Vintage record covers

Just a few little vintage record cover illustrations I found.

Everyone enjoying the Olympics?

Am hoarse from shouting!

Hello!

Well it's been a while!

My operation has really taken it out of me.

Recovery has been tainted with infection, paramedics and A&E.

I have had to take things very slowly and haven't so much 

as sat in the sun :(

These amazing prints by inflated/deflated are available here inflateddeflated.etsy

and seem to sum up everything.  

Fabulous!

I'll be catching up on your lives in blogland.

Hope it's sunny where you are.

I WISH YOU WERE HERE

Tanya Houghton has started a beautiful, thoughtful art project for her mother Marianne, who was diagnosed with terminal cancer three years ago and recently diagnosed with a brain tumor.

Send Marianne a postcard from wherever you live in the world.  Tell her 3 of your favourite things about the place, put a stamp on it and that way Marianne will get to travel the around the world and visit far-flung places.

Heartwarming and beautiful! 

www.iwishyouwerehereproject.com

Marianne Houghton
Flat 3 Oslo House East Wing
15 Prince Edward Road
Hackney Wick
London
E9 5EU
ENGLAND

By the 'eck!

I'm well and truly knackered!

It's really taken it out of me......

Even cake and chocolate medicine aren't working.

I'm swollen, sore and sweary!

I can't even sit in the garden because it's p***ing down!!!!

I'm watching the men's finals on my laptop in bed tomorrow.

*note to self - remember to put bell on bedside table to ring down for refreshments*

Recovery

I'm back at home and in my own bed!
I think I may have underestimated the gravity of this operation :(

I'm so sore and I'm so very sad I had to have it.

Glad to be home with my family and I look forward to being up and about in the blink of battered old lady's eye*

Here's a view from my bed.......and the rather raunchy bed stockings I have to wear (form an orderly queue fellas!!!) and a medal for courage from Mrs B!

I don't have a tv in my bedroom.......

maybe I should've cashed in the A&E loyalty points for one!

I'm still here reading and perusing all that blogland has to offer x

ps update on Large-haired eldest - he has big blue plaster cast and has refused to let me sign it as it's uncool!!!

*mine!

T.T.F.N

I'm off to hospital tomorrow for the first of several operations this year!!!

I won't go into the details and to be honest if I sit and think about it all, it makes me sad :(

So I'm remaining positive and will be eating the lovely chocs and reading my fab stash of mags.

We've toasted Fluffy's birthday with lovely friends in the garden this afternoon, hic!! and eaten much cake.

Spent 3 hours in A&E with Large-haired eldest last night.

Boys + water balloons = slippage and much hurty!

He's broken his hand in 2 places.

Poor Mr Cheese will be visiting several hospitals in West Herts over the next few days......

(Have cashed in our Hospital Loyalty card and I'm getting a new kettle!!!)

See you back here in a few days mes amigos

xx 
* photo 1 - Beautiful flowers
* photo 2 - Fluffy's new birthday Doc Martens
* photo 3 - 3 of my favourite men to cheer me up in hospital

Happy Birthday Miss Cheese

Tomorrow my baby turns 12!

When did that happen?

Happy birthday my sweet girl.

Birthday sleepover shinanigans!

A lovely mural

on a hill off the seafront in Scarborough lies this 

wonderful wall of art.

Brilliant little portraits, wall scratchings and 3d tiles

lovilee jubilee á la scarborough

 more photos from our jubilee outing to Scarborough

scarborough fair

Thought I'd share with you some photos from our little 

trip to Scarborough 

(or Scarbella as it has become known to us Cheese's)

We stayed in a beautiful, huge house,
 with a decor straight out of the 70's
(I dropped my glasses on the floor at one point & 
couldn't see them on the pattern.... ) 
Every room had clashing carpets and wallpaper - retro in every way.  It had a wood paneled dining room with a ticking mantel clock, tick tock, tick, tock, it was Miss Scarlet with the spanner!

We had fun, a bit of sun, money wasters, chips, bracing sea air, open-top bus rides, ice cream and the ever so fantastic Naval Battle in Peasholm Park (all so wonderfully british and eccentric).

more photos to follow

Well now!

Another week, another hospital stay!

I spent 5 LONG days in hospital last week with a suspected bleed on the brain.......I love a bit of drama me! After a 4 day headache I went to the dr, she in turn sent me straight to A&E, where I was admitted.  I was checked for meningitis, a stroke and sent for a CT scan.  Three days later I then suffered TWO failed lumbar punctures and the full-monty one, all of which showed no sign of a bleed. 

My week involved tramadol, bed-pan shenanigans in the next bed, amazing nurses, pain, noise, low blood pressure, tramadol, lying on my back, hospital food (oh dear lord!), the grim reaper looky-likey in the bed opposite who took a shine to me (was she trying to tell me something?), the lady in bed 1 with a penchant for blowing bubbles through a straw (ALL DAY!), farty pants in bed 5 (open a window please!), no telly, tramadol and the wonderful romanian night nurse who made me tea in a proper mug from the nurses staff room (THE best cup of tea ever!)

We have returned today from a little trip to Scarborough with all the family Cheese (the wind and rain have helped blow away all the pain!)

M&S Royal Jubilee treats

It's amazing how a little bit of sun just lifts the 

spirits isn't it?

There were lots of 'pink bits' on the train and tube 

this morning.....ow!

Hope it's sunny next week too for the Jubilee celebrations.

These are all on my shopping list from M&S

 marks and spencer

A new crown fit for a Queen

Large-haired eldest always surprises us with last minute
requirements for school.

Yesterday morning (5 mins before leaving) he announced he needed
wire, fairy lights, foil and purple fabric.

Well look what he brought home!

It's a tight fit (cheese family have large heads)
but it glows beautifully.

*nudges Her Maj and advises she wears safety goggles
as it might have her eye out*

lovely books

more from my stash of vintage books.
I particularly love the dedication in one of the books
'To One, from Two Others'

Tell me why I don't like mondays

This week I shall be mostly having a chest infection!  

As if the house of Cheese hadn't had enough snot via Large-haired eldest's coughing/choking virus - now in it's 10th week.

I have taken to my bed and am feeling like poo! 

(actually I look a lot like it too).

Fluffy Youngest has her week long school trip to France coming up. 

 I'm already finding her little notes dotted around the house.  'These are my monday clothes, please do NOT move',  'Pile to be packed' and my favourite attached to the combination lock on her suitcase 'the number of this code is 461 - in case of emergency!'  She's packing her hair-straighteners and I'm already envisaging the school calling to say the Chateau has burnt down due to her leaving them on whilst they trudge around trenches.  I have a week of notes and packing and unpacking coming up! My eldest has given her some shopping tips (you'll remember his amazing watch/chav hat combo from his trip last year).  I have filled their short lives with, what I consider, tasteful wooden toys, and beautifully designed knicks and knacks - if she comes home with a hat with 2 cans attached to drinking straws - then I'm moving into the shed!

SENT FROM MY SICK BED!

Hello.........

I'm still here!

Sorry for lack of posts.

Too much snot, wheeze, aches, pains and general crap.

I'll be catching up on all your blogs with a cup of tea now.

Enjoy the sunshine - he's made a welcome return.

Hooray!!!!