Wildlife

Yes, I caved and let Catkin outside after a week and since then we've had a live baby rabbit (who was very cute!), who Catkin dropped and then it hopped into my trainer to hide! I took it back outside in my trainer and released it again. Then yesterday and today, we have had shrews. Yesterdays didn't survive and the one today doesn't look too healthy, but I guess it's to be expected living in the countryside and keeping a cat.

Dad is still in hospital. He's now not going to the rehab centre, but is going to a rehab unit at another hospital, which is closer to his house. They're just waiting for a bed to become available, so hopefully it won't be too long now. I saw him yesterday and he seemed quite well.

Not any stitching to share, but I will share a few piccies. These are some gorgeous flowers my DB and SIL bought over last week, when we had a lovely walk out in the sunny weather and then they came back for some delicious homemade fishcakes!

This was the view we had on our lovely walk into town - I honestly believe there's no better walk into town anywhere else!

And this is one of the pretty poppies growing in my garden - I love them and have never seen any like it before.

Happy stitching everyone!

Frrrrrrosty!

It's been a bit nippy down here lately and last Saturday there was such a lovely layer of frost in the garden, that I took a few photos.

Everything looked so pretty as if it had been covered in icing sugar! It's been a bit milder this week but it's gonna rain pretty soon I think.

Thank you all for your lovely messages following my car accident. Would love to hug you all! My bruises are healing nicely now (had some nasty black ones for a while). I managed to find a little runaround car on Weds to get me mobile again and I pick it up next week after they've finished servicing it for me. I've been relying on friends, family and the bus to get about. I don't like travelling by bus as it makes me feel quite ill, but it's been very efficient in getting me to and from work.

I've also resigned from my old job. I leave in 2 weeks time on 30th Jan and start my new one straight after, on 2nd Feb. They asked me to start then as there's an induction scheduled for that day and half of the next, so it'll be good to get the induction done and out of the way and then crack on with the new job.

It was my sister's birthday yesterday, so we all went out for a delicious Italian meal last night on my BIL. I had tagliatelle with salmon which I really enjoyed and even managed to squeeze in some Italian ice cream for dessert. Have a good weekend folks ;o)

Well, Blogger has decided not to let me give this post a title. Poxy Blogger! It would have been 'Yippeeeeee! The camera is back.' I've now managed to get my hands on a memory card reader and can upload my piccies that way! So first of all, here is a brand new photo of Snow Princess:



I'm about a third of the way through the 6th page now.

Next my only photo from Wimbledon on Wednesday, showing the huge black clouds approaching Court 13 when we had a 2hr rain delay! We had a great day and apart from watching a few of the great doubles matches we also saw the Duke of Kent and Daley Thompson (Olympic Decathlete) wandering about!

Here are a few other photos that I've taken recently, first of all a piccie of Andy with my Bagpuss hot water bottle!

Awwwwwwwwwwwww! I snuggle up with Bagpuss during the cold winter months but sometimes Andy 'borrows' him!

And last but not least, a couple of photos of the Spinnaker Tower in Portsmouth when we visited just before my birthday in October last year:

It truly is an imposing structure! I haven't been to the top yet, but plan to one of these days.

It's the Men's finals today at Wimbledon. I can't believe how quickly my 2 weeks holiday has gone! Back to work tomorrow :o( I've also got an informal meeting at college tomorrow evening for my CPP course that starts in September. Work are paying for me to do this course, which lasts a year and will give me a recognised HR/Personnel qualification afterwards. It sounds like a lot of hard work though.... I only hope there'll still be a bit of time for stitching! ;o)