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Frozen, New Years Eve walk

frozen crops red berries frozen grass friendly resident red robin (at the bottom of my road) frozen pond (feeding the ducks) I woke this morning to very frosty weather but no snow (yet). I woke earlier than normal. I've had the flu over Christmas so the extra sleep my body needed has helped get me back on the right track. I started my swimming again on Monday this week with use of the steam room and sauna, which is great for clearing nasty bugs. It was good to have a long cold winter walk this morning, looking at the wildlife where we live and feeding the local ducks and red robin and reflecting on 2014. A local resident feeds the robin by hand every day so it was no surprise that he followed me over to the bird table near the pond at the end of our road. We are so very lucky to have access to open fields to walk Moss and we see so many different birds. Living close to a bird reserve we get to see many birds and my hu

hand knitted Christmas gifts

I've just finished another moss stitch snood for one of the girls at my hairdressers, I think she will like it. She requested burgundy to go with her winter coat. I still have yet to finish my grey scarf, but that can be completed whilst I'm on a weeks rest from work! Another project is this one started just over 4 months ago. Last night and previous nights I was knitting until way past midnight, and I only have one row to knit tonight, sew in ends and wrap it up - yeah! I took the photos very late last night so the lighting wasn't too good! I decided to pick up and knit the longest edge adding a new border of 5 coloured rows, it works very well I think. I just hope the recipient likes it!

its looking a lot like Christmas!

White Hyacinth (Morrisons £2.50) in my Orla Kiely herb pot, looks great white carnations and sea holly sprayed with glitter (Sainsbury's) Christmas presents slowly being wrapped M&S Christmas cake, yummy hand-made gingerbread man from my niece Yasmin, red heart made by me!

Moss loves Move Easy dog food

We’ve been a little worried about our dog Moss recently. If he’s been on a long walk he comes home with a slight limp and I've affectionately nick named him Mr Limpy!  Springer Spaniels are thought to be a handful to own and need a lot of exercise so I worried when this started. True they can be quite springy when they are young but with the correct training, obedience and maturity they make the most affectionate clever companions and we were so lucky to have the opportunity to rescue him back in 2010. I guess he’s more than a pet to us and we treat him like another member of the family taking him on family holidays and spoiling him sometimes. But then any Spaniel owner will tell you they take over your life and your heart. The ships dog on the Norfolk Broads with captain Derek Hurrell, October 2014 So off in search of some advice and help with this we decided to revisit a product that we’d introduced into his diet when we first rescued him. He was 11 months old th