XMAS LUNCH PREP!

I managed to con pete into helping me, He offered to prep the sprouts and I kept him going with the old "oh can you just do one more thing please?" it was a lot quick with two of us, don't think pete twigged that he will have to eat all those veg the next day, even the baby corn which we have "corn gate" saga most sunday lunches as laura loves it and pete doesn't and will do anything to avoid it ha ha. Then I prepared the table, I think it looks really Xmassy even if I do say so myself! I'd like to eat here!

CATS WAITING FOR SANTA

I think the cats are on the ball, if they sit on the santa suits then santa won't forget them and their presents will magically arrive! They weren't moving anyhow, there for the duration it seemed!

MOLLY DOLLY

Gem, Lucky and Shadows cousin Molly Dolly the Shitzu (is that how you spell it??) well one of those…. had her new jumper on and posed for her picture, she seems very proud of her jumper, that doesn't make her look like a colourful sausage to shadow at all!! ha ha No very nice molly you look lovely, don't listen to them!

XMAS EVE

Well Xmas eve arrived and we had a very busy day, we always put on food and drink for family and work cooking for a few days before!… always dress up as santa, my santa suit shrunk this year so had to ensure black shorts under! Don't want to be putting people off my food now!…Caught pete int he act of pinching food before people arrived and then I seem to have been snapped having a sneaky cuppa! I did try to surf on the worktop but I think i need to hone my skills! But I think I may have won the "how far can you skid in your socks on the kitchen floor" laura may dispute this,but she had an unfair advantage of fluffy socks!

LANDSLIPS

Yes plural, landslips, we have had a few and this is a picture of one of them, we have moved tons of earth by hand day after day that's why my blog is behind…well partly… just as we thought we had cleared it and opened the drive again another one fell, we just have to think carefully about how we secure it and the bridge as the earth is like sand really difficult to secure….after being out there in the rain digging soggy earth I was glad that the next one happened as I was preparing Xmas food, so Pete had to move it on his own in the rain!… sorry Pete but had stuff in oven! I was very relieved but didn't like to say!

DOGS GET TARTED UP FOR XMAS!

 The dogs had a wash and blow-dry ready for Xmas, Abby was too busy but Fran did them for us this time, and they came home looking like little Xmas presents, they were very impressed with their tinsel! Gem took it a bit too far and started posing for the camera, tilting her head in all directions for me to take pictures like a little model!!!! AH Gem you've not lost your touch girl even at 11 years old! Just distinguished grey instead of black, alas it happens to us all, thank god for hair dye ha ha

MEET LARRY!

Larry is our new well "old" land rover. Once I swapped my truck for the lovely merc we had no 4 x 4 and think we need one really plus be handy for the dogs instead of trying to squish them in the volvo. We picked Larry up really cheap, he is older but he looks quite good really and perfect for what we want, we have collapsed the back seats and put a rubber mat in there its a bit like a van but the dogs can see out and the back window opens, they love it. Just hope it keeps going ok…. SO Larry it is he has arrived at The Mill!

MORNINGS!

I bet your mornings are get up in a calm fashion, go make a cuppa, shower , get dressed all in a nice normal way…. Well ours is get woken up by the cats haring round like loonies, jump out of bed because we hear a squeak of a mouse in trouble, dive around the kitchen floor in our PJ's trying to save the mouse from jaws of doom, whilst mousey has no idea we are his friends and gets his gnashers out!…. this one got up the curtain, I tried to get him out only for him to jump on my head, run down my back and under the kitchen sofa. Pete has one side covered I do the other and finally we catch mouse and relate him outside, then looking like some kind of morning monster sit on the floor out of puff desperate for a coffee…. Now which morning would you prefer……EXACTLY!

LOVELY SUNRISE

We had some beautiful sunrises in December, here is one of them. I juts love waking up and waiting for the colours to arrive… We wake up at stupid'o'clock so we have to wait and see what colours the morning will greet us with.

BIT LATE!

Its a bit late to update the blog as 2014 has started, but bear with me while I enter the stuff that should have gone on in December, but it was so hectic I didn't have time to think!