Nana Lolo,

Well so sorry it's late, been out from early today. Had to meet up with my son and his partner for their 20 wk scan and to find out the sex of the baby.
Firstly I must confirm all was well with the scan and we found out.......it's a girl......yaaaaayyyyyy

Sure Jon was a tad disappointed after imagining himself teaching his son to play football for the past 4-5 months.
Well I am posting a picture though I know all scan pictures are the same but this ones differen, it's our first grandchild!

Night night all x

All gone wrong,

Well I am sorry but I have got 3/4 of the way through a recipe and the page published and now I can't seem to add to it.
I wanted to say cook your sweet potatoes, mash with a little butter and serve with shepherdess pie.

It's called pie as your suppose to put the mix in an ovenproof dish and cover with sweet potato and place in oven but it doesn't make it any different so seems a waste of gas.

Now then if you have say a portion of the mix and even some sweet potato do this,
Mix together and put in a blender, add a cup of water and blend till smooth.
Return to pan and add a carton of passatta, add 30 mls of milk and stir whilst warming through.
It's the most amazing tomato soup. My own recipe but you must try...

Hopefully tomorrow I will sort the recipe page out.

Really tired tonight so I am saying night night.
Going to find out the sex of my first grandchild tomorrow , exciting.....
Oh, and our friend is coming home from hospital tomorrow to hopefully gain some strength back for chemo on her chest..night, night all

Running around

Quick run down of what I wanted to do today and what actually happened....
Wanted to finish of Jon's curtains for his boat, well finish half off then go for the other half of header tape cos he didn't buy enough! Jon!
Wanted to go through my new cook books and write a list of things to buy for the store cupboard I don't have...
Wanted to have a relax too

Instead, we went for water and during the fill up I stripped the beds and washed all the bedding, and our clothes, only the dirty ones! Put them out to dry for an hour, one blew off and nearly ended up in the canal, typical, Tim saved the day.
Then we left for the boat yard to get some scraps of wood to make some temporary steps as our fitter still hasn't started. I think Tim made a good job as you can see from the picture.
From there we went to Abikhan, we needed some kind of magnet system for our blinds which we sorted, oh, and the curtain header tape.
Then we headed back and called in for shopping, after which we drove back to the boat and unloaded, 7 trips I think.
By this time we were starved so it was vegetable curry time, Mmmmmmm..

Maybe tomorrow I will do the curtains....we'll see.
Oh, I put a photo of our narrowboat that we had on today too.

The big day

Good evening, were back from an eventful day. It was Dot and Colins wedding day at the hospital and I was a little apprehensive that it may be sad but not at all. We had a lovely day and a few laughs. Dots step daughter had bought her a lovely dress and facinator. She looked gorgeous.

We had been up early but were worried the water was going to run out half way through hair and body washes, all done from a bowl until the bathroom is fitted. I know that must sound awful but it's a bit of fun and were managing. As ever we ran out of time and were rushing around to get there on time. No worries, we were 20 mins early phew!

The wedding was an extremely short ceremony, I couldn't understand that. It was as if let's get this done as she is going to pop her clogs any second! I was a bit sad it was over in two sentences but all the same it was special.

They are a lovely couple, a perfect couple and its all so sad.

Anyway, this boat of ours needs finishing, I may give you a quick picture of our state of affairs .....or maybe not, ooh I can't make my mind up.....

Bed covers stayed in place last night

Now then, don't know the cause, maybe the girls(Millie & Maizee) pull at them, haaaa ,not.
Confused?, well our quilt will not stay on the bed of a night. It starts off nice and high all snugly but at least 3 times in the night we have to pull it up from falling off the bottom of the bed! Never had this problem before. Last night I tucked my side under the mattress and 'hey presto' it stayed put.
I don't really like being tied into the bed, well that's another story, but if it keeps the quilt up! Maybe on the full fit we need a high foot board, we didn't want that but it seems we will have to.

Took the girls for their walk up the Rufford arm before and ended up with 6 Jack Russell's! Tim said it looked lovely with all the dogs around me but wouldn't give in to us buying another 4..... I compromised at 3 but he then made me change my mind when he reminded me of vets bills...
One of them fell in the icy water, awww, the others vanished! I fished him out and wrapped his shivering body up whilst we searched for an owner. Nobody seemed to want to answer their doors and just when I thought we had gained a dog we saw a young lady looking around. Once returned we headed back to the warmth of the boat.


Maybe he will let me get the ferret I have been after, does any one else think this is. Great idea?

Wedding preparations.

Well, we're going to a wedding in hospital on Monday. Our good friend who isn't well at all, who has been condemned 3times in less than a week by the hospital is marrying her long time partner in the day room at the hospital on Monday afternoon.

Now I don't keep many fancy clothes at the best f times but at the minute I have nothing with me so it meant a trip to the caravan storage site to get something suitable from our caravan. That sounds strange I hear you say but remember, we have been living in the caravan for 4 months while the boat was finished and it was our only place of residence and as such all our clothes were there. it was cold and dismal in he van and although it gave us a home whilst between boats we were glad to get out and head back home to the boat.

It was also a day to pick up post from my brothers, it must be 6 weeks since we got our post and there was quite a pile. However, there amongst the wasted paper we found our new licences and our craft number plates. Always a happy occasion receiving these. They are proudly on show in our windows with the new name with an extra 'e' MILLIEMAIZE not MILLIMAIZE.

We're both sniffling, very unusual for us, runny nose syndrome and fizzy eyes!
Just feel like sitting all snuggled up in front of the fire with a nice cup of tea so off I go, see you all tomorrow..

Help!

Oh my goodness, I have brain freeze, not from ice cream may I say. Anyone out there help please, I am trying to write on my Recipes tab but every time I go to that page and choose 'new post' it reverts back to posting on my main blog page. I can't remember how to post on that page. Any help appreciated....