Total Destruction!

Have forgotten to tell you that hubbie planted some bulbs in the front garden on sunday and dug so far close to Australia that it was a scene of total devastation. (I thought at first he'd decided to do a DIY driveway or something). Once I had attempted to clear and sweep the mud most of tues morning it looked a little better.

It reminded me though that at this time of year we have quite enough mud in Norfolk as it is without adding to it all and what with it being dark by 4pm these days (and I mean DARK - the stars being our only outside source of light!) So just putting up these nice flowers as it will seem a long time before I can see any round here again!

Rock n Roll!

Having a very nice evening, fish n chips, glass of wine and some sweeties :) just finished watching 'The boat that rocked' as hubbie hadn't seen it. Feeling a bit guilty (not much though!) that I haven't managed to make anything for the cake stall 2m despite buying all the ingredients.

Put the christmas decs up at work today - eek! On monday 2 ladies from the local history group are coming in at lunch to do a nostalgic Bru@xmas photo display. Funnily enough they are both ex managers of the library, one is my predecessor and the other started in the 50s driving the 'library exchange van'. I'm very fortunate compared to those before me, an old coke stove and chimney heated the building until the late 70s and the coke-hole wasn't converted into a staff room until 1986. Although the 50s van lady is aghast at my endless targets I have as they never had to worry about anything like that.

Bit disappointed I'm missing the craft fair 2m because of work, but do get to go to the playgroup fair at the end to help clear up - yeh!

Back to normal

Back to my normal sparkly, happy blog now!

Had a brillant day at work today SOOOOOOO busy, loads of people, and the most kids we've ever had, this is mainly thanks to our school visits this week. We had 2 adults join today and 4 children, all 4 had been on the school visit on weds as well which is brillant. One boy was there with his Grandad (who is a regular of ours) and Grandad had been instructed to take him to the library asap! This boy must've been about 10yrs old and has never owned a library card. The tragedy is I am shocked how often I see this, the amount of kids we get that come in through no help whatsoever from their parents is truly shocking.

We had loads more kids in, I had been left a book by Nikki which she said she was leaving with us as the kids had been so inspired by it that she had told them the first one in on thurs could have it, everyone else would have to request it. Well, we must've have had about 8, 9 kids running in trying to get this book and the girl who did get there first took much pleasure in telling all her school mates! Was an absolute joy to see them all and to see them so excited about books :)

While I'm on a booky theme, thought I'd just share with you my current loans, now as staff we are allowed 20 which is why its such a long list...

A gentleman of fortune: Ana Dean
Mariana: Susanna Kennedy
The Mozart Conspiracy: Scott Mariani
Better late than never: Len Goodman (one for you Zoe!)
A Hapeless romatic: Harriet Evans
Red sky at night: Jane Struthers
Light a penny candle: Maeve Binchy
The book lovers' appreciation society (various)
The Lady Elizabeth: Alison Weir
Green Darkness: Anya Seton
The Glorious Revolution (1688 etc): Edward Vallance
Wedlock: Wendy Moore

Needless to say I won't read all of them, I am enjoying Light a penny candle and a gentleman of fortune at the mo.

I am loving....

1. getting some more christmas shopping done
2. maltesers
3. new christmas decs! (I chose a dragonfly dec - yes I know that hasn't got anything to do with it, Little man chose sparkly bright red tinsel and hubbie chose practically anything and everything else red in the shop that the rest of us hadn't already chosen)
4. still loving Garrow's Law BRILLANT!
5. Tinkerbell & the lost treasure
6 Merlin
7. mini weetabix ad & findnigel.com LOL
8. fastforward button on toy adverts

Strange!

Little man and daddy have munched their way through the cakes we made on thursday Weirdly little man, takes all cream etc off and will only BY CHOICE eat the sponge bit ONLY??????!!!!!! What is that all about???? Good news for mummy though as she can still continue to nab extra icing and cream forever more aha :) :) Wasn't allowed to decorate our latest batch so I'm sticking pic of our previous lot on to dribble over instead, still need to work on the presentation somewhat!!! Perhaps thats why the sponge bit is so much more appealing.....?!

Thursday 19 Nov 09

Up through most of the night with little man, think I went to sleep in little man's bed while he patiently waited for mummy to agree it was morning and we could go watch tv in mummy's bed. watched postman pat, made breakfast for all, played train races, did 2 loads of washing, packed football team kit up, made butterfly cakes, made lunch, made packed lunches, went to work, came home, little man very hot, runny nose and eyes, made tea, washed up, carried sleeping little man up to bed. msn..ing friend, trying to sort work cover out for 2m, sorting out paperwork, watching tv, bath, bed, sleep. zzzzzz.

Norfolk Mud

Our church from the field.

Went for a muddy, splishy, splashy walk this afternoon across the fields on our way to the library. Got some good books and some scoobie doo dvds..again.

Ophelia setting

I took this pic a while ago, near my old home, of the Hogsmill river, Surrey. Its where the painter Millais painted his gorgeous Ophelia painting.

play time!

Ah Bliss!

Blissful start to the day today, little man sleeping in till 8am hurrah! Wasted on poor Daddy though, who had to leave at 7.30am anyway to get to Newmarket. Even better is I'm actually at home now during little man's weekly stint at pre-school and I'm actually relaxing, like really properly! Just gonna sit down to a cup of tea and a brunch (missed out on breakfast) of waffles and eggs yum yum. While I was in the kitchen now, just thought I'd take a pic to show little man's creative flair which helps keep my kitchen bright and colourful :)

Craft Therapy

Favourites of the week

My favourites this week are....

1. having ma & pa to stay
2. finishing my Daisy D mystery book
3. Garrow's Law
4. sleep
5. sylvanian families
6. cream cakes
7. an abundance of chocs
8. pay day
9. the pink house
10. my blog!

The Start

Hello! Thank you for visiting my blog. I'm a thirty -something happily married working mum, living in Norfolk. I love looking after and spending time with my family, crafting, reading, making cakes, and collecting pretty sparkly things for my home. Hopefully it will give you a flavour of the little things in my life that make my days bright and happy xxx