Driving............

Driving along on a beautiful afternoon with the window down and music on full blast, singing along at the top of my voice to Keith Urban............heaven!!! The only teensy problem is when you are trundling along quite merrily to spy Road Closed Ahead signs looming, oh heck a U turn on a bumpy country road with a cake sat on the passenger seat!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I thought I was doing so well with my precious cargo, it slid and slipped a ltitle bit but by the skin of my teeth we arrived all safe and sound.

Molly has discovered another escape route out of the garden, lololol, and my elderly neighbour bless her is quite understandably not impressed. I found the problem which ofcourse had to be underneath a extrememly prickly holly bush, so I pruned a little then crawled on my hands and knees, a pile of rubble which was hiding behind the adjoining gardens shed had tumbled and knocked my fence over. So the plan was to block the escape route until my landlord arrives to solve the problem a little more effectively, but my little tinker of a puppy dog still got through!!!!!! Today however I reckon I've got her sorted, the only thing I could find which was a little heavier and less easy for her to move was the old bathroom radiator!!!!!!!!! Anyway I dragged it down the garden and so far she hasn't attempted any further escape. I must say it looks very attractive propped up underneath my beautiful holly bush.

I am still on the case of finishing costumes, got Abbie to try on her very ornate Georgian National Costume today because I thought the hem may need taking down a little, and, well, blow me down and call me Harry the flippin thing won't even fasten, heck, this wasn't what I needed to happen atall. Hey ho I guess as little girls turn into little ladies these things happen, so I am putting out an SOS within the dance school, hopefully someone somewhere may have a Georgian costume hanging in the back of their wardrobe.......................well they might...........maybe...........hopefully, ok so I know its a long shot but I've gotta try :-)

I need a luuverly cuppa and to sit and watch the rest of the the rugby, hope our boys pick up their game in the second half!

toodlepip for now xx

That time of year again...............

Costume making, it comes around very very quickly. The Dance Festival is in 5 weeks time and I am beginning to think about Abbies costumes, which is relatively organised for me, its a tie dying day today. I've already tie dyed 2 white leotards with grey dye am now gonna do them again with black, so hopefully there will be white and grey rings on the leotards. nest it will be sponging another white leotard with, blue green and white fabric paint to give a marbled effect!!!!...............hhhmmmmmmmmmmmm never done that before so it may get interesting, i really really hope it works. Abbies dance school is also doing their bi-annual Show in June and it'll be busy making props and costumes for that after Easter! Although I'm not committing myself to quite so much because spare time is much much more sparse now than it once was and I really would like to do some serious seed growing this year after last year went a bit pear shaped.

xx