Hi all. I hope you've all benefitted from the rain we have had lately...the gardens certainly needed it.
This was the garden produce I gathered yesterday...there really is nothing like freshly picked fruit and veg so that always makes me smile.
Amy sent me this photo of Stephen this week ...he's all ready to go on a two night residential/activity with his school....I hope he's had a wonderful time and comes back with tales of all the exciting things he's done.
Last week I shared the flowers I was brought by one of my customers and this week I was brought this beautiful minature rose by another one....I feel so very blessed that they appreciate what I do like this. :-)
Our garden continues to make us smile...Yes it is lavendar Elizabeth, we have bushes of all colours and the insects and bees are really loving it at the mo.
Finally of course we have to have a few funnies. I hope something makes you smile and you will then leave me a little comment before sharing your own smiles by linking up below.
Well, thats another week passed and thankfully another week filled with smiles. We had a weekend away in our motor home so I must apologise to the ones I couldn't leave a comment on...the internet was hit and miss and my ipad wasn't allowing me to leave messages.
Here's my round up of smiles for this week....
Lexi is so flexable as you know. She is constantly showing us her latest dance moves and dropping into the splits. She is aiming to touch the back of her head with her feet in this photo because when I was a child I used to be able to touch the back of my head with the flat of my feet....it's been a while! As you can see she's very nearly there. 😍😍😍
While Lexi was at her dance workshop Sam had a 1:1 with his mum and he had a go at sewing a sock toy on her sewing machine...he loves to be creative. 😍😍😍
Phoebe is getting all she needs ready to start at her secondary school and very proudly showed me her new PINK calculater....she's very much a PINK girl' 😍😍😍
When checking on her list of what was needed her sister asked her if she needed the compass to find her way around the school. 😂😂😂
Amy's oldest dog Poppy has been being treated for a problem with her leg for a while now and had xrays taken which showed she had a problem with the cartilage in her one knee joint so this week she has had knee surgery done by a specialist from London.
Recovery has to be very controlled and will take months to heal properly but we are keeping everything crossed that it's successful for her...she's such a lovely dog.
Our garden continues to keep giving and this week we were able to pick the first peas and french beans and pull carrots for our tea.
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And finally here's the round up of our latest garden blooms....they just keep on giving and making us smile.
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That's all from me for this week so please leave me a little comment so I know you've called by and then link up to your own smiles below.
Hello to all my visitors. Now, more than ever we all need to looks for the smiles in our lives and share them with our friends. We need to check to make sure we are all coping and staying well in this difficult time and we must be very thankful for the technology of today for making this easy for us.
I have many smiles from my last week to share with you....
Our three children all check up on us daily and have been sharing some lovely photos from the activities they are filling their days with. Of course we are all missing the hugs and cuddles but we will get through it.....and just think of the catching up we will have to have then.
Amy's three have been doing a daily workout with Joe Wicks on Utube, baking, escapology and school work on the computer...they do like to make us smile.
The twins have also done some lovely baking and have been working out with Joe on U tube but, as you can see, they have also been doing some balloon modelling too.
Theo has enjoyed doing some exercises with Joe too and has also made a wonderful rocket with boxes, cardboard tubes and stickers etc plus has enjoyed water play on a builders tray in their kitchen.
As you can see all our grandchildren are adapting well to their home schooling and isolation....thankfully they are all well and easily amused.
This makes me smile a lot.
Our garden continues to give us a lot to smile about and we have had some really stunning blue skies lately to be thankful for.....even the first little forget-me-nots have started to open.
We have been planting seeds and are already being rewarded with [clockwise from top left] a courgette plant, 2 cucumber plants, the first little potato has started to shoot and just look at all those little tomato plants on the bottom left.
Even though the world around us is a little crazy right now nature carries on and hopefully when all this madness settles down we will have lots of rewards from the garden.
Finally, there are lots of folk putting pictures in their windows of rainbows to make others smile so I thought I'd add this one here and here's a link to the song. I have always sang this to my children so it's a firm favourite with me...I really hope it brightens your day too.
I really hope you are all coping well and most of all staying safe and well.
What a week it's been and it's been filled with smiles here so I shall share some of them with you....
Whilst away at Euro Disney last week Lexi challenged Micky Mouse to a dance off....I think Lexi won don't you?
Just wish I could!!
At the weekend, and before the children went back to school Amy, Dave and the children enjoyed a few days away in Anglesey....I really love seeing the three of them playing together and enjoying the freedom of a beach to themselves.
On Sunday we went for walk in the Dingle in Shrewsbury's Quarry Park....just look at those gorgeous flowers.
I love this photo of Milly...she's sat on the arm of the chair by me looking out of the window...probably for cats daring to walk past!
We pulled the first carrots and beetroot from our little raised veg garden at the weekend and I just had to share them with you....there's nothing quite like freshly pulled veg is there?
We had Theo for a full day on Tuesday so we went out for the day in our motor home for a day of adventures. Sadly the beach we were going to had been fenced off but we found a country park we could enjoy our picnic at and on the way back we found a garden centre with a play park and ice creams.....just perfect.
Before going back to school Phoebe, Lulu and Steve wanted to have a baking session to make treats to go in their sandwich boxes.....don't the results look yummy?
Each year Amy makes up a collage of back to school photos...oh how they have grown! It doesn't seem 5 mins since the first pic in the top left corner was taken when Phoebe started school and she goes to big school next September!!
Here's the back to school pic of the twins too...Year 3!! The years pass so quickly don't they?
There you go. I hope you've made it to the end this week. I had so many smiles I wanted to record on my blog for this week. I hope at least some of them made you smile too. I will probably not be able to post smiles next Friday, as we are off North on an adventure in the motor home, but trust me when I say I will have lots to smile about so will have two weeks of smiles to share with you the week after.
It's been another very busy week for me with work but there has still been time to find some smiles to share with you.....I hope you like my new header. It was a rose bought and named specially for me last year for my 60th birthday and it's such a pretty colour.
My shares today are....
A special moment between little Theo and his Grandad....they were playing peep through the holes in the side of the ball pit and laughing together....precious memories.
Steve has started kick boxing classes and is really loving it....I will say that the front teeth were missing before he went and not a result of going.
My new little greenhouse we bought at the weekend with...
3 different tomato plants
a cucumber plant
a chilli pepper plant
2 courgette plants and
3 runner bean plants
I'm rather excited at the prospect of having just a few fresh veg and although our garden is only small we have managed to find space for them all.
Yes the garden is only small but its full of colour at the mo.....these are just this weeks new blooms to share with you all.
That's all from me for this week folks. I wont be posting my smiles next week but hope to have many more smiles to share with you the following week.
Please leave me a little comment so I know you've called by and then share your own smiles by linking below.
