Chickens, Crochet, Creating and Cow Parsley

Hi guys :) 

 Have you had a nice week?

Mine has been mixed, I started it fighting with the washing line, as it was so ridiculously windy!!!

I kept getting slapped in the face! haha :)

Trying to make a break for it!

I went on a bus trip with some of the knit and natter group to a place called Royal Quays Outlet centre, i didn't have a penny to spend but it was enjoyable all the same, a lovely friend treated me to a few Latte's.

I felt awfully sick on the bus though :( I'm not great on buses, i get travel sick very quickly!

I finished my friends' shawl, terrible photo, i know, but i'd already given it to her before i noticed this picture was rubbish, haha :) 

We have oodles of cow parsley growing next to our back fence, so I've been going a bit wild! I have about 3 jam jars full in the living room

I found a very pretty teapot for £1.50!

And a little drying rack for 50p! When my herbs grow i'm going to use it to hang herbs from to dry :)

I attempted to make a tea cozy for the teapot - A disaster!

Can you tell what it is supposed to be? :D 

I sketched a chicken to hang on the hallway door

I attempted more embroidery, this time handkerchiefs.

The top right is The Bearded Wonders' (My hubby)with the ugly little penguin (he's obsessed) it is truly terrible but he wanted a penguin so that is what i made! He says it is cute but i don't believe a word he says.

The top left pink and bottom white are mine. The flowers aren't my work (i flaming wish!) i just added the monogram

Another that is mine, i'm starting to wish i had done a better S now, I'll probably change it eventually

The pictures look pretty weird, but the only way i could get the embroidery to show up properly was to scan them!

I bought leeks on Monday. They have sat under the counter until today when i remembered i wanted to make leek and potato soup. I went to chop them and discovered that they had gone brown on the inside! Yuck! :( So i improvised and made mixed veg soup and added a handful of rice to bulk it out instead.

I also attempted Irish soda bread.... but (in my usual fashion) i hadn't read the recipe right and added a WHOLE TABLESPOON of baking soda! Yuck yuck yuck! One (small, thankfully) taste and it went straight in the bin! 

Never again!

I hope that you will read this and take lesson from it- always read the recipe! Twice! Haha :D 

Long walks, Laundry, and Lambs

Hi guys :)

We had a VERY long walk yesterday, 10 miles as we had to walk there and back :( i've discovered aching muscles that i never knew i had! Ouch!

We took a break on a wall and saw these little sweeties! One was much closer but bounced away before i could whip my camera out. How rude!

The poor mother looks very bemused!

Re-reading a favourite book of mine :)

This morning i was gazing out of the window about to put out the washing as it was nice and windy, i went to get the washing and a huge rain cloud appeared and started hoying it down! That'll teach me to procrastinate!

So, robbed of my chance to do some drying i swept and re-arranged the living room, preparing for when our Uncle John comes to stay on Thursday :)

It looks rather a mess but i hadn't finished when i took this

I'm  now going to relax and do a bit more crocheting on a shawl i'm making for a friend at knit and natter :)

Where's the coffee?