New Shoes

New Sandals for work

Hitching a ride in the car this morning!

Tulip Pics

Helloo!  Hubby bought me flowers yesterday, so I have been playing with my camera again...  :-)

Edible Flower Planting Pics!

Well Anna-May has had fun this morning people!  After doing some paperwork I spotted the edible flower planting tub that Hubby bought me back in November.  Sometimes when we watch cookery programmes, they put edible flowers on the plate. I've never tried them and I always mention that I would like to.    Hubby has more than once looked for some to dish up with my Saturday night meal, but he can't find anywhere that sells them.  So he bought me the seeds to grow my own!!  The instructions said that they should be planted between February and May. I made a note in my diary, but typically that date has passed.   So this morning I thought I really must plant them and I took some pics to show you... hopefully there will be more pics when the flowers start to flourish!!  (Not a word usually associated with my gardening, but we can hope!).. here are the pics..

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Breakfast Greetings!

Good morning.. just stopping by whilst I finish my toast and today's first cup of tea!

Yesterday was Hubby's Mum's Birthday, so we popped over with gifts and flowers.  She liked the roses at Easter, so Hubby chose similar ones for her Birthday.

After our visit, we collected a KFC and parked up.

Laters...

Weekend update..

Soo.. Friday night's meal was fajitas with chicken marinaded in this wonderful find by Hubby..

Yummy!

Saturday I spotted a very grown-up looking Egbert striding about on nextdoor's flat roof (see his baby pic in one of my August posts last year).  I know it was him because he was still moidering his Mother for food.  She is easy to identify due to her limp, although thankfully her leg seems to have improved loads.  No thanks to the manic drivers.. don't get me started!  

Took this pic last year.. although taken with my phone,  I have to admit I was really pleased with this one!

Saturday shopping involved a call in at the pet shop for hamster food and guinea pig pellets.. and of course the usual peep at the little guys for sale.  From past experience, if I begin considering purchasing another pet, or ponder my next pet's name, something happens to worry me about my current pet and my attention is brought straight back to them amid tumultuous guilt that my thoughts had strayed for a moment.  Therefore I keep God in no doubt that I am completely happy with my current pet, and that he doesn't need to take him from me yet, or ever..  so let it be known that I only took this photo because this ratty guy was looking so cute and I hope he finds himself living with a kind owner who cherishes him like I cherish my Humphrey Hamster.

Coming to Sunday, Hubby and I went swimming on our own this morning.  Bit of a disappointment that the hot tub was out of action, and we'd left it a bit late to grab a 'noodle' from the corner before the swimming teacher arrived with pupils and parents.  (Hubby pulls me along as fast as he can, and my laugh echoes far too loudly against the low ceiling.. well that's what usually happens at some point during our pool visit, but not today.  Sad face.)  After Hubby had taken AGES in the shower, we went into the main town to purchase some plants for the garden.

The red pot on the top there is a tomato plant that Hubby is going to take to work.  This time next month, it will probably be the only plant still alive!  I must water them regularly this year.  But I have to carry the watering can literally around the houses to get to the front garden.  It's either that or traipse it, and the dirt on my flipflops, through the house multiple times.  So anyway this afternoon I have been doing a lot of gardening.  

Hubby spent part of the afternoon putting the finishing touches to his revamped quadcopter.  He has been building it for quite a few months now, changing the parts and seeing what works best.  He has put a camera on it and has the 'Fat Shark' goggles that he can look through when he's flying it.  So we were all called through to witness the 'maiden' flight and very impressive it was.  He has done really well to get it flying again, after having various problems to sort out during its construction.  The offspring and I had a go wearing the goggles, but he himself will wait until he is flying in a wider space before he tries the goggles on himself.  So exciting for him I would imagine, to make this from scratch and get it flying.  There are actually two cameras on it he tells me.  One that he can view through the goggles, and the other that records.  He's had to balance it all correctly and everything.  He's a very clever Hubby, but don't tell him as he will be unbearable!!

D84 in flight (Hubby has named it after my favourite Dr. Who character!)

Brace yourselves!...

.. there's a ramble on the way!  

I know not many visitors pass through here, but that's ok.  But when I wonder who those visitors are.. what lives they lead.. I have an idea of who I'd like them to be.  

Family people.  Kind people.  People who think deeply and care about stuff.  They have a close circle of friends who don't compete for attention.  A wonderfully content middle-aged female living in a remote region on the other side of the world maybe.  She lives with her doting husband in a quirky cottage or small farmhouse.  She bakes apple pie and makes her own jam.  They have a bit of land or a big garden and grow their own fruit, vegetables and herbs.  Their children live happily close by with their respective doting partners, all of whom  visit regularly.  They have enough space and time to tend to a few hugely spoilt pets.  They own a battered old vehicle, but it gets them into the nearest town a couple of miles away.  ( A friendly close-knit town where everyone genuinely cares about everyone-else.)    The garden is well established, with trees that cool in the summer heat and shelter during the winter storms .. and an abundance of pretty flowers that thrive in the sunshine and collect droplets of rain in the winter.  The surrounding area is a wide open space with fantastic sunset views, space for quadcopter flying and telescope placement.    There are grand mountains with  challenging inclines to clamber, and gentle pathways to wander.  A short drive away there is a coast and never-ending views of the beautiful ever-changing ocean.   Time goes slowly where they live, but passes easily with no worry.  And yes there are many, many roses around the door.  She hasn't quite yet subsribed to my posts, but having stumbled upon my blog the other week, finds herself checking in from time to time.  A certain phrase that I use, or event that I mention, resounding somehow in her mind.  The wondering begins again for her.. what would it be like to live in a busier place, closer to a wider variety of people.  To stock her shelves with newly introduced supermarket items.  She glances in the mirror and thinks maybe, one day.

     

WIMMC? ~ Item No: 2

~ What's In My Mother's Cabinet?
(Part of a fun series of posts detailing my cherrished items of 'tat' inside my Mother's cabinet!)

Item No: 2

Eric and Bambi

Well here we have the second item from my Mother's cabinet.. I hope you are suitably excited?!  Yes, I know there are two items, but I am classing them as one.  They have never been apart and hopefully never will be.  Eric and Bambi, residing on  the more elite cabinet shelf.  Beautifully made glass ornaments.  They were a gift from my parents following my performance in the local pantomime, quite some years ago now.  I still remember opening the box and thinking what a lovely present.  I was a regular in the village pantomimes.  Despite being known as a shy, self-conscious type, I was quite happy to project my voice to the back of the hall whilst on stage.  In fact I couldn't understand why some people had trouble doing this - why not speak loudly when given full permission to do so? Didn't make sense to me when people preferred to mumble into the side curtains.  I did have a problem however with slow songs, (and also with  the rather sharp tongue of Mrs. H. - the lady in charge.  I know she was fond of me, and she was only trying to get the best out of us all, but still..)  Anyway,  I would get upset and be unable to continue singing.  Are you familiar with 'Feed the Birds'??  Got me every time!

That is until I hit 14 or 15 years old.   One evening the rehearsal was not going well.  My friend and I were practising a duet of sorts, but the notes were unbelievably high.. which the two of us found slightly amusing. The, by then,  quite aged Mrs. H.  was not amused and from her chair planted in the centre of the otherwise empty hall,  spat out her low opinion of our screeching attempts ... and waited... for the tears.  But surprisingly they didn't come. I'm not sure who was more shocked - her or me!!  I had outgrown the fear that was sometimes present at rehearsals.  Outgrown her.  I think she would have been rather sad. 

Together with my Mother in fact.. being sad I mean.  Every year she would be keen to tell me that  rehearsals had started again.  I remember the final year.  By then I had an enormous crush on one of the boys at school.  I was self-conscious beyond belief.  The thought of him seeing me in pantomime-style clothes was unbearable! So her announcement was met with an uncertain and reserved smile, and she knew..   I was growing up. 

    

.. every time..

Laters x

Back on track...

Nothing much to report today people... only that I am pleased to say I span my housework wheel for the first time in too long! Back on track after the Easter break.  It told me to focus on the living room.  The items in the above pic belong to Suzie and although she had left them on the living room floor, instead of putting them away, I liked the way she had placed them! 

Also today I went swimming... I have missed my weekday swim sessions.  Time went so quickly today though.  I have work in the morning, but hopefully I can get to this lovely pool again afterwards.

 

Pics from our Weekend Mountain Drive