Monthly Archives: March 2022

International Women’s Day 2022.

Today is International Women’s Day and as you know in our Home it is just Treacle and I as I am surrounded by Men!!!!  When I was growing up it was just my Mom and Grandma the main female influencers in our family, as I am an only child and so was my Mom, tiny family!  However they both taught me a lot, especially my Grandmother who I spent all the holidays with.  

My Grandmother when she was young.

My Mom on her Wedding Day, March 19th 1949.

When you have such a tiny family and especially as by the time I was twenty I was on my own, I found that my friends became my family and I have some great friends who are like my sisters, despite not being related at all.  So on International Women’s Day I would like to recognise them;

Carol E, Val T, Christine T, Anne M, Tricia B, Pat M, Jayne M.

And truly International for me;

Sue S & Susan R.

What I was lucky with when I met DH was that his family became my family which was wonderful having not had a family for ages.  Some have now passed but I am so grateful for them;

Auntie Moll, Auntie Sue, Auntie Margaret & Auntie Margaret

We also have DH’s Cousins;

Judy J, Elaine H, Jackie F.

Over the years there have been other friends from work and social things which were great at the time but moved on when circumstances changed but they have all been in my life.

Today we also stand with those women who are currently fighting with their fathers/brothers/husbands in the Ukraine against the invasion.

Hugs & Love, Susie & Treacle xxx

Early Start!

Monday came round really quickly this week!  Friday was a blur of running errands and DH was out all day Saturday at another swimming event and I spent the morning finishing my book as it was so good!!!!  I have now started a new one.  In the afternoon I carried on making the quilt backing for Eldest’s quilt. 

Yesterday we went out for Sunday Lunch with some good friends, which was great and a lovely way to spend a winters afternoon.  We got back about 3.30pm and got a few jobs done and then the Boys arrived back and they went off playing cars!!!!! 

This morning I took Eldest to work, which meant a very early start and so the day has seemed really long!!!!!  Tomorrow DH and The Boys are out visiting a car museum (!) so it will be a quiet day for me.  If I can get my other jobs sorted I may sneak a few hours quilting again or reading, who knows!

Miss Floof needs an AireCut and I will be ringing this week to see if I can get her booked in!!! 

This was the AirePosition that greeted me when I got back this morning!!  Treacle had an upside down view of Monday today!!!!!!

I hope you lovely lot had a great weekend and a good week to come. 

Hugs & Love, Susie & Treacle xx

World Book Day!

Today is World Book Day, celebrating 25 years this year.  Our Boys always read a lot when they were little and loved dressing up on World Book Day at school as their favourite characters, usually Harry Potter!

As you know I don’t need any excuse to spend a day reading, except it is Thursday of course and it is home job day but I may sneak a few hours reading tonight!!! 

Lots of my friends ask why I don’t belong to a Book Club and I would like to except for the books that are often chosen by the Club are meaningful books or heavy going and I really do read to escape every day life!!!!   However thanks to DH and the Boys I do have rather a lot of books on my To Read shelf! 

This is my To Read shelf but it has now also migrated to the the shelves next to it!

This is my current book and I have now got to Chapter 40 and it is as good as all the others that Mr Deaver has written. I know these thrillers are not to everyone’s taste but if you do like thrillers then he is one of the best Authors!!! 

So Happy World Book Day, I hope you get some time to read today or at the weekend if not.

Hugs & Love, Susie xx

 

Spring!

She turned to the sunlight And shook her yellow head, And whispered to her neighbor: “Winter is dead.”

A.A. Milne

March 1st and the start of the Spring Months and hopefully it will not be long before we have some nice weather.  I think March will be coming in like a Lamb as we have a lovely sunny calm day here today! 

Today is St. David’s Day, Patron Saint of Wales.

I am just about to start making the batter for all the pancakes for tonight (!) and get dinner ready for them all getting home.  Also trying to get some more pieces for the back of Eldest’s quilt done too.

We are also getting there with ALL the paperwork regarding DH’s truck (!) hopefully it will be settled soon but he will not be able to get a new one until September, so we will be sorting something out until then!!!!

Happy March 1st everyone. 

Hugs & Love, Susie & Treacle xx