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Hey there! I'm still not on top of things! Today was Nans' funeral so I've been a bit scatty, no tears though, think I've cried enough to drown Liverpool and no tears left now! Anyhow, whats so bad about living 'til 93!! Hope I do!! As the funeral was down in Weymouth I didn't attend, Mum and Dad did however but I've yet to speak to them to find out how it all went.
All that aside we have been occupying ourselves here, with thoughts of Holidays!!!!!!!! Yay!!!!
We go on Holiday this Friday :-) We bought Ryan a few new items of clothing and these cheap "Deck shoes" just navy and white plimsoles, for messing on the beach and caravan site, but he LOVES them!!! So much that he wanted to SLEEP in them yesterday!! How funny is that! He has £30.00 Reeboks and wants to live in a pair of £2.99 deck shoes!! Isn't that just kids all over!
Me being me, I have lists coming out of my ears!! (I'm very much a list person!!)
Lists as follows:-

HOLIDAY

1 - Ryans' clothes to pack
2 - My clothes and toiletries
3 - Electrical/camera/phone chargers etc
4 - family shower ( Gels/shampoo/conditioner/soap etc)
5 - practical - pegs/binbags household
6 - supermarket shopping list for when we arrive

BEFORE

1 - Last minute items to buy
2 - Things to remember ( Setting lamp timers/empty fridge etc)

Am I a genuine mad cow or what! maybe I have OCD!
Not done all that much apart from holiday shopping ( Needless to say, all for Frank and Ryan, I got a pair of flip flops thats it!)
Ryan and I have been bug hunting and he's been playing out with friends in the street while I've been seemingly washing and ironing the whole contents of all our wardrobes!!
Well better go and ring the folks to see how today went!

Love to you all, hands across the ocean...xxxx...

Bugs!!

Ok I'm back in the land of the living again, however have been on a course in work for 2 weeks doing a lot of extra hours so not much time left for blogging!!
Ryan broke up for 1/2 term on Friday so he's now off for 2 weeks :-) Today after all the hard work, I wanted a totally stress free "Do nothing" day! Had our shopping delivered then ended up going to the park over the road with Ryan, to hunt for bugs! This is our favourite thing right now, I don't know who gets more enthusiastic, him or me!! He's got this brilliant set from "National geographic" with all bug catching stuff and a bug barn :-) Real cool!
We only managed to catch a hover fly and a ladybird though! Will no doubt be taking the set to Cornwall on Friday to see what Cornish bugs we can net!
Wrote a letter, ate chocolate (Naughty!) drank a glass of wine and lemonade (I'm such a lightweight!) and watched the Eurovision song contest! It gets worse every year!
Ryan is currently into Indiana Jones BIG TIME!! We got him the 3 dvd boxed set for his birthday and he LOVES it! Hope to go and see the new movie real soon!

Love and hugs to my friends and thank you so much for your support!( You know who you are!)
..xxx..

Beloved moneypig!!

Thanks to all my wonderful friends for their kind wishes and concern. I'm fine now, had a dodgy day yesterday but am totally normal today! ( We'll as normal as I get anyhow!!)
Nans' funeral is next Tuesday ( Monday is the Bank holiday) in Weymouth, I'm not able to make it because of Ryan. Everyone understands and its all OK. I don't know if I'd be able to hold it together at the Crematorium anyway.
I've inherited Nans' gold bracelet which she wore all the time, and her famous beloved moneypig ,Nan always had moneypig as far as I can remember, and as Far as Mum can remember too! Nan loved to play cards(a tradition Mum and I continue every Friday!) and moneypig always came out for the game! Belly full of 2p's and 1p's!!
I cried when I got him today! I'll love and care for him as much as Nan did :-)
I inherited my love of glitz and sparkle from nan too so also got her spangly shoe trinket box this sums her up sooooo well!! Dad always said Nan and I were like magpies! Attracted to sparkly spangly stuff!!

Nan

This is my wonderful Nan who sadly passed today. I get a lot of my personality traits from her and she will live on forever in my heart. She was simply wonderful.

Edith Haysom 1914- 2008

..xxx...xxx...xxx...xxx...

Ryans 7th Birthday ..............cont.......

Ryand and his Best buddy, Adam!

Ryans 7th Birthday!

Lots of fun had by all!!!! Fantastic Party!!! :-)

Sorry

Sorry folks, my Nan is very very sick and dreadful things are happening. She had but days left. Sorry not posting just now,am not in the right frame of mind.
Please pray.

Sunday 11th May

Today we had glorious weather again! Hottest day of the year :-)
Spent the morning ironing, cleaning and roasting a chicken. Then headed out to our favourite place "Eastham" with a picninc of hot dogs and shandy! I love taking hot dog buns and hot, hot dogs in a flask!! As well as a full size squeezy bottle of ketchup!
Played games (Badminton, tennis, football, frisbee) before heading home after 1 1/2 hours as Ryan had a spoilt brat tantrum!!
Turned out for the best as we had not long been home when a huge thunderstorm hit! I've not heard thunder like it in a LONG time! Lightning and terrential rain followed! Guess that spells the end of our mini heatwave!
After tea completed a little more sewing whilst watching "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom! " Classic!
Have a 9 day course starting tomorrow in work, hopefully will be a lot less stressful than of late so I'm looking forward to it :-)
Busy week this week, have to pay for Ryans party on Wednesday and go and buy his Birthday cake, and all the stuff for party bags and to give out in school. Then his Birthday is Friday ! Yippee! And his Party is on Saturday at 4pm!

Have a fun week!!

Playing badminton at Speke Hall!

We love playing badminton on days out!! Frank and I had a great match!

Speke Hall, Liverpool

We had a fantastic day out today at Speke Hall, Liverpool!
Its' a beautiful Tudor mansion house with landscaped gardens. Really nice day out!

:-)

Marilyn

feelin hot hot hot !!

We are having a little mini heatwave here!! After all the wind and rain it is a nice change to be greeted by sunshine! :-)
The last 2 days have been lovely and warm and sunny! Of course we have been in work/school , so haven't been able to take full advantage, and on Monday when we were all off ( Bank holiday) it drizzled! Typical!
We took Ryan over the Mersey on Monday to "New Brighton" we visit New Brighton a lot, it is only 15 minutes away from us so quite handy.
When we arrived on Monday though, the place was HEAVING!!! At first we thought there must be some event on, that we didn't know about, but it was just everyone heading to the beach because it was bank holiday! Usually it is very quiet but it took us 45 minutes to try and find a parking space, thats how busy!
By the time we had parked the car and walked to the beach it was very overcast and dull, undaunted we looked for crabs in the rockpools ( found 2 dead ones!)Before heading to the beach to play badminton, after about just 5 minutes the drizzle started :-( The sky was black, poor Ryan was eating ice-cream in the rain! ( Needless to say this delighted him!) had no option but to head for home again! Typical English Bank holiday weather!!
Lots to look forward to this month, Ryans' Party at our local Wacky warehouse is May 17th (his Birthday is May 16th) he is soooo excited!! the following weekend we are staying at Marks' house on RAF Benson, for a joint birthday party for Ryan and Chloe. Then the weekend after that we go on holiday! Yippee! Busy busy busy!!
Will post my "Marilyn " progress, which isn't that much, haven't had chance to pick it up much.

Well better grab the camera!

Love
Wend...xx

Really pleased!!!!!!!!!

I am so tired! Its' 12.20am and I really need sleep! Just wanted to share the progress on my "Marilyn", I'm starting to be really pleased with it although the mouth doesn't quite look 100% even though I've stuck to the design perfectly. I'm REALLY enjoying doing this design, hence why I've done so much today :-) Enjoy doing designs which are based on clever shading and shaping as you only really get to see the design towards the end! it starts to emerge out as you stitch :-)
Visited "Hobbycraft" to get my much needed threads, and also went to Toys-R-Us, bought some wrapping paper for Ryans birthday (Star wars) his birthday card (Ben 10) a christening card, diddl writing pad, a set of "Top Trumps" (Doctor Who) for ryans birthday and a boxed set of 5 different jigsaws (Doctor Who) for Ryans birthday also :-) We're just about done now, just need to get Chloe something for her Birthday and I'm thru!
Bank Holiday tomorrow :-) Yippee! No work/school for another day!

have fun in whatever you're doing

Wend...xxx...

Ambitious????????

OK I'm being a little ambitious here! I can't progress with my "Victorian girl and "S" " project as the cottons I need are currently sitting on a shelf in Hobbycraft waiting for me to buy them tomorrow, but I was soooooo itching to sew tonight, and had seen this picture of Marilyn Munroe in my X stitch magazine that I thought I'd have a crack at it. I've never stitched a portrait before and I find that when they are stitched, they are very hit and miss, sometimes they look fantastic and other times they look grotesque and nothing at all like the person!! With this project being in sepia/brown colours only, I kinda hope it may look a little more convincing AND the whole picture only uses 8 colours, and I already have 4 of them, so easy on the purse strings too!!

War museum

Today we went to the Imperial War museum, I won't lie, I wasn't exactly thrilled at the thought!
However, it was very good and the 360 degree video shows that were shown every hour on all the walls of the museum were really good.
Ryan bought a plane (Obviously!) and the boys had fun on the 29 metre high veiwing platform that was open to the elements! I However! DID NOT!!!!!!!!
Since having Ryan I am scared of everything! I don't know why... it just happened with the onset of Motherhood, I was always first in the queue for the wildest, highest and most vomit inducing rides at the amusement park... Not anymore! I go green just at the thought. So being on a 29 metre high platform constructed of barely more than wire mesh, I was NOT a happy bunny! I could only look up as I could see down through the gaps in the wire platform beneath me ( Much to Ryans delight) and only stopped my teeth chattering long enough to yell "Get away from the edge" to Ryan every 2 seconds!
Will try and post a pic to show you the mesh stuff the viewing "Box" was made of, Looked out over the manchester ship canalone side onto "The lowry" theatre and onto "manchester United"'s home ground, Trafford park, the other side.
Never again!
Off to Hobbycraft with Mum tomorrow to buy more embroidery threads and materials, FAR more sensible way to spend a day!!! :-)

Sew update

New photo added to prev post " New Project!" scroll down!

No Life :-(

Sorry no blogging this week, I'm snowed under just now in work and am working 10 hour days :-( Work and sleeping, thats all I'm doing! Need to update my sewing pic, added some more earlier this week. Hopefully with it being a bank holiday on Monday I'll have a nice relaxing weekend!
Took Ryan to a chinese restaurant on Tuesday! He was really impeccably behaved and tried some chinese food although his main meal was english! He had 2 bowls of ice cream and was so excited to get fortune cookies! Insisted on having ours too!
He's already asking when we are going again!
This weekend we think we might visit the "Imperial War Museum" in Manchester. Not exactly MY idea of fun, but the boys really want to visit. Guess I'm out-numbered huh!
I'll be releived just to be out of work!


Sorry for not posting, If you saw my bloodshot eyes you'd understand! ha ha!

Love to ya'll


Wend....xxxxx