Starting again

 

Just checking to see who is out there!

 

Its been over a year since I last wrote a blog post and I reckon its about time I got back into this.  Have just had a very quick flit around blogland and all the usual suspects such as Our New Life in the Country, Sals Snippets and Karon Grieve to name but a few.

Its been that long, I'd forgotten my password!  I'm now fully equipped with access to my blog and intend to wax lyrical for the foreseeable future about stuff and nonsense going on in Land Cuckoo!

But for now, in my usual style, I am off to find food as I was going to stop for lunch 3 hours ago and have since cleaned out 4 kitchen cupboards, filled up the bird feeders, defrosted the bird bath and reacquainted myself with Blogger and I still haven't decided what to eat!

 

Take care all, til next time

Sal xx

Ponies and Pizza

Righto, it has been another long time since last blogging. 

Just to update you all - I am still living in Land Cuckoo and making all my bits and pieces to sell, have been on the market over the summer and have been busy lately making lots of bespoke orders for Christmas.  I have been concentrating over the past year on studying hard to get into university.  Well I managed that and am now studying full time once again, hence the lack of blog posts!

But here is one for you!

 

After uni today, George and I went for a stroll on Dartmoor.  It is so nice to get out into the open although I do have to remember to concentrate on where the car is so I can find my way back!

When I did return to the car one of the ponies was busy trying to eat a plastic tub with garlic dip inside, having already finished off the remains of a pizza!  Someone had carelessly (or maybe quite on purpose) left their fast food takeaway rubbish and it was making rather a tasty treat.  I decided that as I had a plastic bag in the car (for muddy boots) I would have a tidy up to clear away the plastic (and the chilli pepper) and the other bits of rubbish so that no harm could come to any of the wildlife, even tho I am quite sure the ponies have pretty cast iron constitutions!

Well the rustle of a plastic bag was just the calling that all the ponies in the vicinity needed!  Pretty soon I was surrounded.  George was most put out and decided that he would wait in the car.  Not sure that the ponies were too impressed I was clearing up rather than leaving rubbish but they will have to stick to their natural diet tonight as I've removed all the fast food options or at least the harmful plastic wrappers and pots!

Usually these lovely creatures don't pay any attention to you as you walk over the moor, it was so nice to get that close to them even if I did think that they may stage a stand off around the car until I found them another pizza!

 

So all this talk of food, I have to go and find food to eat myself, it wont be pizza tho tonight!

Take care all, til next time

Sarah x

Spooky hand

First thing this morning when I walked into the lounge, this is what greeted me!

 

 

An eerie ghostlike hand waving at the window.

 

George was none too impressed with it either!

 

I have to admit that I had noticed a handprint on the window a couple of days ago when I came home but clearly failed to do anything about it, like clean the window, and this mornings condensation on the window just highlighted my domestic goddess failings!

 

 

And in any case, the sun was shining and the shorts were back on, far too nice a day to be worried about housework!  I took the workshop outside once more, possibly for the last time this year and made the most of the day.  Plenty of cutting, sanding and painting was going on.  Some pieces for special orders, some for the shops and just one or two for my next adventure (which I've kind of already started but not all of it!!).

 

Now it is just a gentle Saturday night in and a great long list of things I want to achieve for tomorrow awaiting my attention in the morning.  Hope you have all had a great a day wherever you are, til next time, take care, Sarah x

October already must be time for the beach

And once again it has been a long time since I've put fingers to keyboard and checked into Blogland.  Lots has been occurring here in Land Cuckoo over the past however long, never a dull moment at all really since coming down to Devon!  Sadly I've not always managed to find the time to write it all down, still trying to establish that idyllic lifestyle whereby I find time to do Everything!

 

Possibly the most important news is that we (by that I mean me and the dog) are allowed back on the beach once more, yes it is October already!  No cause for alarm, I have not been served with an asbo from the sand police, it is just the usual summer doggy ban on the local beach.  However from now until the end of April we will mainly be found getting sand in every pair of shoes and filling up the house with as much of the beach as we can carry back in fur, paws and shoes!

 

 

I was attempting to get a nice picture of George enjoying the beach after his little paddle in the mini beach amongst the rocks but he was way more on the ball than I was and was rather aware that the incoming wave on this occasion was going to reach right up to us!  So we abandoned the artistic efforts and just enjoyed the stomp across the sand whilst watching the surfers out in the Autumn swell.

 

Well plenty to catch you up on but that will have to wait, I have an exceptionally early start in the morning and am off to the land of nod very soon.

 

Take care all, til next time

Sarah x

 



Post nights

 

Oh my word, feel like I have just flown back from Oz! Have done a few too many night shifts this week me thinks!!

  

 

These are some of the new fabric memo boards I have made up amongst other things this week.

 

Love the coastal fabric and the colours of this one.

 

If only stamps were this price!!

 

I hope you are all enjoying the sunshine where you are, I am off to the workshop after lunch to finish off painting some more signs.

Can't go off to the beach as I have a poorly dog who is on strict rest for another week so am keeping him in the shade with the breeze from the windows.  No doubt he will be accompanying me to the workshop where the best place to lie down is right where I stand to paint my signs, so it is all change and re-arrange the workshop to suit the dog!

Take care all, til next time

Sarah x

Beach or garden?

 

College is finished!

All essays written and exams taken.

Sun is shining and .........

 

 

I am in the garden, yes!  Not on the beach because dogs aren't allowed in the summer months and it is too hot to leave George at home, he likes the option of shade, sun or hiding out the way in the workshop!

 

Will crack on with some more work in the evening cool but for now it is reeeeelaaaaax in the sunshine with a good book!

 

Hope you are all well and enjoying the weekend whatever you are up to

Take care, til next time

Sarah x

 

Remember the sunshine?

 

 

As I sit here snuggled on the sofa with the wind and rain lashing at the windows, I have remembered that I had a few more pictures from last week on the beach.

 

 

Remember then?  When we had some sunshine!! 

 

It may not look as colourful as this today now that the headland is swathed in cloud, but apparently the surf is much better!

 

Such a joy to have been out feeling the warmth of the sun.  I can tell you it was not warm enough to roll the trousers up, I did try, then I remembered that I was still wearing a hat and gloves so therefore it definately not going to be warm enough!

 

George ran about like a puppy and because we didn't meet anyone else he didn't feel the need to find something for them to throw!  Good thing really as he is supposed to be 'resting' his bad leg!

 

Going to have to hold onto these warm picture memories for a few days me thinks, we have a bit of a stormy time ahead followed by a proper cold spell.  Doesn't bode well for the frogs which have been busy hopping back to the pond on the headland in the sunny weather. 

 

Hope you are all safe and warm wherever you are this weekend

till next time

Sarah xx