so many people and places to see, so little time!

well since last I wrote the adventures have continued!!
we had lovely people join us for some dinner last Thursday. I really feel like sharing, food drink and your own home is a great way to get to know new friends. Some more lovely people joined us for dinner on Good Friday. Such a lovely couple too, it was extra exciting because it was good Friday and we shared communion.
Saturday saw a trip to Felixstowe, on the motorbike! this way we had a lovely ride and parked for free!, we sunbathed and paddled - and all this - on a boiling hot - April day! weird huh? we also went to the little ice cream company. I have been threatening to take Alex there for so long, so it was really lovely when Felixstowe was his suggestion for such a bright sunshiney day. Saturday evening we went to Dawny's for a barbecue, with family! Gotta love a family barbecue haven't you? nothing like the smell of burnt offerings to bring everyone a little closer. I spent some time talking about motorbikes with Grandad Jack, really lovely just to spend some time listening to his early experience of motorbikes. He owned his first at the age of 13! uber cool!
Then Easter Sunday at The Forge - not surprisingly, it was entirely amazing and beautiful. Including a lovely version of "count me in" by Leeland I'm told and a wonderful video by Rob Bell:


 
we also finally managed to drop in our contribution to the foodbank. Then back home and we pottered around getting ready for the arrival of our friends from Yorkshire. They stayed from Monday evening till about an hour or so ago.
We had a barbecue on Monday night, with Henry and Cari as well - yum yum, it was a beautiful evening!  so friendly and relaxed, I'm always so grateful that I have such good people around me, people that I truly can be myself around.
Tuesday, we went for a lovely ride on our motorbikes, we took the scenic route to Aldeburgh (another place I've been nagging Alex to go with me for aaaaages). We had fish and chips on the sea front, although poor Sarah dropped a lot of her fish, so the seagulls got some too. Then we went around the town a little. It was sad to see so many of the lovely little shops I used to enjoy browsing, are no more! They are ex shops. sad, but it was a really lovely ride. We got home and - tiredly watched back to back episodes of Spaced. comic genius!
Yesterday I had to go back to work :-( but it was only for a day yay! not back in till Next week now. Thank you William and Kate. Last night we went to our local pub for an evening of good food, good drink and bad pool! lol and finally back home for some dancing with just dance on the wii!
Also at some point in the last couple of weeks I managed to get some gardening in, so we now have onions in our patch! WoOp wOoP!
time for chilling out now though! Phew!
kitten out x

I'm entirely exhausted...

...that's pretty much all I felt like writing when I started to be honest, but really I do have lots to share!
This week saw a trip here from my lovely Lancashire parents. They actually brought their campervan, and stayed at night times in that on our driveway due to a slight lack of bedroom space here! lol. I really had a lovely time with them. Just so nice to share my part of the world with them. I do love them very much and despite how we usually live different lives, make different choices etc, it was good to have quality time together visiting places and people and playing Cluedo. I am absolutely exhausted though! I really am so tired. We visited Baylham rare breeds and then Stowmarket (for charity shops) on Friday. Then we went to the pub Friday night and home again in time for Cluedo. We went to a community cafe in Wyverstone on Saturday and met up with Alex's dad and his wife, Nick and Helen. Then we did loads of gardening and wood chopping etc in the afternoon, we had a barbecue for dinner and sat round it - keeping warm till some crazy time!. Yesterday morning Alex and I went to church, Vive la Revolution! It was - very cool! I love Forge, very excited about Easter service and it was so lovely to catch up with some of the ladies I missed at ladies small group when it was cancelled on Wednesday. Then we all went to Dawny's for lunch and very yum it was too. Then we popped in to see G'ma Pat and G'dad Jack on the way home. They are always just so lovely and relaxing to be around. Their home has that something special about it that just makes you smile inside. Back home and we cooked dinner then had pudding and time for Cluedo again. Mum won this time! (know one won the first night lol - we all lost! ha ha) We watched some telly last night and finally this morn I got up at 8. They left about 11ish - phew - yeah - tired! ha!
Got some lovely peeps coming over for dinner on Thursday and hopefully our best Northern friends are coming over for a few days next week! eek! it'll be great to catch up with them as it's just been too long. Alex has 11 days off starting Friday so all being well it's gonna be Faboolus!
Hope your world is rocking,
kitten (definitely over and out!) x

it was a mini adventure...

This weekend we went to Sunny Lincolnshire on our motorbike. We camped for two nights at a lovely camp site  in Boston. We were in front of the fishing lake, it was so beautiful and the weather was just so amazing. The journey there, on Friday evening, was mostly very smooth, we have a little microphone link up so it was really lovely to be able to chat a little bit about the views around us. it took about 3 hours, so by the time we got there it was actually very very dark and extremely cold. So we got the tent up, I say we...I was a little useless but still.. it only took Alex about 20 mins and we got in the porchy bit and had supper, chilli and rice cooked on the camping stove and a cup of tea, blooming yum! Then it was off to bed - an air bed with sleeping bag. Here-in lies another tale. It was extremely cold! shuddering, teeth chatteringly cold! Also this was about the precise time when the fish decided to have a belly flopping competition in the lake, the local dogs all decided to bark and howl messages at one another - we were near two kennels it would appear. The owls also came out and not many hours later a cat joined in just for fun. So a sleepless night later I wasn't overly happy about the noisy, albeit beautiful dawn chorus! Still we went for a trek in the sun for some stuff to cook for breakfast and I soon cheered up - we decided to laze around on site all day. It was absolutely beautiful at the site, so why go elsewhere? Also this was genuinely the first time in a long time that we were forced to spend any real amount of time together just the 2 of us with no telly. Actually really amazing! Also we snoozed as - the sun had of course warmed everything up! so relaxed - I don't remember being so chilled in a heck of a long time. So anyhoo - night time came and we sat round a fire pit for a good while we had dinner, smash and a tin of beef in gravy (much nicer than it sounds) But in the mean time the temperature had once again dropped down very very low. We did all the usual getting ready for bed stuff and got in bed. only to almost instantly need the loo and start shivering. Off we went again. Now I want to ask you a question, dear friends, what do you wear in bed? I ask this because, last night I wore...my socks, my pyjama trousers and pyjama pants, my jeans, my jumper and a cardigan and my neck buff. I was snuggled next to Alex under our sleeping bag. We created a hot water bottle with an old squash bottle and I was still freezing beyond belief and yet..I lay there just keep going over in my mind, saying..."imagine being homeless" and "there are people out there who don't have a tent, four layers of clothes and an air bed. They don't even have the means to create a hot(ish) waster bottle. They probably don't have a husband to cuddle, and they almost certainly won't have had a hot dinner and cup of tea before bed. Imagine if the dogs barking out there, were actually sniffing all over me? Imagine if whatever that I just heard rustling the bag outside, was actually up in my face? Imagine if that siren was bringing a policeman who would once again move me on? These people don't just sleep outside in April, they sleep out here at all times of year including snow and Ice!" I spent the whole night knowing that this morning I would get up and have a lovely breakfast and that today I was coming home to a warm cottage and a big warm comfy bed. Many homeless people, must have little or no hope of this? I just spent the whole night wondering about all these poor people. I don't know how much if anything I can really do to help? But I think I'm going to have to do something, because cold like that is a killer, in every sense of the word. A killer of spirit, good humour, physical health and people.
The rest of the weekend continued in it's fabulous way. We went to Skegness this morning and loved every minute of it. We used to go there with my parents on hols when we were younger and we weren't disappointed. The light was all over the sea, turning it into a tin foil dream. It was difficult to drag ourselves away, having had such a peaceful, beautiful weekend. But home we came.
Unfortunately we have decided that France on the motorbike really is pushing our poor bodies a bit too far. Therefore, we are currently looking into possibly taking th car, still adventuring around France and camping here and there but just in the car instead...hmm, well we'll see. It's our Easter hols for 2 weeks now so I'll still be wonderfully busy, but will try and keep this up to date!
kitten out x

mother's day roasts and revolution!!

well it was mother's day today and church this morning,
our church is made up of many people, we meet on a Sunday. But our church is made up of people who want to change the world for the better . Our church is turning itself inside out! - vive la revolucion!
This aft we  made a roast dinner for my mum in law (and good friend) Dawny and Alex's Grandma Pat, bro in law and Grandad in law rounded us up to an even and lovely 6. We made lemon roast chicken, rosemary roast lamb, roast potatoes, peas and carrots, honey roast carrots and parsnips, gravy and Yorkshire puddings. We also did some sponge pudding and rhubarb crumble but alas as they were shop bought I feel them less worthy to mention. Frankly - I'm stuffed! - but still it was just really good - I felt like Alex and I were such a good team and with help from Henry at the end, Dinner was properly yum - even though I do say so myself! Lovely feeling isn't it - when you pull off something like that, that you can share with people? yay!
yesterday - we put potatoes in the veg patch, went out on the bike and visited Nick and Helen, father in law and his wife. Later on we visited some new friends, and got really comfortable on their sofas! a bit too comfortable possibly! stayed for hours - oops! still that was lovely to catch up with them and just spend a bit of time chatting and chilling! I can't believe this weekend is over already though. where did it go?
Next weekend we're going camping in Lincolnshire, on the motorbike - part of adventure year which is very very exciting!! The weekend after that my parents are coming down to visit and the weekend after that we're off to France on the bike, all being well. So I hardly feel like there's time to catch my breath at the moment, at least it is all just excellent stuff though.
hoping and praying that you have had a lovely exciting weekend too?
kitten out xx