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Best Friends and a Lovely Lady

I missed out on doing the Soartful Challenge last week what with being away in Newcastle and then away to London during the week. So I'm playing catch up!

This image of 'Man's Best Friend' was last week's challenge.

I thought I would combine Man's best friend with A Girl's best friend - those lovely rocks!

Digital papers and elements by Digitreats, Ellie Lash and Pineapple Plantation Designs.

This week the title is 'Lovely' and we have this pretty lady to work with.

A bit of jiggery pokery with PSE and and we have this lady who is Lovely as a Rose.
Digital Papers & Elements by PTon Designs, Sugarplum Paperie, LLiella and Flergs.

Worst Flood in memory!

We have had one of the worst floods in memory, not just my memory or my DH's, but also the worst my MIL can remember and she is 85! I didn't see all the rain, apparently 4 inches in 24 hours, because I was in London at a conference. I did suffer from it though as my train north from Euston station was going to be halted at Preston, so I had to go to Kings Cross and get the Newcastle train. Yes, I was back in Newcastle last night! I got a connection to Carlisle from there and DH collected me from the station.
This morning we are pretty much cut off. DH went to work in the tractor and it took him an hour and half, because of all the detours and back roads he had to take to do what would normally be a 10 minute journey. The college where I work had it's boiler room flooded yesterday so it is closed and I am working from home, I couldn't have got in to work anyway. Only so much I can do as I don't have my files here.

Here is the Cheese Factory where DH works, looks like it is marooned in the middle of an ocean!


This last picture is taken from beside the house, that pond only appears when there is a flood and this time it stretches nearly to the fence of the next field. Fortunately, the house sits a bit higher than the water level. We have heard that some people in the village have had their houses flooded.

Over the Top Award

Many thanks to Gez for this award, I do like to be a bit 'Over the Top'

1. Where is your cell phone? At the moment it is charging on the dresser downstairs, usually in my handbag.

2. Your hair? I am blessed with very thick slightly wavy hair which my hairdresser tells me will do whatever she wants it too. It doesn’t always behave for me though.

3. Your mother? Is a fabulous inspiration, looks 10 years younger than she is, a talented cook and artist.

4. Your father? Died 5 years ago, he was a huge influence on my life and it is from him that I get my confidence.

5. Your favourite food? Oh dear that is hard, I love food all sorts of food. In a restaurant I would nearly always choose seafood, so perhaps a seafood platter with lots of prawns, lobster, mussels and scallops.

6. Your dream last night? I had a very strange dream last night. I dreamt I drank a bottle of Coke, I don’t really like Coke, then I dreamt that someone called out ‘Elizabeth’ and that was my name lol!

7. Your favourite drink? Coffee, I recently gave up alcohol for a month but would find it much more difficult to give up coffee.

8. Your dream/goal? Hmm not sure about that, depends on what which aspect of my life I am talking about.

9. What room are you in? Our upstairs living room.

10. Your hobby? Hobbies....card-making, cooking, blogging, photography, sewing, felting....and on an d on...

11. Your fear? - Being out of control

12. Where do you want to be in 6 years? Same place I am now.

13. Where were you last night? At home

14. Something that you aren't? Precise

15. Muffins? Chocolate every time.

16. Wish list item?

17. Where did you grow up? On the east coast of Scotland

18. Last thing you did?

19. What are you wearing? Baggy old cords and cosy fleece top

20. Your TV? I’m watching ‘Miranda’ it makes me laugh!

21. Your pets? An aged kitty called Jenny.

22. Friends? Yes, although I am a fickle friend, finding it difficult to maintain friendships when I don’t see people very often.

23. Your life? Very busy just now.

24. Your mood? Usually positive

25. Missing someone? I miss my boys sometimes, not that often though!

26. Vehicle? Currently Toyota Avensis Estate, planning for Peugeot 308 Diesel.

27. Something you're not wearing? My contact lenses, glasses on tonight.

28. Your favourite store? Right at the moment it would be Fenwicks in Newcastle.

29. Your favourite colour? Turquoise

30. When was the last time you laughed? Ooh not much laughing today, but I'm laughing at Miranda now.

31. Last time you cried? Can’t remember, long time ago.

32. Your best friend? After my husband, it would be my friend Avril

33. One place that I go over and over? M74!

34. Facebook? Sometimes

35. Favourite place to eat? Thai Orchid, just 2 miles down the road.

Here are the blogs that I am nominating for an award:

Craft Life
Judy's Kitchen
Tattered & Lost Ephemera
The Imperfect Housewife

Newcastle

I've been on a little trip to Newcastle with some friends. I've blogged about the lovely food we had a the Blackfriars Restaurant over on Farmersgirl Kitchen but I thought I'd give you a bit of peek on here. The photo above is of Grey Street, with the statue of Earl Grey at the top of the hill.
and here are some of the amazing chocolate shoes and handbags in the food hall at Fenwicks.

Those Sixties Hairstyles!

Another episode of 'Down on the Farm' the story of my husband's childhood!

Those 60’s Hairstyles

"This must be around 66 or 67, I would be around 10 or 11, the yard had been concreted, but unfortunately, my dad still cut my hair with, believe it or not, the electric cow clippers, which I am sure had exposed cable hanging out the back. Despite my protestations about wanting a Beatles haircut, it always looked like this. I think this was taken shortly after such a haircut.

I'm sure my sister's was the height of fashion at the time, not sure about mum's though, but at least she was wearing her nylon coat which she used to go into the henhouse to collect the eggs and then clean them ready for collection."

Kit & Alpha - Strawberry Fields "Designs by Redju of Digiscrapbook"
Fonts - Ravie & Fingerpop

Lest we forget.

The Bubbly Scrumptious weekly challenge this week is 'Remembrance'. I decided to do a digi LO to remember my DH's uncle John who died in 1945, right at the end of WWII. He was a flight engineer in the RAF and left a wife and young son.

Kits: Remembrance of Times Past - Digital Craft Cottage
Babs Dreaming - Digiscrap Girls
Never say Goodbye - Mistica Designs
Time Lines & Generations - Roxi for Digital Craft Cottage