Cosy or Cozy ? .........

I would just like to say a heartfelt thank you for all the lovely comments and messages that you left regarding my mam. My apologies if I haven't replied. Her passing was a shock to us all as she was at home and recovering nicely from her operations when she took ill.

One thing I would like to do in her memory is to continue to support the Macmillan Nurses which was mams favoured charity. With that in mind the lovely Julie has allowed me to sell some bunny egg cosy's ( or should that be cozy's ) with a percentage of the proceeds being donated to that charity.

If you are interested in any of the above you can find them here.  There were a few more but these have already sold and I'm also hoping to add more items too. I'll try to keep you updated.

Thank you so much again ...........

Mam ............

My mams favourite place was the beach , she liked nothing better than walking along the coast with my dad no matter what the weather was this is where she was happiest.

Rest In Peace mam............ there aren't enough words to say how much I love you and am going to miss you xxx

Can't Settle................

I can't settle today ..................

My mam has been in surgery for 6 hours , I'm at home with the boys but my dad is with her.

Just before Christmas we found out that her cancer had returned but this time it was in her lung luckily they found it in time and today it's getting removed.

So far I don't know exactly how much or what they have taken . I've just had a call to say that she is in recovery.

I can't settle .....................

It's Nearly Here.........

Spring that is .........................

Happy Place.....

As many of you are probably aware it was the RSPB's big garden birdwatch last weekend. I've never actually done it but really wanted to and not having a garden didn't help. So on Sunday afternoon I went down the park, all by myself  and went bird spotting. To be honest it was totally the wrong time of day and I hardly saw anything but I did thoroughly enjoy the peace and quiet and the blue skies.

The snowdrops were starting to come through and the snow had all but gone , it was hard to imagine that just days before everywhere was white and freezing cold.

Anyway, because I knew that the park is normally full of birds it made me all the more determined to go back and just see for myself what I had missed on the Sunday .

 This morning armed with feed and fat balls I set off, I knew roughly which area of the park I wanted to be in but when I got there it was too quiet , all the birds were singing but in other places and this was when I found it.

In the photo below if you look passed the odd shaped plant with lots of seed heads you can see a patch of what looks like old trees and undergrowth.  I somehow managed to get myself in amongst it all and found a clearing . In all my years of coming here , hundreds and hundreds of visits I have never ever been in this particular place and I can't believe I never took any photo's either.

I hung up my bits and pieces and took a few steps back standing perfectly still against an old tree trunk. Within minutes there were birds everywhere, so close , first to come were the great and blue tits closely followed by a pair of nuthatch and a treecreeper, a dunnock was hopping around my feet and a little Jenny wren kept flitting back and forth then came the robin and a pair of squirrels chasing each other up and down the tree trunks. It was funny to see the treecreepers chasing the tits away from the hangers and hanging upside down, I didn't know where to look or which bird to watch.

I was in the middle of two paths but it seemed as though I was perfectly hidden as none of the dog walkers even looked in my direction and I think that when the leaves are back it will be a perfect hiding place, which is probably why I've never found it before. I stood for about 45 minutes or so and could have stayed much longer if it weren't for the fact that my feet were starting to go numb.
Next time and there will most definitely be a next time I'll be taking some form of seat so I can stay much longer ......... I think I've found my happy place.

Did It Snow ? .......

 

Yes it did....Sorry for the slight overload of photo's but I just couldn't choose a few as they are all so beautiful.

As you can tell it did in fact snow the other night, not a lot but it was enough to make everyone happy.

At the minute walking is quite lethal as the ' snow' which is left is solid ice and very very slippy. That's the worst part of snow in my opinion, but we are forecast for more snow supposedly starting at 2am in the morning and carrying on over the weekend..... maybe we can go sledging if it happens!

Of Mice and Snow.......

Since Friday the weatherman has been warning us that snow was on its way, lots and lots of snow. So on Saturday we watched and we waited , on Sunday we watched and waited only to find the tiniest flakes fall for about an hour and then stop... it didn't even lie.
Monday they said, it will come on Monday.

So this morning I sort of sprang out of bed, pulled the curtains back expecting to see a world of white only to see .... nothing. The world of Instagram ( which I have just entered) was full of beautiful photo's of white fields and gardens and children wearing multi coloured wellies laughing and having fun building snowmen.

Disappointed we walked to school , the sky was golden with heavy clouds and the sun looked more like the moon and we just knew .... today it would snow.  It snowed whilst I was at work so I didn't see it and once again it didn't lie but the boys saw it from their classroom windows.

I've just taken Gabe to bed and we read Brambly Hedge a Winters Story where the little mice see snow for the first time. Just before I switched out the light we checked outside one last time .

The sky is pink and the snow is gently falling , big fat flakes leaving a white blanket on the ground .

Gabe snuggled down under the blankets with a huge smile on his face hopefully to dream of snow angels and four little mice called Wilfred, Teasel, Clover and Catkin .