This is summer?

A week into August and its raining hard. When my daughter was small we had hot, hot days in August and her birthday party in the garden wiping melting chocolate from our fingers. But not any more it seems.
Talking of daughter's birthdays I can now show what I have spent much of the last few weeks stitching Close ups can be found here

if you look at the first ginger puss closely you will see that I had missed off some of the blanket stitching!! I only noticed after it was completely made up and I was tidying up the ends of thread. But it was easily rectified. I am really pleased with it. The pattern is by Alley Cat and Tails.
Elizabeth is in Holland until tomorrow so I think I will be OK posting this up today.

I haven't seen Mousie for several days but last time she visited she brought two mini mousies with her. There have been several cats in the garden recently.

Mother Nature is coming aong well and updated pictures can be seen here

scroll down to the end of the page. I still have plenty to do to her but she is progressing well.

Its been hot....

.... the last few days. Too hot for me really but I must not grumble because its so rare!

We have a little visitor to our little garden



a little mousie who comes and pinches the bird food. he is so sweet. A mouse in the house no way! But as long as he stays in the garden I am happy for him to visit. A neighbour's cat does frequent our garden too so I hope they never meet.

I found out this week end I had been nominated for the creative blogger award by Raised by Poodles




Here are the rules of the award:
1. The winner may put the logo on her blog.
2. Put a link to the person you got the award from.
3. Nominate 5 blogs.
4. Put links to the blogs.
5. Leave a message for your nominees

It is so hard to choose people to nominate and you may have been nominated before:

Renee

Sally

Shashi

Milly

Kate

Its nearly holiday time again and one of the big ssues for me is... toilets. I have a real problem with yucky ones but at the same time grumble at the fact that in some places you can pay as much as 50p for an inadequate standard. Well no more I received my latest copy of
New Internationalist

on Saturday and there are so many people in the world with no toilet at all and so many modesty issues for women that i promise never to grumble again.

I am going to be busy this week sewing beads on Mother Nature's leaves! Le Tour is over and so I must ge back to it.
I have also got to do a CV form form my teaching supply agency. How does a fed up teacher at the end of her career market her self? (Gosh how I hate that term)