What to do.........

What to do? I've finished all the socks, am almost done with the granny square blanket, and have become very disinterested in everything. I know i need to pull my socks up and get on but.............................

On the plus side we know we will be leaving here next year, ( hopefully in June) where are we going don't know yet, options are, or should i say where we would like to go are Waddington, Whitby, and Alnwick in no particular order, so we will probably end up in London.

We are going north this weekend, Jake has an exeat and it is a long weekend he doesn't go back to school until Monday evening so we will go to Durham ( maybe a service at the cathedral followed by lunch there ), to the wetlands trust at Washington ( more photographs of birds ) and weather permitting walk up to penshaw monument or the Angel of the North and maybe Beamish, though Beamish is expensive........

I need a project to take my mind of moving and packing, it's not going to happen until next year.

So, must get on and pack for the weekend, i've made the cake just the cinnamon bread to make now.

Oh and we will stop at my mum's on the way up tomorrow in Hebden Bridge ( used in the sainsburys Christmas advert) to drop off something we have for her and pick up some goodies.

See you next week have a good weekend

Scones, socks and swine flu

It's been a while..........................

I have been busy with,

a cream tea for church, this involoved me making 80 scones for the WI ( am a member) and helping to serve with the Mother's Union ( also a member) pictures below ( why won't blogger put them in the order i want?????)

Knitting a pair of socks for J to keep her toes warm in the new house, I ended up making 2 pairs as the house IS COLD!!!

I also made myself a new pinny, red dotty fabric I found in my stash when I tidied out my 'store' cupboard.

I have also made 2 pairs of socks for my father-in-law as part of his Christmas present, a red hat and scarf for Jake to have a school to keep warm.

My granny square blanket is coming along slowly.

So whilst all this is going on in my life we get a phone call from Jake at school, ( this is before half term) very croaky, sore throat, hot enough to make toast on, having played in a rugby match. Matron gave him something to gargle, and told him to go to bed, this he did but, was no better on the Monday morning or the next morning so off to the school doctor and was diagnosed with swine flu................. by now maternal instinct was in hyperdrive and i was going up and get him but he was not fit to travel until the thursday when Bruce went up to get him from school, expecting to see this waif in bed BUT he was fine, he had taken the tamiflu and a course of hard hitting steroids because as usual it had gone to his chest, they knocked him for six and the coughing was awful. So after a few days at home he was back to normal and the eternal words 'do we have anything to eat?', 'i'm hungry', 'are you making a pot of tea?' were being uttered.

We had a wonderful half term, Bruce was on leave, though he worked from home every morning except on thursday when we went to Weston-Super-Mare with a picnic, we walked on the sea front had a pound each to spend in the penny arcade, my boys spent theirs quickly, but i made £1.20 profit!!!.

So that's it for now, back soon.