When its too hot...........

Just relaaaaaaaax!

A Sugar Dusted Happy New Year!

Happy New Year everyone! May you be healthy and happy hearted.

Well we certainly had a white Christmas! Robert took this photo almost at the end of our garden while I was still slumbering in bed. Robert is the one who lets the chickens out in the morning! To the right of the fence is the chickens area of our garden. They are NOT impressed with the snow! No grass to peck at :(

My decorations will come down maybe tomorrow. I feel heavy hearted about it, as I so miss the twinkly cosiness of it all at Christmas. Rooms always look so bare.

I buy new decorations each year to add our tree, it's a slight addiction I think! I left the red off this year as we finished decorating the room Christmas Eve (!) and I felt just the gold would suit the room better.

These were my new additions to our tree. They are meant for light fittings and are made of cut glass.

They create rainbows on the walls when the sun catches them. Truly beautiful. I shall have to wait a whole year to see then again. Sigh.

On the bear front I'm planning to make some minis! Something I can sit and do in the evenings. I've a couple of ideas bouncing around in my head at the moment. For a while now I've been wanting to re-do my website. I shall have to put my thinking cap on for that one.

Anyway, once again, HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Too cute!

I'm having a problem wih uploading images, due to computer internet problems! But.....I think this video could be better than what I was trying to post anyway!

Hugs, Sarah x

Still here

I can't believe I've been absent from blogging for over a month, or I can believe it. The jury's out on that one. My blogging came to a halt when our much loved Ellie died (pictured above) at the age of 12. I think my blogging stopped because I felt I needed to mention it, but it hurt too much to even begin to write a post about it. My wounds are healing but it still makes me so sad when I think of her. Ellie was the one we thought we would have for many more years. She was a wonderful cat and never any trouble. She would now and again give you an impromptu face wash when you picked her up. She would chase sticks, leaves etc, round and round in the garden as you wiggled them, until she made herself giddy. She lays next to Lily in the garden and shares Lily's garden light. I'm sure Lily wouldn't mind one bit.

Long absent hugs, Sarah x

Rewired

Well, I came through the house rewiring just about sane. There's that much dust about, I'm expecting to find some in my navel some time soon.

When every room needs a good clean top to bottom, it's hard to make a start. Pass the jump leads over here please.

The silver linning to the rewiring means we can at least make a start at decorating. Though my mind is on the garden, mostly due to the glorious weather we are having. Did someone press a button to start summer? Though knowing the British weather we could have a hard frost next week and be told to protect our tender perenials. Anyhoo must stay positive. Summer is here (in Spring).

For a far more prettier photo that a room in chaos, here is our Monty.

Right, I'm off for a bite to eat, then some housework. Hmph.

Hugs, Sarah x

Farewell my lovely

We woke to an incredibly sad day Sunday. Lily, one of our most precious of cats had died in the night at the age of seventeen.

She was boney and deaf due to old age, but still had the most willing of purrs. You only had to smile at her to set her off.

Outwardly I may seem fine, but I still have that lump of sadness within me. I'm still teary, but keep looking back at what a wonderful cat she was.

Lily had come to us a sickly and feral kitten. A week after we had got her my Dad died suddenly. She helped me through it. My focus went on her. The vet was doubtful she would make it. She was riddled with cat flu and ear mites. I remember studying her nose one day and discovering it was actually pink not black. It was covered in solid dirt.

When she was younger she would cuddle up in bed with you, head on the pillow beside you purring. She would sleep in the bed just like us humans, head and front paws on the pillow with the rest of her down under the covers. She even got to know the word 'bedtime' and would dash upstairs ahead of anyone who was retiring for the night. She also knew the word 'birdies' and would fly to the window to watch the birds devouring what had been put out for them.

I'm biased I know, but she was so very special.

There's a light on her grave the comes on when it gets dark. I like to look out and know she's there sleeping.

Farewell Lily my lovely, I'll always miss you.

Sarah x

Ear, ear

Our Alfie goes into the vets tomorrow to have his Aural Haematoma deflated. In laymans terms he is going to have a large blood clot drained (icky). Pardon me if you are eating. Apparently, a blood vessel ruptures. Pardon me again if you are eating.

He's thoroughly fed up now. His ear is heavy and is sticking out at a right angle, rather than upright. It kind of looks like I've been using a bicycle pump on it. In the first photo, he just looks perplexed, but his left ear, as you look at it, should look like the one on the right. It's much lower down now than the photo shows. He even hates me breathing near it. I shall do a lot of staring out of windows tomorrow (Friday), waiting for his return when his daddy (oops, sorry, Robert) brings him home.

Lots of extra love and treats I see on the cards..............

Goodbye 2007 - welcome 2008

'Let some of the tranquility of the cat curl into me.'

~ David Rowbotham, 'The Creature in the Chair'