Monthly Archives: March 2021

Monday.

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Going into Monday like:

Just how I feel today!

Literary Monday!

How many times have you finished a book and then thought I wish it had been longer?  I can get so wrapped up in the story that you get to the last page and are amazed that it is the end.  Of course it is also a real trial when you are reading a series of books and then have to wait for the next one to be publised, George R.R. Martin being a case in point.  We have been waiting for quite a few years now for the next instalment of the Game of Thrones books!!!!  Please get a move on and get it published Mr Martin!

Definitely prefer reading books to watching TV although I do watch films.

Who hasn’t wondered what happened to them after you close the book, especially Elizabeth & Darcy of Pride & Prejudice?  

This is quite true and I remember when Youngest started to read books for himself and he said he could see pictures when he read the words, a true reader!

We had a set of books when we started to read at primary school called “The Janet & John Books” which progressed for new readers, above, and they are still used today in a more modern form.  I was able to read when I went to school so I think I started on Book Five and both our Boys could also read when they went to school.

The children are all back at school today, the first time since Christmas and this is the first step to us hopefully opening things up again.  Let us hope that it does not drive up the rate of infections again!

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DH & I have had our first jabs of the vaccine for Covid and it was fine.  Our second jabs will be in May! 

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On a final note our newspapers are full of that wretched interview and to be honest some of the things that the Duke & Duchess of Sussex have said are appalling and they should be ashamed of themselves, especially as we know the Royal Family will not respond to neither confirm nor deny anything.  However one of the things the Duchess said about Harry and herself being married before the actual wedding is wrong.  In Britain you are not able to get married unless the place is licenced and you have two witnesses!  It may be that they practiced their vows in the garden but they certainly did not get married.  SO if she is stretching the truth (lying) about that, what else is she/they lying about?  

I hope you are having a very Happy Monday and will have a great week. 

Hugs & Love, Susie xx

Friday Yeah!

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Well we have made it to Friday after another busy week working and not doing much else!!!  We have a busy weekend ahead as well and Sunday evening I have my first vaccine jab booked!  DH had his last week. 

DH and The Boys are busy tomorrow playing cars (!) Youngest has bought himself a project car now so they are going to be moving it to where he will be working on it, which gives me the excuse to do my quilting.  I have a few projects to finish and another quilt to quilt and I need to get on with the Memory Quilt I have been asked to do which will be more preparation than anything else.  The weather is supposed to be dull and grey again but at least dry for the car movers and I won’t feel guilty quilting if the weather is not good when I should be gardening!!!

Spring!

#TBT & World Book Day.

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You know I don’t need much excuse to talk books and today is World Book Day!  When The Boys were at primary school they always had to dress up as their favourite book characters and for a long while it was Harry Potter for both of them, although I did have trouble one year with Youngest as he wanted to be “Kipper”!  We managed to make the ears and found a shirt that was sort of the colour of Kipper!!!  His favourite of all the Kipper books was this:

I must have read this book to him a thousand times, it was always the book he chose and sometimes I had to hide it so we would read something else!

His other favourite was “Humphrey’s Bedtime” by Sally Hunter, another book I read all the time to him and I think because Humphrey’s bedroom was the same as his:

The window was exactly the same as Youngest’s!

Eldest loved the “Thomas The Tank Engine” books and we had all the original stories in one big hardback book which again DH and I read constantly to them both.  I read “Winnie The Pooh” to them and as they got older progressed to the Harry Potter stories.  It was the thing I wanted to do the most after Eldest was born was to read stories to him and then Youngest when he arrived.  It was a huge part of the bed time ritual which we all loved.  Both Boys continued to read as they got older and Books were always bought but tailed off a little as exam revision took over and when they had to read books for school.  However they both now read for pleasure.

I think Books are something which keep you company whatever is happening in your life and I can never not imagine having a book to read with me wherever I go.  A very good friend who was a secretary like myself, never reads a book!  She will perhaps glance through a magazine occassionally but she never reads and I just cannot imagine being like that at all. 

Here are two of my favourite Book Quotes!

Yes I don’t need wardrobe space I need book space!!!

So apt for the current situation!

Of course this is what I should have been doing today:

No not quite reading but I have been working so it is a bit the same, so Home jobs will have to get done tomorrow now, hey ho!

As it is #TBT today here are the Boys in 2005 in Hatchards of London book shop picking out the books they would like.  This was Easter so they always had a small chocolate Easter egg but their main gift was book(s).  As you can see on the floor Youngest has picked out some Thomas books (!) Eldest was into Knights and dragons at his age so he is trying to find those sorts of books.  They were nine and five!!!  We have stored all their childhood books in sealed boxes in our attic for when they have little ones of their own.

Our bookcases in our sitting room, looking rather tidy (!)

My “To Read” shelf which has rather more on now since Christmas! 

I hope you have enjoyed our little trip through World Book Day today and hope you get some time to read either today or over the coming weekend.

Hugs & Love, Susie xx

The Wednesday Wag.

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Well it has been a busy week since I was last here.  I went to the Spa last Friday and here are the results.

Here I am with my fur coat on.And here I am below back from the Spa all washed, clean and smelling so much better according to Mom.

Have you got the angle right Mom?

Here is my right side, it is my best you know!

Here is the top of my head, very fine I think! 

I was quite tired when I got home though and Mom had washed all of my beds etc but she had at least left me my quilt inner to sleep on until everything was dry. 

Also I had another surprise on Friday.  Do you remember that Mom and Dad last year bought me a new bed for their room below.  I only use it at night and when they were moving it the other week the zip came undone and then they could not get it done up again.  Mom was not happy as it was not a cheap bed so complained to the shop where she got it from and set off on a trek for another new bed. 

Well the new one arrived last week and I love it.  It is called a sofa bed and I really do love to lounge on it!!!!!

It is also huge, so much so that Mom & Dad now can’t open their bedroom or dressing room doors propertly, oops!

Tuesday Thoughts!

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We managed to get into the garden at the weekend to do some tidying and there is still more to do but we made a start.

Above is how it looked before we started.  It was plants which had died down from last year which we had not trimmed at the end of the summer.

Here it is now trimmed and cleared.

We also tidyed the other side and swept the patio.  Treacle off up the garden to look for squirrels. 

You can see the primroses out after the bit of sunshine at the weekend. 

Treacle has found her football.

Treacle waiting for the squirrels to appear.

We will get some more done the next nice day but there are signs of Spring starting with spring shoots appearing. 

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Normally I don’t, on my blog, voice opinions regarding every day things, the old adage being don’t talk about politics or religion!  However over the last few days our news has been full of the interview that the Duke & Duchess of Sussex have given to Oprah Winfrey.  There has been two clips released to advertise the interview and in one the Duchess has said “that her experiences in Britain had been “almost unsurvivable””.  Now I know that certain things were said by some people regarding the Duchess and should not have been, but the majority of the British people welcomed her and were happy for her and the Duke. 

Personally I hate the fact that these two are sitting in California portraying Britain to the World as a bigoted nation who hated the Duchess and wanted them out of the country!  They profess to hate the media and the intrustion into their lives but then give endless interviews, make podcasts and take money telling us how we should and should not be living!  So they want the media when it is good for them but want to send it away when it is not!  Currently the Duke of Edinburgh is in hospital and has had to move to a specialist unit for further treatment and yet these vain, vacuous pair are sitting there bleating on about how bad their life was in the UK and have a “woe is me” attitude.  I, for one, will not be watching this interview and hope that they are happy where they are but stop all this trying to be relevant.  They have decided not to work as full time Royals, so therefore get on with your lives without the endless how badly we are treated by everyone story because it is getting old! 

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I hope you lovely lot are having a thrilling Tuesday.  It is grey and dull here again but it is hopefully going to be sunny later in the week.  Treacle will be here tomorrow with The Wednesday Wag.   

Hugs & Love, Susie xx

Spring & Literary Monday.

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Happy March everyone, who can believe we are in the third month of the year and almost a whole year since this Covid thing began!

It is also St David’s Day, Patron Saint of Wales!  Wales and I don’t get along, every time I set foot in Wales in rains the whole time I am there and only stops when I leave!!!

March is also the first month of Spring and over the weekend we saw quite a bit of sunshine and dare I say it was actually mild at some points.  Of course today it is back to dull and grey!  I love Daffodils and I always have them in the garden but mine have all been stollen by the wretched squirrels so have to make do with this picture.  Today is Literary Monday so I thought we would re-visit this by William Wordsworth. 

I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o’er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

The waves beside them danced; but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company:
I gazed—and gazed—but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:

For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.

I am not much of a poetry fan but this is one of my favourites. 

This is the Theology Room in the Gladstone Library, Hawarden, Flintshire.
Happy Monday Everyone, have a wonderful week. 
Hugs & Love, Susie xx