A (mumble, mutter) lovely (grimace) giveaway

I don't want to tell you about this giveaway because I WANT TO WIN, but I am anyway cos I'm nice like that, see? (Plus I get an extra chance to win if I blog about it >cheesy grin<)

Hop on over to Hoola Tallulah's blog for a chance to win a Skitchbook! A glorious concoction to keep all your sewing kit in for on-the-go stitching!

The original post can be found here

..or don't, I don't mind!! Just have a look at the other lovely posts instead xxx

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Good Moooooo-rning!

Our neighbours saying hello!

Lucky keeping an eye on those pesky cows

Morning all! We have had sunshine here in Cornwall for nearly a week!!!!!

It's amazing!

Mil's off to nursery all day today for the first time - I'll be home alone with baby Tula - very odd!

Have a lovely weekend xx

New beginnings

I've been obsessed with these colours for a while now

so I put them together at last in a scribble

 then added some scrap/thrifted material

 to make this

 then these followed

 added a little white

and so far the colour demon has been satisfied with my labours...

...don't know yet quite how big, or who for, but it's definitely something quilty....

Mil's been busy with colour too

  and Big Sis started school this week

and is very very pleased with herself!

and I'm missing my not-so-very-little girl :-(

Flowers in the allotment

Another Green Day with Fiona @ Raindrops and Daisies! Have a look at all the other lovely blogs taking part.

Here are a few snapshots of our increasingly abandoned allotment... the girls are both starting school and nursery next week so I'm hoping I might be able to get out there and start getting it into some kind of order for winter - maybe even make some Autumn sowings, who knows?? 

So far, my little herb patch has been overtaken by the mallow and cleomes I sowed in Spring, but that's fine, because hopefully these little baby thymes and pot marjoram will take their place when they've finished. My dream of having a little plot of fragrance may yet be realised! The lavender hidden amongst them is now two years old and is thriving, soon to be joined by more sown this year.

This year's veg was a complete failure because of the proliferation of slugs in all the rain we've had, they ate EVERYTHING!!! So I'm not sure whether to sow anything this Autumn or just hope for a drier season next year.

The girls love their knackered old trampoline! Behind them you can see the makings of a greenhouse out of old windows Jude's been s l o w l y working on for a friend. Another project thwarted by the rain!

Happy weekending!!

x

Giant chicken alert!

Recently there was a story broadcast on national radio regarding a lion on the rampage through deepest darkest Essex. 

Seeing as the lion is not native to the British Isles, a massive operation was set in motion involving armed officers and two police helicopters using heat-seeking equipment and nearby caravanners were evacuated for safety.

Turned out the savage beast was a fluffy tomcat called Teddy Bear.

The wife of the man who reported the sighting quietly admitted that the cat was "quite far away".

A case of mistaken perspective...

:-D

Yesterday in Rame

Jude had a day off work yesterday so we made the most of it and went out for a picnic :-) 

I'm glad we did, as it hasn't stopped raining here today!

We drove quite randomly and ended up in Rame.

Tula didn't think much of her strawberry after all!

Have a great weekend! x

Linking up with Green Day at Raindrops and Daisies :-)

  

A quiet day

Still knitting the white afghan for Granny; only two more strips to go before I start sewing it together! I haven't quite worked out how I will block each strip before I sew them: perhaps they will be pinned to the sofa overnight...

Reading 'The Blind Assassin' by Margaret Atwood - easily one of the best books I've read lately: unsurprisingly it was the Booker Prizewinner in 2000. Slightly disconcertingly there is a very piercing portrait of the author inside the front cover which catches you by surprise every now and then: she looks very nice, but slightly challenging, as if daring you to find fault with her words.

Baking bread. We've run out of store-bought so I've got the bread-maker going: it makes a very reassuring noise in the kitchen which is quite comforting on a grey & wet day. Plus freshly baked bread is clearly a winner on any day.

Slightly belatedly joining the yarn along at Small Things :-)