Finally I am back............

Was away longer than I intended but, have enjoyed the break.  It has been a busy couple of months, and It's hard to believe it's been probably 10 or 11 weeks?

I have done a lot of reading, which I will post about soon.  Read some really good books; one of the latest being Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke, what a book that was!!  I have three more sitting here waiting to be started on:

I think it will be the one by Paul Feist.  Mind you if I read the Lyra Parish one, maybe to cooler weather will appear.  I am over Summer now!!

Then I have started doing another cross stitch:

As you can see, I have just done a few stitches in red.  I found my owl scissor holder, it's so cute and my Bothy Threads, needle minder.  I will talk more about this project soon.  I have had this kit for ages so decided to get it done.

We had my mother over for a visit so those three weeks just flew by.  We haven't been away yet, but have booked a few days away in September, so looking forward to that.  

Well, that's it for the moment.  Will get back into regular posting this coming week, and will spend the weekend, getting some posts written, ready for posting.........

Hope everyone is well, and look forward to catching up with you all.😊

Taking a break.......

 back in a while.  Nothing wrong...........

Tulips and Daffodils.........

 The tulips are out in full bloom now, whereas the daffodils, are starting to die off.  Here are some photos of them from my garden on Tuesday May 19th...........

First rhubarb.......

Picked my first rhubarb of the season on Monday.

Had some strawberries, so stewed them with the rhubarb, added some sweetener.

Stewed rhubarb and strawberries............

Perfect with plain yogurt or sugar free pudding...........

Also perfect start to the Summer season.........

New type of puzzle for me.........

 I was given this puzzle for Mother's Day:

It's not something I have done before.............

As you can see by the photo below it does not look like the picture on the box.

I would describe it as putting a puzzle together without a picture.  I approached it by putting like colours together and going from there.  It took nearly a week to complete this.  I will say I did enjoy doing it, it was just different............

Written by Belgian's, sung in English by a Swedish lady, about Spain.......

Very cosmopolitan........I was listening to the rewind on the radio and they were featuring this year........1974.....it was in the UK charts for over 6 months.........

If only...........

I had 1.2 million pounds and was 20 years younger...........

Click on the link to view what I would love.......Harbour Island.

There was even an article about it featured on the Daily Mail UK, here.

If only............right!