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Showing posts with label T for Tuesday.. Show all posts
Showing posts with label T for Tuesday.. Show all posts

Tuesday, 20 August 2013

I'm late for T on Tuesday!

 It's Tuesday so it is time for T at Elizabeth and Bleubeard's place!
Great Tits on my bird feeding station, I am so lucky to get these.


 This is my bird mug, I use it for hot chocolate when the ewe mug is not available, and this is my favourite glass Teapot, I bought both of them in Covent Garden in the Bodum shop. I just looked online and you can still buy this exact one, and a similar one to the one I showed you before. They are good (but not cheap) because they have a strainer in the centre so you can put fresh herb leaves or dried loose tea in and it keeps the bits in the middle. This one has a stainless steel centre, the bigger one has a plastic centre but they could have changed the design. I wonder if I bought them in a sale, I can't imagine paying what they cost now.
 This is the dog grooming Table, I decided it was time to trim the hairy beasts!
 This was the aftermath, all that grey is hair! I tried to eat my dinner on the Table outside, and I found a hair, then another and when I got to hair 3 I realised it was the dog hair blowing about so I had to go inside to finish eating!
Monster Tomato's little brother.

Underneath looks awful, it is deformed and looks like someone stitched a few Tomatoes together. More are starting to Turn red, and loads of them are splitting. I will have to look up what causes splitting. This one weights just 7oz.
Alfie posing after his Trim.

 This is my dining room, and my mini photo studio which folds down flat. This is where I take photos of my cards. Shaun gets mad becuase I leave it up until I have to take it down! He wants to keep the table laid all the time so he can eat there, I hate that, I want it laid when it is going to be used only! The ironing board is also up, I have a heap of ironing to do, it seems to be never ending, you just do a pile and more is ready to do. I need to do it tomorrow and put the board away ready for our visitors at the weekend and next week. Chris, Vanessa and Kenny are coming to stay, and when they go my Niece Bethany is coming for the est of next week.
You see the desk behind, covered in stuff, well that was where I used to have my computer, and craft and I studied at the round table for my accountancy exams for many years, this was before we built the extension and I got my own study/craft room.

Alfie and Sooty playing bookends, featuring fluffy goose toy in the middle. I realised I missed one of Sooty's ears so he has one nice trimmed one and a fluffy one in this photo.
I was going to post up about the walk we had last week where we met lots of dogs, I will do it later.

Tuesday, 13 August 2013

Time for T on Tuesday

It's time for T for Tuesday again! You can find out all about it on Elizabeth and Bluebeard's blog.

I won the challenge, and a £20 voucher and I have put it towards a Gelli Plate.
With my T for Tailleur page!

 This was the view Monday night where we walk the dogs, see the white horse on the hill?
I thought you might like to see my favourite mug properly, this side says "Best Friends", and it is next to my next favourite mug which I bought in Trago Mills when on holiday in Devon one year, it shows sheep in the rain.
This is the other side (of both mugs), now the big one says "pull together".


Detail on the sheep mug, two little frogs, I love them!

Inside the sheep mug, this is the mug I like my hot chocolate in, made with raw cacao.

T for trio, each reel seems to have a trio of ribbons entwined! I found this ribbon in Lidl's, two for £3, and they have little wooden hearts and beads on. I was on the way back from having a filling at the dentist, and I popped in for milk for MIL. I also then visited the craft shop inside the motorbike shop, which can be an interesting experience, and bought some black embossing powder.

T for Tomato, this was the first tomato to grow in the greenhouse, and is the first to go red.

I picked it today, it is a monster, and weighs 258g


 Which is 9oz!


The only photo I got today on our walk, the moon!

Yesterday I managed to TIP a bag of walnuts onto the floor, which needs washing so not good! Then I found I left out a bag of mussels and they had THAWED!



Tuesday, 6 August 2013

T for Tuesday

I spotted this on Lyn's blog, and I wasn't going to do it, but here I am, couldn't resist.
 T for Tuesday is being hosted by Elizabeth and Bluebeard, and if it gets as big as WOYWW I'm not sure I will cope.
T is for table, this table has just arrived, courtesy of my son who has bought a new patio set and offered it. Our old table went off to the tip long ago so we said yes. It is in need of some TLC. My tea is a peppermint infusion, I don't drink normal tea - well not if I can help it. The peppermint is fresh picked from my garden, I have a mix of chocolate mint, cologne mint and I think the other one is just plain mint but it smells like spearmint to me, didn't think I had spearmint! The mug is my absolute favourite, dogs by Anysley china. Years ago I had a present that I didn't like and I took it back to exchange it. The only thing in the shop that caught my eye was this range of china, which was in the sale. I think I bought a couple of mugs, they were pretty expensive, maybe it was three, I can't remember. I do remember that some months later one got broken, or maybe two. I was totally gutted and found the shop no longer stocked them, and an internet search revealed that the range was discontinued. However I managed to source some more and bought three. So now I have four, one is still in the box. They hold about a pint, that is half a litre of tea!
My philopsophy is that one or more will be in the dishwasher or waiting to go in the dishwasher so I nearly always have one available to use.
I'm not sure I can keep this up, how many Ts can I show you I wonder?