Bonfire Night is coming up, November 5th, and so for Throwback Thursday here are the Boys on Bonfire Night 2007 aged 12 and 8!  (This also goes back to the earlier post this week and Harry Potter! Eldest is pretending the sparkler he is holding is a wand and the jacket he is wearing is similar to the one Harry wore in two of the films!)

Remember, remember the Fifth of November – Gunpowder, Treason and Plot. I see no reason, why the Gunpowder Treason should never be forgotten. Guy Fawkes Guy Fawkes, guy, t’was his intent To blow up King and Parliament. Three score barrels were laid below to prove old England’s overthrow.   By God’s Mercy, he was catch’d with a darkened lantern and burning match.  So, holler boys, holler boys, let the bells ring.  Holler boys, holler boys, God save the King. And what shall we do with him? Burn him!

The Instigators of the Gun Powder Plot!

Hope you are having a Thrilling Thursday!  It is raining again here!

Hugs, Susie x

It’s Thursday again!  Where do these weeks go?  Anyway here is a conundrum for today.  Where do you stand on this?  No not actually stand but the word; roofs or rooves?

A very good friend of ours, who is a builder, and I had a discussion about this, I said rooves and he said not its roofs!  Now the English Language as we well know always has its contradictions; sheep is singular and plural although I think we should campaign for the plural to be sheeps, it sounds so good!!!  Hoof becomes hooves, loaf becomes loaves but apparently not roof! 

If you use the dictionary it says that both can be correct and in fact both are used but I think we need a definitive answer.   There was an article in the Daily Telegraph yesterday and it mentioned a roof and several commentators were discussing it and some used roofs and some used rooves.  

So which do you use – Is it roofs or rooves?

Youngest is at the swimming club tonight for coaching and then afterwards is going to a local fair with a friend, who is a girl!  Don’t ask!!!!!  I have been working all day and tomorrow I am doing home jobs and getting things ready for the weekend.  This will be the last one when we don’t have something on before Christmas and there are lots of jobs I need to get done!  Tomorrow is also the last day of this half term and Youngest has a week off and I will be taking advantage of that as well to get some things sorted! 

However we do get a bonus this weekend, an extra hour back!!!! Yeah!!!!!!

The leaves (!) are now falling fast and being kamikaze in the road!  It makes me jump when you see something skipping across the road, thinking it could be a little animal only to find it is a leaf!!!!! 

I think my nerves are shot!

Hope you are having a Happy Thursday!

Hugs, Susie x

Still not feeling too good, but getting on with it!!!!!  I am enjoying this show’s return.  I don’t like the British version of Masterchef but the Australian version is great and I think it is to do with the way they run the event and the presenters. If you get a chance to watch it, its really good.

Treacle got the whole household up last night, well at 2.00am, as she was sickl!  Youngest was busy cleaning the carpet, I was bundling her bed into the washing machine and DH was supervising the outside visit!  It was really cold at 2.00am!!!!!!  Of course Youngest and DH went back to bed and seemed to be asleep instantly, me? NO!  I had to read a couple of chapters of my book before I could go back to sleep!

Here she is lying on her upstairs bed propped up against her inner bed which goes in her basket.  That is outside drying!

Here are my lists, as you can see five of them!   I am starting to tick those jobs off!!!!  I will get there!!!!!

Tonight is a swimming session but on Friday Youngest breaks up for a week’s holiday and we have, so far, got nothing planned for the weekend.  Well nothing official, I do have lots of jobs to be done!!!!!!!!  I need another list!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I hope your Tuesday is going well.

Hugs, Susie x

Yep all the lists I made for the weekend have been re-edited!!!  As I didn’t get a lot done again!!!!  I just need more days in the weekend and more hours in the day!!

This was today!!  Trying to sort out work, jobs, children, house; you know what it’s like but by lunch I was having a mid-Mom Crisis!!!  Grabbed a quick lunch and then got down to work which I managed to get done before I picked Youngest up from school, but whilst waiting for him started to feel nauseous!!  Youngest made me a cup of tea but still not feeling good!  I think we will be eating out of the freezer tonight, something quick which I can throw in the oven that needs no messing and then I am going to have an early night!!!!

This is the book I am reading at the moment and it is really interesting.  It’s about the contribution the WI (Women’s Institute) made to the War Effort during World War II.  It harks back to an era which, although very hard in very many ways, brought communities together and moved women from out of the home and into businesses.  In some ways I feel a little envious of them because it was a simpler way of life, very hard but simple.  If you get a chance read it.

I am off to throw something together for dinner and then I am going to hide in bed!

Hugs, Susie x

We made it to Friday!

But have you noticed how fast Friday comes round?  Then, of course, how quickly it is Monday again?

We will make the most of Friday while it is here. 

I have managed to get all the cleaning done, the washing and ironing done, and grocery shopping!  How about that for making the most of the day!!!  Just need to get the little of bit of paying work done and I am all caught up and can play at the weekend!!!!!!!

Baking, cooking, sewing, that sort of playing!  What did you think I meant!!!!!  Of course that is in between chauffeuring around Youngest to various things!!!!!  Girlfriend is home for a week and a bit as the French schoolchildren are off next week (ours are off the following week!).  So Eldest is happy!

I hope your Friday and Weekend are Wonderful.

Hugs, Susie x