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The promise of getting outdoors soon.

This weekend we spent a beautiful afternoon warming Pidge's lovely Godparents new house which is nearly finished. They have lots of exciting plans for their garden. Pidge got outside, he can always find some nature to marvel at.

Pidge loves all dogs especially Vanessa's dog, because he can't run away from the Pidge love. What is his name Vanessa?

  Pidge is happiest when he has a stick, even when he is taking important phone calls.

Brendan and Vanessa have some awesome, ingenious shelves, if I'm lucky maybe they'll let me take a picture of my favorite one soon. It is the shelf with cups on. Thank you for a lovely day, we love your new house! XX

Get outside challenge

We love getting outside Pidge the dudeling has to be forced to come inside to eat meals, a lot of the time we are just tending our own garden or seeing to Charlie horses needs. Pidge loves to fetch Dandelions for Hunny bunny and Smudgie bunny to savour.

He's been making some outdoor fashion statements. Grandma's pink slippers are essential for riding on his tractor.

We were really glad to see this handsome old gentleman friend of ours outside enjoying the sunshine because he is very poorly. We think the sunshine was lovely and healing.

Here is Mckenzie with his favorite toy.

Get ouside and get some healing sunshine on your face today!XX  

Day Eight and Nine and thrifty weekend part one

Yesterday we were very proud to be picture of the day over at  5 orange potatoes where we are playing the get outdoors challenge. We might have to rename it the "can we pretty please pop indoors for five minutes Pidge, Mama is starving". This weekend was the most thrifty weekend ever. The first two bargains are conspiring to keep us outdoors, we are eating breakfast facing away from the window so the small dude cannot see these before he finishes his cereal.

A super slide and play house that was for sale in our village. Bargain!

And this tractor, which is a bit beat up but Pidge loves it! We have kindly (ha ha) taken it to Grandma's garden as there is more space to ride it!

We have been stalking some obliging nature, which stayed nice and still while I snapped away!

Pidge has been encouraging some of his favorite dogs out into the sunshine:

Diesel

Millie

Rosie

We will be back with more super thrifty bargains if Pidge will let me go inside to photograph them. We are loving getting outside, we hope you are too. XX      

Family Easter

We had a lovely day with family yesterday. We ate lots of lovely food and played outside. Pidge payed a few tunes.
 He played with Auntie Emma. He had to stop that cheeky thief getting away on his tractor.

 He played with Aunty Laura on the trampoline.

Here they all are with Papa, still on that trampoline.

 

Aunty Laura filled a fantastic Easter pinata with lots of treats and some sweet finger puppets for wee man. Pidge beat him a little bit, but beating up this cute chick was super sad so later we patched him up and put him on the Easter shelf.

The photos in this blog were taken by Grandad Drums, we cheeky stole them because we forgot our camera.

We hope you had a fabulous Easter too XX

The Tale of Three Little Easter Bunnies

This week at Nugg HQ while it rained and rained outside, three little bunnies were ready to leave for new homes. Beau bunny left by post for a new home in the town with Fifi.

Here he is happy having a cuddle with his new best friend.

Then Bessie Bunny went home to live with Mya.

And the very same day, Isiah bunny went home to wait for baby Aiden to arrive. He's called Isiah because one of his eyes was higher than the other. (I have waited years to sew something with one eye higher so I could call it that.)

We bought some blossom branches in from the abandoned orchard to make our Easter tree, and we fetched out all the bunnies and chicks to put on the window ledge.

Then we delivered some of Pidge's masterpieces from last week to Grandma with some blossom branches.

 We made some lovely fresh bread and cake to share with our friends and we escaped to the big smoke to see a show. What a fabulous week we've had despite the puddles! We are going to eat some tasty chocolate this weekend. We hope the Easter bunny was kind to you this year!

Lately

Lately we have been enjoying lots of baking. Baking for home, baking for friends, baking to share and baking for dinner. Getting a picture is tricky because all baked goods are best as soon as they come out of the oven. Here is some bread that made it all the way to Grandma's house for a lovely impromptu meal with friends and family. 

Papa and Pidge had a lovely trip to golf when the sun was shining.

 We have been working on some secret easter projects that we can't spoil just yet, and some are in the post hopping along to our favorite pretty ladies, so for the time being, more golf.

Here is Uncle Brendan helping Pidge perfect his putting!

 We hope everyone enjoyed the sunshine, now we're putting on our wellies while the land enjoys the rain. XX

Midweek Mischief

We've been a little crafty at Nugg HQ today. The fruits of our labour will remain a surprise for now. Here is Pidge all decked out in his overalls. 

This evening we had a little visitor outside the door and just like magic he stopped to say hi to this little statue. He was super cute! 

Other things we've been up to here at Nugg HQ this week include baking bread, cake and profiteroles. But alas there are no piccies, because we ate them all up. Of course there has been, shoveling poo, more poo and mud, muddy boots, muddy footprints, muddy prams and most of all one super huge muddy lump of horse!

Happy midweek mischiefXX 

Mother's Day 2010: Mamas We Love to Love!

Gran

 Grandma

Godmama

Earthmama

To all Mama's and all who Love, Love, Love their Mamas Happy Mother's Day XX   

Time sails by...

...little fingers that pulled books from the shelves for pullings sake, fetch books and listen for long hours to many, many stories; pyjamas that seem so new, are short of arm and leg, new clothes are in order; snow turns to rain, rain to mist and slowly sunshine sneaks silently in and the world is so bright and new; the raw beams of light sharpen even the laziest horses senses and they dance and snort and gallop; discontentment turns to hope and hope to dreams of new beginings and so time sails by. 

By chance we heard and were nearby to an NCT sale and spared a few moment to pop by, it was nearly over but we found some fabulous treasure there, new clothes for Pidge. Clothes that are long in the sleeve, promise of inches to be grown and adventures to be had.

We made some art to adorn the walls of Pidge's big dude room. Some beautiful vintage, gummed, bird motifs from Grandad Drums' charity/bootsale ferreting time that we have had for a long time surfaced when we spring cleaned. The spring sunshine shone in bringing Papa some inspiration and he imagined them on a boat picture. Well the very next day, a picture big enough even for all these handsome birds appeared in the window of a local charity shop. The picture was just as big as the wall in the big dude room and so it seemed it was meant to be. So we laid the picture out in the friendly room where the spring sun shone upon it.

All that was needed was to wet the gum on the birds and smooth them onto the picture. 

Then to have them approved by the owner of the big boy room.

Then to hang the picture over Pidges bed.  
This boy loves this old book and toy cat that used to be Mama's. The book is about Mog the cat. This noisy boy loves quiet, graceful cats. He knows a few who are kind and patient with him and he loves them. Right now he is asleep with his Mog book and his toy cat. 

So as the sunshines in bringing inspiration and hope, warming quiet corners where patient cats snooze and lighting the path to the treasure we find and adventures we embark upon... time sails by.

We hope the sunshine shone in today and bought you inspiration. Warm weekend wishes from Nugg HQ. XX

Once upon a Wednesday

This blog has been entirely produced from underneath one Pidge who occasionally feeds me his rake. Or types with his toes! Today we were letting in the light and spring cleaning the upstairs windows. After a trip to see Charlie Brown the horse, who was found to be grumble-some about the lack of sunbeams to  brighten up his day we were greeted by some lovely beasties who wanted to share our lunch.

This handsome old beast likes to pose for pictures.  

This mischievous madam was bribed with a biscuit to sit still long enough to press the button!

Then we had a little play in the snug room and thought about some of the nice things we keep in there,

This box which Steve pulled out of a skip at the tip, this thrifty throw and Pidge's panda bear.

Later on we will sit in the reading corner, this big cushion made by mama is on top of the hot water pipes and is a lovely snuggly place to read books.

Then maybe I will get time to knit a few rows of this hat for Pidge from my lovely books. 

We hope you had a calm Wednesday XX