This is a large gin and tonic!

I need it to tackle the washing that youngest has brought home from Scout camp!!!  He had a great weekend, only interrupted by a swimming competition on Saturday night.  The weather was great, which is really unusual for one of our long weekends, and they got to do lots of things including shooting, archery, high wires, games and a party.  On the Sunday evening they had a fantastic firework display, which we could also see as the camp is in the woods above our village!

The Washing!!!!!

He came home yesterday afternoon, tired, happy and quite dirty!!!!  Eldest spent the weekend revising for his exams and is working really hard for the exams when they go back next week.

DH, Treacle and I spent the long weekend in the garden trying to get some tidying up done.  We hadn’t really been able to get into the garden until now as the weather has been so bad.  In fact it said on the radio that it had been the coldest Spring for thirty years and I can believe it.  It was really warm on Saturday and Sunday and not so much Monday but we got a lot of work done.

Unfortunately I forgot to get some pictures and today it is pouring with rain!  Treacle loved the weekend as she loves spending time outside and when she came in, in the evening, she was so tired she lay down in her basket and we didn’t hear from her for the rest of the night!!!!!

Having made best use of the weather, no quilting was done 🙁  so whilst the Boys are off this week for half term I am going to sneak a few hours in each day to try and get Eldest’s quilt finished.  The quilt projects are starting to pile up and I need to get moving on them. 

Also it is going to be a busy few months with the usual summer activities coming up, Carnival, Swimming Open, Birthdays as well as Year End for our Business year so I know the next few weeks will fly by in a blur!!!!

Anyway I had better get on now as Youngest is out at his Maths tutor later and I was going to get my hair cut but that has now been cancelled!  Oh well I will soon look like Treacle, very long hair and curly!!!!!!

Have a Terrific Tuesday

Susie x

Youngest comes home last week and says Mom I need some cakes for next week for our Tea Party we are doing in class.  SO not for the bake sale but for class!  Oh and he would like my orange loaf cake and some cupcakes please?!!!!!

So yesterday morning was spent cooking and I then had a load of ironing to catch up on and Eldest is at home revising before the exams and Treacle was having a mad day!!!!  I should have gone to Quilt Club last night but by 6.00pm I was wiped out!!

This morning I added the strawberries, ironed the table cloth he needed and packed everything up for school.  Eldest took him for me and the cakes got there mostly in one piece.  DH and Eldest are hoping that some of them will come home too!

This morning I was out with Treacle in the garden and whilst she was busy trying to find the squirrel I walked around the pots and they are doing really well

These are my winter pansy pots and they have flourished since Spring finally arrived  However it just shows how things are late in the garden this year, my wisteria is only just coming out and normally by now it is all over and so, too, are the rhododendrons

I know one thing I have noticed this year is how green everything is.  Now I know green is green but this year it certainly seems more vibrant, which I think is because of all the rain we had last year.

Here is a picture of the trees around the garden and the picture does not really show what I mean but it really is green!

I have work to catch up on today, which I didn’t do yesterday and I am going to try and get some quilting done tonight.  

The Ball was a great success and Eldest and Girlfriend had a lovely evening, the food was good and there were speeches and after they finished they went on to a night club, although our two were not very impressed.  DH got the call to go and collect them at 1.30am and they got back and sat talking to us for half an hour and then went to bed.  They didn’t appear again until 11.00am!  We saw some of the others the next day and they got home around 4.00am!!!!!

Oh well I had better get on with some work.  Treacle has got indigestion this morning and I have given her a little bit of bicarb, now she is burping everywhere!!!!!!  Joy

Have a terrific Tuesday

Susie x

This is actually what it is like this week!!!!!!!

Not only are we busy with work, everything else seems to have got busy as well at the same time and despite trying to keep everything straight this week, I am not doing a good job!

Youngest has had his third brace fitted today so he now looks like Jaws from the James Bond film!!! He said, I didn’t!!!!!!

Tomorrow is Eldest’s last day of school after fourteen years and they are getting a little hyper to say the least (you wouldn’t believe that they are all 17/18 year olds!)  Tomorrow night is their Sixth Form Ball/Prom and I have got the dinner suit dry cleaned, shirt ironed and ready but I am sure there will be something that I will need to fetch/collect/buy before tomorrow night!

The Swimming Club is going through some issues which will hopefully be sorted by June but we have now been informed that our quality standard is changing and we will have just over a month to produce the new paperwork or we may lose the accreditation!  I am the one who does all the paperwork for it and have made strenuous objections to the fact that we will have only a month to get the paperwork done but other clubs have until the end of November!!!!  Again I have spent over an hour sorting this out and the people who are being paid to do the job sit back and issue these dates with no thought as to the logistics of getting it sorted!!!!!!!  Grrrrrr!

Of course the things I want to get done (quilting?!!!!!) get put to the back because of sorting these things out.  Today is house jobs day and that hasn’t been done yet because of this so my little stress meter is in the red zone at the moment!!!!!

Treacle is quite happy though, she is with Youngest on his bed snoozing whilst he is catching up on some work!  It’s a dogs life!!!!!

I hope you are all having a less stressful Thursday.

Hugs, Susie x