I think I will change my Blog over to a more Christmas feel in the next few days.
DH was out all weekend and I did get some quilting done which is not quite finished yet. I still need to get five more little quilts done before Christmas so may take the odd day here and there to ensure they get done.
Have a wonderful week and I will post photographs as and when I get the Christmas decorations up!!
Hugs & Love, Susie & Coco xx
Today is Bonfire Night :
The Night we remember Guy Fawkes when he tried to blow up the Houses of Parliament in 1605 but was stopped at the very last minute when the Authorities received an anonymous letter telling them of the plot. Fawkes was arrested that night whilst guarding the gunpowder. We let fireworks off to represent the gunpowder and we have bonfires where we used to burn an effigy of Guy Fawkes.
Here are a few pictures of the Boys and the fireworks we have had over the years in the garden. DH is out tonight running Event Control for the Council Bonfire. Normally I would have gone with him but it is cold and I don’t fancy sitting in the Truck or the cold van for a few hours!!!!
I have been keeping up to date with work and home jobs and getting a few other things sorted including things for Christmas. This weekend DH is home all weekend so we are going to carry on doing the de-cluttering in our garage. It is a job I am determined to get finished by the end of the year and we have a few days between Christmas & New Year to get it done finally. Part of this is also our attic although quite a bit of what was stored up there is now in the garage. We are giving things to the Boys that we have saved including baby things so that is working well.
I have been re-watching Series 4 of “Stranger Things” to remind me what happened before Series 5 finale starts at the end of this month. I have found that when you have such a long time between series you forget what has happened. I realised this when I was watching Game of Thrones all the way through with no breaks, some things made sense that never did before because of the gap between the series. So I now go and watch the previous series so I know where I am up to.
I will take some pictures of the garden, most of our leaves are now off our trees although the very big trees which are in the field at the top of our garden have not started to lose theirs yet so we will be in for more leaf gathering. Coco is enjoying the space we have created in the bed where we had to take out the Box plants and I am planning which plants to put in next Spring but I am not doing anything with it until then.
I hope you are all having a great week, tomorrow is Thursday and I have a friend coming for coffee and biscuits in the morning to see me. Have a good rest of the week.
Hugs & Love, Susie & Coco xx
The best bit of it all, there is no pain in the hip! Yes it is sore and of course swollen but I can cope with all of that as there is no pain. I did have the clips taken out on Friday, all sixty of them (!) and the Nurse checked the wound which is all fine and healing well. The only problem is that my skin around the wound has reacted to the dressings and has blistered in places but it is fine. I have been doing my exercises every day and the only thing which is taking time is going up and down the stairs but everything else is fine.
DH had his Birthday in the middle of the week so everyone came to us on Saturday for a family dinner, which was a takeaway as I am not quite up to cooking for seven of us just yet. It was lovely to have everyone here, they came early and then went home early evening and I must admit I was quite tired by the end of it!
DH has been busy with events of course, the Finale of 100 years of Carnival in the village with a big firework display where 1000 people attended. He also did two weekends of County swimming events and one of our other local swimming club’s Ghoul in the Pool Open event. Next weekend we have nothing on so we will be getting some more de-cluttering done in our garage. I am still determined to get this job finished before Year End and also empty and tidy the attic too.
DH does have another two day weekend swimming event on November 15th and 16th so I am going to spend that weekend in my sewing room getting some things finished! I will show you it all when I can.
Anyway I hope you lovely lot are all okay and will have a great week.
Hugs & Love, Susie & Coco xx
Just thought I would show you some pictures of our Holiday so far. Will do more whne home.
I got all of Eldest’s work done yesterday and the cleaning for him and then DH and I had dinner with them and Little Man as we will not see them for a fortnight. Today I have been working all day. I was planning on getting home jobs done today but I have moved that to tomorrow now, along with the ironing, packing and a quick tidy of the garden!
Youngest, Fiancé, Gordon & Blaze are arriving tomorrow night for house and dog sitting and then the Animals will all be going to the kennels for the week whilst Youngest & Fiance are with us. Then they will be back home when they get back for our final week, when Eldest and crew are with us. Once we are all back we have a few other things happening and also the last Bank Holiday of the year at the end of August when we have a very busy weekend. More about that later.
I will try and show you my book pile that I am taking away with me and I also have Book Club Friday whilst we are away too which I will be doing. Have a wonderful Friday.
Hugs & Love, Susie & Coco xx
To the Patron Saint of Ireland and if you celebrate I hope you have a great day!
The weekend was quite hectic and today was busy with work, although I did sneak in a couple of hours this afternoon to get my ironing done and then this evening retrieved my car back from Eldest now he has his new vehicle, so I am mobile again!
This week is busy again with work, as always, which is a good thing and in between work I will be getting home jobs done and this weekend DH is out again on Sunday at another swimming meet commentating (!) but I will be able to carry on with my quilting.
If I get an evening free I will also be quilting or reading! The quilt I am working on is a double (Queen) size so I am just in the process of making the blocks at the moment which are, when complete, 12″ x 12″. I love the process of putting the quilt block together and then I will be able to put sashing between the blocks and work out how wide and then how long it will be. I think at the moment it will be five across and five rows down, but I will see how things go.
The Baby Qullt is smaller of course and quite bright and I know that will not take me long to do that.
Saturday DH is at home so we have a few home jobs to do which I need his help with but they should not take too long and if it is nice we may even be able to get some jobs done in the garden. Thursday and Friday it is forecast to be 18°C during the day but dropping cold in the evening so that will be nice, it is absolutely freezing today!
Hope you lovely lot had a great weekend and a good week to come.
Hugs & Love, Susie & Coco xx
Today is #TBT, Throwback Thursday, and of course I love looking at Pictures. One of my jobs during the decluttering is to tidy our existing photo albums and make sure I have written in all of them but we also have a clip box full of pictures from DH’s family and also from my family. My intention is to get them put into photo albums and write who they are on them for our Boys. We got DH’s father to write on the back of the pictures who everyone was, after I inherited my family pictures I can guess who some of them are but quite a few I don’t know them at all. They are all obviously related to me but not where they are in the family tree.
Anyway one of the best inventions over the recent years has been digital photographs so we can store them on the computer and of course look at them when we want to. Below are a selection of pictures taken during March, April & May between 2006 and 2010 when the Boys were between 10 & 6 to 14 & 10!
We loved going away with the Boys at the Easter holidays. It was a great time to go because Christmas was always so busy and at Easter the weather was getting better and we were ready for the break. It also worked out well being about three months between Christmas and Easter and then three months between Easter and the summer holiday in Scotland and then three months between that and Christmas. As they got older we have not been so much, only on odd occasions and we are not going this year but maybe next, we shall see.
Happy Thursday everyone. Today I have home jobs to do and shopping and tomorrow I have a Birthday cake to make and also have a day off as it has been a hectic few weeks and the weekend is due to be busy again as well.
Hugs & Love, Susie & Coco xx
The previous week and this have been so busy with work and family things, including a visit to the Dentist this morning!!! So hopefully tomorrow and next week I will be back to a post a day. I hope, if you are celebrating Thanksgiving, you have a lovely day wherever you are. Although it is not our holiday I am very Thankful for my family who I love to bits.
Hugs & Love, Susie & Coco xx
(NB. For Susan & Tara; I have sent you a few emails but not sure you have got them, let me know. Susie)
Speaking of which the company we work with in Nottingham (also the company we work with in Derbyshire as well) have decided to work longer days Monday to Thursday and then have Friday off. This is due to a bit of a slow down with work in the run up to Christmas and to change the fact that on a Friday they come in just for the morning and then go home at lunch and then work on Saturday morning until lunch. It may all change again once the New Year is here but they are giving it a try. However it means that I am now getting up at 4.30am Today was the first day and having been awake since 3.00am was not too much of a shock although I did go into my sewing room to sort a few bits out and then found myself sitting staring into space for about fifteen minutes! The only thing I will say is that I will be able to get a lot of jobs done but have decided to shower and wash my hair in the evenings now, instead of first thing in the morning, as that is far too much stress and rushing around at 4.00am!
The above is from around 1870 but the actual Gunpowder Plot was in 1605 and was to try and blow up Parliament and especially King James I of England (James VI of Scotland) who became King after Queen Elizabeth I. The Conspirators; Robert Catesby, John & Christopher Wright, Robert & Thomas Wintour, Thomas Percy, Guy Fawkes, Robert Keyes, Thomas Bates, John Grant, Ambrose Rookwood, Sir Everard Digby and Frances Tresham. They were unhappy with the lack of religious tolerance for English Catholics which of course all stemmed from Henry VIII turning away from the Catholic Church when the Pope would not give him a divorce from his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, to marry Anne Boleyn.
The Conspirators idea was to kill King James, Parliament and with it a lot of the Protestant families and Privy Council of the country and install King James’ daughter, Princess Elizabeth as a Catholic Queen figurehead. Guy Fawkes is the name that everyone remembers through history, who had been in the army during several conflicts in Europe and was used to handling gun powder. He was a staunch Catholic committed to the cause. However through various letters and people reporting to the King about the plot the Conspirators were found out and all captured. After trials they were all hanged but because of how audacious the plot was, it became very much a part of British history.
If you are attending or having your own Fireworks, stay safe and have a wonderful evening. The weather is supposed to be cold and misty tonight but at least no rain. I cannot tell you the amount of times I have watched fireworks being let off whilst sheltering under an umbrella or getting soaked!
Hugs & Love, Susie & Coco xx
It has been chaos at our home over the last few weeks! SO the Halloween decorations only got put up today! Still better late than never!
It is not raining here which is a good thing and it is the children’s Half Term Holiday so we are hoping for some Trick or Treat Visitors! Youngest & Girlfriend are on door duty, Coco is in her crate watching the door and Blaze is tucked up in bed! I am busy making Lasagna, salad and chips for dinner!!!!
I hope you have a wonderful spooky Halloween. I will be tucked up later watching some horror movies! Happy Halloween you lovely lot.
Hugs & Boo, Susie & Coco xx
