Monthly Archives: January 2019

Thursday!

This week seems to have flown by in a flurry of getting things sorted after Christmas including our home and my work!  The weather has not been good all week with grey skies and dampness and everyone I know has a cold or getting a cold.  What we need is some very cold weather and sharp frosts to kill off all these bugs!!!  Or snow, I don’t mind snow!! 

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DH has a busy weekend with compering a swimming event on Saturday evening for the clubs just in Derbyshire and then he is out all day on Sunday at one of the Clubs their Open.  Which means that I am able to be in my sewing room, yeah!!  I have DH and The Boys mats to finish and then a few more projects to plan, one of them being Treacle’s new quilt. 

This is her quilt I made her in 2012 and she loves it but it is now starting to show its age and some of the squares have ripped in the middle so I have bought some new material for her to make a new one!  I think I am also going to use a bit thicker wadding between the layers this time for her as the tiles can be quite hard and definitely cold in winter.  I will place this old one in the bottom of her basket as an extra layer.

Talking films for a second, the final and much-anticipated instalment of Avengers: Infinity War will be out in April this year, which we now know is called “End Game” which was mentioned by the character “Dr Stephen Strange” in the previous film.   There has been a lot of speculation on the web of how they are going to resolve the matter of half the Universe vanishing at the end of Infinity War with Thanos’ finger snap and here is my theory.  The Hulk was conspicuously missing for a lot of the previous film and I think he will be the one to wield the spare Gauntlet that the Dwarves of Nidavellir had made and the remaining Avengers will, with the help of a few newer characters, collect the stones but The Hulk will be the one to wield it to bring about a return of the other half of the Universe!!!!  We shall see in April if I am correct! (I have written this in Green for The Big Guy!)

Talking about films DH and I went to the cinema over the holidays, one of those days when it did not get light all day and it was cold and miserable.  The Boys were both busy doing their own things so we decided to go to the Movies!!  When we were first together we used to on Winter’s Saturday afternoons go to the local cinema for the first showing of the day which was half price and then when the first movie had finished go and see another one straight after!  We told The Boys this and we used to do it when they were younger.  Anyway we did this, this time. 

As you know we are big Harry Potter fans and definitely like the new series of prequels, “Fantastic Beasts” and so went to see the new film “The Crimes of Grindlewald”.  We were not disappointed; it does follow on from the last film and adds more characters in and builds on the Grindlewald character played by Johnny Depp.  There was a bit of controversy about his casting but he suits the part completely.

The second film we went to see was “Mary Poppins Returns” with Emily Blunt as Mary who is very good.  DH and I both love the original film and they tried very hard to replicate it in this film but some of the scenes seemed superfluous to needs, one being the Meryl Streep scene with her singing!  Obviously being in Mama Mia has gone to her head and she now wants to sing at every turn!  It was okay but the script was too like the original but with different songs and younger cast!  Unless you really want to see it on the big screen wait until it comes out on DVD or any of the streaming platforms and save your money!

I hope you lovely lot have had a good first full week back after the holidays, I always think that once this week is under our belts it gets better!!!  Tomorrow is Book Club day on the blog!

Have a Thrilling Thursday.

Hugs, Susie xx

 

New Year Wednesday Wag!

Happy Woofy New Year!

I had a wonderful Christmas with my Hoomans and lots of presents and a few treats.  We are all back to normal now with Mom working at her desk and I am keeping her company in my basket as you can see. 

The weather has been really yucky with cold winds and lots of rain and very grey skies so it really has been a case of quick visits outside.  Mom and Dad are going to take me for a very long walk at Chatsworth next weekend and they are hoping the weather is going to be better than this coming weekend.  Dad is busy all weekend and Mom is planning on staying in her sewing room which is fine by me!  I love being in there with her and it is lovely and warm, so I can’t wait for that and Eldest has new bedding for his bed!

Mom I love his new bedding, it is very snuggly and warm!

I am hoping that we may get some snow this year, they keep forecasting it but so far we have not had any!!!  I will be keeping my paws crossed that we get some!!!

Thank you for joining me on another year of Wednesday Wags.

Woof, Treacle.

Christmas & Boxing Day.

Back again to look at Christmas Day and Boxing Day.  Now The Boys are obviously a lot older we get to sleep in!!!!  Well saying that Youngest was up at 8.00am but that is a lie in from when they both used to get up at 5.00am!!!!

Treacle and Youngest wearing hats!  The presents for The Boys and Treacle by the fireplace and the rest by our tree.  Treacle could not wait to open hers so Youngest helped!  We did save some for when Eldest and Fiancé came round later in the day.

Our dining table ready for Christmas dinner.

Our table centre piece from our party still looked great for Christmas Day.

I got some new place holders with our names on them, so cute.

Eldest & Fiancé and Treacle helping with the presents in the evening.

Eldest helping Treacle with her final gifts.  She had lots to play with and a few treats.

Boxing Day Eldest and Fiancé came round early and we had a lovely day with them, playing board games.  Eldest is a terror at Monopoly, always has been and we have all threatened not to play the board game with him ever again.  Anyway for Christmas I bought him the new Monopoly game “Cheater’s Edition”

Basically it is the normal Monopoly but you can cheat in any way you can but if you get caught then you have to pay a fine.  It was great fun and we all tried to cheat in different ways, Eldest loved it!!!!!

Our dining table on Boxing Day. 

DH’s Mom’s Dresser.

When we went to London we visited Harrods and they were making hessian sacks and printing names on in three sizes, so we bought the small ones for the children and packed them with things from London which was on the table.  When the Boys were little I always made and filled their stockings for them which they had on Boxing Day.  This meant that Christmas lasted a little longer and I spent all year finding little gifts and things for their stockings.  They loved it and it was great to carry on the tradition now that they are older, but with a more grown up “sack”.

It was a busy time and we enjoyed every minute of it and Treacle loved having everyone at home and brought all her toys to show us, several times!!!  Tomorrow I will show you my gifts, I got a lot of books!!!!  So my To Read shelf is now quite full which will be great to keep me busy over the Winter months!!!!

Busy catching up on work today, although it is still quiet business wise as I think everyone else is catching up after the Christmas break.

I do hope you all had a wonderful holiday.

Hugs, Susie xx

 

Busy Weekend!

Sorry I didn’t post anything over the weekend but we had the Swimming Club Open on Saturday evening and all day Sunday and it was very, very busy and very long events.  In fact DH and I got home at 8.00pm last night, had dinner and fell into bed!!!! 

Anyway I will go back to showing you what we were all up to over the Christmas Holidays.  On Saturday December 22nd we hosted our Christmas Party at home with our closest friends, who we have known for over 30 years.  We have not done this for a while and as it was our 30th Wedding Anniversary this year and Eldest and Fiancè got engaged we thought it was a great idea to celebrate.

Here are a few pictures from the evening.  I had some candles lit outside our front door to welcome our guests.  Glasses ready.  Table decoration and candle for the dining table and candles in our sitting room also with the tree.  We moved the dining table to the window to make more room.  I decided to do beef bourguignon and chili for dinner with various accompaniments.  Drink anyone?  My kitchen before (it didn’t look like that when we have finished!!!!!!)

We had a lovely evening with everyone and the last went home at 2.00am ish so DH and I just put the food in  the fridge and went to bed and cleared up on the Sunday!!!  For some unknown reason I woke up at 3.00am on Christmas Eve and as I had a few things left to do before the Big Day I got up and did all the jobs!  It was so quiet in our home, Treacle, DH and Youngest were all asleep so I had a film quietly playing in the kitchen whilst I got on with my jobs and I really enjoyed it.

Our Christmas cake ready and waiting.  The infamous Chocolate Log (for those who don’t know Treacle a few year’s ago ate it all before Christmas!!!  Fortunately she was not ill which was amazing for how much chocolate was on it!!!  Needless to say it is always now put way, way out of her reach!  Treacle busy “helping” with the jobs!

DH an I went to collect the meat for Christmas in the morning of Christmas Eve and we had some lunch out and then in the evening he was compering for “Carols Round The Tree” in the small town near us.  I did not go as I had a basket of ironing to finish and as DH and Youngest were out I got on with that. 

Tomorrow I will show you Christmas Day and Boxing Day at Home.

Hugs, Susie xx

Christmas & New Year.

Happy New Year from DH, Eldest & Fiancé, Youngest, Treacle and I.

I hope you lovely lot all had a wonderful Christmas & New Year!  We did have a wonderful Christmas and New Year and also technology free as far as possible.  DH finished on December 21st as the companies we work with and obviously visit all closed down for the fortnight and so we decided to use our computers/phones/emails etc as little as possible and it was great.

I can now show you the quilty things I was working on for Christmas as the ladies have now opened them! One of these, I call them Candle Mats, was sent to DH’s two cousins, Judy and Elaine who I actually saw before Christmas and had a lovely few hours with them and to my very, very good friends Jayne, who I lunch with (!) and to Sue and Susan.

Unfortunately I did not get DH and the Boys mats finished.  Their material for the Christmas parcel has cars and trucks on with Christmas Trees so I will get them done after!!!!!

I won’t do a super long post today but spread Christmas and New Year out over the next few days, otherwise you may get a little jaded with all the pictures.

On Friday December 21st it was the Swimming Club’s Presentation Night where all the swimmers get their trophies etc It was the most of amount of attendees we have ever had with 290 of swimmers/parents/siblings/grandparents etc.  We were so squashed in it was amazing and I had to sit on the stage with DH as there was no more room!!!  They all had a wonderful evening and we did not, this year, run out of food, so everyone got to eat, including The Committee (we ran out of food last year!!!)

The weather up to Christmas was really wet and miserable and Treacle was really fed up with being dried every time she set paw outside!!!

However she soon got over it and spent most of her time in her basket by my desk, she really is a fair weather Girl!!!!!

Today I am taking our decorations down, a job I hate as I just love the way our home looks with them up, because tomorrow night and all day Sunday is the Swimming Club Open where again we are full of swimmers and swims, which is why we are swimming on Saturday evening as well!!  We even have a swimmer who is here on holiday for Christmas from Australia who is competing!!!!  It will be very long evening and day so the decorations have to come down today and I will be cleaning our Home from top to bottom tomorrow morning and doing the ironing so we will be all straight for Monday. 

Tomorrow I will show you some more of our Christmas.  Have a great day, It’s Friday!!!!!

Hugs & New Year Love

Susie xx