Ready and Packed for Holidays.....

We are off soon on our summer holiday. It has been an exhausting week as the weather has been so hot and I have been working nearly every day. The last two days have been especially tiring but we are all ready now. The boys are very good and try to do their own packing, although DS3 just realised he had forgotten to pack his pyjamas. Thank goodness for family discussions over dinner. We have to get up very early tomorrow, 4am, so not much sleep tonight. We are on the first flight to Heathrow Terminal 5, then across to Terminal 4 for our flight to the States. Hope I can manage to sleep on the plane. Here is a peek at one of our destinations.......

We are flying to Boston and travelling around New England, ending up in New York. I am looking forward to the Patchwork/Quilting shops in New England, DH and the boys are looking forward to Mountain Biking in Vermont. Humm wonder what I will do on those days!!!! Will hopefully take lots of photos and have lots to tell when I get back. Happy Holidays......

Strawberry Jam....

Now stocked up on Strawberry Jam, should last until next year. So so busy atm, trying to get sorted for our Jollies, will let you know more about it later.

Strawberry Picking........

Spent an hour today Strawberry picking with DH and DS3.


To replenish our stocks of Strawberry Jam, will post results soon.

Corners of my Home.......

As you can see I do not do colour very well, I love white , cream and grey....

Red and Green....

Home grown produce....

Delicious.....

Sugar Snap Peas from our allotment, strawberries and tomatoes from the garden.

Summer in Full Bloom......

I do love flowers....

The Chicks have gone......

Well the day finally arrived and the chicks have gone back to the farm. The breeder came this evening and took 5 of them away, it turned out we had 4 cocks and 2 hens. We decided to keep the smallest one seen here on the left, she was one of the ones we named "the twins", and she has now been renamed May, as she was born on the 3rd May. I am hoping she will now thrive as she was being bullied by the others.
And then there were three, it seems quiet now that the other chicks have gone. I went round tonight to tuck Jill, Lucinda and May up for the night and found them all cozy. I thought how nice it was to see May being tucked up between them. How cute do they look. It makes the decision we made to keep her worth it.

More Books from Amazon......

These arrived today.....

....... lots more bedtime reading.

Spinning Class.......

It was the fortnightly meeting of the spinners today, I had a lovely day and came home with this tray of wool to spin and a really good first book on spinning. Also in shot the niddy noddy that DH has made for me. He is so clever.

More spinning.....

I have been practicing my spinning,a couple of small plyed skiens.

New Book from Amazon...

This arrived in the post today a new book from the Textile Guru Maggie Grey. I will have to try and find some time to sit and have a good read of it.