The evenings are definitely drawing in, but I am sure the weeks are getting shorter!  There are supposed to be seven days a week but they are absolutely flying by!   The weekend was really busy; DH, Eldest & Partner, Youngest & Fiancé and Little Man went to a truck show on Saturday.  The weather was great, warm but not too sunny as a lot of the exhibts were outside.  I did not go of course because of my hip, so I was doggy sitting Gordon and Coco. 

Friday DH and I had a busy day getting jobs done.  We have started sorting out the boxes from the attic which are now in the garage and getting rid of things and also giving things to the Boys!!  Hopefully it will be finished by the end of this year.  We also have the attic to tidy, but there is not too much in there now. 

Sunday DH, Eldest & I went to look at a new vehicle for me.   Well I say me but DH and The Boys all use it as well.  We had a good visit and it looked great so we are now in the process of sorting it out and hopefully I will have it by Friday of this week. 

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This weekend DH has his first swimming event of the new season but only for a few hours on Saturday and in the evening we are going to see the new Downton Abbey film at the cinema.  We have not been for ages, mainly because there has not been anything ,on we wanted to see, but this is only being shown at the cinema first so I thought we would have a date night.  Sunday will be nice again so I think we will be carrying on in the garage. 

We did do quite a lot of work in the garden and have gotten quite a few of the plants which needed trimming done.  We have arranged for the tree men to come at the end of October to trim the trees in the garden hopefully before the storms begin.  We did them about two years ago but they need doing again.  Our Roofer came to sort out the drain pipes last week and we asked him to go all over the roof to check it and he found one bit where a tile had slipped and it needed re-positioning and re-pointing which he did.  We are so glad he did because the next day you have never seen rain like it!  If we had not had that done we would have had water coming in!

This week is busy again with work of course and I have lots of home jobs to get done too, as well as a basket of ironing.  I am going to Eldest’s business on Wednesday to get work done there too and then Friday we are waiting for a delivery to arrive and then hopefully picking the car up.  

The other news we have in the family is that Youngest & Fiancé are expecting!  Yeah!  We are all so pleased for them.  The baby is due at the end of January 2026 and we had a Gender Reveal here a few weeks ago with just the family and they are expecting a little Girl!  Little Man’s face was a little disconcerted as he has, of course, two sisters and now will have a little girl cousin.  He will be surrounded!!!    Above is the table set waiting for everyone to arrive.  I made lasagne’s for dinner with salad and garlic bread and then we had cake .  They had got the smoke to reveal the Gender and it was very pink!!!!

Little Man in his highchair at lunch.

We are all so pleased for them and cannot wait to welcome the new arrival into the family.  

I will try and post everyday this week as I am slipping with things mainly due to the days flying by!!!!  I hope you lovely lot have a fantastic week.

Hugs & Love, Susie & Coco xx

Coco has had a slow day today in her basket next to my desk!