Tired, sleepy

Had a great weekend, Saturday we went shopping for a new dining table. Finally found one we both like.

Sunday we went for a mooch round Maldon. Then on to the rose and crown for our free meal.  Had a complaint last year and they sent us a voucher.

Im now on week 4 of my new sleeping routine to try and reset my internal clock.
5 days on sleeping pills, 2 days off.

Not going to well, was awake till 4 am.  My days off are awful. But im back at the Drs on friday to get my xray results for my knee. So hopefully she will have another suggestion.

Grey, windy Maldon

February and an update of life

Today is the 1st of Feb where did January go?

Well we left the EU last night, so now another year of  discussion. Will this ever end?

As its a Saturday a bit of cooking going on. Chicken stew and beef stew.
trying to be consious of not throwing food away this year.

Lots of things have happened since my last post in 2013.
All the obvious, Weddings, new babys, divorce, death, college, university and big birthdays.

But im not dwelling on the past. the future is were we are now.  And our household will change.

My last munchkin will be flying the nest to house share for his second year at uni.

This will leave me and hubby alone for the first time ever...apart from the odd holiday. 

To explain...I met my hubby around 1982/3..he was a loud gobby londoner.  He was ok, but me coming from a tiny essex village it was all to much.  We sort of dated but nothing serious, my nan then died and i sort of went of the rails.  I went out with far to many men. Anyway this resulted in a pregnacy, the father didnt want to know. I was fine with that i was prepared to cope on my own.  At this time i belonged to a club, went to a new years eve party and who was there but hubby to be.  So there i am 5 months pregnant....and there he was and he has been my rock ever since. 
The weekend i was due, i get a phone call...."She doesnt want the kids anymore, Im at my mums"  He had been visiting his 2 children.  So having gone from no children to suddenly we were a family of 3.  We finally married in 1988, had 2 more children. So its been a full household.

Should also say he had a massive car crash in 2000, that put a tremedous amount of strain on our marriage, just to say he's not the man i married.

So we have never lived together alone, how is it going to pan out i wonder?
The last couple of years we have been taking weekends away, but on our major holidays there has always been 4 of us.

So to prepare for the departure of munchkin 5, we have started going to on sort of dates.  Pictures and dinner, that sort of thing. Got a holiday booked for halfterm week, i work in a primary school so all hols have to been peak holiday time.

Really should be enjoying my retirement, but of course the government moved the goal posts.

So the next chapter of our lives begin, what will unfold, who knows???  W

Watch this space.......

Spring

                                                                   
                                                                        SPRING

Spring is springing but we havent had winter yet. Snowdrops are out, daffs all coming through and our memorial helebore is just flowering.

forgotten blog

Well, totally forgotten i had a blog.

Started in in 2013  

So should i restart, now thats the question.

I am coming into a new chapter in my life so perhaps i should.

Last day at home, back to work tomorrow. So ive done some cooking this morning. I have been buying the new magazine Something Sweet, which i was hoping was going to be about just making sweets. But it also includes cakes...so i made some strawberry and white chocolate cup cakes and decorated them using a lace stencil. Never used a lace stencil before. I used food colouring to paint over as i hadn't got any powder, which is what the magazine used. Also used a hydrangea mould from a previous magazine.

Also made some flapjacks, found a website that sells food cheaply..www.approvedfood.co.uk  3 boxes of sainsbury's flapjack mix for 99p   These were dated dec 13.....as it was only oats and dried fruits i thought it would be pretty safe.

( Approved Food is the largest online retailer of short dated and residual stock food and drinks. .

The majority of our stock is short-dated or past its best before date we are able to buy in large 

 quantities and pass considerable savings on to our customers)

Crafty Creatives box 20....this months box is silk painting....sorry to say this will be my last box, apart from the specials. As i said last month the format has changed and i can really justify nearly £20 for something i will proberly only use once. Anyway here it is......

 Inside the box were 2 pre-printed silk squares

A larger piece of silk, 4 paints and backing paper

 Instructions

A leaflet advertising the one of spring box, which i have ordered
and the important notice that the next box will more expensive, ( the last 2 boxes i have had at the previous price as i was an existing customer)

  Salt...to sprinkle over the wet paint for a different effect.

And one of the finished silk's.

Our road during the ongoing floods, luckily we are above road level so we are lucky.