new year ...yeah yeah yeah...so you think about resolutions and making plans and they last about three days... well this time I started well....enrolled on a singing course, started a new yoga class....working on a new business, cleaned out the wardrobe and made health resolutions...
Two years away from the the big 50 ...and thoughts turn to health and happiness....the last few years have been a rapid series of changes for me , losing both my parents, becoming a parent for the first time and moving away from best friends and family. It has been a time to re-evaluate and make time and space for myself. A time to reflect on the importance of important things...life moves at a rapid pace and one feels at pains to keep up ...but this year is about doing things to fulfil my life and that of my small famly
Tuesday, 31 January 2012
Saturday, 26 February 2011
Thursday, 26 August 2010
Dark Grey end to August
Tuesday, 24 August 2010
Scarecrow ....
This week is the local allotment show...Last ear we put in a few entries and came home with some certificates..third for a chutney, third for wildflowers in a yoghurt pot ( kids entry! ) and Highly commended in the trug of veg....
SO this year we will be entering things again, today is the day of papier macheing a scarecrow...started the day with some colouring in before attacking the paper and flour paste...
Sunday, 22 August 2010
August Break
My adorable little monkey
what you don't see is the two chickens at the other end of the garden fighting over a dead toad!
what you don't see is the two chickens at the other end of the garden fighting over a dead toad!
Saturday, 21 August 2010
ooopsssss
Autumn feels like it is on its way .....
more time in the house tinckling on the piano
the leaves changing colour
blackberry and apple
more time in the house tinckling on the piano
the leaves changing colour
blackberry and apple
Tuesday, 17 August 2010
Sunday, 15 August 2010
Day 13 and 14
ooops......falling behind
Messing around on vintage tractors
Choosing Vintage Quilts in Wales
Messing around on vintage tractors
Choosing Vintage Quilts in Wales
Thursday, 12 August 2010
August Break Day 12 - Old Photos
Was sent some old pictures by my cousin this morning of when we were at playgroup in her house in the 60s ...amazing that my daughter is now just this age! what a lifetime away ........I am one of the grumpy ones in the top picture with a bad fringe and a very happy blonde in the bottom one clutching a balloon!
Wednesday, 11 August 2010
AUgust break day 11
Endless Days on the beach, today we took a barbecue and cooked up sausages from the farm where we are staying...the best ever tasting barbie...the only way to enjoy barbecued food... al fresco without the support of a fully stocked kitchen in the house
Tuesday, 10 August 2010
Monday, 9 August 2010
Sunday, 8 August 2010
Saturday, 7 August 2010
Friday, 6 August 2010
Friday August 6th
Its Harvest time everywhere....as a farmers daughter I loved the days of the harvests, the smell of the hay as it was turned, collecting the bales in the evening sun, eating in the open air in the fields, taking my father his food on the tractor....it was always quite a slow and measured activity with one eye on the sky to check for impending rain clouds.....
Now living in the country it seems to be great big steel beasts that rattle through the night, rattling tractors through the village and great machines that devour fields in a matter of hours...
Thursday, 5 August 2010
August Break August 4th...
Borrowed a dog for the morning and took a walk across the fields...just a little bit of rain and look at all that clover...we spent ages looking for four leaves!
Tuesday, 3 August 2010
Day three of August Break
Well not really day three because I only started yesterday but hey.....
Today are some pictures of the Yew and the Nelly in my blog title....I started blogging in early 2006 while we waited for our referral to adopt our daughter from China ..it was a way of keeping people informed of what at the time seemed like a long wait. Once we arrived home in january 2007, I ended that blog and began a second one entitled Life with Nelly....again more of a diary, event tracker of our new family and our move from London to the country....it was a great way to share our stories and adventures with friends and family in distant places...This blog ended last year when my Mum sadly passed away after a short illness.....
And so to Yew ( the name of our house) Me and Nelly... The Yew is huge and dominates the front garden, it is protected, unlike the house, and has amazing branch structure; this hot weather has meant a lot of leaf drop even on something so old and strong.
.I was never really sure what this blog should be, so this August Break - not really a break for me; has re-energised me and kickstarted my blog....and Hot Buttered Toast...well it is always a comfort, something that makes us all feel better....
Monday, 2 August 2010
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