ROCKING YOUR WORLD FRIDAY - 45TH OF 2020

 Good Afternoon lovely people time to look back on the last 7 days for it is time for 

Well I managed to assist my sister last week by going and painting her hall stairs and landing, she's always had an issue with the stairs as the paint often cracks, but with the use of anti-crack paint, I think we may have sorted that issue out.  It was just a lick of white paint and some glossing but the difference is amazing.  

We had spent some time last week making some Halloween silhouettes for the windows as we knew the trick or treaters weren't allowed to knock this year, so we thought this might prove fun.  We were really pleased with the overall effect and it raised a smile with the local kids. 

I was aware that my sister's guest bed had an issue, so whilst she was out at the gym the other day me and hubby popped over wearing our lovely masks and hubby mended it which meant the roll out piece which makes it into a double could finally be put back away.  She was over the moon when she got home and realised what we had managed to do.  

So I'm grateful that despite social distancing there are still ways of helping people that really need the support and we managed all that before heading into the new national lockdown. 

I've been making progress on my Christmas list this week and preparing and sorting a few things that definitely needed to go in the post sooner rather than later as I'm aware there are some backlogs of post in the system currently. 

I had a busy work week and when there was an issue at home on Thursday my boss was brilliant and just told me to take the rest of the day off and suggested I took a day's TOIL on Monday so I could relax and have a nice weekend, which is what I've done. 

Then finally on Thursday night we had a little fireworks and bonfire party in the back garden, just the three of us.  Hubby lit the outdoor fire and we had jacket potatoes with cheese and hotdogs with onions, before having a small assortment of what I call 'plant pot' fireworks.  It was really lovely to sit outside chatting and putting the world to rights and reminded me that sometimes it is the little things! 

I loved this photo of said 20 year old with the sparklers 

I hope you've had an awesome week and that the world has been kind to you, if you fancy joining in pop a post together come back and link up so we can come and visit. 

ROCKING YOUR WORLD FRIDAY

Good morning, tis Friday and time for a round up of the last 7 days positives!

You'll be pleased to know that I've got a few photos to share this week, first up the ivy flower bees.  They were mentioned on Autumn watch last week and they wondered how far north they had travelled, we went for our walk on Saturday morning and walked past some ivy that was in full flower and literally buzzing - so loud from the bees.  Managed to get a couple of photos, really must let Autumn  watch know though! 

Next up the spooky decorations in the new visitor's centre at Brodsworth hall which we visited last Friday.

We went with the intention of enjoying the autumn colours and abandoning some art!

I used washi tape to stick the art work down for people to find!

We found a few places to leave some

We enjoyed seeing all the ladybirds that were around too - some got a bit too close though!

We left some of the art inside too, but most was around the garden!

We had a wander around the house, even though we've visited it a lot in the past.  I still love this ship in one of the rooms!

Said 14 year old managed to get a photo of the two of us!

Hubby found some interesting fungi!

Then there was the annual carving of the pumpkins

Using an ice cream scoop!

Dressing up the window to entice the trick or treaters as we rarely get any!

Mission accomplished on the pumpkin, the contents were turned into soup and the seeds were roasted in the oven!

Husband and said 14 year old's warped sense of humour!

They look quite good lit too!

This was the other pumpkin duly completed

Saturday saw us going for an autumn walk to find some geo-caches!  How about this for a path?

Great views of Wentworth Castle whilst we traversed the Trans Pennine trail!

Hubby checking out the co-ordinates of one of the geo-caches which had been a royal pain to find, they were 'out' but not by much!

A walk back along the reservoir was nice too - a real wintery sun!

We were surprised how low the water was at the reservoir, not sure we've seen it that low - ever!

Back to work before we knew it, but we did manage to squeeze in a trip to the cinema on Sunday to see the Maze Runner, I liked it but would have liked it to have finished as a full film rather than a forerunner to a sequel if you know what I mean!

Work tripped along at a merry old pace and then car decided indicators weren't necessary (again) and broke completely until about 2 minutes from the garage the following day when they started working again.  So why the grateful?  Well hubby for rescuing me, following me to garage, the garage for persevering and hopefully (fingers toes crossed, touch wood etc) making her better.  Hubby for collecting me from work, taking me back to garage etc etc etc.  Hubby generally! 

Then work for letting me have Thursday as TOIL (assumed the car would still be poorly and was chronically aware of the impact I'm having on hubbies work time) and now I have Thursday stretching out in front of me, I've done a to do list - it is quite honestly longer than the day but i'm going to try and squeeze every morsel out of it! 

Bonfire night party at my Mum's - we had a fire which was brill and very warm, some lovely food, great company and finished the night off with some fab fireworks! 

I'm also grateful to have had two Rockette's share their Rocking posts last week - Kate and Carmen - it was lovely to visit the two of you as it were.

So if you fancy joining in, pop a blog post together, pop back link up and we'll come and visit, don't forget to leave a message too! 

I hope you've had a beautiful and blessed week and that the weekend is a positive one!