The Last Day in Feb. 2011

Monday 28th Feb.

I can not believe that were at the end of Feb already....Were has this month gone ?...  I just wish the time would slow down...I have so much to do but getting less and less time to do it in... I know that the days are getting longer and in a few weeks time bristish summer time begins again..

.I need more hours in the day...I make lists of what needs to be done each day and yes most days the jobs all get done...tomorrow I have the lounge to sweep, hoover and mop...and the kitchen floor to wash and not doubt there'll be more washing for me to do....i done one load today....but I'm sure John and Edward will fill the basket up over night they do some times....

Wednesday is going to be another busy day, one of John's customers is coming to collect some of his order, and knowing what he's like will probably order more items too...I've got to take him over to the unit...soI'll have the land rover all day....

We have some equipment arriving on Wednesday too, a bag sealer and emergency lighting...
John of course will be busy all week making grp horses and hopefully a cold frame for me....
As well and some decorative beading and he said he might just start on the J40 Austin car this week, there going to be made in to pedal cars and Edward is getting one specially made just for him....
John  wants to make one for me as a garden planter i'm not quite sure where it will go as I am running out of display space for this year....

Anyway March will be here in a few hours well almost 8 hours.......Lady Sarah.

Edward in his new hat.....

We're up and Running in the Unit.

Saturday 26th Feb.

Well we're now up and running and getting very busy...well John  is...And there are a lot more orders coming in daily....John's up there again today...getting a horse master mould made....
We've got a very busy week again next week and customers are starting to come and collect.

We've had a few deliveries to this week, rolls of grp mating and gelcoat pigment have all arived...So we can now have different coloured moulds, we have black,white,red,yellow,blue and green...And John is also busy designing me a fibreglass coldframe, which I hope to eventually sell on my website....and ebay...

Next week the new work benches are going to be ordered and shelving for storage too as we're going to need somewhere to put all our moulds....

And as I've just had a few bad days with my knees and right hip again...this damp weather is not helping...
I've had to have a couple of days of rest...I got really bad on thursday and wasn't much better yesterday...

Hopefully things will get better for me over the next week....If the weather improves....
Anyway John has got loads to do in the next few days, although he has said that he will not be working tomorrow, so we might go of out somewhere for the day...that would be nice...

John  has got me some paperwork to do for him next week...as I have offered to do all that sort of thing for him as he's not so good at it, and well I am as I have all the paperwork to do on the nursery...

John is quite excited about the prospect of what we can eventually achive with the new company and there is so much more we can make....

Lady Sarah.

Yet Another Sleepless Night

It's now Tuesday 22nd Feb at 1-50am 

I'm having yet another sleepless night, but I decided that I'm better off downstairs so I don't disturb John .....and I can get on the internet with no interruptions.....I'm in quite a bit of pain again in my back and right hip which isn't helping...
I should be tired as I did quite a bit for John up at the unit today and moved all the moulds from one end of the unit to the other...and today, later on were off up to b & q  for some timber and pvc sheeting to build the hot room...so that all the moulds can dry out a bit quicker.....
I don't know why I'm wide a wake...
I had a sleeping pill  and hour before I went up to bed and they usually knock me out, but not tonight....obviously....

I'm getting really fed up  with this I've had two reasonable nights sleep and now back to being wide awake again...and it's not fair on John or Edward as I do not like to keep disturbing them...

Anyway I've not heard any news for a couple of days...What is going on out there in the world I wonder?....Anymore weird weather ?......

I't's very quiet here at night except for Benji the dog snoring....he's all tucked in his bed for the night the lazy dog, he  didn't get up until gone 10am yesterday morning....Mind you neither did Edward.....

I have to say that I am quite looking forward to today...it will make the unit look better and hopefully in another couple of weeks time we will be able to start to build my office.....

I've already choosen the desk i'm having in there and computer and next week I get a catolgue which is full of storage ideas which I'll need alot of....

And the other news of the day is that very soon I'm going to start to write a horticultural book I was told about a website which publishes them for you and helps you to write them and give s you lots of info on how to write and get them printed......the website is http://www.blurb.com/
You should have a look of your interested they're printed quite cheaply too....

Anyway going to write something else now...Good day to you all where ever you are in the world...
Lady Sarah.

Another Not So Good Day

Saturday 18th Feb.

I have been having a lot of trouble again with my back and knees which are all swollen up again...as well as my right ankle...
I haven't sleep properly for 3 nights and I had to have a rest this afternoon...as I felt awful...but the rest did me some good ...And I did enjoy going to see my mother and father this evening...
Edward had a great time and ate all his dinner....I've had some more painkillers but stillfeel very achy and I think I'll be having an earlish night as we're all up at the unit in the morning.....As our friend Pete is moving his beetle in there with us....and I've got to move a lot of this around so we can get the car init's position....
I need to be ok to help out......
I have to say that for some unknown reason I've been in quite a bad mood on and off all day.....I'm feeling a little happier now.....and getting out this evening did do me some good...

Edward had a great time running around and reading his books that he keeps up there...he got a new dvd of his nanny and grandad full of nursery rhymes.......

I just hope this relapse is because of the change in the weather again as it's cold and damp outside which always seems to make my athritis worst.....
The other extreme is it flares up if it's to hot....and I don't particularly like hot weather I'm usualy ok if it's cold and frosty or mild sunny weather ......
I just hope this is not a sign of things to come...i really don't want to go back to how I was 6 months ago..Then I was in a bad way I'm still in constant pain but it's better managed now.....

Anyway just watching Mamma Mia then off to bed...great film...since last wek we've watched nearly every day..as we really like all the abba music....
Hope you all had a good day and evening where ever you are in the World...Good night....

Lady Sarah.

My New Diet

Wednesday 16th Feb.2011

Today I've decided that it's time to start on a diet as I weighed my self again last night and I was 15 stone although I think that I don't feel that heavy...I was that weight after having Edward...Though I have to admit we all over indulged at Christmas..and seeing as it's almost Spring I think it's time that I/we did something about it..
So were back on salads soup chicken and veg, with a little pasta and rice...and potato's once a week...it worked last time and some more exercise  and couple of extra dog walks and baby walks...I think is needed..
Mind you the more I get out side will help me too...and of course I do have to be careful not to over do it...

I do feel  like i've put on some weight I lose nearly 2 stone just before christmas and felt really good too...But I/we did eat far to much and didn't do to much exercise throughout december....to cold and wet....well that was are excuse...not good really....

So as from today were back on our diet...and yes it does work...

I will be keeping a dairy on this page of how I'm/ were doing....
We'll be having a weigh in once a week on a Wednesday evening...so I'll keep up posted on how we are doing each week..and what we are eating....

Tonight we are on boiled rice with homemade sweet and sour pork, with  no fat on the pork all cut off...followed by a couple of apples....

So I hope this will help and encourage me and other people on a diet ...Good luck to any of you that are dieting I know it can be hard and you'll like me have days when you could eat lots of fatty  things ...I know I've had a few of those....last diet I did....

Lady Sarah.

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Valentines Day 2011

It's Valentines day again. I've had quite a nice day, John  bought me some lovely flowers and a really nice bottle of wine, which I'm drinking right now...as it taste really good It's one of my favorite rose wine, it taste of fresh strawberries and black currents....

We had a really nice dinner to new potato's and fish with homemade parsley sauce, which I made...

John has had to go out to a meeting, but has promised not to be to late back home so we'll still get a bit of time together..

He had a good morning at work...He said he'd got loads done, me and Edward are going with him tomorrow...We said we hated being aparwell it's very true we do....We talked while we had dinner and said at around 11am we were both wondering what each other was doing...well I was washing up and getting another load of washing ready....John was making a galloper hore mould....

John thinks we'll just be there for the morning again as if it is nice I want to be out in the nursery and garden tomorrow afternoon....

I'm going to get some photos tomorrow of our unit and John working in it...

Hope everyone else had a good Valentines day..and if not....there always someone out there waiting for you...the one...your true love...It does happen...I know...as I've now found mine...and he's wonderful, kind, gentle. romantic, my knight in shinig armour...and a perfect gentleman....and always has been....

I LOVE YOU AND ONLY YOU JOHN..XXXXX.
HAPPY VALENTINES DAY..XXXXX.

Lady Sarah.x

John and our little boy Edward aged 7 months

Lady Sarah.

The Garden Nursery 2011 Part 2

Thought I'd start a new blog with the nursery as the other page is getting a bit full.

As I said on my last post, I'm very excited that I've got lots of seedlings,  so  now I've  dedcided to keep a log / diary of what grows each day...Then I;ll get them potted on...In a few weeks time they'll be ready to go on my website page listings then I'll start selling them and also planting some of them out in my veg beds for fresh very tasty vegetables...

Think I'll add a few pictures of my plants.

These are 2 of the plants which I grow...

Lady Sarah

We're moving into a new commercial unit

At long last we've found a unit so John can get on with his GRP work, and there's loads of it....

We've been to have a look at the unit today and fingers crossed we move in early next week...

John is getting very excited, I'm glad because i'll get my potting shed back atfer 18 months without it....

Anyway off for our dinner now (tea)  bit late tonight as we've been so busy....

Lady Sarah

Felt tired so we all went back to bed

Well after a busy morning and lunch time we all felt so tired so Edward went off to his cot and me and John had an afternoon sleep, the only thing was we slept through to 7-15pm...Then we all got up again and had dinner (tea).

We had a ploughman's supper lots of cheese and homemade pickles with crackers and crispy bread..Edward had some too, a bit if cheese and bread and he pinced my crisps ...as usual....Anyway he's off up to bed shortly, he'll sleep through until 8am tomorrow morning now....Aren't I lucky.....

I do enjoy every now and again having an afternoon sleep, it seems to rebuild my energy.
I have to admit I do feel much better for a sleep now.......

We're now starting to watch our Harry Potter dvd's we have the full set can't wait for the last 2 to come out on dvd then I will have the complete collection, we're on number 1 tonight "The Philosipher's stone" it's interesting to see how they all grow up throughout the films, they all look so young in the 1st one....

ANyway going to get Edward ready for bed now...he's says nite,nite....to you all...Lady Sarah.

Edward being a "Flump" I borrowed Daddys hat again....

Look at me, aren't I very cute...yes you are Edward......

Another One of my Hobbies

I have had a real passion for fairground art for many years and have owed and still do own several fairground rides.

I've been painting and help re-paint quite a lot of fairground rides and lots of animals off many different rides.
My favorite to re-paint are galloper horses.

I'll have to post some photos later , Can't get any on this page right  now.

I started painting fairground rides in 2004 and really enjoy doing it, I've restored a set of 1930's swing boats and help to restore an 1893 set of juvenile galloppers.

I also do a lot of work on hauted houses and hope that some time in hte very near future that I will with the help of John build our own haunted house.

I'll be starting the re-paint another set of juvenile gallopper horses later on this year, so I going to be very busy this summer.

Lady Sarah.

Feeling A Bit Better.

Sunday 6th Feb 2011

After 2 weeks of a lot of pain, it's finally started to easy.
I'm not sure why it got so bad again although I do know that like most forms of athritis i get what is called flair ups...which is when nit gets really painful and all joints tend to swell up and ache all the time.

This can be treated with medication, and YES it does help when your really in alot of pain...
I have to say that I do not like taking loads of pills, but if thats the way it has to be then I will just carry on with the pills.

I have to take 4 every morning 4 more at lunch time and 4 or 5 depending on how bad I am just before bed time....

There all for different things 3 are painkillers 1 is an anti-inflamitary, 1 is to stopped my tummy reacting will the a/f pill and I also have a sleeping pill but I try not to take them every night, only when I'm really in need of taking one....

I do use Valarien pills which is herbal pill and it does help me get a good nights sleep,but again I only take this if I do really need it, instead of the other sleep pill.

And yes some days I sure I rattle....Hahahaha!!!!!!.


Anyway today I'm not to bad and the painkillers have worked well again, I must keep remebering to take them as if I don't, the pain and swelling just gets worst and worst....

My knees are still quite sore and my hip is still aching but not as bad as it was 2 weeks ago....

Lady Sarah.

This is me last summer, I've grown my hair much longer now....
Lady Sarah.

What Weird Weather...What is Going on Out There

Wednesday 2nd Feb 2011

It seems very strange all this different weather we're having.

We hear  today that there has been a cyclone in Austrialia, and a few weeks back they had lots of flooding.

There were mud slides in several countries and Scotland seems to be having an awful lot of snow, mind you we did have a long spell of very cold weather just before and during the christmas period.

So what do I think is going on out there.
Personally I do not believe that there is such a think as global warming,(although I am not a scientist and I do know alot about things that go on there)

There are alot of scenetist that say that there is global warming...but looking at past records, this sort of thing has happened before....

So here we go, I think that it is something to do history, this sort of thing has happened before. Many thousands of years ago....There is talk that there maybe another planet or star in our atmosphere that may just be affecting what is actully happening up there.
I will talk about this subject tomorrow.

Lady Sarah

Back Home to Cheshire.

Well we're back home again now, all is well here in not so warm Sandbach...although it it warmer than up in Rochdale it doesn't look like there had been much frost down here whilst we'vr been away, all the plants have done very well in the nursery evn got a few green shoots and some lettuce plants ready to go in to the greenhouses veg bed...Which I'll sort out tomorrow.

Edward was absolutly shattered this evening and went to bed early at 6-30pm. 
John has gone off to a meeting and I was supposed to go to another meeting but couldn't as there would of been no-one in to look after Edward....

He's had a great time up at granny and grandads he got quite upset when we left this morning as I think he would of liked to stay up there abit longer...

We got back around 11am and then went off shopping and we had our lunch out too which was very nice too....

I had to have a lie down this afternoon as I got a splitting headache but it went after a couple of hours sleep..

Think we may go out tomorrow afternoon, but not sure yet quite where to go.....

Lady Sarah.