what's in a name

 the name of my blog became the name of my lifestyle 😂

In my winter garden

This and that Friday

I love this time of year that the children can be outside nearly all day

I am sure there is enough room for me

Recently I have started taking pottery class  these birds are a few of my efforts

My spice spoons

In the garden

 A little bit of history

 Christmas 2017

Sean the dog and RoryWhisker's it was Sean's 12th  birthday

Penny Squeaker

Amy Pond

Honey Bunny

The family has grown we also have two more guineapigs  two boys Hunky and Dorry  which reminds me time to feed them all .😊🔆

A lovely sunset

After a day with the babies  just sit back and watch the sunset.

Hello blog I have missed you so much its funny when you look back to the last time I wrote on you I thought it was only a few months ago not a few years.

well the most exciting news is I am now a nana to beautiful little girl who is growing up so quickly she is already one years old and as you might guess love her to the moon and back. My eldest son has just got his Masters my next son is doing his national service in the navy a few months and he will finish that and the youngest is still at school starting his exams.    

My vegetable patch 

A view from the kitchen door then

and now

And still enjoy taking photos

evening spent with friends in a Yurt

Yurt

 But what I was really interested in was the sawdust toilet the Composting_toilet how easy it was to use and how pretty it was 

love these stones

Around the garden

So quiet .....

Rain fall

The oven is wet

Had a lovely day out at the oven waterfall

Red scarf in the morning

When all about you

If

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too:
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream---and not make dreams your master;
If you can think---and not make thoughts your aim,
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same:.
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build'em up with worn-out tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings,
And never breathe a word about your loss:
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings---nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much:
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And---which is more---you'll be a Man, my son! 

Rudyard Kipling

A nice day out (is that a drome I hear)

Well its been a busy week of fun,worry, sadness,laughter and  a busy week working

I have a love hate about exercise and I must be really clever

Every time I exercised I love it, but I hate it now that after my surgery I have to slow down. But I love the idea of washing my mouth out with chocolate.

Happy 2015 everyone

Enjoying the flowers