Sanding floors

Yesterday I hired a sander the man in the shop put it into my car. When I got home I went to get it out of the car and OMG how heavy was it.......... I phoned my other half to see if he could come and help me......NO he was the other side of Manchester. I just had to try and do it. I nearly broke my back getting it into the house and then I had to get it up the stairs. I don't know where I got the strength from my daughter was shouting go mum go.

I know it doesn't look that heavy but believe me it was. We finished it last night. So hopefully the room will be finished today and I can put my house back together.

The boys like the new bed xx

September

Hi really dislike this time of year.Everything starts to die in the garden. I feel there's nothing to look forward to but cold damp weather. Even though I love Christmas and I know its on its way. September really depresses me. I  might have to book a quick European trip to have something to look forward to. Maybe we will have an Indian Summer wouldn't that be nice!

A new floor

I spent all day yesterday moving furniture in and out of the dining room. Why so I could sand and stain the floor. It's turned out all right I think.

A couple of new additions

A couple of new additions over the weekend 

A spring spruce up

A new step and a front door spruce up. 

Star lights in the kitchen

And a well deserved http://damndelicious.net/2014/06/09/raspberry-limoncello-prosecco/

|Lets Pray for the people of Nepal and surrounding areas

As planeloads of aid material, doctors and relief workers from neighbouring countries pour into Nepal, aid agencies have warned that the death toll is nearing 2,000 and could go much higher.
Hospitals across the impoverished nation are struggling to cope and a lack of equipment means attempting to find supplies and medicines from shops outside.
The poor quality of buildings in the Kathmandu Valley, which has a population of 2.5 million people, makes them susceptible to extensive damage.
Can i ask all my friends to help me help a close friend of mine Areen Amal obtain meds and other items i m planning to send to her to help all the one affected in Nepal
All help appreciated
Get in touch
Thank you
This is a message I received yesterday.
(specially Mumbai and surrounding areas) I am getting home to my EMS team tomorrow or latest by Wednesday! I need the following meds and supplies. Please let me know and deliver at the address I will be in-boxing to the interested donors!

NS, syringes, energy drinks, pain killers, paracetamol tabs, gauges, betadine, iv canulas, sutures, bandages, antibiotics, iv sets, cotton rolls, plaster supplies, oxygen masks, tubes and tapes etc. Please pack them up in boxes marked "Donations - medicine/supplies" and list out the names of items to be seen clearly on the packages.

that would be great! thanks all.

I will post the address if people want to help.

Happy St Georges day

Thinking about moving

Do you ever get fed up of where you live, I do every now ad again.We then tend to go and have a look whats about and usually come home and think it's not  so bad. Which we have done this time only because the place we found there are only small two bedrooms for sale at the moment.

So we have decided to do some work to our house, Only cosmetic work Maybe then I'll feel more settled for the time being. 

I would love to extend and have a big kitchen diner like this one.

Garden

With all this nice weather I have been trying to get the garden sorted. It looks a bit unloved at the moment.

This is what I want it to look like in a month or so.

Or this 

Happy Monday 

Cats, cats and more cats!!!!

Our beloved cat Peanut passed away in October 2013

Although I said I wouldn't get anymore Kitties, The house was just so empty and I wasn't happy.

We had a look round and went to a shelter and found this little chap.

Meet Pudding. My little Christmas Pudding.He's 7 weeks old.
We had him two days and he was all depressed because he had no one to play with like he did at the shelter. They had no other Kitties that needed a home. So it was off looking again.

Then on the Saturday Morning we brought Chips home. He was only 5 weeks old  and really should have still been with his mother. But the house we got him from was dire!!!! and I would have worried if we hadn't have taken him.

Look at us we are growing!!

Happy New Year

I just saw this here http://www.glamumous.co.uk/2013/03/101-household-tips-for-every-room-in.html

And wanted to keep them for future reference and thought people stopping by might find a few tips.  

AWOL!!!!

I think I may have started every  post for the last six months with this, but I am such a BAD BLOGGER!!
I haven't blogged since  May!! My god where has the time gone.
I'm not going to make excuses I have just been really busy and had no time for anything. 

As you know we went to Iceland..

Then we went to Turkey

This is Geoff Power gliding 35000 feet up. There was no chance I was going up there!
We had never been to Turkey before it was really beautiful.

Here he is up there and the beautiful blue lagoon where we stayed.



Then we took our youngest daughter  to Santorini because she hadn't been well.

The view from the caldera and the beautiful sunset.
I am really going to try and come on here and document my life.....

Iceland 2013

Hi I really don't know whats wrong with me. I really can't be bothered with anything.  Thanks for all the messages I really do appreciate them.Anyway we went to Iceland for the weekend and it has perked me up a little. I am going to have to put the pictures on Flicker because we took that many.
And  I am going to make a promise to my self that I come and  blog at least once a week.A I read my favorite blogs.

Off to the craft show

We are off in to Manchester tomorrow. We are going here http://www.sccshows.co.uk/13mm_see&do.html We are going to try and get a few ideas. I really should spend the time in the garden its such a tip. Might try and do that this weekend seeing as I'm off four days!!!

I will show you whats there and what goodies we get.

Out of sorts

Sorry for the lack of post but I have been out of sorts. Just couldn't be bothered with any thing, any way I think I've pulled myself together.
I went off to a car boot a couple of weeks ago and got a little shelf for £2.00 I am going to paint it soon, and a little bird cage type thing for £1.00

And I made some Beer bread yesterday it was lovely.

The recipe  is here http://allrecipes.co.uk/recipe/1388/easy-beer-bread.aspx

Happy St Georges Day

Happy St Georges Day

 

 

England

Main article: St George's Day in England

The earliest documented mention of St George in England comes from the venerable Bede (c. 673–735).^[7] He is also mentioned in ninth-century liturgy used at Durham Cathedral^[8] The will of Alfred the Great is said to refer to the saint, in a reference to the church of Fordington, Dorset.^[8] At Fordington a stone over the south door records the miraculous appearance of St George to lead crusaders into battle.^[7] Early (c 10th century) dedications of churches to St George are noted in England, for example at Fordingham, Dorset, at Thetford, Southwark and Doncaster.^[8] In 1222 The Synod of Oxford declared St. George's Day a feast day in the kingdom of England.^[8] Edward III (1327–1377) put his Order of the Garter (founded c. 1348) under the banner of St. George.^[7] This order is still the foremost order of knighthood in England and St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle was built by Edward IV and Henry VII in honour of the order.^[7] The badge of the Order shows Saint George on horseback slaying the dragon.^[7] Froissart observed the English invoking St. George as a battle cry on several occasions during the Hundred Years' War (1337–1453).^[8] Certain English soldiers also displayed the pennon of St George.^[9] In his play Henry V, William Shakespeare famously invokes the Saint at Harfleur prior to the battle of Agincourt (1415): "Follow your spirit, and upon this charge Cry 'God for Harry, England, and Saint George!'" At Agincourt many believed they saw him fighting on the English side.^[7]

[1552] wher as it hathe bene of ane olde costome that sent Gorge shulde be kepte holy day thorrow alle Englond, the byshoppe of London commandyd that it shulde not be kepte, and no more it was not.

Chronicle of the Grey Friars of London

St George's Day was a major feast and national holiday in England on a par with Christmas from the early 15th century.^[10] The Cross of St George was flown in 1497 by John Cabot on his voyage to discover Newfoundland and later by Sir Francis Drake and Sir Walter Raleigh.^[11] In 1620 it was the flag that was flown by the Mayflower when the Pilgrim Fathers arrived in Plymouth, Massachusetts.^[11]
The tradition of celebration St George's day had waned by the end of the 18th century after the union of England and Scotland.^[12] Nevertheless the link with St George continues today, for example Salisbury holds an annual St George’s Day pageant, the origins of which are believed to go back to the 13th century.^[8] In recent years the popularity of St George's Day appears to be increasing gradually. BBC Radio 3 had a full programme of St George's Day events in 2006, and Andrew Rosindell, Conservative MP for Romford, has been putting the argument forward in the House of Commons to make St George's Day a public holiday. In early 2009, Mayor of London Boris Johnson spearheaded a campaign to encourage the celebration of St George's Day. Today, St George's day may be celebrated with anything English from morris dancing to a Punch and Judy show.^[13] Additional celebrations may involve the commemoration of the 23 April as Shakespeare's birthday/death.
A traditional custom on St George's day is to wear a red rose in one's lapel, though this is no longer widely practised. Another custom is to fly or adorn the St George's Cross flag in some way: pubs in particular can be seen on 23 April festooned with garlands of St George's crosses. It is customary for the hymn "Jerusalem" to be sung in cathedrals, churches and chapels on St George's Day, or on the Sunday closest to it. Traditional English foods and drink (e.g. afternoon tea) may be consumed.
There is a growing reaction to the recent indifference to St George's Day. Organizations such as English Heritage, and the Royal Society of Saint George (a non-political English national society founded in 1894) have been encouraging celebrations. There have also been calls to replace St George as patron saint of England, on the grounds that he was an obscure figure who had no direct connection with the country.^[14] However there is no obvious consensus as to whom to replace him with, though names suggested include Edmund the Martyr,^[15] Cuthbert of Lindisfarne, or Saint Alban, with the last having topped a BBC Radio 4 poll on the subject.^[16]
Religious observance of St George's day changes when it is too close to Easter. According to the Church of England's calendar, when St George's Day falls between Palm Sunday and the Second Sunday of Easter inclusive, it is moved to the Monday after the Second Sunday of Easter.^[1][2] In 2011, for example, 23 April was Holy Saturday so St George's Day was moved to Monday 2 May. The Catholic Church in England and Wales has a similar practice.^[3]

 

Jess Penner - Sweeter

http://youtu.be/LFQlEkyvkUkI love this song!