 'bad back'. Ok so this may take some time...planning, foundations, walls, a roof and openings will come first...and even that cost is making my eyes water...

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Has it just been me or has anyone else been a little 'off' blogging lately...I haven't even been religiously reading the blogs I usually do...I suppose like in everything else interest and time wax and wane...to force a post would be futile...If I were more organised I would have a plethera of photos of frothy June blooms in the garden...a cute photo of Heidi...and a plateful of fresh fairy cakes on a beautiful plate...only I spent all day at work, then came home and cooked tea and washed dishes...in truth I am knackered and can't wait for bed-time to come...guilt and an annoyance with myself are pushing me to get writing again...

Why won't the words come when I demand them to...it's not as if nothing has happened...the truth is that until the move is signed and sealed I am keeping a lot of my emotions tight to my chest...fear of getting carried away and too joyous could somehow jinx things and I so want it to happen...

And so my dears for now I bid you adieu...

Blessings J. x