CAKES GALLORE!

Well we had Laura's family birthday tea for her 21st on Thursday when she got back from uni,her birthday seems to be taking for ever!! She had a lovely cake with an air plane on the top made by Aaron's mum with a firework sparkler thing on it.... As I tried to light the candles on the other one I set fire to the tablecloth, but it was OK I did a little dance and shouted fire, while the uni one!!!! (Laura calmly blew it out) Just shows our money paying for her to go to uni is clearly not in vain  ha ha...

Then Pete and I took us and Mum and Dad, Steve, Laura and Aaron out for a meal at Manning's and My cousin Hayley from Cornwall Cupcake bouquets made a wonderful cake for the table, all in edible flower cup cakes, I think people were very envious of our table! Thanks Hayley it was stunning:) X

I hope and think the birthday is well and truly over now eh!! Steve's next birthday tea next Saturday with Auntie loud closely after!

I WAS ALSO 21!!

Ok stopping laughing and choking thats not nice.... ha ha... It was my birthday a few days ago, didn't really have time to sort anything really but did manage to get out and have a lunch in a lovely little restaurant so that was nice , and Pete bought me some play dough to make animals!!!! I know but if you knew our life and how busy we are right now you would understand!... But we had a few minutes last night to make the animals age 3 + on the box and here they are!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LAURA 21 TODAY!!!!!!

Laura is 21 today, and we certainly know it ha ha, Laura and her friends came back from uni for the weakend and we gave them a cottage to stay in and Pete and I made a cake for her.. a real grown up type of cake!!!!!. They had a great night out in Truro and a few days here before having to get back for a few lectures before she breaks up fir reading week. We are having a family doooo here on Thursday when she returns, nothing to extravagant as we have already paid for the taxi to and fro the night out and we have bought some nice jewellery for her to keep safe .... I hope!!!... Oh I sent a cary bouquet to her in chichester today, its sort of like a bouquet but where the flowers should be its ri09bbns 90and ... sorry that was surf going in there... the mental cat!...anyway as I was saying its ribbons and sweets...  I think I will sign out as Smurf is now eating my pencil case and trying to climb on my head!!!

NEW SEAT!

Ant and Andy are on a mission to create seats where ever they create a stone wall, as they know that I love seats, I think the fascination with seats is that I never get to sit down on one, but I have a thing about them,... I guess some people have shoes... I have seats ha ha.... This one you can't see very well here but is a seat and backrest with a raised side bit for my cuppa!! oh and I moved my banana seat up on the bank which is accessed up the new stone steps on the other side of this... I love all the quirks and craziness you can achieve with an older property, it makes a house a home I think

HEY NEW POST BOX!

I loved the post box Dad made and its served its purpose for 5 years, but I have always wanted one of these, never thought we would be able to have a place that would warrant one, but we came up with a plan for the entrance to denote the start of our house and that's where the post box came in.. I knew I could get it somehow... So it has our number on it and a slot for parcels and one for post. We have also had two small stone walls built to hang a gate on, not that it will be shut at all just looks nice!... And on the other wall we have had a plaque done with The Mill on it, I love it, I think it looks really cute, but in keeping with  the rustic nature of here. We put these up at the weekend, really love them, Hazel & Harold in Little Toms joked that we would have an arch soon with honeysuckle over the driveway and a sign up high!!!Actually now theres a thought... Only kidding won't go that far eh!!!

FRESH!!! -5 DEGREES TODAY!

Really lovely to see the sun today but it is -5 so it is really really cold, we broke all the water for the animals and then had to do it again within an hour, really hard to keep up with it, but you wouldn't think it was freezing as its not white here at all. The feed store was covered in icicles so was the trims of the car, not a very good picture but I think you can see them.

A RAT???

I heard a commotion the porch last night and knew it must be another cat or animal of sorts... Smurf one of our cats was crouching down and looking at the log basket.... as I moved the basket something jumped and I thought it was a rabbit... so got Pete to help me, but when I looked closer behind the basket it appeared to have a huge thick tail and a big humped body, so I said OH MY GOD get your boots one that thing must have massive teeth I think its a dirty big rat!... Not afraid of rats but we have had issues in the past with rats and teeth so didn't want to take any chances. SO Pete returned with a towel and boots on to catch the big bad rat, but when I pulled the basket out to catch it, it was a cute baby bunny and the long thick tail so I bought was a wiggly stick that he was sitting on.... I really must get my eyes tested what a plonker!!!

ANOTHER PICKLE!

Today is like every other day in our life at the mo, going from manic to super manic in a matter of seconds, we don't run about we fly at lightening speed it seems, always tired and confused by mid day !!!... Today was funny, we had a glass guy booked in to measure the office window to replace, my office that is ...in the house....I had a few quick turn around with one thing and another only venturing home for minutes at a time, so left the chap to turn up and leave him in pets capable hands...choke choke!!... I went through what needed to be measured and all was well when I left... when i returned on one of my fleeting visits I saw the chap measuring pets office window??? confused??? so I asked what was going on and the chap said Pete had told him the saga of Sweden messing up the doors and we were waiting for the glass....and he couldn't get the seals off properly to have a good look...So I stopped him right there... I said you are supposed to measuring my office not Pete's!!!.... Suddenly it all dawned on Pete and he went a bit red and white at the same time and said OOOOOHHHH Yeah I forgot what you said but heard office!!!! So luckily in my 7 minutes I caught him just in time to sort, what a bit of luck and maybe a brief visit to the special hospital for PETE?????? God knows what the bloke thought, it must think we never talk to each other!!!

THIS IS WHATS IT LIKE MARRIED TO AN ARCHITECT!!

You all know we are renovating the mill and working all hours at the moment as we have now accepted an  offer on the farmhouse and really hoping it goes well, but the pressure is on, as we will be roughing it at this rate if our buyers sell their house quickly we will be camping in our garden! Don't worry all your holidays will be wonderful and safe and under control, we just might turn up for breakfast ha ha only kidding!... Well as I was saying, we are working all hours at present and I thought I would stop earlier tonight for a soak in the bath as I am aching all over, and then a mad person entered by bath as I was soaking away minding my own business....It was Pete with a ruddy tape measure, I couldn't believe my eyes, he was actually measuring our current bath whilst I was in it! to go and look online for another one for the Mill.... Now I might not be the smartest cookie in the box, but even I know thats odd!!!!!! Is nothing sacred here!... Good job I didn't need any other facilities eh!

MY BUTTERFLY

This is really weird, I have this butterfly that always visits us when we are working and its really tame, it was there all the time we were building the office and is like a pet, I know they don't live long, but why is it always here, its really odd, she seems really interested in all the alterations tho, nice to have around, and so tame.