catching up -again!

Sunday 2nd August

When we were stripping off the wallpaper last time we decorated, we uncovered some writing on the wall done by some children in the early 1980s. So Nicholas (aged 5 at the time) wrote our details on the wall. So we uncovered it again this time! So sweet! Back to front letters and numbers, Nicholas aged 5 Lucy aged 2! (They are 20 and 17 now!!!) I took this picture for posterity because we are going to plaster over that now.









Saturday evening - Maurice reading the Advertiser that I posted a pic of the other day!






















Friday

Got caught in a traffic jam both ways driving to Chichester! I know I shouldn't be taking a pic while I am driving (!) but you can see that I am not moving - the speedometer shows 0!

Wednesday and Thursday

Thursday 30th July

My tomato plants have done quite well this year. I have 2 plants with small tomatoes on (Gardener's Delight) and these BIG tomatoes (can't remember the name of the variety atm. I love the raindrops glistening on the tomato skin!

Wednesday 29th July

Advertiser day. It gets deliverd each week. The only things I read are the job adverts (sadly very few just now) and the tide times! DH reads it from cover to cover, but then he is especially interested in house prices - not sure why!

Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday

Tuesday 28th July

I took my camera with me this morning on my dog walk to the beach. I was hoping for a better sky, but it was a bit overcast when we got there. Here's my favourite beach huts again!



















Monday 27th July
Here's the evidence for our wallpaper stripping this weekend! What an awful job! Hope it doesn't stay like this for too long! We are waiting on the plasterer now.



















Sunday 26th July
We usually go to the American car rally on the Sunday of the seafront fair. But we decided to go and see the bus rally on the seafront today. Lots of middle aged male bus geeks/nerds!!!
Here's a few Routemasters.














Saturday 25th July

It's seafront fair weekend in Worthing! We have a fun fair on the beach and a huge market all along the prom. Maurice and I love to go down there and soak up the atmosphere, and take a few pics! (We don't go on the rides though!!!)

Thursday and friday

Thursday

Mum came over and we worked hard in the garden all afternoon! She is a real slave driver! We did a general tidy up, and the garden is looking quite good - not too much colour from flowers, but lots of foliage colour and texture. However, this agapanthus has huge flowers, and I love it! I have a couple of different smaller varieties in pots, but they don't seem to want to flower this year.












Friday

We took Merlin up to Highdown this evening. This is the best photo I took, just look at the lovely colour in the long grass. Merlin is the little black blob(!) and that's my shadow!

woohoo I have a blog award! Thanks Lesley.

5 blogs that inspire me:

Jo's blog

Deb

Karen Russell

Minty Magic

Vicki

Thanks everyone for the inspiration to keep going with this project!

Wednesday 22nd July

I am progressing with my paper clutter! I bought a new shredder yesterday, but there are no spare plugs in the room I use as an office (too many computers!) so it is sitting just outside the door, with the idea that I dhred a few papers everytime I go past!

Tuesday 21st July

I have been having a bit of a spend up lately! (well I do have a new job!!) Not only have I bought all that fabric from Lewes at the weekend, but these 3 scrapbooking books, and a few new tops (my excuse for those is that I need something nice to wear to workLOL!)

I have looked at the Busy Scrapper and there are some good tips in there, and some super LOs. I have only flicked through the other two.