Wednesday, 6 June 2012

Jubilee Tea

To celebrate The Queens Diamond Jubilee, on tuesday we invited some friends & family round for a get together with buffet style tea, to watch some of the coverage on the TV & toast Her Majesty on  60 wonderful years.
 Harriet was really keen to help & made us cheese straws & mini meringues sandwiched together with strawberry slices & fresh cream & they were as yummy as they sound.
We had cheese & pineapple hedgehogs just like when I was a kid, egg & cress sandwiches, scones, trifle, sponge cake...
 We all dressed for the occasion in red, white & blue & had a great time together laughing, eating, chatting & reminiscing...


Monday, 4 June 2012

My Month in Numbers - May

Well May has flown by in a blink of an eye so I'll share with you my Month in Numbers, originally created by Julie Kirk, it's a great way to see your life from a different perspective.

21 locks on the Stairway to Heaven, Hatton, a lovely place for a family stroll.
 18 blog posts written- the most so far this year.

81117 capacity at Twickenham when Paul & Matt went to watch the Harlequins v Leicester Tigers with   the score 30-23.
 29 exams sat by my 3 children for end of year / AS level.

6940 days married or put another way 19 years celebrated with drinking 1 lovely bottle of Selfridges champagne :)
 5 books read, The 50 shades trilogy plus 2 by Stieg Larsson.

2 recipes tried. Chocolate soufflé and cheese straws :)
7.  Dan played Rugby sevens for his new team The Wheatleyans.
 81, 68 & 34 Three family birthdays this month celebrated with cakes & candles.

I hope you have enjoyed this version of May x


Sunday, 3 June 2012

Queen for the day...Moxley style!

I'm lucky enough to attend a lovely monthly crop called the Moxley Massive. It's a bit of a drive away but it's worth it as I get to meet up regularly with some fabulous Ladies many of whom are close friends.

The organisers Lisa & Deb pulled out all the stops for our Jubilee Crop by decorating the hall & providing a slap up buffet lunch too.

As well as providing challenges on the day, Lisa had suggested we could each be a "Queen for the day" & make crowns etc to wear.
Well a group of us were joking about this a few weeks ago & an idea which started with a broken hoover quickly spiralled totally out of control until we ended up with this !!!!
Being QUEEN for the day!!
 Jayne, Jilly, myself & Annie performed I Want To Break Free by Queen on the Crop room stage to a standing ovation, clapping & cheers :D
 I think we looked every inch the part, don't you x


 "Freddie" also handed out the bouquets to the organisers for a fabulous memorable day :)
 I have to say I wouldn't have done this for everybody but I love these ladies to bits & knew from the outset that this was gonna go down a storm & would be as much fun organising as it was performing.
I think there is even a video on FB somewhere if you really want to see us in motion.

This will certainly be one of my top memories this Jubilee :)