Still packing and finding things I haven't seen for years, I cannot believe I have kept so much stuff (rubbish), we have supplied the charity shops with enough for the next 12 months. We have a date now, 3rd May honestly house moving in the UK is a real pain so long winded, I am cleaning each room as we empty it and then closing the door on it, I don't know what Jude is going to do when we move the first thing he does when he arrives here is point at the stairs and gallops up them with Granddad in hot pursuit, little Freddie is growing quickly and looks beautiful.
My garden is looking very pretty with loads of wild primroses and violets out, they seem to have spread all over I will of course dig some clumps up to take with us, Oh well back to work packing those boxes.

Sorry I am not blogging at the moment but we are busy packing up the house for the move to the bungalow, we are signing contracts tomorrow, hopefully it will move quickly after that.

Two Lovely Boys

Here are our two lovely grandchildred Jude and Freddie, they are so beautiful, if I sound like a doting Grandmother it's because I am.
We are still sitting looking out at snow which is really beginning to get annoying,, I phone Kathleen every morning and we moan about the snow we have beecome obsessed with snow.
It is quite frustrating for me at the moment because I want to buy new garden plants and because I don't know exactly when we are moving I can't, Tony did go and get Kathleen and me a Bramley Apple tree the other day which is potted ready to move with us but usually I am haunting the garden centre's at this time of year, never mind I must possess my soul in patience.

WARNING!!!!!!!!!

There is a rogue e.mail on the rounds,it is supposed to be from my friend Kathleen Solomi (cottonreel) and she is supposed to be stranded in the Phillipines and wants money please ignore the e.mail it is a scam, Cottonreel is very upset and she is having trouble getting on to blogger.

I have just started to read this book and I am finding it really interesting, it's  about a young Quaker girl travelling to America from Dorset and trying to settle into a new Quaker community in Pennsylvania and learning about the runaway slaves, there is a lot of information about quilts and quilting and Tracy Chevalier actually made a quilt so that she would be know first hand what it was like. I am sure it will go on to include the Underground Railway which was a way of helping slaves to escape, I am sure that if you enjoy quilting you will enjoy this book.

Yes! it is snowing here again today and it is so cold I don't want to move, trhe poor Primroses are covered again but bless them they keep on bravely blooming giving my garden a little bit of colour.
Tony and I are off to Birmingham tonight to see Alfie Boe in concert at the NIA we are looking forward to that even though the snow is supposed to get really heavy b y teatime, we will take blankets and shovels just in case.
I phoned Kathleen this morning, she hates the snow, we had a good chat and both felt better for it. I am making Freddie a quilt and I am as handquilting another full size quilt so busy  on the sewing front, we will need all these quilts if this weather keeps up.
We have started to think about holidays and we seem to have settled on New York for a week and then a couple of weeks in West Virginia it looks beautiful,

 

Hello everybody, I am struggling to do much posting at the moment, there is a lot of illness about, Tony's Dad is in hospital but hopefully he will be home tomorrow, Kate has had Mastitis and we have been helping her with the babies and there is a nasty throat bug about too which also gives you an eye infection at the end of it, not a good time and the weather is not helping, "where is the spring"? we have primroses out which keep getting snowed on the daffodils are trying to bloom but are not quite making it yet.
We are starting to get rid of some of our stuff ready for the move into the bungalow, slowly but surely. I have some large plastic boxes ready to start filling with my sewing room stuff.
The quilt you can see is one I am hand quilting at the moment, it is a Hexagon pattern and it is made from all Tilda fabrics, I love it! this is a keeper.