Back to normal.

Feeling more the normal self today.

 3 days of feeling pants is enough for me to start going stir crazy. 

so crazy infact that I did another un frugal thing.

I don't do ill very well, infact I don't do 'doing nothing' well at all.

Whilst dithering about what I could do I had a yearning to spin again, the yarn variety not the bike!

unfortunately I sold my spinning wheel in a mad moment of downsizing my craft world.

But I still had a spindle. I wasn't very good at it

but kept it as it was pretty

I'd also kept the 'how to' book

Now that got me thinking.

I could give it another bash.

To heck with it, lets just do it

so off to do some internet shopping I went, its great that you can shop when ill on a sofa.

10 minutes was all it took to spend £10

100g of 'turtle dove' merino & Angellina sparkle

It's so pretty

I am in love 

now all I have to do is master the art to spin up enough to make a spring cowl or scarf

Super tide.

This weekend was the super tide or Severn boar. Apparently it was a rare 5 star tide! The surge of water went 20 miles down the Severn estuary, which just happens to be not too far away from us!

The small river at the back of us took a hit

  

 we normally walk around these barriers

This is the slip way, totally engulfed, the large rock can normally be walked around!

This was the highest we have ever seen it whilst living here. Further into the city there was some low level flooding. In the actual estuary itself there were surfers riding the waves, its lucky we have not had heavy rain or it could have been worse! Quite a bit of the path we usually walk was submerged and on the opposite side of the bank you can see just how close it was to going over the wall. we are still on flood alert and the flood barriers are still locked just a short walk from our house. The tides have peaked now so all should be well!

Green fingers are go !

Back on Saturday we stopped by the garden centre. Just taking a little mooch. seeing what caught our eye and starting to plan for the coming summer.

Hubs did well last year with quite a selection of homegrown veggies, me? well I am not really of the green finger family. I like to sit and admire rather than get my hands dirty. 

But strange things are occurring, I'm getting interested, I'm starting to get an itch for growing ! I know, that's a turn up for the books.

So after a while we decided on our first 2015 purchases for the garden..

Doesn't look like much, but it will give us some tasty treats.

what did we buy?

Timperley early rhubarb- £5.99

Provence wight garlic £2.50

Thornfree loganberry £9.50

Autumn bliss Raspberry £8.40

and 4 little flowers that had been reduced to 60p each. 

Hubs has a plan for the fruit bushes and rhubarb, he knows where they are to be planted, right at the end of the veg patch, the garlic was my choice, never grown garlic before, interested to see how it grows and more importantly tastes.

Then we took a look at the flower/bulb section. I don't have flower beds in the back garden, we have the dark destroyer don't forget ! so its pots all the way, I have never really been that great and hubs is more a veg man. But this year I want colour!! Big blasts of colour, there is no point having pretty little flowers in our garden.

Remember my newly created sun corner from last year?

I have a vision of big colourful pots full of big colourful flowers. Not really having a clue yet, I opted out of buying anything but I took away some ideas

These are the plants that caught my eye, I shall go and consult a book hubs bought for me years ago

and try to formulate some ideas of how to group them and more importantly grow them!

Roll on spring is all I can say....

 and welcome to the new followers, thanks for coming over!

Result !

What can I say, I had a great valentines day, not because it was Valentines, but because it was Saturday and got to spend time with hubs. I'm loving this teenage son era, old enough to be left at home for a short while, and if we go out in the mornings they don't even know we have gone as they appear to be nocturnal.

Yesterday morning we decided to go and look at some new to us sofa's, Mad hound has now eaten all cushions on sofa's, and they are looking embarrassingly dead!

We headed off to a newly located 2nd hand dealer, I think hes one of these house clearance chaps, but has a HUGE lock up in a safe store facility. Being of the frugal ilk nothing is bought on credit and is only bought if needed. This month brings a bonus as no Council tax to be paid! , which means an almost free sofa , as that money is already in the bank.

Easily found the place, the ones I had spotted on the Internet were horrendous, uncomfy and not very sturdy looking. 2 teenage sons and a mad hound means they have to be leather, comfy  and STRONG.

Luck was with us, we found almost exactly what we wanted, we were after a 2 seater and a 3 seater, but settled for a 3 seater and 2 fabulously comfy arm chairs. pre loved, but an M&S set all in for £200 plus £15 for delivery. Happy dance !

want to take a peak?

yes, the cushion is the wrong way round, but its all in good shape.

It is sooooo comfy  and very strong. I'm hoping the hounds teeth and claws stay away from these. I think heavy throws will be in order.

As we were enjoying our solo time we decided to head into the garden centre next door. Its one of the independent ones, right on the river, the sort you forget is there. We poddled around and bought some plants for the coming growing year, [I'll do a different blog post for that], and enjoyed a different view

The tide was out so it looked a bit muddy, but it was a great view, only had my mobile to click with, so will need to go back on foot [ or cycle] with camera, there are some interesting buildings along the way.

We had spent almost 2 hours mooching about so sustenance was in order, the garden centre has a great little cafe so hubs treated me to a warming drink and a naughty slice of cake

Loved my little date with hubs!

Back home and the afternoon was spent trying to sort out the mess with Google and the blog! took me hours..I just cannot work out how to remove my blogs from his account without loosing them, so here we are on another blog instead attached to MY gmail! hey ho..

The 51st.

The 51st was spent at work. Boo....

I have decided that that shall be the last ever working birthday.

I really should  have a ME day..

But it was lovely. Breakfast in bed..

prezzies and cards..

[forget the work bit]

Then off out for a great meal in the evening with the 3 special men in my life.

We tried out the food in our newly reopened pub

wasn't bad, not keen on this whole serve it on a chopping board thing, I much prefer a plate!

The steak was a bit overdone, now I do like a well cooked steak but that was WELL done..

Tasty and a nice treat. 

Once home the boys surprised me with a great big chocolate cake! yum, not good for the shrinkage though.

Unfortunately it was a work night and I did feel rather stuffed the next day!

Bye Bye 50.

Well its here, the last day of my 50th year. A good time to reflect on the past year and look forward to the next.

February, the big 50

Breakfast in bed

An office make over

Birthday parties

and of course

cornwall.

March.

Walking to Glastonbury Tor.

April.

My beautiful no 1 son turned 16

May

Getting a greenhouse and enjoying the sunny days

June.

No 1 sons prom

My first bikers rally

July

A trip to london

Going back to the old job in the city

August

Cornwall of course.

September.

no 2 sons birthday.

October.

My new car.

November.

Enjoying the last of the sunny weekends.

December

A different kind of Christmas.

January

A Cornish new year

on-wards and upwards

Not a bad year after all. I quite enjoyed my 50th year, I wonder what the 51st will bring?