Month of May

Well, it's been quite a month and it's not even over yet. My month has been so packed already I felt the need to stop and look back at it so far. So, this month I…

• have been laid low with a stinking cold which became a hacking cough which turned into a chest infection

• had family and friends to stay, before, during and after my lurgy – lucky them

• took part in Copy and Paste's first birthday blog party, a rip-roaring time it was too, if you didn't pop in at the time you can still read all the posts

• held a little competition to win something I made, and people actually entered! The lovely lady who won the string of bunting seems v pleased with it and sent me a piccie of it hung in its new home

• managed to correctly predict the coalition government outcome before it was officially announced so we could create and print the weekly newspaper for children – First News (that's the day job)

• finished my Challenge Inspiration Thursday posts with my favourite colour combo, but that doesn't mean the end of turquoise for me!

• was told I needed new glasses so went for a new style

 

• met 11-week-old George – the little poppet – new baby of my friend Libby and her husband Richard

• spent 2.5 hours on a tractor learning all about farming courtesy of Richard (above) who's a dairy farmer. Here's an observation: when I go to into work I find the usual office furniture and co-workers. When Richard walked into his workplace – the silage barn to be precise – one day last week he found a mallard had made a nest and laid several eggs. You tell me, who has the most interesting start to their day?

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• saw several cows receive a manicure. Not that it ever occurred to me before but it makes sense that cows' hooves grow continuously as humans' nails do, and so need trimming. And there's an entire career to be made as a hoof trimmer

• tried on loads of my mum's clothes from the 60s and 70s. Came away with a cosy knitted shawl plus two fantastic shirt dresses circa 1970 (post three of my siblings being born but pre-me) – hurray for a hoarding mum!

• also tried on a bunch of clothes my brother-in-law's girlfriend is giving to charity (sorry, charity, I intercepted) and took away a never-worn top, a wraparound cardigan and a pair of linen trousers – thanks for the cast-offs!

And a trip to the Isle of Wight is yet to come!

So, how's your month been going?

Comments

[Sian]

My month has been going pretty well, thank you for asking!

First News is fab! My kids used to love it when they were a bit younger. I think we bought the first ever copy.

[Kirsty]

Total score for your NONCY, Miss G - that dress is *amazing*! You'd never guess it was quite so vintage, but I suppose that's the very definition of a style classic. :)

Also love your new glasses - so much so, they're giving me total I-want-to-update-mine envy! (The arms have worn so thin and sharp that, millimetre by millimetre, the damn things are shaving off my ears...)

Very cool to see your bunting prize in situ, too - here's hoping it'll be the first of many such pics (a GG Flickr group to show them all off, maybe?!).

Hope you're feeling loooooooads better.

xx

[Barbara]

My, you're really having a busy month! Love the dress and the glasses! And the bunting in my kitchen, of course. :)

I've had an interesting month so far, with my exams just over. Right now I'm just relieved and enjoying being able to read novels again instead of Anatomy and Massage books.

[the green gal]

Hi Sian, Glad you're having a good month and that you're a fan of First News! Hope your kids got some enjoyment out of it before they grew out of it :)

Hey Kirsty, it's the collars that give the dress away, they're enormous but mostly hidden by my hair here. That plus the fact that it's made with such a manmade fibre that it comes out of the washing machine almost dry. And as far as the glasses go, I think I've been reading that geeks are finally cool…!

Hello Barbara, I can't believe I wrote this post a little while ago and we're still in May! Hope you get the exam results you deserve (ie big gold starts!) and get stuck into a good trashy novel! ;)

[jessie b]

love the dress! i would totally wear it. green and polka dots = my fave