Mark set his alarm clock and got up early to start work today, today is a normal working day for him. Just after 8am I was woken up to the sound of a chainsaw and looked out of the window to see tree surgeons CUTTING NEXT DOORS TREE'S DOWN! This made me very happy as they were HUGE - we now won't have the worry of another tree coming down like the one in March. It also means as the sun travels over the back gardens we will get more sun instead of being shaded by the tree's. In all it took four hours to get them all chopped down and we can see the difference in the conservatory and bathroom upstairs already, its much brighter. A good start to the New Year!
By lunchtime I had changed all the beds, hoovered and dusted upstairs, done all the ironing and cleaned the bathrooms. I also made a chilli in the slow cooker. One clean and tidy house apart from a lounge still full of Christmas presents! I can put those away when the kids go back to school next week.
By lunchtime I had changed all the beds, hoovered and dusted upstairs, done all the ironing and cleaned the bathrooms. I also made a chilli in the slow cooker. One clean and tidy house apart from a lounge still full of Christmas presents! I can put those away when the kids go back to school next week.
Here is my finished berry coloured scarf.
I also sewed the ends in to the berry scarf and the blue scarf I made on Boxing Day.
This afternoon while Roman was watching "Treasure Planet" me and Anais made another batch of waffles. She requested them for pudding with strawberries and squirty cream. Unfortunately when we went to Asda they had sold out of strawberries and didn't have any frozen berries either :-(
We had them for pudding with strawberry jam and squirty cream instead :-)
While we were in Asda we picked up the DVD "Now You See Me"" which we watched tonight. We saw this early November and everyone loved it and kept asking to see it again as it really is a good film. When it finished we watched the extra features to see if they showed how the tricks were done - it didn't but it really is an intriguing film.
We had tea on our laps tonight watching "See Me Now" - a bowl of chilli with garlic bread and tortilla crisps and the waffles for pudding.
From Asda we also picked up in the sale a new duvet cover for our bed and a first aid kit for each car.
Today the kids have watched "Rango" "Pocahontas 2" and "Treasure Planet" though since Christmas Day they have also had their new tablets glued to their hands!
Tonight I made another crochet doily in lilac cotton and lilac beads.....
.........a close up.
Roman built the fire tonight (supervised)...................
...................he was pleased as an hour later it was roaring away!
Very excited today as we booked our first holiday for later in the year in the Lake Dsitrict. I LOVE the Lake District, some of our best family holidays have been spent here just doing very simple things like feeding the ducks and being chased off by the swans on the shores of Lake Windermere! Such a beautiful and peaceful place and one of my favourite places in the whole world.
Anyone notice anything different?
The Christmas wallpaper has GONE and been replaced back to the pretty pink gingham!
The Christmas wallpaper has GONE and been replaced back to the pretty pink gingham!
Tonight we watched yesterdays "Mrs Browns Boys" - so funny, and later plan on watching "The Graham Norton Show" - my favourite man on the telly followed by "Jool's Annual Hootenanny" which always makes us laugh as it was filmed days/weeks ago but gets us in the New Year Spirit!
Finally we wish everybody a very happy and healthy 2014! xxx
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