You think you are going to have a quiet week where you can get lots done and then the Universe decides you need some more challenges!  On Saturday the Plumber arrived to service our boiler and check the gauge but he could not get it to start again!  The makers of the boiler had to come out and try and fix it and they could not come until today, so we had no heating and no hot water!  DH decamped to a hotel on Sunday evening next door to where his customer visit was in the Lake District and Coco and I hunkered down at home.  

Sunday was a lovely warm day again so we got more jobs done in the garden.  Below we have planted four plants behind the deck at the top of  our garden and they are all evergreen so will look really good against the fence once they grow a little bit. 

So because we had no hot water and heating we were not able to have our friends round for dinner but we went out to the local pub instead for a meal.  It was a lovely evening, we had a good catch up as we had not seen them since Christmas.  

This week and weekend is going to be Spring Cleaning as we have a three day weekend so we can get a lot done.  We are babysitting Little Man on Friday as his Mummy and Daddy are going out on a Date Night to see the new movie “Michael”.  Saturday, Sunday and Monday will be busy though. 

Tomorrow I have to get all my washing and ironing done as the engineer is coming to fix the washing machine on Thursday!  I told you it was one of those weeks.  Thursday I will be getting my home jobs done as well because Friday day we are at Eldest’s doing his work.  

This Friday I will do our Friday Book Club, sorry it’s late, the flip side is that I have read more books!!! 

Happy Tuesday you lovely lot.  Hugs & Love, Susie & Coco  xx

This was Monday morning, Coco did not want to get up!!!!

Yesterday was Earth Day 2026

It is lovely and sunny here although this picuture does not do justic to it.

Happy Belated Earth Day!

Little Miss Coco has an appointment with her Doctor’s tomorrow for her annual check up and booster injections! She will love being out with Daddy but not so happy after her injections!!!

I am out at Eldest’s work tomorrow, I have been doing Home jobs here today, as well as our work and then at the weekend we are going to get some of our Spring cleaning done and Saturday evening we have friends coming for dinner. Sunday will be another day for Spring cleaning!  The weather over the next few days is going to be lovely and sunny and warm during the day but cold at night, so much so that we will be scraping the truck windows in the morning and no doubt have the heating on in the evening!  It is just that time of year!!!!!

The only bit of social media I take part in, besdies my Blog, is Instagram and I am very mindful of who I follow.  However one account is about health and they had a post the other day about people waking up between 2.0am and 4.00am every night.  For anyone who has followed me for a while knows that I go through periods of this and then it stops for no reason.  I do the same things most days so have never understood why I go through these periods and put it down to Menopause etc.  Anyway they said it was because the brain should be resting and repairing itself during the night but people who wake up, their brain is in threat-scanning mode, replaying what has happened during the day, what is going on tomorrow etc.

They came up with a technique.  If you wake up, lie there and think about random numbers not in order so :  34, 98 2, 54, 12 etc.  Doesn’t matter what numbers they are so long as they are random and you think them do not same them. You can also think of random things; Train, chair, suitcase etc.  What this does is interrupt the brain’s default mode, by focusing on random meaningless input, you give your brain nothing to analyse or worry about. It therefore calms down, feels safe and sleep occurs.  

Over the last few days I have tried this when I have woken up.  I have not looked at my clock or my phone and just lay there with my eyes closed and did the number count and do you know?  It worked!  So I am going to do this every time now.  The only thing I have noticed over the last two days is that I have worken up in the morning when our alarm has gone off feeling tired, but I have put this down to catching up on sleep!!!! I will let you know how it goes!

Happy Thursday you Lovely Lot.  Hugs & Love, Susie & Coco xx

Today would have been the 100th Birthday of the Late Queen, Elizabeth II.   I am sure if she was still here she would be appalled at some of the things which are happening around the World!

DH and I got some more jobs done in the garden on Sunday last when it was quite nice and warm.  I am very much a fair weather gardener!  The bed on the right is where we took out the large box bush and several other bushes that were not doing well.  It is something I have wanted to do for a while but not got around to it.  The bed on the left has also had an upgrade and we have put some new plants in there too.

As my hip was so bad last year I did not put any veg in to my bed or the bags but this year I have.  So far we have tomato plants in the veg bed, brocolli in the left two bags, strawbery plants in the right hand two bags and onions in the one on the step.  In the pots behind there are two miniture apple trees and a miniture pear tree and I still have some other things to put in.  

I have also put some seeds in my grow house in the hope that they do well, so far there are signs that they are growing although it is still a little cool at the moment.

The bit of warm weather we have had has greened up the garden nicely and the cherry tree is looking great after its trim in the Autumn. 

We did trim the conifers at the bottom a little bit much to Coco’s annoyance as that was her hidy hole!!!!

The Rhododendron at the top of the garden is beginning to come out and I am sure will look great when it does.

My Spring cleaning has been put on hold as we were doing the garden whilst it was nice, but this weekend I am going to get all of upstairs done, as well as our Den and the Kitchen & Laundry.   Next weekend we have a long weekend so should be able to get our Dining room done and the Sitting room which takes all day as we have all the bookshelves to do.  So by the end of that weekend it should be completed.  I will still have things to wash; curtains, cushions, pillows etc  but am going to do those when I can hang them outside.  Then we have the Garage and Attic to tidy and our cars to do, the front garden to tiday and then Spring cleaning will be done.

I had a check up yesterday at the Hospital for my eye and things are getting there and although I was hoping to be discharged yesterday I have to go back again in four weeks and I also have eye drops again!  He is now thinking of doing my right eye to help with the vision in that one (!) but it will not be the same operation fortunately!  

Today should have been Coco’s Corner but she has been having too much fun outside now the weather is picking up!  This look says you have taken my hidy hole away!!!!!  

I hope you are all having a great week.  Hugs & Love, Susie & Coco xx

I am sure that life was more simple, like in the 1980’s when we did now have all the technology we have now!!!   The last few weeks at home have been chaos!  

Youngest, Fiancée, Little Lady and the animals have settled in to their new home and DH and I have been helping with unpacking, mowing their new lawn and sorting out curtain poles etc. They are now in and settled which is so nice for them.

Work has been very busy which is good and one of the companies we work with has been going through some changes as the MD is retiring soon.  We also have a big project on with one of our other companies we work with and that has been taking a lot of time too.  Eldest is busy with his work and consequently so am I with the paperwork for him and us.  

DH has also been busy with swimming events, one weeked it was both days and this weekend it was Sunday.  Saturday we got quite a bit done in our garden and I have set up my grow house, which did not get done last year because of my hip.  I will get some pictures to show you hopefully later in the week.

Little Miss Coco has had her Airecut two weeks ago (!) and I have only just gotten around to putting her “clean” picture up!!!  She looks and smells so much better and we did have one day last week where it was very warm so I was so pleased she had had her cut for then.  Speaking of the weather it is supposed to be nice and warm later this week.  It is amazing what that bit of warmth has done for the garden, everything has bloomed and become very green again, although that means that DH is having to mow the lawn regularly again!

I know that I am late for Book Club Friday!  I did start to do the post and then everything got in the way!  I am hoping to get it done for this Friday.

Tomorrow Jayne and I are going out for lunch and a lovely catch up, cannot wait!  It seems like ages since we have been out!

Have a great week you lovely lot.  Hugs & Love, Susie & Coco xx