Matthew, our grandson

We have had a visit from our daughter and family

and it was like a few minutes in heaven having them around.

Matthew has become so cute and chatty, very friendly.

Here he is having a competition with the dogs to show their

tongues. So cute. Well they have arrived safely at their

workplace and now we are having a rest. He is a very busy

little guy. Even gets through the fence at times. Once he

got stuck and could not get his ears through so that was

the end of trying to escape.

My new cross stitch plans

I have a lot of sitting time still do do.
So I have now started these.
I like to change my work a bit,
as one could get bored working on
just one pattern at a time.
So I now have two x stitcheries I am
working on.
Still 3 weeks on crutches.

I have found this wonderful fairy

patterns for 12 months and have

completed the first one and now have

11 to go.

This is another fairy x stitch

that I have started it is called

"Fairies in Shoeland".

A Tribute to Blackie

This was the last picture of our

cat Blackie taken on the 2nd June 2008.

She was 21 years old and we had her put out

of her misery on the 3rd June 2008. She got to

old and had no life at all. It is such a sad time for

us after having her around for all that time was such fun

as she was a very proud lady, was pitchblack all her life

and turned grey from old age. Loved chocolates and

also icecream and anything the kids had to eat.

We will all miss her very much.