ROCKING YOUR WORLD FRIDAY- 47TH OF 2022

 Morning all, look I'm on time for a change, let's put the flags out. 

Last Friday, me and hubby had tickets for Chatsworth, which included their market, the house, the garden and the illuminated trail, to say it was a long day is an understatement. 

We set off around 9am and got there about 10am, we had a walk around the market initially, the weather was changeable but the rain set in around 11.30am, we headed into the house around 12 noon which we were grateful for. 

The house was lovely as always, they've gone for a Nordic feel this year and re-used many of their decorations. 

These beautiful baubles were hanging in the windows in the first corridor, they were stunning

The chapel was beautiful with trees and music

the oak room next to the chapel was stunning 

I liked these decorations on the stairs, such a pretty colourway

The paper stars/snowflakes down one of the corridor looked amazing

We had a wander around the garden, before grabbing some food and a cuppa, the light levels started to drop so we were able to enjoy the illuminated trail, this was my favourite tree on the trail. 

These also looked beautiful 

The view of the market as we headed out of Chatsworth

we enjoyed another hour or so before we headed home, shattered but having had a really good day. 

Saturday we headed up Sheffield for their Christmas market, which wasn't up to much, however I did manage to grab a couple of final presents for family which was good.  

There was also a craft market on but the entry fee was high and so we headed home and down to the local heritage centre that also had a craft fayre on which we enjoyed instead.  

I also managed to get some craft supplies and hubby got his first Belgian Blues of the season. 

Sunday the weather was awful so we had a kick back day just chilling we'd had a couple of busy days so it made sense to kick back before the next busy work week

I hope you've had a lovely week too. 

ROCKING YOUR WORLD FRIDAY - 46TH OF 2022

 Afternoon all, apologies for my tardiness (again), this is getting to be a habit, it is time for 

Well last thursday we went for pre-theatre dining (we being, me, hubby, my Mum and my sister), then we went to see Kinky Boots, it really was exceptionally good and we all had a fabulous evening. 

The weekend was busy, catching up on jobs as you do, but Sunday I went to a craft class with my mum, all Christmas themed, these are the items we were making

I've still got a gingerbread man wreath to finish, but we had a lovely day. 

Monday arrived so quickly and I've had as usual a very busy week in work, however, I worked one day less than normal as Thursday I'd taken a day's TOIL for this momentous occasion.  Said 22 year old graduated, we had such a lovely day, we were in Sheffield very early.  We got his gown sorted first, then onto the professional photos, before we headed over to the venue, however, we popped into the winter gardens for a photo which we thought was a great backdrop for his outfit, he was definitely feeling less stressed as we were ticking things off.  

and then the official walk across the stage and doff of the hat, the things you learn when attending a graduation. 

We highlighted to him just how monumental this was as neither myself nor hubby ever went to University.

In the evening we went for pre-theatre dining and then went to see Blackadder II, it was really funny and a lovely end to a beautiful day. 

That was my week, I hope your has been awesome too. 

Hugs

ROCKING YOUR WORLD FRIDAY - 45TH OF 2022

 Good morning lovely people, tis Friday time for 

So last Friday morning we went with said 22 year old to have a look at a 2 bedroomed flat that we'd seen online.  It's strange but just recently we realised that he is ready for the next chapter of his life (and I suppose in turn ours).  As he and his fiancee are getting married next year and have been living out of alternate suitcases every 2 weeks I wondered how they would be able to manage to find somewhere of their own.  Said 22 year old is adamant that he doesn't want to rent as he sees the chance of moving onto the property ladder as almost impossible, so it was essential that he found somewhere that they could live within their means.  Thankfully the property seems to be in a quiet area and although it needs some work, it is pretty much liveable as it is at the moment, added to which it is a two bedroomed property.  

Needless to say, he was happy with the property put an offer in and has had it accepted, so it looks like he will be moving onto the next chapter in the next few months.  

Then me and hubby travelled down to Stratford upon Avon, this time though not to see Shakespeare but to see A Christmas Carol with Ade Edmondson playing Scrooge.  We had booked to stay overnight in a Premier Inn a stones throw from the theatre. 

We got down there earlier than anticipated so had a walk around, as you can see the weather was fine. 

We saw some rowers heading out in the boats. 

Once we'd checked in we headed out for some tea heading to Cafe Rouge, hubby had burger and I had mussels they were lush. 

Then off to the theatre, the play was fantastic but the seats (despite not saying restricted view), genuinely had something of a restricted view because the stage set went back soooooooooo far.  Nevertheless we really enjoyed the retelling of the story. 

We had an interval drink, where I noticed this over the bar area, presumably a nod to the balcony scene in Romeo and Juliet. 

I took a photo of Mr Tenant which we saw years ago. 

After the play we headed back to the hotel and had a great nights sleep.  We had breakfast the following morning and then I told hubby that I'd checked to see if there were any seats available for the matinee performance in a better spot, but there were only two seats one in the stalls and the other in the gods.  

However, after breakfast I had one last check and two seats had become available on row B, I genuinely was gobsmacked and showed hubby who told me to book them.  

So we didn't see the play once, we saw it twice and you'll be happy to know that the second time meant we got a solid view of the entire stage including quite a bit we had 'missed' the first night.  

The downside to this meant that we had to travel home in the dark via A and B roads with rain which wasn't much fun, but we managed it nonetheless. 

We were needless to say absolutely shattered when we arrived home, but we were so pleased to have enjoyed the play more than once.

Sunday dawned and we decided a good walk around YSP was in order, we had our usual sausage sandwiches and see the new Annie Montgomerie exhibit which I can't tell if I loved or loathed.  

Blogger putting the photos the wrong way around grrr. 

This is the highland cow we walked past on our walk. 

Past the Sophie Ryder bunny

a lovely autumn view on our path

Selfie by the lake

then the aforementioned exhibition.  This is the vinyl toy that they've produced that you can buy. 

then a selection of her creatures, depicted from the times when kids played out on the streets, most characters have a little companion with them and very expressive faces. 

Lots of vintage fabrics

and finds go to creating the creatures

predominantly starts as a model 

I loved the owl faces and the fuzziness of a baby owl

I also thought the pigeon was fun. 

The rest of the week fair tripped along as you can probably imagine, before you know it you are back to Monday and back working but the fun weekend definitely makes up for my crazy work life. 

I hope you've had a fabulous week. 

Hugs

ROCKING YOUR WORLD SUNDAY (SHOULD HAVE BEEN FRIDAY) - 44TH OF 2022

 Afternoon everyone, I genuinely don't know what happened but needless to say I'm finding myself on Sunday afternoon writing my Friday post. 

Ok so the week was a bit of a strange one if truth be told which may be the reason why I totally forgot about everything. 

Last weekend was a quiet one around the house, to be honest it wasn't great on the weather front so we had a weekend at home pretty much, just tootling about. 

Hubby cooked the Christmas cake and for a few hours the house smelt of Christmas, he's now feeding it weekly in the run up to Christmas.  I also prepared a couple of Christmas swaps that I do on UK Scrappers, which was good fun.  They are packed ready to go I just need to find a cost effective way of sending them now. 

Said 22 year old and his fiancée came back on Sunday, they spend two weeks with us and then two weeks and his fiancée's home, it isn't much fun constantly living out of suitcases but it means they are together and we all get time with them. 

We've been having issues recently with our internet, Virgin Media really weren't helpful until I manage to escalate to contract cancellation and then all of a sudden we had a technician allocated who came out and confirmed out hub was faulty, despite being told by the original person as Virgin that all was good.  20 minutes swapping the hub over and we were good to go again. 

I did a day's work on the Monday from home and went back into the office on Tuesday, I'm slowly recovering but feeling very tired, post op which I suppose is to be expected. 

Thursday we went out for pre-theatre dining with my Mum and went to see the Sound of Music at the local theatre performed by a small local youth theatre group.  It really was excellent and we all really enjoyed it, added to which the food was beautiful.  It was also lovely to spend time with my Mum. 

I hope you've all had a good week, apologies for my tardiness at the moment. 

Hugs