What a cutie!!

snowman

This is the snowman built today by my youngest daughter (16) and my two grandchildren (10 and 7).  Isn’t he cute?  He’s still there on our drive but his nose has fallen off.

Just wanted to prove that the snow is actually fun sometimes - although I know it’s caused a lot of problems and accidents too.  Mr 1st Unique had problems just getting off our driveway this morning - it slopes upwards to the road, and the car was going nowhere!!  Two passing binmen rescued him eventually and pushed the car for him!  The roads were treacherous today with snow and hail on top of ice and frozen snow/slush.  If you’ve managed to stay at home in front of the fire, you’ve done well!

And who was it who painted this?

let it snow plaque in gorgeous girly pink

Whoops, that’ll be me then.  Sorry!!!  Looks like we may get our white Christmas after all.  If you’re travelling to be with loved ones this Christmas, I hope your journey is safe and uneventful! 

Have a lovely Christmas!!

Happy Christmas

Hope you had a great Christmas.  I think I managed to remember everything vital in my last-minute shopping: everyone had enough to eat and drink, and everyone got at least one present!  Unfortunately something did have to give, and that was Christmas cards.  They definitely gave, and I didn’t (give any cards).  I hope people will forgive me.  Being made redundant and moving house at Christmas is not to be recommended, really.  Not to forget having an operation a couple of weeks ago.

The birthday girl managed to make it home from London for a couple of days (she arrived on Chritsmas Eve and returned Boxing Day).  Her birthday is Christmas Day. She usually travels by Megabus, being an impoverished law student by day and 24-hour-Sainsbury’s checkout girl by night (fortunately she doesn’t sleep much).   However, Boxing Day saw us shivering on a Manchester street awaiting a Megabus that didn’t arrive.  The National Express bus station opposite looked too warm and inviting to ignore for long, and less than an hour later, we were in there, booking a replacement bus ticket and drinking hot coffee.  Bliss.  A bus arrived on time, and she was able to board it with warm hands and feet, as well as a happily-caffeinated bloodstream.  She comes back for a week on the 5th January, when Sainsbury’s have decided thay can cope without her for a week, and had already pre-booked her Megabus return tickets.  Let’s hope the buses arrive.  On time would be a real bonus.

I have been spending the weekend stripping.  It was hard work, but it has to be done!  I have even persuaded my teenage daughter to strip for money. 

Wait and read on a little before you get indignant, thinking I have desperately taken up a very inappropriate new career and influenced my daughter in a most unmaternal and dreadfully negative way.

Maybe if we

Wallpaper everywhere but on the walls

 Last time the builder was at the house, I couldn’t help but get excited at the new gutters and fascias he’d put up.  I know, it is very sad, isn’t it?  Perhaps I need to get out more.  On the slight off-chance that you’ll understand even a tiny bit about how much difference a good gutter can make to a neglected house, here’s  a piccie:

What gorgeous gutters. Oh, it

Well, it’s more stripping for all of us here for at least the next week.  I will be glad to see the last of the wallpaper.  I will be painting all walls, and don’t intend to have a scrap of wallpaper in the house.  I always thought that putting paper on walls was a strange idea anyway.  Plain walls, and space for lovely pictures - that’s got to be the way to go!!