A wee holiday....

Ooo I go away for a few days and they change Blogger - not sure if I likey yet or not - too old to cope with change well! Well, my and oh went away for his 60th last weekend - stayed at the fantastic Dalmunnzie Hotel near the Spittal of Glenshee for 1 night - special treat! - a dinner to die for..... and a lovely b&b in Callendar called Arden House - both great in different ways - had lovely weather and a great time. My next trip away is with my dd on a Lochs and Glens coach trip - this is my 6th and I love them - great value for money and a nice treat for just the 2 of us....

Our bedroom was the first floor - you can see the 2 turrent rooms and the 2 windows and that was all our room!!!!! Full of antique furniture and a huge four poster bed...

The photos dont do the room justice - it was really huge...

Missing for a while.....

Life has been getting in the way of my blog - attempted my first driving test and failed but not too badly - have to wait another few months to take another one but getting a wee bit more confident - not taking too many lessons as no pennies but will see if things improve.....

Reason we have no pennies is holidays-r-us! Been to our caravan for a long weekend, been to my pals mums static for a long weekend, dh birthday is coming up so we are planning on going up Aberdeen way for a long weekend and treating ourselfs to a b&b (luxury for us!) and me and my eldest dd are going on our annual Granny bus trip to Largs and Loch Lomond (again, long weekend) So every penny is going into the holiday fund at the moment!

Did manage a car boot last time we were across in Dumfries - got 3 lovely tops and a pair of cut-off trousers for £1 each. Great bargain as I am a "ahem" larger lady and its normally impossible to get bigger sizes so was dead pleased. Have 2 small car boot sales tomorrow at North Berwick so looking forward to that.

Been busy in the garden too - using last years paint we did our windowsills and painted what was left of our fence (the last high winds our fence between us and our neighbours vanished!) The new fence is nearly finished but it still a work in progress.

My youngest isnt very well at the moment - nasty sicknes bug bless her so shes been hogging to computer too!!!

My son is getting married at Dirleton Castle!

My son and his girlfriend have decided on the venue for their wedding next year - Dirleton Castle - its one of my favourite castles so I am really pleased they are having it there. Lets hope the weather stays kind! The gardens are lovely there too and they are getting married in September so they should be really nice then.....

My first ever bit of crochet!

Toddled off to my left handed crochet class and thoroughly enjoyed it - learned to do a basic chain and treble stitch and made a tiny wee granny square in 3 colours! So I am now fired up to do more and am off to you tube to have a look at videos!

Missing in action

Havnt posted in a while - mucho happenings! dh got admitted to hospital again - turns out he had stones in his bile duct (after taking out his gall bladder) so has been really ill -took them out and hes home now but a lovley shade of yellow as his liver was affected and still quite poorly. Had my first mammogram (took 15 mins and was a bit uncomfortable but certainly not as bad as I had been told!) Dd is sick of her stookie but is getting it off next Friday - just to add to problems she was involved in a car crash as a passenger (someone reversed into the car) and has got whiplash!) and I had an essay to hand in for my OU course which nearly finished me off! And my driving lesson was a bit off last week but I put it down to the fact I had so much going on........
On a brigher note - 9am bus and off to my left-handed crochet class tomorrow! Whoop whoop! then me and my bright orange IKEA shopping trolley will be visiting Tesco to get messages from my daughter and duly walk the 30 minutes all up hill to get to her house and then 30 mins back to get the bus----- busy day!

Left handed crochet class!

I'm so excited! the Bead shop in Haddington is offering a left-handed crochet workshop - I have been trying to learn to crochet for years but cant find any other lefties to show me how. I have tried learning from videos on the net but cant get the hang of it...

So for 2 hours for £16 (materials included) I might at long last be able to crochet! Its not until early March - cant wait!

Update on dd and an Approved food order to try them...

Well got the wheelchair off freecycle - lightweight one to push about so it did the trick - took dd to the fracture clinic and they are pleased with her - put another plaster on (this time below the knee - hurray!) so shes a bit more mobile. Got a wheelchair from the Red cross (dontation required - £5 per week) with a leg extension so she can keep her leg elevated and its a self propelled one so she can get out and about a bit more.

And tried out the Approved food website - have looked at in the past and never really found much I could try but there was loads this time - cous cous for 14p a packet, white sauce 5p a packet, nouvelle loo roll - 9 roll packs for £2.75, 450gms jam for 50p, 8 tortillas for 40p were some of the best bargains. Anyway, I put the suprise box for £1 to my order just for fun! So its cost me £46.81 including postage but I got gizillions of stuff so quite happy with it.

Having dd here means a lot extra on the food bill so might have to ask her for a wee donation!!!!!!

Housekeeping in Feb - £102 in Asda
£47 Approved foods