Day 44 - FRIENDSHIP

This was quite difficult cos for me DH is my friend, so are my sons. All the lovely ladies on UKS that I talk to daily are friends too.
But I chose my IRL friend Carol who saw me through my divorce 33 yrs ago and then I saw her through her DH's tragic death at Easter 2 yrs ago. She is always there for me and I am for her :)
Here we are in Eastbourne at Cardinal Colours retreat 2011

Day 43 - FROM YOUR PAST

I have had this perfume since I was a teenager! I still wear it and love it!

Day 42 - Portrait of a loved one!

Well it just had to be my lovely DH as a portrait of a loved one.

It is our second marriage, and Peter's wife died when they were in their forties. We will have been married second time round for both of us 27yrs this coming Oct LOL!!

Who would have thought at 40yrsold and 50yrs old we could have clocked up all those years! we have had such a wonderful marriage and life together and hope for further happy years!

I couldn't take a photo of him tyoday as we are pretty sad about our leak(s) and our lovely neighbour dying so suddenly on Wednesday but this is a lovely photo of him that I have tweaked on holiday last August

Thank you for such lovely supportive comments from total strangers xxxxx

Day 41 - HEART

Yesterday I went into M&S abd vought a meal for 2 for Valentine's day. We have eaten the steak and side dish, frozen the starter and the dessert!!
These chocs have been sitting in the kitchen (part of the meal deal ) and I am feeling very down today so have eaten 6 chocolates leaving the chocolate hearts showing LOL!!

Day 40 - COMPACT

Dictionary definition- closely or neatly packed together.
I thought about the Russian doll that I use to have and gave to my DS where one doll fits into another doll, then I remembered the photos I took when we visited St Petersburgh last year! A very compact stall of Russian 'dolls'!
Here is a more modern set, they even had Christmas tree sets!

Day 39 - Fence

Here is some fence I took with other snow pictures, as you can see our snow has hardly gone although the main roads are clear there is still a lot of snow and a lot of ice around on the outskitrs of our town!

Day 38 - DAMAGE

Well today's photo was easy, thenk you Suzy! The continuation of our underground water leak is that we took up our carpet to expose the DAMAGE!

We have had the pipe capped from the boiler to the downstairs radiators so now we are without heating daownstairs and outside this morning is -8C!!

Day 37 - PACKAGING

The continuing saga is that today we lifted our lounge diner carpet 33' and during this time our new curtain material arrived all neatly packaged up...don't think we will be making these yet!!
Here is a view of part of our room tonight, we now have no heating to downstairs radiators as the pipe has been capped to prevent further leaking under the concrete floor!! We now await the insurance assessor for buildings!

Day 36 - RUBBISH

Having made a huge warming stew with lots of vegetables to day I looked for the RUBBISH and found DH had thrown it outside ready for the compost, to cold and thick snow to go there today!!
Our plumber has been and yes the pipes to the radiator are leaking, could be one leak or several as the screed would have in time corroded the copper piping, the carpet has to be totally taken up in a 33' lounge /diner and eventually the hall carpet as the pipes lead to the radiator there and the small bedroom carpet upstairs to try and feed a new pipe system from small bedroom radiator to hall radiator

Tomorrow I contact the insurance company next!! Don't think February 2012 is going to be a good month for us!!

Snow on 5th Feb 2012

The SE of UK finally has seen some snow!! These are the scenes for our patio door and front door and bedroom window. So pretty to look at but glad we haven't got to go out in it!
Church service was cancelled this morning due to the roads impossible to drive!!

WC challenge for last week in Jan

Well what do you do whilst you wait for a plumber? I scrapped and managed to do a very simple LO for week 5 of the weekly challenge on UKS. It is of course our youngest DGC who love paper and pencils!
We had a very simple sketch to follow for 5pts, had to use 5 blocks of photos, journalling cards/ paper for 10pts, journalling for 10pts and use new stash 5pts ( I used Sarah's Card's Jan Kit!!)

Day 35 - LIQUID - water

How apt was the word LIQUID today!! We are decorating our lounge when we found the bottom of the paper we were emulsioning had 'blown' and too had the top of the skirting board in places!!
It is a joining wall to our neighbours house so he came to look and discovered on lifting the carpet and pulling back some of the wallpaper and removing some of the skirting paint damp...
He thinks we have a WATER leak in the pipe work from the boiler to the 2 radiators. We have a concrete floor with marley tiles under the carpet and underlay!!

WE are awaiting the plumber later today and looking out our building insurance and water supplier insurance we also have!!

Day 34 - INTERACTION

I cheated today with the word Interaction and found a photo of DH and myself at our Silver Wedding lunch. I cropped and used a soft focus on Picasa

day 33 - BUTTON

For a photo of a button I used our DVD machine to show a button!!

Day 32 - ACCESSORY

The word forthe photo was accessory, so I immediately thought about myself and I always wear a bracelet. But whilst I was at SW this morning with my DGD and her Mum I saw Xanthe's accessory the koala reins she aways wears now when she is walking! She loves having him on her back and doesn't mind the reins at all!!