Keeping the memories alive…
I saw my eldest son off to University on Saturday so it was a bit emotional for me but made much easier by the fact that he was looking forward to it enormously and settled in really well immediately. He’s gone to York to study Computer Science with Artificial Intelligence. We had a time slot to arrive in, between 9.30 and 12.30, I was tremendously impressed with how smoothly things ran, considering around 600 students …
Read moreFirstly, I’m not under any pressure, I rarely knit for others so it’s entirely up to me what I knit and when. It’s the deciding that’s the problem at the moment. I’m currently on the last leg of my Ishbel, I’ll get it beaded and finished by the weekend I think. I have a couple of summer tops OTN which have been around forever and are likely to be around for much longer before I …
Read moreSo, like I said, I’m a few weeks behind with my blog posts but I’ll try to catch up as best I can. This could make for a very long post so I’ll blog in stages to avoid boring you all to death in one sitting. You can die of boredom bit by bit instead! During the last week of July, Patrick and I had a weeks leave from work and we had planned to …
Read moreI’m several blog-posts behind and I will catch up soon I promise. I have lots to tell you and lots of pics to share. However today, I am a very proud mum. My eldest son Michael has his A Level results and achieved grade A in Maths, Further Maths and Physics, giving him the required points to be accepted at his first choice university. So, in October, he will be going away to study a …
Read moreMy little back-yard garden is coming along nicely, considering that I really don’t give it the attention it should have. I do water it most days but haven’t been overly active on the feeding side of things. I should really because my tomatoes and cucumbers are abundant with fruit just waiting to ripen. Whilst they were still very small, I thought they were not going to survive so I planted a second crop as back …
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