ROCKING YOUR WORLD FRIDAY - 18TH OF 2023

 Good morning lovely people tis Friday and I'm determined to post earlier this week. 

Friday was our first day off over the weekend, so I got the books straight (that was fun and games) and then we cleaned through the entire house including the bathroom.  So it was all spic and span. 

Then we showered and then headed out to sort a few errands.  We went to the Post Office and I sorted a return and bought some stamps and posted lots of belated cards (whoops).  Then I headed to the Craft Box, paid my dues for a card class coming up and bought some ribbon for my very poorly recovered bedside lampshades. 

Then we headed to Meadowhall where I finally managed to get some Bare Minerals make up which I've been desperate for for ages, hubby got a couple of DVDs and then we had a wander. 

Then we headed to see my Mum, she isn't feeling brilliant at the moment, so she was pleased to have a visit from us, it was a lovely catch up and my sister came around too.  

The weekend was busy overall and longer than normal with a bank holiday, however we are on with our stairs so we were busy all weekend on that.  However it also came to light that my Mum is really struggling with her garden at the moment, so on bank holiday our 'kick back' day we headed over to see if we could make a difference in some small way.

I was planning on attacking the hedge, but she was also knee deep in long grass

So me, hubby and my sister made some headway on that instead so it is at least more manageable.

the rest of the week has been busy busy, but we went out for pre-theatre dining on Thursday and had a lovely meal including these lovely desserts.  Mine was a black forest roulade, with pistachio ice cream and chocolate sauce

Hubby had treacle tart, rhubarb sorbet and creme anglais

Then we headed over the road for this touring show, a one man show of a coming of age story.  Whilst there were moments of dark humour, it was overall a poignant tale of adolescence and growing up in a household where mental health issues, drugs and overall lack of parental compassion were prevalent, it was a brutal watch, but it reminds us of how life sometimes can be. 

The stage set was very good

It was strange to come out to Whatspp messages from work saying we had 47 children attend our 'good old fashioned' youth club and the majority of them were hungry, having had no tea and looking to be fed.  It is really hard to think of young people and families struggling to make ends meet and children going hungry this is 2023 how on earth is that still a problem in the UK.  So how does this appear here, well needless to say we are gearing up to get some funding bids in to sort things out at least in the short term. 

I hope you've had a good week, said 22 year old fiancee has been referred to neurology so we are still in the dark so to speak but I know I've mentioned it before so thought I'd update you lovely people. 

My Mum is also a little on the melancholy side at the moment, I've drummed up some support so I'm hoping people step up a little to give her some support and I still find our time incredibly precious, I even cajoled her to sit in the garden whilst we were sorting it the other day, so she got a little bit of fresh air which was good. 

Hugs lovely people have a great weekend. 

ROCKING YOUR WORLD FRIDAY - 10TH OF 2021

 Good morning lovely people tis Friday time for 

So first up last Saturday would have been my Daddy's 72nd birthday if he would have still been with us and whilst it is hard it is also nice sometimes to reminisce and think of the good times. 

Part of this led me to download a colourising photo app to allow me to play with some old black and white photos.  The photo below is a school photo from when he was about 14 and this is the first time I've seen it in colour, it felt like receiving a new photo and interestingly his greeny/grey eyes were absolutely spot on to how I remember them, so I shared this to family far and wide. 

Sunday brought my Mum and Dad's wedding anniversary and again I dragged out the colourising photo app and converted one of their original wedding photos which was black and white into colour, initially it decided the bridesmaid dress skirts were dark grey, but they were in fact a red velvet, so I used another app to change them, it didn't take very long and whilst not perfect it definitely raised a smile. 

The other key task last weekend was this awful hedge that affects the corner of our garden, unfortunately because the neighbour doesn't keep it in check it overhangs quite severely the main deck we use and pigeons frequent it leaving rather a mess on the deck, as we were spring cleaning the garden hubby and said 20 year old set too pushing back the hedge by trimming the offending and overhanging branches and whilst the finished result isn't exactly pretty it is a lot more functional with our deck now and I'm sure it won't take long to become green again.

After 

After what was a very busy few days if I'm honest, we sat and enjoyed a G&T on the front (mine being the non-alcoholic Gordon's one). 

Lockdown continues on and is quite utterly boring at the moment, we are all hoping for some normality soon, so the rest of the weekend was spent enjoying the six nations rugby and catching up on scrapbooking, I also managed to put a photo order in to bring me up to date. 

I've managed to catch up with my Mum recently and that was a positive. 

If you fancy joining in Mr Linky below

Rocking your World Friday - 28th of 2020

Good morning everyone, I hope you've had a good week, its Friday and time for 

So last Friday my car had its MOT, I drive a car which could be described as ancient (bless it), so MOT time is always a little disconcerting if I'm honest, so you can imagine my surprise when not only did she pass first time but she had no advisories whatsoever - surprised - yes, so hubby treated his car to two new tyres I'm not sure that's how it was supposed to work but we will call it a win win. 

On Saturday I'd booked tickets for us to go to Wentworth Woodhouse to see their glorious gardens, its the first time since the trust took the house over that they have allowed people to free flow around the gardens (previously you could only do a guided tour), there were lots of helpful volunteers around to give information about the diffeent parts of the garden which really brought it to life and we had a fabulous few hours exploring.  I hadn't realised how much difference it would make to my mental health or how big a difference doing something 'normal' would make me feel - but let's just say we had a fabulous time and for £5 per person - a bargain too. 

This was the first thing we found a sculpture done by the artist in residence.  

We wandered, getting fabulous shots of the back of the house

I loved the signs for the toilets on our way around, may they be known as bumfresh towers from here on in. 

The mulberry garden had some stunning flowers

And we've seen the Ionic temple from the road so many times but never upclose and we didn't realise it had a statue of hercules in it. 

We found the bear, commemorating the fact that an inventory from the 1800's documented ownership in the menagerie of a female American brown bear.

The blue skies were very welcome

We found some lovely colours as we wandered

The punchbowl now covered by trees and shrubbery was once the marker for the estate of something significant happening in the house, including the visit of Princess Victoria (before she became Queen) in 1835 where the bowl was lit as a beacon of her visit. 

The sweet chestnut tree was something to behold and behind the bee hives were literally buzzing with activity. 

Sunday we had a really chilled and relaxed day if I'm honest which we both enjoyed, we watched the film Knives Out which was a good Sunday afternoon film and I did a little pile of scrapbook pages.  I'm making headway on the pile of photos but am mindful that as we go out exploring again, the chances of catching up on my pages becomes a little less likely.  

The rest of the week has tripped along at a merry old pace, busy busy with work but I've made some good progress and we've had some lovely new meals that we've tried this week which is always fabulous. 

I hope you've had a grand week, if you fancy joining in pop a post together come back and link up and we can come and visit. 

As my regular ladies know there are some blogger issues at the moment, I finally got Kate's comment last week - yay, but Lisca's alas still didn't arrive.  However, I hope you've had a fab week ladies.