ROCKING YOUR WORLD FRIDAY - 9TH OF 2025

 Afternoon, a late one for me this week apologies, I had every intention of preparing this yesterday but alas it was not to be.  However, without further ado let us clock the silver linings, positive moments and little things in life that genuinely make your heart lighter, time for 

Well last Friday found us at the dentist, but a full bill of health and a thorough clean so all was good.

Saturday I'd arranged my second 'crafty' day with my sister and daughter in law, my niece couldn't make it but I'm hoping that will improve when she is more local to us.  This time we set to on sewing tasks, I had a sneaky feeling that this would mean little personal sewing time (and I was right, the only thing I managed was to machine stitch Pigling Bland's tail).  My sister had brought some items to alter and she tried out my Mum's sewing machine, which is far newer than the one she had and so went home not only with altered clothes (albeit that she only brought 2) but also with a new sewing machine (well new to her).  

We did however spend the majority of the time on making a set of dungarees with my daughter in law, she had managed to find some amazing fabric and we had great fun cutting the pattern out and then getting our head around the pattern (truth be told despite the 'beginner' statement on the same it was something of a convoluted pattern if truth be told), however with the hours we spent I was absolutely determined that we get them completed.  Alas as is normal for me at the moment I didn't capture that on photo.  I did however, capture a photo of said 24 year old and his Dad thoroughly enjoying the Six Nation's Rugby game on TV, it seemed familiar and strange in equal measure as it is a while since the two of them had enjoyed watching a game together. 

Sunday was a quiet day and with fairly awful weather out, we stayed put for the day, book reading and I finished off a set of layouts dating back to 2023, the first one my d-i-law at one of her hen parties. 

Niece and her fiance ready for a Halloween party

I'm still enjoying scrapbooking layouts of my Mum albeit it can be hard, this photo genuinely makes me smile, she was trying to take a photo of herself in her mirror but she decided to use her selfie camera, I'm sure if I zoomed in my Mum would genuinely go on forever, if only that was the case. 

Hubby's first attempts at panelling

Chatsworth house glass display that left me and hubby giggling (I grant you in a very immature way)

Photos of said 24 year old and his now wife at a Friends fest 

and photos with her Mum as well. 

Art at YSP 

Photo from Chatsworth garden

Sausage sandwiches before our walk at YSP

YSP walk

Photo of me and my Mum at pre-theatre dining, this was the night before she asked my sister to shave off her hair as it was coming out in handfuls due to the chemotherapy. 

Said 24 year old taking their dog Poppy on a walk

Date night layout

Said 24 year old, wife, niece and her fiance at a tufting session

Said 24 year old and his wife on a date night

Spring wreath class with my Mum and the rest of my clan

More wreath class photos

York ice trail

Soon it was Monday and we were treated to such a pretty sunrise that morning.

But with it being a red sky that morning it didn't take long for the weather to change and the rain to hit us again. 

Overall I've had a good working week, there was a small blip on Wednesday that I could have done without but I'm hoping it is now resolved. 

Wednesday night we had booked for the theatre with pre-theatre dining. 

We both had the smoked haddock scotch egg on a curried lemon mayo, which was lovely it had a definite kedgeree flavour going on if I'm honest

Then I opted for pan friend cod with clam chowder

Whereas hubby went for the homemade pork faggot

Both mains were very rich if truth be told, but we enjoyed them nonetheless.

Hubby opted for lemon tart dessert and I had sticky toffee pudding but weirdly neither of us took photos so you'll have to imagine them. 

Then we went to see 'The Silence of Snow' a play about the life of Patrick Hamilton, a one man show charting his entire life and the things that moulded his life.  It was unfortunately not the happiest of lives and despite him having significant book and play success including his play 'Ropes' being made into an Alfred Hitchcock film he became an alcoholic and despite extreme ways of treating it (including electroconvulsive therapy) he remained addicted to drink and eventually died due to health related issues.  It was a sad story but incredibly well acted and we both really enjoyed it. 

Thursday was a weird day, we hadn't planned anything out if I'm honest we popped and got a shop in from the Company Shop topping the freezer with fish and meat which should see us through the next month and then headed home, my sister needed to print something so she popped over and then I had a lovely surprise as my niece was with her.  She had been for a job interview and it was so lovely to see the two of them, we chatted away the afternoon - definitely good for the soul and that my lovely people was my week. 

I hope yours has been splendid and busy and interesting all in equal measure. 

Hugs

Rocking Your world Friday - 7th of 2020

Crikey the weeks are fair tripping along and with storm Ciara I have to be brutally honest and tell you that my photo taking this last week has been none existant as we battened the hatches at what feels like a curious time of year for storms, added to which we have the delight of Storm Dennis this weekend, why do these storms always pick the weekends to be problematic anyway without further ado it's time for

On a positive, we haven't suffered any damage and neither have our neighbours and we haven't had any snow unlike others slightly further south and slightly further north of us. 

So what have we been doing this last week, well Friday and Saturday were monumental days spent clearing my mother in laws house, hubby had managed to get a skip ordered and so we headed over there first thing Friday and set too.  We were methodical, he had already cleared the loft, so we started in the first bedroom and worked our way through the house  To say it was so tiny there was so much stuff to sort through and it wasn't just a matter of getting rid of everything, we needed to check to make sure there wasn't anything sentimental that hubby or said 19 year old wanted to keep and I can tell you we were at it all day Friday and by tea time, the skip (which was huge) was full and the upstairs was completely cleared - no mean feat.  We could not have done it without my sister, my Mum and said 19 year old's help, so I am immensely grateful for such an awesome family. 

Saturday we returned, a brand new empty skip on the drive and set too on the downstairs, working our way through the porch and then the living room before finally sorting the kitchen.  Along the way said 19 year old mowed the front and back lawns, sorted out some borders and cleared the path and driveway, so not only was the house completely empty (and clean) but so was the external part of the property.  The next task is to put it on the market, but it marked a turning point for us as a family and hubby heaved a sigh of relief when it was done.  Thankfully the return journey on Saturday meant that we weren't there all day and managed to get home, showered and changed in time for the six nations rugby. 

Six nations always means scrapbooking time and for those that have been following my blog you will know I'm on a mission to try and get up to date with my scrapbooking, no mean feat when you realise that my last filed scrapbook layouts were 2015.  Thankfully I'm now up to the summer of 2017 so I'm making great progress.  Thankfully I've had a few inspirations when it has come to putting kits together recently which makes a big difference.  I put huge kits together and then work through them until I'm left with only enough to create either embellishments to use in the future or birthday cards.  So I had a lovely afternoon working through the papers and making some serious headway.  I'm hoping to complete what I've done within the next couple of weeks and then believe it or not I'll be looking at my next photo order and I'm going to be ruthless because I always have printed far too many prints to use and then because I hate disposing of photos I keep the spares which obviously take up room.

A few of the layouts I've done recently 

Sunday was definitely a day of rest on the whole, we bought some food but once home we settled into TV/film watching, rugby and scrapbooking and it was thoroughly lovely, particularly given how awful it was outside. 

I've caught up with said 19 year old's girlfriend this week as well so that's another positive, as you know she is away at university but her sister has just had a baby and she had a family birthday so came back for a few days, her and said 19 year old have spent as much time as possible together which has been lovely for them and I've enjoyed catching up, she is just so very lovely.

Work has been hard work but I'm making some good solid progress, I had a bit of a wobble on Tuesday which I think was mainly down to being unwell with a cold from hell that I can't shake off, if I'm honest by the time I got home I was very teary and maxed out and ended up having a good bawl and curling up on the sofa feeling sorry for myself, however, I dusted myself off on Wednesday and had a focus and a much better day.  I caught up with said 19 year old as his girlfriend had headed back to uni and hubby went to silversmithing class and hubby bought me a bar of chocolate to cheer me up so that was naughty but also very nice, sometimes I think you need a down in the dumps day to then come back up if that makes sense, don't get me wrong the cold is still here but my focus shifted slightly which improved things. 

And then we find ourselves at thursday, a thursday where I will be attempting (and possibly failing) to sort some birthday gifts out for said hubby, I've sorted main present but there isn't anything to open per se, so I'm off for a venture around the local shopping centre - wish me luck because I'm not one for shopping centre's at the best of times!

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