Morning all tis Friday time for
Well I have had a good week, last Friday we had a good day weather wise, so we made the most of it, hubby pressure washed decks and I sorted out the planters, we picked some plants up and I replanted the pots which look so much better for the change. Hubby then made a start painting the deck and I joined him after I finished planting, we also had 2 trips to the tip to get rid of some of the rubble and bricks that we still had in the garden from when the wall was removed a couple of years ago, but we'd retained to help with the foundations on the extension to the decking.
After the very tiring day on Friday we agreed to have a chilled and relaxed weekend, we headed up to bed around 10pm and I browsed my tablet to find lots of Northern Light pictures, we had a venture outside in pyjamas to see if we could see anything and whilst very faint due to the light pollution I did manage to capture this.
On Saturday we headed to Brodsworth for the first time in a very long time. We expected to only be there an hour or two, but we genuinely soaked up all the atmosphere and everything to see, it was a blissful day together.
I love this life sized sculpture, a stark contrast to the stocata walls.
The wall paper was supposed to emulate the fashionable leather (yes real leather) wallpaper of the era, but they couldn't afford, so this heavily gilded paper was the alternative.
We spotted people outside enjoying a game or two of croquet, which made me smile as Bridgerton Series 3 is due out and the game of Pall Mall uses similar equipment, although I think it would be more floating dresses, rather than almost cricket whites.
After we wandered the house we enjoyed a cuppa and shared a piece of rose battenburg cake, which didn't taste of rose, but did have a marzipan flavour.
Outside the blue skies were glorious.
The laburnum arch is almost in flower, but not quite
They've cleared the area in front of the temple, so you have a better view of the house, how it would have been when it was built and we discovered the ice house is below the temple.
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I still love the church at the bottom of the hill.
and English Heritage have spent money renovating the original game larder.
We saw the horse chestnut in full flower, absolutely beautiful.
Sunday and we headed to YSP for a walk again, it was a lovely day and we enjoyed the walk immensely.
The bluebells are starting to die back now
The wisteria flowers smelt beautiful in front of the full visitors centre.
Sunday afternoon and my sister popped to see us, which was lovely, we talked for hours, put the world to rights and then she stayed for tea.
Monday and my first work day was mighty busy again, but I enjoyed it immensely.
Tuesday and Wednesday were equally busy but enjoyable although I came home shattered.
Thursday and we've been to Ikea today and bought some under bed storage boxes and come home, cleared out under out bed and decanted the contents of the old ad-hoc boxes into the new boxes. They fit really well and will be much easier to clean around when I clear under the bed.
I then sorted my side of the wardrobe and the shoes at the bottom. I've packed away winter clothes for now, then separated work clothes and home clothes and realised what few clothes I have for summer (which I'd suspected). We then headed out in the afternoon to go looking for some v-neck t-shirts for hubby. The scar tissue from his operation is being aggravated by normal t-shirts. We managed to find a couple in Matalan, none in TK Maxx but came up trumps in H&M and then I spotted a few tops in H&M that I liked as well. I've genuinely spent far too much topping up the wardrobe, but clothes buying is one of my pet hates so I will simply accept it and move on.
I hope you've had a great week.
Hugs
