The Good Life...Ish.

Hello there! Wow! Its been two months since my last post! I just don't know where the time went! So, what's been happening? We are now the proud owners of 2 blackcurrant bushes, a tayberry bush and a loganberry bush, i've planted them and so far they seem to be surviving haha, fingers crossed! We have a "new to us" rug, which covers almost the whole living room, so no more cold floorboards! Woohoo! Thanks to lovely Jayne for helping to cart it back for me :) Also, thanks again to Jayne, we have a wee hoover called James :) The Bearded Wonder and i have been making the most of the lovely weather and have been exploring on the bikes  That day was sooo hot! I've been getting crafty and made a matching seat cover and bar bag for my bike out of an old backpack , and a face cover/neckwarmer for the cold weather from the bottom of an old t-shirt, though i have a feeling i may need to make a thicker one! Angus is gett...

Hi guys :)  Some of you will know that Pam over at  A New Life In Wales  had a little give-away last week, the prize being Kirstie Allsopp's Christmas Crafts book. Well, by some miracle i actually won! (i never win anything!) So she popped it in the post and it turned up this afternoon, and my goodness what a lovely , thoughtful lady Pam is. I was expecting (as you do when a book is posted) for it to turn up in either a large cardboard envelope, or one of those little slim boxes you can buy for posting books and the like. What i wasn't expecting was for a second Christmas to turn up, neatly packaged in a recycled Amazon box! Wowee! First out of the box was a mini mountain of sweets!  I squealed and immediately popped a toffee in my mouth. Delicious!  (Though i get the feeling they will have to be hidden away and rationed out, or the lovely Bearded Wonder will pinch the lot and i won't get a look in ;)  ) Next came th...