Worzel Gummidge has nothing on me LOL

Afternoon everyone :)

Finally after an hour battle (scowl,) Pickles has given in and gone down for a nap. Had an awful night again last night with him he finally went to sleep at 1.30am but was up at exactly the same time as yesterday 5.40. I wasn't going to give in this time and get him up. I went in several times and in the end gave him a bottle of milk to drink in his cot and then went back to bed and literally sandwiched my head between four huge pillows. I couldn't sleep but at least there was silence for a while LOL.

I can't remember the last time I made anything I have been so dog tired with my OH away all of the time and Pickles refusing to sleep and a stroppy teenager to contend with arrrrrgggghhhhhh I needed that, I feel a bit better now :)

Just had some good news my OH is heading back from Gloucester at 4pm so he should hopefully be home for bed time, traffic willing. I am going to go to sandwich my head between four pillows again in bed when he gets in and he can sort them out LOL

Just off to the greenhouse to water my tomatoes, chillies, peppers, aubergines, cucumbers and melons and water the hanging baskets. When I came back earlier from dropping little miss temperamental of at her friends I happened to glance at the front garden. When on earth did all of that grow! I have been that busy and tired and it's been chucking it down the past couple of days I hadn't even noticed LOL. The air was filled with an overwhelming yummy smell of old roses pure unadulterated heaven arrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

That was until of course my nose started to twitch and my brain came to the realisation that I hadn't taken any hayfever tablets today.It then past the message quicker than lightening down to my nostrils achoooooooooo. I haven't stopped sneezing since; I look like blinkin Rudolph for Pete’s sake. I caught a glance at myself in the bay window and frightened myself half to death. I had a scruffy t-shirt and tracksuit bottoms on my grey skin and hollow drawn eyes streaming and nose twitching from the hayfever and my heeeeeeeeeeeeeeed. Well Worzel Gummidge has got nothing on me today I look like I have been dragged through a hedge backwards. A dirty great big one at that, Leylandi sized with no word of a lie. I live in an area of the‘ladies what lunches', all perfect and ST Tropet’ed to within an inch of their lives and I looked like a vagrant trying to break in. I have to get myself and Pickles sleeping sorted this is ridiculous.

I've told my OH I am booking myself in for a major rehaul in a couple of weeks time, facial, massage, eyebrow shape, manicure, pedicure, haircut the entire shebang and I demanded new clothes too. I think he recognised I was a slowly going deranged woman on the edge and smiled and simply said "yes, do it, you deserve it" ehhhhhhhhhhh ????????

What’s all that about then? Agreeing with me (confused) "no, not another craft mag" he declared last week when I asked him to pick me the latest copy of Let's Knit for the Grande ole price of £4.99 from the supermarket.! Men, eh and they say we are hard to work out.

I am being hailed now by Master Pickles informing me at the greatest of decibels to rescue him from the curtain monster so I must go for now. I’ll hopefully be popping back on later to upload a few things when my OH gets back.

I hope everybody has a lovely day and ((hugs)) to those that can't :)

Cheers ears :)

So, so busy

So, so busy. I had a date with some ducks, a loaf of bread and a impatient toddler yesterday. We finally got to nip out for a walk to the canal yesterday evening when my OH got back from working away. We had missed the sun but it was still very warm. We stopped off at the fish and chip shop on the way for a bag of squishy chips laddened in and salt and vinegar, yummmmmmmmm. No I haven't gone mad I just haven't had them in a while with being on a diet and oven chips just aren't the same :(



We didn't get to get see any swans as the canal bank was full of children having a fishing competition. But we did get to feed the ducks though. The mallards are Pickles favourite. They keep flying over to visit us in our back garden for a spot of bread.



We even got to see the baby ducklings. My oh my have they grown from last week.



With the fishing competition we didn't think that we'd get to see any canal barges, but luckily there was one :) I shall have to get some more pics when the canal bank isn't full of people fishing, they are utterly gorgeous and so colourful and the people on them are so friendly. They always wave and say hello to Pickles and I as they pass.



To Pickles utter amazement a hand glider flew over us too.



We were going to walk up to the cricket club and take a look at the moo moos (cows) but I was very tired and my feet were hurting from wearing silly shoes walking over the cobbled street. So as we passed the church we decided to stop off at the Inn next door as it was a nice evening had had a lovely cold pint of Shandy and a bag of ready salted (shhhh don't tell anybody)



Pickles has just gone down for a nap. My daughter is studying and my OH is working from home. So I am just nipping out now into the garden to do some more planting out and potting up. I can barely get into the greenhouse now it's that full and it has that gorgeous tomato plant smell as you go in, heaven. Probably due to the fact that there are over 100 tomato plants in there. I know I know, I got giddly as I did with the 200+ sunflower plants I grew. Going to have tomatoes coming out of our ears soon, plenty of pastas sauces though, yummy and so good to preserve or freeze.

Remember my cut and come again bistro lettuce ? We've feasted on it for weeks, marvellous stuff. You do literally cut it and it comes back again and it is sooooooo delicious.



Then if Pickles is still asleep when we've finished I'm going to start on my pincushions. Then hopefully some more hair bobbles and pins and some more cosmetic purses and just some sewing in general. I've still got some roman blinds and circle dolls to do.

As always thank you very much for visiting and please call back again soon. I'll hopefully be back on later to add another post :)

Cheers ears :)