We put our clocks back at the weekend and usually I love gaining that hour back, although this year it doesn’t seem to have had the same effect.  Probably because we were up very early Saturday and Sunday just gone!!!  DH was announcing all day Sunday and I spent the whole day doing jobs and instead of quilting, tiding the sewing room!!!!!

Next weekend he is out all weekend at another swimming event so I will Definitely be quilting then!!!

I have also been getting on with various food prep for Christmas.  Today I have made the Christmas Chutney from a recipe by Delia Smith and tomorrow I will be getting the Christmas puddings made as they have to steam for eight hours each. 

I also have mince pies to make and usually make around 60 and freeze them but I always have to make a few extra so DH and the Boys can eat them straight away.  Then it will be the Christmas cookies, again for the freezer and a few for the tin and finally the sausuage rolls and cheesy stars!  Cheesy stars are really easy and go great as a snack or if you are having a drinks party.  I used to make lots of them and the Boys would take them in their lunch boxes to school near Christmas and I would get requests from their friends for them!!!!

I have sorted out all the Birthday presents I need between now and Christmas and am now onto my Christmas list.  I have already bought a few presents that needed to be ordered and have stashed them away and my good friend, Jayne, and I are going Christmas shopping on November 5th.  We have done this for quite a few years now and it is a day I love, it is very social and we get to catch up on all our families news as well as getting Christmas shopping done and of course having lunch!!!  I will show you the parcels when they are all wrapped.

I hope you all had a wonderful weekend and a good week ahead.

Hugs, Susie xx

Yesterday passed in a whirl of work and Treacle kept me company all day in her basket.  One minute it was 7.30am and I sat down at my desk and then it was suddenly 6.00pm and I hadn’t started dinner!!!  The weather has been up and down, yesterday when I got up it was foggy and I could not see the end of our road but by 2.00pm it was sunny with even a little warmth to it!  Today it has been raining all day and Treacle is not a happy bunny!!! 

Treacle snoozing in her basket yesterday.

This was yesterday morning at 8.00am as you can see the fog has come down and we cannot see past the houses across the road from us!

Eldest and Fiancé have returned from New York and they had the best time ever!  Youngest has arrived in Orlando and they have already been round some of Universal where they are staying.  Here are a few pictures that they have sent us so far:

The entrance to Universal.

Youngest has finally got to go to Harry Potter World!  It was due to Open in 2010 which was when we last went as a family but sadly, even with the extra ten days we had there, it did not open until after the summer.  He was most disappointed.

Hogwart’s Express.

Jurassic World. He never liked the films but he likes the rides!!!

Of course it wouldn’t be the Boys if they weren’t sending us pictures of cars and Trucks!!!!

I managed to catch up on my work this morning and got house jobs done this afternoon.  I did get all the washing and ironing done yesterday as well but at least I only have DH and my washing this week!!!!  Tomorrow I have some errands to run and in the evening we are out at a business dinner.  The weather is supposed to be heavy rain all day tomorrow and Saturday and nice on Sunday when DH is busy all day!!!  The garden will have to wait!  Saturday I plan to get some more jobs done at home and I will be quilting Sunday.

Happy Thursday everyone.

Hugs, Susie xx