settling down

Things are settling down at home now but I miss having the house to my self and the quietness

It has been so warm today, it is strange seeing Mum in a thick jumper and me in a summer skirt and top, which of us is ill.

The sewing for Pam and Brian is growing but am impatient to get back to working with colour given myself two weeks to finish it, which is achievable

volcano and lodging

Picked my parents up at the airport without any trouble, only had about 30 minutes to wait for them, not bad when you consider I left home 5 minutes before they were due to leave Amsterdam!

We had fish and chips in Murgatroyd's car park which was very nice although we were a bit cramped. It was midnight when I got ready to settle down.

They have only been back a day and I feel like a lodger in my own home, I want to scream and shout why are you buying things with tomato in and if you are going to fall asleep go to bed to do it, so I can at least move without fear of waking you, feel all the good of their holiday has gone

All flights into the UK today have been cancelled because of ash from a volcano in Iceland. First thing this morning we were relieved now am regretting it.

2 minutes to spare

Saw Mum and Dad in Bergen on a web cam which was quite exciting, then they go through on the webcam from the hotel which was very nice.

Watching Great British Menue last night I realised that we did not have any bread, so put that on this morning before going to meet Joan in Skipton. It took me 20 minutes to get from the bridge by the hospital to the Tesco garage, as there was a person laying in the road outside the hospital.

We looked round some charity shops after having a coffee. I got home two minutes before the bread was ready.

My Plait looks tidier than yesterdays and is still making me smile.

It is nearly 2pm and I have yet to pick up a needle and as you can see hardly did any yester will have to go and do some now

decisions made and foot spa

got all the sewing problems sorted yesterday, it should be straigh forward now.

was just getting ready for a bath when Pam text me to say they were on there way up. They brought me a foot spa to try so I am sitting here with my feet being vibrated and a cross stitch kit that they want me to do for them so there will be two pictures on the go for a while.

Had a dream last night that I was looking for Dad I knew he was about because I could hear his computer, then realised it was my computer that I could hear. I am obviously ready for them to come home, hope I have got the right day that it is tomorrow and not today.

In the post this morning came a brochure for Norway, which made me laugh, they could at least let them leave the country before sending it

For the first time in my life I have my hair in a plat, it is so exciting, it is not the neatest of plats but it is mine and I love it

end of holiday feeling

Of course I exceeded my target for yesterday finishing the panel I was working on, so the target for today is to set a distinct area of 20 stitches and see how high up I can get to think most of it will be in half stitch so it should not be too difficult to do.

My memory is very bad so this morning after deciding to cook pea pancakes for lunch I was amazed to find I could remember the book the recipe is in and the page number! Of course when it came to making it found that we have no milk, it really was not worth buying any milk as non of us drink it, so trying it with flat fizzy water, watch this space to see how it works.

On holiday I always get that end of holiday feeling usually after two or three days when I am ready for home, it does not matter how much there is to see or do, I just want to go home. Three days left of my stay cation and I really do not want it to end, it will be really nice to see my parents but at this moment in time, I don't want to take another holiday away but would like them to have many. Really don't feel the need to go out shopping and feel very very content!

broken scissors

Yesterday wa another quiet day have finally sorted out where I went wrong with my cross stitch and it is growing nicely nearly ready to start the sky.

I ventured out to the local co-op to buy some lemonade and was shocked when asking a young lad where it was to be taken straight to it. This was a big improvement as usually they are most un helpful there, so the youth of today can show some of the older employees how things should be done. I no longer feel that I don't want to go back there, and might even go and buy more than two packets of crisps and two bottles of pop.

The weather is warming up nicely I even sat on the bench reading yesterday the first of the year as it is only 10th April think that is doing very well.

Back to it, want to put at least one stitch of sky in today.

up and down

Today I will get the pattern of the cross stitch correct such a simple mistake glad I have finally seen the light.

Yesterday was very up and down, up because I realised that when downloading photographs I don't have to make a new folder download them to that then transfer them, all is needed is to use the same folder name and it puts the new photographs at the end easy! Down because my feet were very painful, first time have taken 8 tablets in a day. Up because Pam and Brian came we had a good chat up because I managed to plat my hair for the first time an ambition achieved, will do it and wear it for the first time on Thursday

Now is the time to finally get this sewing right!