ROCKING YOUR WORLD FRIDAY - 25TH OF 2026

Morning all  I hope I find you well time to clock the silver linings and positive moments from the week. 

So last Friday I was due to catch up with my cousin but she had to cancel due to things she needed to sort so we rescheduled.  So I had a tootle to Hobbycraft to have a wander and then met my sister for an impromptu coffee.  I had bought her some wool and a crochet hook and as we sat having our coffee

I taught her how to single crochet which is where I started earlier in the year, it wasn't long before she got into the flow and we had a good natter.  Then we walked around a couple of shops before we went to find one of the Lions for the pride of Lions that Sheffield has done to raise money for the Children's Hospital, this one was outside and my sister is reading the narrative in the background.  They've done 150 lions and lionesses and 150 cubs which are dotted further afield than just Sheffield this year which is good. 

Then my sister left, I picked up a few more bits and then headed home to continue cataloguing our books as they currently reside in a number of rooms we decided sensibly that it would be prudent to put them into 'genre' and then catalogue what we've got and their location.  It is going to be a tedious job but hopefully worthwhile. 

Saturday we had a day out at the local heritage centre, meandering the shops.  I bought a new crystal that had been carved into a Celtic Knot. 

On Sunday we went to YSP as there was a new underground exhibition.  My sister also wanted to go to see the art installation in the chapel which is the artist that did the tendrils on the latest Wuthering Heights film but our main interest was the new exhibiton.  We had a great walk and chat and enjoyed some amazing artwork. 

The totem pole is 

made up of tiny beads 

I loved the tin jingles

that adorned this outfit, there was a video of someone wearing it and the noise was immense

I liked this sculpture

and outfits from an Opera

The artists were a collective of artists whose heritage is native American Indian

Probably my favourite piece was the textile art, this is made out of army blankets, the detail on the individual letters was stunning

and the size of it was breath taking, it too had tin jingles sewn on

outside there were more sculptures

and we enjoyed walking amongst the trees

We had a lovely day and didn't get back until tea time. 

Tuesday and we had visitors for tea, munchkin enjoyed trying homemade pizza

hubby bought me some new roses

and I thinned out the old ones and put them in the window

I found this book in a charity shop recently and it was a delight to read, much of the quoted information written in a Yorkshire dialect, I will certainly be looking for more of his work (and discovered we had a couple already). 

I'm also still on with my March learning project of trying and I underline that word trying to grow vegetables, this is the yellow courgette and they seem (touch wood) to be doing OK. 

I hope you've had a lovely week TTFN

Hugs

ROCKING YOUR WORLD FRIDAY - 20TH OF 2024

 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. 

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