13th August - Grandchildren day and T is for Tree

 Most things in the house are the same as yesterday except the kitchen is tidy, shopping got put away and washing done and dried indoors overnight. Of couse ironing still sits waiting for when I feel like it!! What I really need is a cleaning and ironing fairy but no fairies around this neck of the wood:(
Last night we had a 'mackeral sky' so knew today would be nice. Took these photos at 8.20 and 8.30pm

Today is Zac and Xanthe's day. We didn't plan to do much with them today. I had a fasting blood test at 8.30pm for my thyroid and cholesral etc and they arrived as I was getting dressed and putting a new mepore dressing on, so they saw the wound and spider stitches, Xanthe's eyes were like owls!!
We decided to go out am and it was a lovely sunny morning. We went to Bexhill seafront where we can get coffee and icecream by the beach

It was very quiet on the beach, a very calm sea and there were lovely views of Beachy Head

We came home for lunch and then this afternoon Zac and Peter went to the park to watch a bowls tournament and Xanthe and I made buns for them to take home

To day being Tuesday letter T is for this unusual shaped tree that is at the house of my nail and electolysis lady. She calls it Uncle Dave's tree!!

12th Aug - A new Lucky Snapping challenge from Anne SILVER LININGS _ I for Irrelevant

What a challenge from Anne today! She is off on holiday and has left her challenge which as far as I can see is to make us feel ashamed by showing all the things we don't do or leave til later or as I say now I have retired..." there is always tomorrow"!

She also suggests we tell each other what are the little /big things that annoy us...or how we make a little annoyance become a BIG annoyance. Something I often do...hang my head in shame, but will leave that for another day.

So here I am Monday always a 'ME' day after the weekend and before tomorrow when it is grandchildren day.

• Shopping was done am and here is pm and still not put away nor has the slow cook casserole been put on!
• Washing still has to be put in the machine..if I had done it earlier it could be drying on the ine by now!!!

• Ironing was started with all good intentions on Saturday but somehow I got fed up and left it to sit outside in the sun and read my book!!

and what am I doing when I get off this computer at 3pm...going to have some late lunch and chose a recording in our library!!

11th Aug - Lucky Snapping BOOK and any other views?

Today is Monday but just catching up with then end of Jenni's week yesterday!  She gave us the word BOOK for Sunday so this is was I am reading, not my favourite author but nearly 3/4 of the way through and want to know how it ends!!

Another view of the Bowls yesterday when I did the Bowls tea and sat outside reading. A glorious sunny afternoon

Forgot to show you the rainbow we saw last week

At the front of the house as we got home

Raced through the house and open the patio door, yes still there!

My last view for this month is our front garden, not as colourful now as the poppies have all been cleared, the lavender has finished flowering and the rose bushes are new this summer and flowers not so profuse! The Rowan berries on the tree are starting to go orange, wonder when the birds will take them!!

10th Aug- 12th Aug - Catch up on the weekly challenge and....OOps what have I done now!!!

After doing so well on this week's Lucky Snapping challenge from Jenni ....I got behind so let's play catch up!!!
Thursday - STONE well would you believe we collect very small pieces of stone form where ever we go!!
Bay of Fundy off the Nova Scotia/Maine coastline- wish stones with white lines through the stones
NZ many stones from N and S Island
Wales of course slate
and many many more ....etc, etc........
the last stones aren from the Granite coastline  in Brittany this year,

Here is my collection

A couple of  photos taken a few years ago when we took Canadian friends to Stonehenge

Between Thurs and Friday I had a very silly accident..........I got up at 11.30pm to turn Peter's bedside light off as he had fallen asleep with the light on as I rolled over and sat up I was too nr the edge of the bed and slid off................BUT my left arm caught the corner of y bedside cabinet and with the force of my body sliding to the ground, lacerated my upper arm. We finally went to A&E at 5am when I realised I needed stitches and came home around 7am with 6 stitches and the wound glued too :(

Felt very shaken and tired yesterday so just had a very easy day and bed very early, slept from 9pm - 9am today!

Not much to see yet, guess it will be another scar on my body of life:(!!!

Friday- SWEET 

I tried to go to sleep am, but impossible and the door bell rang at 11.30am with these wonderful flowers from our dear 80yr old friends. How SWEET of them to do such a lovely thing for me, I was very touched! it was a shame I had to take this to pices but they did fill 2 vases!

Normally we don't have sweets in the house but being school holidays and how Haribos are always popular 

we have a packet ready and waiting!!

Today 12th Aug - DRINK here is a lovely cheap bottle of vino- red of course for me to enjoy tonight watching TV and eating our dinner. I just love Lidl's :)

7th August - Plenty of TIME

How lovely to sat that...I have plenty of time today and tomorrow too :) Today's prompt is TIME too

This morning since I hadn't planned anything I suddenly decided to go and WI at another Slimming World club as I missed my Mon weigh in. Really glad I went as I have lost another 11/2lbs so nearly lost 1 stone now!

 I popped inand out to weigh in so decided to go and get some bargains at our local Lidl store, just love their veg and cheap wine..and other things too!!

This afternoon I am making time to scrap this week's UKS weekly challenge. we have to incorporate one or all of these colours somewhere in the LO pink, purple or red for 10pts, use the given sketch for 10pts and more difficult, use a film or a song as your title old or new for 10points
Will post the finished LO when I have done it, know which photos and title, just have to chose the papers, that will take some TIME as I am a faffer!!

Good none has peeped so here 3 hrs later a very simple but LO done for 30 points for my team :) I guess you recognise the photos!

6th August - A day out to Eagle Heights Prompt 2 show some green

We have just had a fabulous day out with our youngest 2 grandchildren Zac and Xanthe.
Peter has wnted to go for years to http://www.eagleheights.co.uk/, we finally went today. The weather was warm dry and very sunny, just right for a day out and a picnic lunch. Everyone enjoyed themselves and the children so good and well behaved.

A collage of the animals we saw, mainly birds of prey

Here we all are 

On our way home we saw a lot of lavender fields

Now some green for our prompt for Lucky Snapping today our back garden

Photo of our first tomatoes in a hanging basket

 Clematis growing into a tree with our runner beans!

 Our raised veg garden having removed old salad crop and potatoes, leaving some beetroot and tom plants we have now put more lettuce plants in tonight!

 Another view this time looking up our garden to the back of the house

 The sun in the sky at 7pm tonight

5th August - View challenge week Mon prompt- weather

Can you believe we are in 7 month for Lucky Snapping and we are back to view week with Jenni.
This week she suggests we perhaps keep showing a peek into our daily life or show our view or interprete her daily prompt which today is WEATHER

So today is Monday breakfast at Sainsburys followed by shopping

 Aug View - As you can see flowers are still in full flower though slowly past their best and willow tree now hids the rest of the garden and garage.  Must go and take a view up the garden tomorrow

And our weather - blue skies have now appeared pm so a nice sunny afternoon I hope!

Tomorrow we are taking the grandchildren to Eagles Heights, in Kent. Here they are at the weekend!

I love this one! Think there is a LO coming......

4th Aug - A crop today!

Still warm and sunny but today I was inside scrapping at our monthly crop. I had a really good day and produced 4 LO's new and some to finish and then continued making a mini book.

 A new one of Xanthe last April

 I finished the last class one

An old photo when Xanthe was 18mths old on a new LO

The evening sky last night

Thank you Kathi for this week making us blog more frequently xxx

2nd Aug - still warm

Cannot believe we have had sun virtually all day and warm though not has hot as yesterday.

Here is a photo of the beach yesterday for Kathi

 The sky as sun was setting

a few minutes later

Just knew it was going to be a lovely day today!

1st August heatwave back?

Well we have woken to clear blue skies and hot sunshine and temp in shade this am 23C!

I have been to town where all the winter clothes are in, the retail trade are crazy!!  managed to buy 2 things as they kept calling me to buy them!
                                   A gilet from Bon Marche  and this thin top from BHS

                       As I passed a book shop I had to take a photo of this book in the window!

Wondering whether to spend pm in the garden or on the beach, enjoyed it last week :)

!.45 and beach wins, bye xxxx