ROCKING YOUR WORLD FRIDAY - 34TH OF 2026

 Good evening lovely people tis Friday time for

Well last Friday I was working which is most unusual but I'd swapped my week around due to my niece's wedding.  I was working from home and managed to finish a little earlier which was great.  

I had the weekend planned as hubby was boat training, my plan was to craft with Bridgerton playing in the background which is exactly what I did.  I have a friend and I make mini books for her two girls' birthdays each year and so I put together a new mini book. 

This was the one I completed on Saturday 

It was a different design than I'm used to so it was fun to create something different. 

and this was the one I did on Sunday

I was using an eclectic mix of papers as I'm in 'using up' mode.  Hopefully the girls enjoy filling them with birthday memories. 

I've been busy at work this week, swapping my days back to normal, so it was nice to go and harvest some of the items I've grown this year on Wednesday night. This is my first heritage striped tomato, some orange cherry tomatoes and cucamelons (which are very strange and fun to grow but definitely an acquired taste). 

and this raised a smile my first successful strawberry plant with a flower. 

and I'm going to leave you with these smiley photographs of my grandson

can you believe he is going to be one next month. 

And that my lovely people is my week, a quiet one but fun nonetheless. 

I hope yours has been grand.  

ROCKING YOUR WORLD FRIDAY - 30TH OF 2026

     Evening can you believe we are on the 30th Rocking post of the year already, time to clock the silver linings and positive moments from the last 7 days as it is time for

I know I mentioned my d-in-law making a cake for my niece but there were no photos of the cake, so I've managed to get one albeit taken from the side, it was a lemon cake and was beautiful. 

So last Friday we had a very busy day, the house that backs onto ours had had a tree poorly cut recently, he'd mentioned he wanted to get it resolved and so hubby had offered to sort.  So on Thursday he chopped the tree and on Friday we cut up the piece and got them taken to the tip, leaving some of the trunk that we can season and use on the outdoor fire, the light levels in the house have improved dramatically so I'm glad that is finally sorted, our gardens are simply not big enough to cope with trees if I'm honest, shrubs yes but trees absolutely not, so now when I'm stood at the kitchen I can see the blue skies, so that is definitely a positive.  

Saturday was supposed to be a day where we went in search of some of the lions that are dotted around the area to raise money for Sheffield Children's Hospital.  

We found the final two at the Meadowhall this was the first

and this was the second which was actually a lioness

then we headed to the arena and found these two 

this one was called Puck and was in the ice hockey team colours (hence his boots at the back)

We were hoping to carry on and find a few more near Ice Sheffield and the Institute of Sport but there was a music festival called Bassfest on and we didn't fancy fighting through the crowds. 

On Sunday I went to catch up with school friends.  We worked out that we all met in 1984 so that means we've been friends for 42 years and none of us could work out how that had happened if I'm absolutely honest.  We are spread far and wide throughout the UK, so opportunities to catch up are few and far between, but genuinely when we get together it is like we were on the school bus yesterday, we laughed, had a good catch up, talked all things menopause and put the world to rights it was a wonderful afternoon. 

I've also been on with some crochet.  I bought this pattern an age ago and to be honest I didn't have a clue how to 'read' it, I've persevered with other beginners patterns and all of a sudden the gobble-de-gook that I was reading suddenly became more understandable.  So I set too having a go however the squares are making up larger due to the size of the wool but as it isn't a garment it doesn't really matter. 

I know they could have done with being put on a board to get them square, but the one hubby has bought me is 13 inches square and these are bigger and I was too giddy trying to get them crocheted together, it is a join as you go pattern which is proving interesting. 

This is just to show the size of them, they should have been 12" x 12".  

Now the hassle I've had this week is that I've run out of the outer colour and I'm only 14 squares in (of 20), so a big silver lining was after 4 attempts at getting another ball of this wool is that I've finally managed to get hold of one. 

Monday and I was having to attend a court case in Sheffield as a witness, which I wasn't looking forward to, so why make my rocking post you may ask, firstly I got to find a few more lions. 

this is the one for the Sheffield band 'Bring me the Horizon' 

and the other reason for clocking this is that my evidence was agreed and I was stood down as a witness so no need to go in the witness box which was definitely a win win. 

I had my first harvest of tomatoes, these were a cherry tomato and very flavoursome they were too, I'm very proud of them as they've been grown from seed.  

This beautiful moon on Wednesday night, the photo doesn't do it justice. 

Thursday we had a wood order delivered.  It might seem like a strange time of year for this because we definitely don't need the wood burner at the moment, but there is something therapeutic knowing that we have stores in in readiness. 

So that my lovely people is my silver linings for the week, I hope yours has been similarly awesome too. 

Hugs

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