Weekend Musings and Finding Smiles😊💝🐶🥰💖

Disclaimer:  I haven't been paid to promote or recommend any shops or products, just wanted to share some smiles x 

Hi Honeys

How are you today?  I'm having "a day" of it.  A week of it more like really.  My arthritis is trying to turn me into a human pretzel, the lovely spring sunshine did appear for a while but left again when the rain clouds appeared and because it's a bank holiday weekend (extra days always throw me off) I got mixed up and forgot to take the chilli out of the freezer for dinner tonight.😐 It's fine, we took the chilli out when I (eventually) remembered and will have that tomorrow.  We raided the freezer for homemade burgers instead.     

You know, I think it's my own fault.  I dislike winter so much and I spend so long counting down to spring every year that maybe by the time it gets here I'm expecting too much from it.  Do you mind winter dear ones?  It's the almost constant darkness that gets me.  For months on end, really months, we have between 5-6 hours of not-really-darkness and the rest of the day is midnight.  I've always known  the stork got it wrong and I should have been delivered somewhere with lots of lovely sunshine.🌞🌻🥰  

I need to find a few smiles dear ones.  I have our furbaby, Jade, hugging me on the sofa as I write this, she always knows when her Mum needs a cuddle, bless her.🥰💖🐶💖

Of course Hubby, our furbaby Jade and other loved ones are always first on my list when I'm trying to remind myself how lucky I am.  Finding smiles (or counting my blessings as it was called when I was young💖) is something I try to do often honeys. It helps on not-so-great days.  

Apple Blossom Means Apples Soon🍏🍏🍏

I love to see the apple blossom appear every spring.  It's so pretty as the tree bursts into an abundance of pink tinged white flowers.  Through time the flowers wither away and are replaced by the apples that we later harvest and turn into apple crumbles, apple turnovers and other tasty treats.🍏🍏😋

Watching the garden burst into life...

Of course the beautiful apple blossom (and yummy Bramley apples🍏) aren't the only beauties that appear every year in the garden.  There are my much loved roses, lavender and the tiny bees who visit them and sometimes buzz past me. Once, when I was pegging out laundry, a little bee landed on my shoulder and stayed a few minutes.  I stayed very still to let him rest, which he did and then flew off again.🐝🥰  

Laundry🥰💖💖💖

I've always loved laundry day.  Every little bit of it. The washing, drying (outside on the line is always best) folding and even putting it all away.  Over the past few years, osteoarthritis in my spine has tried to take it away from me but, bless him, Hubby helps me keep going by helping peg out our laundry and helping me fold sometimes too (thank you sweetheart💖)

It would be wonderful if I could just hop online and order a new spine, hip and... well, a new body really.  This one creaks and makes loud cracking noises when I move and is pretty much worn out I think.  Do Amazon sell new Rosie bits do you think honeys?😄  I joke but I really am so grateful to be able to still do what I can still do.  I know it can be (because it has been) so much worse, so for any good days I have, I thank my angels👼and am truly grateful.💝   

Best mugs ever 🥰💖🐶💖

I can't end a post full of smiles without sharing a beautiful gift from a sweet lovely friend (thank you Sarah, hugs honey💖)  Sarah got me a mug (shown above) which proudly proclaims I'm a dog mum and even has a little paw print on it.🐾 It's wonderful and I love it!  

Well, we found out there were dog dad mugs available too, so we had to have one for Hubby.💖  He took it to work with him and it's now his official mug in the office and he's had so many co-workers ask him where he got it.  I don't remember seeing mugs like these, but they're just fabulous! They also have cat mum (and dad) available too.  If you'd like to find them you can see the dog ones here and the cat ones here.  I'm not being sponsored to promote them but I love mine and thought I'd share in case they made anyone else smile too.🤗🥰💖   

I Hope you're having the best weekend honeys.💖 If you're in the UK, do you have plans for the bank holiday Monday holiday tomorrow?  Hubby brought home a huge bag of planting compost yesterday and is going to help me plant some more seeds tomorrow.  I'm looking forward to it. 

If you're not in the UK,  I wish you could have a day off as well, but am sending you mountains of hugs.🤗🥰💖  Have a wonderful new week everyone, hugs always x

Easiest Ever Sausage Rolls: Only 3 Ingredients Needed...

Disclaimer:  I have not been paid to promote any brand, shop or product.  Just sharing one of the ways we've reduced our grocery bill a little by home baking instead of buying pre-prepared items.

Hello Honeys, 

How are you today?  All well I hope and enjoying the changes happening around us.  Lighter mornings (and evenings) and everything bursting into life in the gardens  Not so spring like this week but I did enjoy the beautiful sunshine we had the week before and even made a start on planting a few herbs and bulbs in the garden.  The bulbs will be beautiful when grown, they were a gift from a very dear friend (thank you Sarah, huggles xx)

Hubby was on holiday from work all of last week so he spent the week pottering about and catching up with some odd jobs needing done around our home.  Two posts were replaced in the back garden fence and a new gate was made, then painted with wood paint to match the fence and is now in place at the side of the house, leading through into the back garden.  

For my part, the sun had appeared so, other than planting, on went the washing machine for lots of laundry being done and (helped by Hubby, thank you sweetheart x) it was all pegged outside in the glorious sunshine and fabulous breeze, perfect weather for drying.  It's so, so good to see lovely, long sunny days after such a far-too-long, grey and dreary winter.💖 

Back to today's post then honeys.  It's all to do with sausage rolls...  

My dear Hubby is a fan of savory pastries like sausage rolls, steak bakes and pasties. Loves them💖 Now he doesn't have them often, they're a very rare treat in fact, and being Scottish there's only ever one place for Hubby (and lots of others) for sausage rolls. Greggs of course.  We don't eat "takeaway" meals anymore, haven't for a very long time, but had discovered some time ago a frozen, ready-to-bake version of Greggs sausage rolls on sale at Iceland. 

Naturally, they became a regular addition to our monthly "big shop" and Hubby was chuffed.  Since then though, this same box containing eight sausage rolls, went from costing £3 to now costing £5.75!  How is that even possible?  Well, since we're now running our home on one salary (I lost my job during the lockdown) we're having to watch our pennies and where they go, but I didn't want Hubby to lose out on something he likes.  He works so hard for us and deserves his wee treat.  

Why not home bake some sausage rolls I thought? Maybe freeze them too?  Hubby still gets to have his savoury treat, we get to spend time together in the kitchen having a laugh (as we always do) it's a win-win.😊  

This is definitely a post to get comfy for honeys, so why not grab a cuppa (and maybe a cookie or two😊) and I'll meet you back here after the page break?  See you in a minute...