As the nights are starting to draw in and it is getting cooler this year we are looking forward to events that happen at this time of year and for the first time in two years, Nottingham’s Goose Fair will be back at the beginning of October. So as it is #TBT I thought I would show you some pictures of previous vists.
Busy trying to get things organised at home today but it is going slow!!!! Hope you are all having a great day.
Hugs & Love, Susie & Coco xx
It has been a quite tiring week with work and home as well as the Queen’s funeral on Monday. I think her funeral was very much for her family but for our country to say goodbye and thank you for all that she did in her seventy year reign. 
We did manage to get our garden furniture put away at the weekend whilst it was dry as the nights are pulling in now and it is getting colder first thing in the morning and the evenings. In fact the Boys asked for their winter quilts out when I changed the beds last week. We are currently playing the game of when do you switch the heating on, especially with rising prices!! During the middle of the day it is still warm but gets very cool very quickly in the evening.
Hopefully from today I will be back to posting every day. Tomorrow is home jobs day and Friday I will be cooking but will also do my Friday Book Club as I missed that too! I hope you lovely lot are all well.
Hugs & Love, Susie & Coco xxxxx
As we in Great Britain are mourning the passing of Queen Elizabeth we also Remember all those who lost their lives twenty one years ago in New York.
Susie x
It is with great sadness that Her Majesty has passed away at her favourite home of Balmoral, Scotland this afternoon with her family at her side.
DH, Eldest, Youngest & Myself were all born in her reign and will forever be Elizabethans.
Our Country has truly lost someone very special.
Rest in Peace with your beloved Husband Your Majesty
I honestly don’t know where the days and weeks go. No sooner is it Monday morning and I turn round and we are at Thursday already! Little Coco is doing well although quite frustrated at her manditory crate rest. She had a bath last night and smells so much better much to her annoyance!
I am going to show you the Quilt show but for some unknown reason the photographs have decided to not download properly so I will sit down, hopefully tomorrow, to sort them out!!!
I have been car-less today as it has been in for its annual service and MOT and it has passed thank goodness. With all the rising prices of food, clothing, fuel and heating costs I did not really want to pay for any repairs!!! I will say that I am quite fed up with all the media reports on the current situation. I am sure the media stir up far more trouble with all their reporting instead of just telling us the situation and then shutting up about it!
DH has a swimming event on this Saturday which he forgot to tell me about and I had arranged to go out for dinner with some friends so we have now had to re-arrang that. He has also agreed to stay on for one final year as Chairman of the swimming club! He was supposed to finish in November but then for various reasons I won’t bore you with he has been asked to stay for one more year. However it will hopefully be a good year as the swimming club will be fifty years old next year so it will be nice for him to see the club through that!!! I have suggested that he will need to cut down on some of the other stuff though otherwise I will never see him!!
I wanted to show you this picture that my very good friend, Susan, sent me. Taken about two miles from her Farm in Washington State (USA) by a friend of hers. I just think it is absolutely stunning and just shows you what you can see when you don’t have light polution. We would never get this sort of photograph here in Derbyshire even though we now have less lights than before. Thank you Susan for sending it do me.
Hugs & Love, Susie & Coco xxxxx
We have been back for two weeks and it has been very, very busy! We had a lovely vacation for the first week, the weather was great, very sunny but cooler than at home as we are of course further north.
We did not do a lot except take Coco out as we both just need to chill. Although the garden is fenced it is not fenced enough for a five month old puppy so she went out on her lead every day. I bought a long lead which DH used once as Coco and he managed to get it wrapped around things and when the wind blew it was all over the place!!!!!
We had taken a lot of new toys for Coco to play with and keep her entertained, one of them was a toy giraffe with tennis ball feet and she loved it. However she started to pull the covering off the feet so DH picked it up to take it in the kitchen to remove the feet and Coco was not happy about this. Up to now she has not really jumped much but this particular evening, the Monday of the second week, she launched herself from the floor up to DH’s arm to try and grab the toy. Unfortunately she did not land on her back feet but with her left rear leg under her and squeaked holding her leg up! We felt her over and nothing was dislocated so we thought she had perhaps pulled a muscle. By this time it was 10.30pm.
The other problem is that of course Coco thinks she is fine! She had her stitches out this week and then she will need an x-ray at four weeks and eight weeks after the op and we have to make sure that as she is growing her back legs are growing at the same rate, if not then she may have to have the pin and wire removed which will be by the vet who put them in, in Inverness! Needless to say the final two days of the vacation we stayed in at the cottage!
She is being very good although we have to really keep an eye on her to make sure she does not do anything she shouldn’t and she is taken out on her lead on the patio several times a day. We have also bought her quite a few interactive toys to keep her busy and to add insult to injury we have had to cut her food down because of course she is not doing anything! I don’t know who is going to be more mad by the end of six weeks her or I!
I did say to DH whether it is a good idea for us to go on vacation!!! Here are a few more pictures.
On the road from the cottage to the main road there is an area which reminds me very much of The Game of Thrones sets that were used especially The North! Below are some pictures I took.
I went to The Festival of Quilts on the Sunday after we got back on the Saturday and I will show you those pictures tomorrow. Sorry this has been a picture heavy post but hope you have enjoyed our vacation to The Highlands!
Have a great Friday. Hugs & Love, Susie, DH & Coco xxx
