let the madness begin.....................

Jake and I have just come back from a few days away with some very special friends, we were invited over to stay for my birthday, and I was spoilt rotten, everything was done for me ;-)) from a cup of tea to dinner out in the evening.

Staying with J is always a treat as they have a housekeeper, the housekeeper sees us all as children to be looked after and she is the indulgent mother, we don't even have to make our own beds!!! she gets very upset if we do, so Jake and I have had a few days of nothing to do, playing tennis, badminton with J and her boys, reading books, geocaching.

now we are back home the madness begins;

26 days until the removal van arrives and the packers do their thing

15/16 days until Bruce comes home

The house is a total tip, there are things everywhere, NOTHING is where it should be or where i thought it was!!!

I will post photos when i find my camera.

wish me luck

This is my life..................... as a wife..................

She packs,

She moves,

She follows,

Why?

What for?

How come?

You may think she has lost her mind,

But actually, she's lost her heart.

It was stolen from her by a man who puts duty first,

who salutes the flag,

and whose boots in the doorway remind her that as long as he is her Military Husband,

she will remain his Military Wife.

Not many people understand our life and why we live as we do, this was sent to me by someone who does, and, is living the life, at the moment like me without her husband ( both detached abroad at the moment ) and we are both moving house within the next 6 weeks, maybe with our husbands help, maybe not!!! 

We have many talents like;

 how to unplumb and replumb the washing machine and the dishwasher

pack the computer AND be able to put it back together and get on the internet

reassemble beds,

build the trampoline ( AGAIN!! )

These are some of the many things we do, and usually with good humour, it comes with the job, I will be thankful when we are back together again, and pray that we will not be separated again for a very long time. 


I hope if you read this you will understand how proud I and other wives are of our husbands and how much we love them.

Apart from packing prep I have been busy with..............

My knitting group at the library is doing a hanging for our library, it is The owl and the pussycat, the photographs are a bit muddled up so bear with me please.

Our group started off with just a few and it had grown to over 30 of us ranging in age from 7 to over 7's!! All with various talents, and even the odd leftie apart from me that is.

these are letters for another poem that has been written for South Glos libraries and when finished will go' on tour' quite exciting but why is it all in capital letters?????

This hat was a one ball challenge, we were allowed to use odd bits of wool to make any 'extras' .

it only took me an evening to make, a real no-brainer, i just made the pattern up as i went along. It is now worn by a beautiful little girl called Hettie and she looks sooooo cute.

This is my latest project, a cricket sweater for no 1 son, when he was little i used to knit him an aran cardigan and sweater to wear through the summer, it was before fleece came the in thing to wear, and now at 28 he wants his mummy to knit him another aran to wear through the summer ;-)).