What has Happened to our Summers

Does anyone else remember summers the same as I do, when I was a child I know I spent every day outside during the summer and it was always HOT! my Mum used to pack us sandwiches and a bottle of water and we would go miles and picnic in a field and pick wild flowers and scrump apples and come home hours later dirty, tired and happy after having had a good day and this seemed to be every day. Where I lived in Worcestershire we had a Lido and park and my Mum scrimped and saved to buy us season tickets so that we could swim in the Lido pool every day, we were as brown as berries and totally happy. I can remember the evenings when it was so warm my Mum and Dad would sit outside chatting with the neighbours because it was too hot to go to bed and I can remember dangling my legs out of the covers because it was so hot. What happened to that lovely weather? here we are in the middle of June and its cold and wet and miserable I cannot remember the last time we had a good summer we seem to have an odd day here and there and then it gets cold again I would really love a long hot summer, does anyone else have these memories?

Good Morning, I have just been readinghttp://www.elefantz.com/ Jenny's blog she has some exciting things happening she is producing a monthly magazine which will have three patterns and lovely recipe's Jenny's patterns are always worth having she designs some lovely stuff, she is also producing a free newsletter, all you have to do is sign up and you will receive her very informative newsletter. I have been a fan of Jenny's for a while she is a lovely lady whose life revolves around her familyshe is also a giver and loves to share with people. Pop along and check out the lovely things she does, there is a scrumptious recipe for Blackberry Swirls that I am sure you would all love.

I have my computer back.

What a few days I have had with this computer, it was getting slower and slower and all sorts of funny messages were flashing on screen and eventually all I could get was a black screen and something flashing saying 'Hard Drive Fail' which sounds terminal. My lovely Tony took it to work and the brilliant Declan sorted me out and so my computer is now better.. I have been to Kathleens today and we have been tidying her Garage which is where she has all her fabrics and sewing table and lots of other things that she has gathered over the years so we cleared a lot of the stuff we had a pile for the Tip and another for the charity shop. I took a load to the Tip and my car is now full ready for our next visit to the charity shop. Kathleen made fresh cheese scones which we sampled with our morning coffee they were delicious so a lot was achieved today and there is now room to move around the garage. Our house is not moving yet I think it is going to be a long job.

I think I know what I'm doing

Thank you to all of you who tried to help me with my blogger problem, I did as Mildred said and unchecked the stay signed in box and then it allowed me to leave a comment but, I still don't understand why these profile things have suddenly started appearing, am I being thick?

Problems

Can anyone tell me why I cannot leave comments on some of the blogs? I write out my comment and then when I try to leave the comment I am asked for a profile and then when I sign in nothing happens. Can anyone help?

Kate Moves House.

Hello everybody, we had a very busy day yesterday helping Kate and Steve move into their new house, it was a very hot day and we drank lots of water. Their new house is lovey it;s Gorgian and is three stories high The front room has the original cast iron fireplace with beautiful green tiles at the sides. there is also a small cast iron fireplace in each of the bedrooms on the second floor which are lovely, the top floor is one big bedroom and it is very pretty, their are lots of quirky little storage cupboards all over the house, we left the at about 7pm we were very tired by then it nearly killed me going up two flights of very steep stairs every few minutes. The garden is small and will be very pretty when they have time to get to it, there are boxes all over the place but the bed is up they have a settee to sit on and the tele works, the kitchen has most of it's goods unpacked and put into the cupboards so now they can unpack slowly as they need things. I have put on some photo's of my roses the top one is Albertine I only planted it last year and it has grown a lot and has lots of buds but this is the first full flower, the next one down is a pink rose we have had for years but I dont's know what its called, the little orange one smells like peaches and the yellow one is a lovely climber which gives you loads of flowers after the yellow one and before the red one is Silver wedding which was bought for us on that occasion and is another one that blooms and blooms, the red one is Ena Harkness she smells beautiful the very last one is called Penny Lane and grows over and arch with yellow Honeysuckle. so we have an abundance of lovely roses this year and I love them all.

Our House is Up For Sale

Sorry I have'nt posted for a while but this time of year is quite busy for me and has been made busier because of getting the house ready for sale and keeping it that way in case someone wants to look around. We have'nt found anywhere that we want to move to yet as things seem very quiet over here in the housing market but we are not in a desperate hurry.

Kate and Steve came for dinner yesterday, they are looking well and happy and it is always lovely to catch up with all their news and I love to cuddle my girl too.

The weather here has turned quite cold and very windy, not pleasant!Kathleen and I have been busy cutting up shirts for some quilts we have quite a lot they are all 100% cotton and we bought them from charity shops there are some lovely colours and we will mix in some floral fabrics to give them a zing, we spend many happy hours in Kathleens garage cutting, ironing (Kathleens ironing board in the garage has a wonky leg which kept attacking me) we went to buy a new board and things are easier now, we have a line strung across the garage with loads of these strips in all colours we will show you the quilts when they are done.

I am going to do some sewing now I have lots to do, speak to you soon.