Cotswold Crafter

Good Morning Ladies,

I have another lovely new home card to share with you all today, this pretty card is from Margaret,
I love the colour and the little cat reminds me of our Milo, he is always at the window, mainly to make you feel bad when you leave the house. Hahahaha.
I really love the card Margaret thank you so much for making it for us. xxx

Now I have to apologise to all of you as I wrote and email on mobile phone, notifying you of our new address, frustratingly it never sent, our service is so poor, we seem to be in a internet and mobile black spot. I will attempt to send it again from the bungalow as we are still connected to the 'proper' internet over there!

Did any of you watch the 'Back in time for Tea' last night? what fantastic entertainment, really informative too, especially for our children.  Have any of you ever tried Tripe ? or any of the other recipes that they showed. The family holiday to Blackpool looked so much fun too, it must have been amazing to try things like Candy Floss for the first time. 
 The one thing that I loved the most about it was how the family spent so much time together, most of it spent around the kitchen table. Not like today where children disappear to their bedrooms to do their own thing. 
That's one thing with having rubbish internet, everyone gravitates to the lounge where the signal is strongest!  I do think its strange that these days you can live somewhere that is so poorly connected to the internet etc, the speed is too low for any of the big companies, so now 'Bigger, Better, Faster' service.  It doesn't bother me so much, I would prefer to sit and play board games all night, Sophie and Lucy are dependant on the internet for the A Level studies though.

I had a forced day of rest yesterday as I had a little accident, I spent Monday at the bungalow cleaning out cupboards, its getting a little tedious now but it becomes routine, not only cleaning the shelves but taking drawers out to clean the runners and underneath and back of the drawer, also in and around the hinges, its made worse because the cupboards are decades old. I just don't want any charges so don't want to cut any corners, this is why it takes so long.  Having the steam cleaner has helped loads I have to say.  Now onto my accident.....I felt so guilty that Paul is having to do so much so to save him some time I thought I would take down some curtains and blinds ready for the builders to start early yesterday morning.  So I pulled up the step ladder to the window and only went up two steps, what I didn't realise was that these new steps have a safety lock mechanism that I didn't know about, I hadn't locked it in place, so as i moved on the steps the whole thing slipped forward and collapsed sending me flying backwards, a work top broke my fall, I landed so that my tailbone area caught the edge of the work top.  I felt my body ceasing up as the day went on, it must have jolted the metal reconstruction in my pelvis and hip as that was where I was really feeling it later on in the day.
Paul was not best pleased and explained that he hadn't told me how to use the ladders as he didn't think it would cross my mind to even think about using them.  I wanted to get done so that we could have a night off together.  A day later i am struggling to sit anywhere and moving from place to place is a struggle, it feels like sciatica pain as I move.  I have learnt a valuable lesson though.  No more helping! Only low level light work from now on, roll on next week when it will all be over!

I hope that you all have a lovely day, it's trying to snow here, I bet it looks lovely out here in the countryside when its covered in a blanket of snow.

Love and hugs to all of you,

Sandra
xxxxxx