Something happened today that has left us all a bit speechless.
More next time xx

We’re glad you got home safely. Until next time xxx

We waved goodbye to Granma and Grampa just a few hours ago. Soon they will be on a plane on their way home, looking forward to their next time they can see their little grandbaby which will hopefully be in just a couple of short months. Except at the rate he’s growing at the moment he might not be that little for that much longer. Up to now we’ve been using a washing up bowl to keep him fresh and clean, but I think we might have to graduate to a proper baby bath in the next couple of weeks.

Now back to real life… laundry, vacuuming and getting the house back together. All after a cup of tea, of course. Hopefully it won’t take more than a couple of hours and then the fun can begin- DrMrNin is out this evening and it happens to be a particularly good telly night, so I’m going to have a date with the remote control and a big bowl of curry, squippee.

Granma and Grampa go home on Wednesday. We’re going to miss them, it’s been a lovely visit. Two lovely weeks together went slowly in some respects, but rather fast in others. Hopefully they will come back to visit us again soon. But before they go we will have a rather nice one more day.

Crocs are like little buoyancy aids for your feet! Well, it was interesting to me

Little update:
39 weeks today, but still no *news* to speak of. Apparently his head is nicely engaged though. Surely it can’t be that much longer…

Yes, that’s how cold it got over the weekend, and the countryside was turned into a winter wonderland of sparkling white

With frost thicker than the thickest frost I’ve ever EVER seen!

And me bundled up in my warmest hat and scarf, and some big thick gloves that I borrowed from my daddy xo

It was time once again for my favourite routine from home- the big charity sale that’s held in the grounds of one of the local country houses every month. I hasten to use the term ‘jumble sale’ as only one small section of it is designated to jumble. The rest of it is all sectioned up like a department store, from handbags, to books, ladies’ nearly new, shoes, sports and outdoors, curtains and drapery, menswear, kitchenware, haberdashery, toys…. you name it, there’s nothing you can’t buy (seriously)! Here are some people in the art section, choosing some new prints and paintings for their homes (lots of people donate their own artwork some of which isn’t bad). The nicer ones are kept inside the outbuilding, the lesser value stuff is all outside (just as well really, given the British weather).

And here’s the haberdashary section (albeit a smaller one than usual because of the weather) where I picked up some little knitting patterns (20p each) and two rather nice Debbie Bliss books (40p each). This is where I bought my bargain Rowan Kidsilk Haze a few months back.

In the summer months you can barely see the stand from here as the place is so crawling with people. I think the cold temperatures made a lot of people stay at home this time.

At this point I stopped taking pictures as my fingers had literally frozen solid from the cold and not even my daddy’s gloves could warm them up again. And the tea cabin was closed as the pipes had frozen up which meant that a coffee and gingernut were out of the question, so we all decided that it was time for us to head back too. So we huddled our prized purchases into our chests and shuffled back through the mist for warm cups of tea at home.