Bonfire Night

Hello everyone, well, it is November and my daughter and I have succumbed to the silly season of illness - both croaking and snuffling. 

Thankfully though we were both fine on Sunday evening when we went over to my bestest friend Sue's place to celebrate Bonfire Night.  She has a lovely big garden where we can light a big bonfire...

can you see the moon in the background just behind the apple tree?  Here is a blurred closeup of it...

 I love bonfires.  Staring into the flames and smelling the wood smoke, brings back so many memories.  Every Saturday afternoon in the Autumn and Winter my Dad would have a bonfire in our garden when I was little.  By the time it was dark, the fire would have burnt down to the embers, and he used to rake these so that the fire would go out - but for a few moments the embers would glow like stars - I thought this was magical as a small child. 

Sue had cooked up a storm, lots of yummy treats were provided...

and a fine array of fireworks assembled...

I love fireworks...

As more wood was added to the fire, the sparks went flying into the dark November sky...

More fireworks dazzled...

The moon re-appeared from behind the clouds...

And of course we had to have fun with sparklers...

 

Thank you Sue for another lovely Bonfire Night celebration.  Now hoping that me and DD are well enough to visit our local street fair with you tomorrow evening!

 

Helenxx





Midsummer's Day

Hello everyone - here we are on Midsummer's Day in the UK and the sun is actually shining!

After a long, hard week of illness and struggling into work, it is lovely to have time to just relax and enjoy the little things in life.

Blue skies, washing blowing on the line...

Kitchen window sill plants - much-used herbs (the mint is lovely in a tall glass of lemonade, with ice and slices of lime, just the thing to sooth me after another long bout of coughing...

My little aloe plant...

The promise of summer strawberries...

Hanging basket just starting to come into flower...

Beautiful Calla Lily bought as a get-well-soon present for me from my bestest friend...

These were an absolute bargain from the supermarket, three pots for £2.00....

Their perfume hits you when you arrive at the front door.  Love the perfection of each flower...

And the ghostly day-time, waning moon...

Hope you have a lovely weekend, apparently DH is firing up the BBQ later, looking forward to that!

Helenxx

When the Moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie....

That's Amore!

Good afternoon everyone - hope you are all well and having a great weekend.

Last night I was absolutely Moonstruck - in London with my DH.  It was all part of our Silver Wedding Anniversary celebrations.  The actual day was in February, we were in Granada in Spain, all organised by the lovely DH.

My gift to him was a day in London yesterday - all organised back in January. 

I will share more photos soon, as I saw a view of London usually reserved for folks on route in or out of Heathrow on a plane....

But last night, standing on the Millenium Bridge over the Thames I was indeed Moonstruck

What a view!

Back soon hopefully with more photos of a wonderful day out with a wonderful man.

Helenxx

slowly getting there.....

Good morning everyone, hope you are all well and enjoying the summer.

Seems ages since I was here - almost a whole moon ago.....

Im slowly getting back to normal after my run-in with The Dreaded Shingles, but it is taking a lot longer than I would like (me being quite an impatient person).

I have been truly blessed with all the good wishes and treats via swaps and giveaways from the lovely folks in blogland, and will be posting about these soon - thanks so much to all of you!

In the meantime I have been doing a few crafty things (just did not have the energy to then sit at the laptop and post about them, poor old thing that I am!!) these are some of my most recent makes:

I have sooooo loved making these - each heart represents a different phase of the moon. 

I made a lot of them, with many just displaying the crescent moon - these all went out as gifts:

The night sky fabric was a purchase from a patchwork shop called Heirs and Graces in Darley Dale, I bought it ages ago, just perfect for this project

Hope you all have a super Saturday, whatever it is you are doing!

Helenxxxx