A Victorian Gentleman

A fine Victorian gentleman - Andrew all dressed up for his Victorian Tea Party at school.



His class has been doing the Victorians as a topic this term and last Friday they held a Tea Party in the school for parents. It was a lovely afternoon with tea and cakes. As entertainment they then sang some songs, including Daisy Daisy, and Pack up your troubles. It was great afternoon.

I have been reading a lot recently while I have been getting better.

I quite enjoyed this autobiography of Jule Walters, it was fun and easy to read. I loved her film 'Educating Rita'.




This is a book I picked up at the Keswick Convention this year (and actually read in the same year!!!). Kay Warren tells of her journey of surrender to God and her growing awareness and involvement with AIDS in Africa project. It is a very thought provoking book.

Recuperating

My operation went well and I am now recuperating!! My sister came down to visit and brought along Flamingo to keep me company. The Flamingo has a bag inside it which you heat in the microwave - it was great to cuddle into, especially when my shoulder was sore. It is always strange how different parts of you hurt!! I am feeling a lot better, still tender and get tired quickly, but definately on the mend.



As I have not done any scrapping this month, here are some LOs I did for my friends wedding that we went to in August.

A short break

Not that I am a very regular blogger anyway but I will need to take a short break from blogging as I go into hospital tomorrow for an operation. I have gall stones which are very bothersome and painful at times!, so the gall bladder is coming out tomorrow - keyhole and day surgery!!! So hopefully it will not be too long before I am back. I have lots of knitting and books and DVDs lined up for the next couple of weeks.

Also I treated myself last week and have bought an ipod Touch so I can listen to music wherever I am. Having trouble at the moment keeping the boys away from it and reminding them that it is MINE and not theirs! but they will learn.

Be back soon.

Flowers

The last three days have been very hectic ones. Our Church is celebrating its 125th anniversary this year and decided to have a Flower Festival as part of the celebrations. The theme was "Church and Community" with floral arrangements to celebrate both the life of the church and community. The ladies from the Floral Art Club were helping with some of the arrangements.

Well they needed an arrangement from the Sunday School, well all the other teachers looked at me! Never one to refuse a challenge I agreed, but said the title needed to be changed to Children and Young People. I did manage to persuade a couple of others to help me. Between us we managed to come up with this arrangement.

I wanted the arrangement to be bright and cheery, so chose bright coloured flowers. I decided to hang some CDs as a mobile and have some musical instruments as well. All the arrangements had bible verses to go along with them. Ours was "From the lips of children and infants you have ordained praise" Psalm 8:2.


Of course there had to be a teddy there too!

We built a Duplo wall round a container to hold one of the arrangements.

Not bad for our first venture into floral art - perhaps a new hobby in the making!!

Dr Who

On Saturday we went to the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum to see the Doctor Who exhibition. We had a great time. There were lots of exhibits from all the series, including cybermen and of course, daleks.

If you are able to visit it then do so - it is on until January next year. We might even manage another visit sometime!

Facecloths

Mum and I have been teasing Andrew for the last couple of weeks about what we were going to knit for his birthday. Suggestions ranged from hats, gloves, scarves and socks to the more silly - trousers and shorts. And of course we were going to knit them in pink. So we decided we should actually knit him something - we decided on these facecloths (a change from dishcloths!). They both have HP on them for Harry Potter and a golden snitch!

Then of course we had to take a photo of him actually using one - washing his face is not one of Andrews favourite pastimes!

Birthday Boy!

On Tuesday Andrew had his 10th birthday - doesnt time fly! He was pleased that it was still an in-service day so he didn't need to go to school. We had a lovely day playing in the house as the weather was so awful!

One of Andrew's presents was Bop-it Extreme 2, which has proved to be hilarious and rather difficult to do!

Every time it is somebody's birthday and I go looking for cards I remember why it is better to make them! All the cards seemed to be the same ones as last years, except this one with 10 jokes in it. Andrew thought it was very funny that he got two of them!

My 'baby' and I - not so much of the baby though! He is rather pleased to be in 'double-digits' now!