Sad.

I wasn't sad at all today. The weather was pretty sad, just persistent heavy rain with spells of persistent light rain.

I haven't taken any photos of that so I will add the one I have of Ali making a home movie with his lego.

Gloomy.

Great word Suzie :)

Today has just gone on forever, I didn't sleep well last night, and it seems as though I took these photos days ago, not this morning. I have been on a late, late shift and now feel wide awake!

For 9am it was pretty gloomy.

Hillsborough. Otherwise known as Elephant Hill, can you see why? I hope so or you will think us mad here in the sticks! 

Paint.

If I had to pick out a product from my stash that means a lot to me it would be my pearly paint palette. I have one in colour that I have photographed below and I have one in shimmer colours. I don't use them all the time but it is something that I bought when I first started crafting/scrapbooking that I still love as much as I did then.

Crowd.

I had a really long arduous day today, into work at 1pm and then a long drive to South Devon to help out at Newton Abbott store again from 5pm - 1am. Then a 2 hour drive home in the rain and gales. It was horrid and to top it off I managed to get a poorly tummy. You know when you have trapped air and it pierces your tummy? Horrible. Anyway, I have a photo I took which is of their stash of choc tins in the warehouse that we took as a joke for my grocery manager. He has been asking me why he can't get enough stock to make a really impactful display in the shop and I had to say well Newton Abbott have them all!

He knows why really, we take 350k a week and they take £1m a week! But I still had fun showing him this today and seeing him in despair!

Bridge.

Poor Suzie! It has gone haywire this week, of all the words in the english language and they are repeating for her somehow!

I was at work all day apart from a trip to the dentist which was with a new dentist and instead of the usual psycho dentist that I enjoy doing battle with I had a really rather fab man that really looked after me. Not to mention hat he also built my poorly tooth back up which was great as I thought I might lose it.

The sunset was stunning outside the shop.

Free Choice:

Baking today, I am feeling a bit stuffed now, I only had one of the buns that I made but I feel as if the sugar and other ingredients are coating me, including my throat!

I finished baking the christmas cake, happy with it and now it is all wrapped up and held together with one of my new christmas washi tapes :)

I also made a recipe for a Christmas Wreath from The Great British Bake Off book. I didn't have the right size tins so adapted and so ended up with some individual buns as well as the wreath. Absolutely delicious, it is a brioche dough mixed with sultanas (which I might have steeped in amaretto ;) ) chopped nuts, marzipan and orange zest. You then make orange curd and pipe it into the middle. That was a faff too far and next time I will cut them in half and spread the curd. But they were delicious :) 

Playful.

It was playful today.

Louis had a new game to play so we only saw him for homework and feeding times.

Mum was scrapbooking.

Lauren was watching tv.

Ali was re-writing and re-writing his christmas list for the ten zillionth time.

I played as well cooking and baking and crafting.

I made a recipe box, for the meal lists when we are stuck and our favourite recipes that we use time and again.

We have a robin visiting our garden now and we couldn't be more pleased.