Going, going, gone?

My blogging mojo has vanished, seem to have suddenly gone off the whole idea.
Don't worry, everything is OK here, I may be back sometime.

Sue

AWOL

Sorry for being AWOL, bit busy with visitors, the 8 week old one seems to take up a lot of time!


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Sue

A pretty sight, and NOT a pretty sight!

It might have been the Med today, even the grey old North Sea had a tinge of blue and not a cloud in the sky, but it was just Felixstowe with a lovely breeze keeping the temperature to a comfortable level.

This plump old whale waving (not drowning) is me in for a swim, Gawd knows why Col zoomed in so close! People with beach huts who are regular swimmers there say the sea is much warmer than usual for mid July.

Thanks for comments on the last blog post.
It's quite a few years since we went to Hay-on-Wye and some of the second-hand bookshops have disappeared. I noticed more shops selling new books along with the second-hand and now you have to pay 20p for the toilets too!


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Sue

We went away..........

..........for a few days and now we are home again.

We stayed here

 Visited here

We might have bought a book or two here and at some of the other bookshops in town

We went here too - Hereford Cathedral

 and saw this

We visited several of  the small towns in mid Powys and searched for a hovel in the hills, but didn't find one, but we did find that if you share the driving the journey seems much shorter and now I've driven on a motorway too.....Go Me!

Welcome to A Maine Homestead - a new follower.

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Sue

Make Do and Mend

What's your sewing box like?


Mine is a very old Mothercare baby box, found in a charity shop many, many years ago.

I had a small wooden cantilever sewing box before this, but it soon got full and untidy, so this is a much better idea.

 I've never made many clothes from scratch but I've always mended.
Several weeks ago someone mentioned their button-box, mine is a very old tin, bought from a scout jumble sale a long time ago, then some buttons were added from my late mum's button tin and some have been cut off old clothes that we've had. It's very full and rarely opened, buttons don't seem to feature much in the clothes we wear nowadays.
 I've got so many different colours of sewing thread and very few bought new, most have been found in car boot sales along with other odds and ends like the Woolworths Garter Elastic in the zip lock bag!
I've used the darning mushroom for darning socks too, back in the days when Col wore thick woolly  socks for work in winter.

Now the old hand-made quilt has been repaired, it needs a wash, but it's too big for a normal washing machine, I shall have to track down a launderette in Ipswich somewhere.

Many Thanks for comments on the last few posts

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Sue

Silly Me!

When we were at Addenbrookes hospital the other day I noticed this newspaper on the floor under a chair opposite

"Oh Look" I said " I didn't know they were doing a special newspaper for The Archers"

Col looks where I am pointing........ " ? "

Me "It's a paper for Ambridge, you know, where The Archers is set"

Col " CAMBRIDGE!"

Oh, so it is.
Collapse into hysterical laughter!

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Sue

PS Thanks for all the Knickers comments!  I missed a trick there .......should have used a catchy title to attract more readers, what would have John at Going Gently put as a title?!!

A favourite post from long ago in a different world! (and other stuff)

 Actually not that long ago but definitely a different lifestyle

 I was fiddling about on the Stats page recently, and discovered this  post has been looked at nearly 2000 times. I wondered what it was, and found again just how busy we were in the summer on the smallholding and campsite.
Missing it ...................................... just a bit, but mainly the raspberries!

[You can see it here]

We've not heard much about the new owners of the smallholding and campsite, no one locally (our old neighbours) has seen anything of them. We know they've moved the roadside stall to the campsite gateway and don't seem to be selling very much. But we heard today that they have put the campsite prices up so much that some of our regulars can't afford to go there anymore, what a shame.

In Aldi the other day I noticed they will have school uniforms in tomorrow. Poor children haven't even finished term for the summer holidays and the shops are wanting them, or their mums to plan for September. Flicking through the leaflet  I discovered a new word - skort - a skirt with hidden shorts. They would have been better for  P.E than we what we had to wear at Stowmarket Grammar School back in the 60's............Thick maroon knickers!!

Thank you for all the comments about doughnuts on the last post, I doubt the walk back pushing my bike up hill made up for the calories in the doughnuts, good job they are not a regular thing on my shopping list!

Whoops, I've forgotten to welcome Rosemary to the followers pictures, she has a blog called Where Five Valleys Meet, including some lovely photos, and I'm not sure if I've said hello to Jomum and Anne who are also new to following- I think.


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Sue