Things to look forward to: June

Wow half way through the year already! Where did that go? I may be 6 days late but oh well here's the things I'm looking forward to this month!

A family day out at the end of the month. We are planning a trip to Bewilderwood which is apparently a great day out. 

Even warmer weather.

Staying out in the garden with the chimnea a light and a hot chocolate in hand.

Still painting the bedside tables (I will get round to doing it eventually!)

Thrifting a bit more. I need to start going to carboots more!

Making my garden look pretty again. It's such a state at the moment. 

Wimbledon ( I hate sport, but have a soft spot for tennis) at the end of the month and the obligatory strawberries and cream consumption!

Making time to see friends.

See last month's post here.

Keep up to date with me over the weekend on Twitter and Instagram!

The neglected garden.

Yep. The title of this post sums my garden up at the moment. Neglected. There's far too many weeds that need pulling, dead plants and leaves that need tidying. Not to mention hedges that need a good haircut. Oh so much to do and so little time. I need a big kick up the backside to get it done. Gardener wanted. Apply within. 

On the plant side of things it's looking nice. I'm now past that awkward stage between spring flowers dying off and summer flowers blooming. The poppies we had last year are making a return and it won't be too much longer until they are in full bloom.

My potted plants are going quite well. I've had to put slug and snail pellets down to stop those critters from munching on my plants. It's working alright so far. Everything is growing nicely and I can't wait until they bloom so I can see what they are (stupid me didn't write down what was where!) 

We should be getting a new bench soon so I can't wait. I'm hoping in will make the wasted space by my backdoor looking more like this. I can't wait to make it look pretty!

Let me know if you have any blog posts about your garden. I need all the inspiration I can get right now!

10 things that happened this bank holiday weekend.

1. On Sunday we all gathered at my mums house to celebrate her birthday. I won't say her age but the photograph of her cake says it all (sorry mum!). 

2. I walked to work Saturday morning in the pouring rain. Luckily I had my trusty pink umbrella so I didn't look like a drowned rat by the time I got to work. There's something quite nice about rain when your inside or not getting soaked from it.

3. I booked in a family photo shoot Sunday afternoon. Such a lovely group of people and I had fun capturing memories for them. I then spent the rest of the time editing the photographs.

4. Where we held the photo shoot was looking rather lovely. Even the duck pond water looked refreshing on the sunny Sunday, although I wouldn't advise hopping in. Last time I visited this garden the ducks tried to attack my mum who was taking photographs for me.

5. I became even more hooked on South Park. I always thought it was really stupid but after watching a few episodes I'm happy to admit I love it. Butters is my favourite character! He's just so cute. 

6. I baked mum's birthday cake. It was flavoured with strawberries and elder flower, topped with lashings of cream and dusted with icing sugar. It was rather delicious and I'm going to post the recipe up tomorrow! (Lucky you!)

7. Monday morning we made waffles for breakfast. Getting a waffle iron for my birthday was a great idea. I forgot how much I loved them.

8.  We sang, far too much and far too often, loudly in the car. I think they should put cameras in cars so people can watch you get up to. It would be really funny to see. Our two part harmonies are spot on and you should just hear our rendition of Take That's "Shine". 

9. I was told by my three (nearly four) year old niece that I had to paint a flower on the fence. I painted one on the fence in my mum's garden when I was little and she discovered it the other day. She told me that I needed to re-paint it in pink paint. When I told her I only had purple and asked would that be ok. She accepted. Now I need to get painting!

10.  We stayed up until midnight Sunday night watching T.V. I really regret it. I complained so many times about how tired I was on yesterday. I think I'm too old to go bed later!

I hope you enjoyed this post, I just wanted to post something a little different. How did you spend your weekend?

Another little update! #projectgarden

Wow! Things have got rather busy in the garden! It's down to the combination of sunny days and torrential rain. Everything thing is beginning to bloom and it's difficult to keep up with it all. Gardening is definitely something you have to keep on top of if not you'll turn your back for a second and everything's gone crazy. I'm planning some time this weekend hopefully. Just to give everything a tidy up. 

A couple of weeks ago I planted seeds and few of the have started to grow through the soil. I stupidly didn't write what was growing in the pot but hey it will be a lovely surprise come summertime! 

I also noticed the other day that the poppies from last year have started to come through again. I had such a lovely shade of purple poppy last year so I'm hoping for the same again.

The peonies have started to come through too which is very exciting as they are such beautiful flowers! I'm not too sure what the pink flowers are or the blue/lilac flowers. I'll have to ask mum on that one!

I'm hoping to get some decorative bits for the garden too. I'm not sure what yet I think an evening of Pinterest (which you should follow me on!) is ahead of me!

Do you have any gardening blog posts or know of any?

Thank you Mum.

So I thought I should end my Mother's Day series, for this year, with a little thank you to my Mum. I'm not going to go all mushy on here but sometimes a little mush goes down well.

I can safely say I probably wouldn't have started this blog if my Mum hadn't of taught me how to cook. I can remember baking and making a massive mess in kitchen every Sunday. She also taught me how to appreciate the good things in life and most importantly she taught me how to throw a tea party/ buffet in style. No one can ever beat a buffet by my mum. 

But she's also helped me through some of my darkest days and I don't think without her love and support I could have recovered the way I did. And she's right about endless cups of tea, they can almost cure anything!

So I thought that today would be the perfect day to say a massive thank you to my mum and share some hideous photos with you all. I hope you get a good laugh. I was a chubby kid! 

She will be coming over for a big Sunday lunch and a few presents. I just can't wait!

To all of you Mum's out there. Happy Mother's day and I hope you get spoilt like you should!