Stormy Saturday

Well thankfully, as yet we have not experienced the gales they predicted.  But it is very windy and also raining, getting dark enough to put the lights on in the middle of the day.

I have always thought how much Daniel looks like his mother Becky, so I decided to put these photos on for you to judge. Becky was fourteen and a half months old when the photo was taken. Daniel was two weeks younger. Both have the same big brown eyes.

  

I think it is unmistakable. There is also some of Mike there, of course, because Becky takes after him.  So the generations proceed and the genes are carried forward.

We had the boys here for most of the day yesterday with Becky.  They were lots of fun.  They play together so well, always laughing and frequently cuddling each other.  Daniel is the more wilful of the two, he like to get his own way. No matter how many times he is told "no" he will still do the same thing over and over.  I had lots of cuddles from both of them and Mike and I both laughed so much over them dancing.  We have two little ravers on our hands.

We had the surveyor down this week measuring up the size of the property for cavity wall insulation.  Dreading the day they do it - the noise will be horrendous.  It was bad enough when our next door neighbour had it done, nearly drove me insane. I hate loud noise.   We have been told to take down all ornaments because of the vibrations and that it will take half a day to get it installed. Well, I suppose it is a small price to pay if it helps in reducing the heating bills.   The problem now is that they cannot give us a day, apparently there is a waiting list. We have been given roughly four to six weeks but it could be later and might well be before.  Now, I am worried about the Christmas lights, the ones outside. We always start putting them up on the 1st December, weather permitting.  It wouldbe just our luck to get them all in place and then get a phone call to say our insulation is going to be done.  I do not want all the Christmas lights broken and simply cannot afford to replace them especially my two large rope-light silhouettes.  Fingers crossed. 

We will not be able to get our bathroom done before Christmas which is a shame.  I had so looked forward to that but it will be done early in the New Year so I must not be impatient.

I still cannot get into File Manager. Can only hope the delay is due to Thanksgiving in America and that it will be sorted out next week.  Other than that, I have been busy with my sales on Amazon.  Maybe it is because Christmas is coming but I have had an order in every day this week.  I am going to run out of books soon, I never realized how many I had.  I have always been a bookworm but I was amazed at how many books I had amassed over the years.  Many of them I was never going to read again.  Now, I have made room for new ones, when I can afford them.

I am going to curl up with a book this afternoon, just the right weather for it.  I am reading "The Secret of Crickley Hall" by James Herbert and thoroughly enjoying it so far.

Now, I am off to have a nice lunch of home-made Carrot and Lentil soup with a crusty roll.

Have a good weekend my friends.