Summer holidays part 1

 

It's been a busy first week of Summer. 

We've started taking our puppy out on his first adventures. He's still very nervous of everything but hopefully his big brother will lend him some confidence. 

We've enjoyed a trip to our favourite Ice cream parlour, Carlos. They do fresh flavours each day and we managed to catch a while they had Mint Choc chip in stock. 

We foraged some elderberries locally which we then made into syrup and froze as ice cubes to battle coughs and colds in the winter. 

I'm hoping to find more elsewhere as the patch we discovered wasn't very large and I didn't want to deplete it. 

French Apple Cake was our first bake of Summer. We made two large cakes to enjoy as desserts and snacks. 

I've started a new book, a new knitting project (winter socks) and been munching on as many fresh cherries as I can get my fingers on. 

We've been to the library to enjoy some free crafts and do their always popular scavenger trail around the shelves. 

And We've been to the local park almost every day to play and stretch and let of steam. Mostly we have been going in the late afternoons when the weather cools off a little. It also helps tire small bodies out ready for bedtime nicely. 

I can't wait to see what week 2 holds for us.

X x x

A little peace and quiet

The children officially finish school tomorrow afternoon. Although the eldest finished a few weeks ago after completing her GCSE exams. 

I'm taking the time to enjoy the peace and quiet.

I recently started a new hobby where you make 3d scenes using stickers. I saw someone doing them on TikTok and it caught my eye. 

The idea is that you follow a guide picture and layer the stickers carefully over a plain background to copy it. Quite often the layers interact or overlap so it's not always as easy at it seems.

The kits to make them cost just a few pounds on Amazon so they make for some cheap and cute entertainment. 

 There's something about building the scene and arranging all the contents that scratches an itch in my brain. 

 Have you seen them before? Have you ever tried completing one?

 

Plastic pegs everywhere

 

 It's been such a long time since I posted! So much has happened I don't even know where to start 🤣

  So I'm going to start with a complaint about pegs. With all the beautiful and hot weather we've been having I've been washing anything I think will fit in my washing machine. I'd probably rip up the carpets and put them on a daily wash if I thought I'd get away with it. 🤣

  I did notice however my pegs were severely depleted and I needed more. That was even after I made new pegs from the graveyard of peg parts at the bottom of the peg bag. That's the great thing about wooden pegs. They are a standard size and shape so you can frankenstein spare pieces together to make new pegs. 

  It is really difficult to buy wooden pegs any more. I tried numerous local shops that I thought would carry clothes pegs only to find them all sold plastic ones 😡

 Plastic pegs are rubbish. They go brittle in the heat and cold. They snap in ways you can't repair. They are all slightly different shapes and styles so repair is even harder.  Give me a simple wooden peg any day! 

 That's not to mention the carbon footprint they must have from production, plus they don't breakdown like wooden ones do. I throw snapped wooden pieces into the compost bin. 

 

  Not having much success I even looked on Amazon for wooden pegs and found plenty but only at extortionate prices. Eventually I found some in a chemist. £1 for a packet of 36 pegs. Perfect. I bought 5 packets. 2 will be topping up the peg bag and 3 will be stored in the pantry for later. 

 Has anyone else noticed wooden pegs slowly disappearing from the shops? Next time you go have a peek and let me know if you find any.

X x X