Mrs. Hughes Live at the Ice House

This is hysterical! For ladies anyway!!

Forgotten Piccies!

I'm going to be honest - my new fad is Facebook, and it takes me away from doing my blog! To such an extent I've forgotten to upload piccies of my son on his first day of school - they are a bit out of date now - well 6 weeks old, but so what! Isn't he smart, and handsome of course! Ignore me, I've put that one on to show how tall he is now. Can you tell I'm proud? How upset would he be by all this! Mortified!! You should have seen the emoticons he sent when I put them up on Fb!! If you look closely at his tie, you'll see he is being very patriotic to his adopted home city, it has the lily all over it!

Fairy frocks and Autumn

I'm stalling - I have a fairy frock to make before the St.James' Halloween party next week. Just in case you are wondering - it's for Antonia!

It should be easy, but I've been getting bad headaches this last week and I'm really not in the mood! I think the headaches are because my shoulders and neck feel really stiff - don't know why, could be I've been carrying heavier bags than usual. I've started using a small local supermarket to shop. I've used it in the past but it was expensive, but now Panorama have taken it over so the choice is better and the prices have fallen. It's also really close to my house. I take a big hessian bag with me and fill it. That doesn't stop it getting heavy though. As soon as any drinks go in I may as well stop! But I got enough to day for near enough the week (for two of us) and it came to €25, so a pretty good shop I think!

Any way I have a bag of net, chiffon and satin waiting for me, so I should go. But before I do, just to say Autumn is beautiful here at the moment. We went into the bigger garden for the first time in several months to collect pine cones - I use them as fire lighters! Coming back we passed a horse chestnut tree. As the garden is private the floor was littered with conkers! It was a dream come true. We now have lots of leaves, pine cones and a big bowl full of pretty brown conkers. Combined with the mild weather, it couldn't be a better season at the moment!

When the frock is done I'll post piccies over on Antonia's blog!!

All Back To Normal

I've stopped posting because I've stopped taking photo's, but I've noticed from a few other blogs recently that you don't always need them!

Alex is enjoying his new school - he's back for the weekend tomorrow for the first time in 3 weeks, feels like months! Antonia has settled back into school really well and asks to go everyday, which is really reassuring. She has also started ballet classes 2 nights a week. I've signed her up until Christmas so there is no not going! She has her little leotard and slippers, all in pink! She looks really cute and flings herself around the house with abandon.

I've started conversation with a friend of a friend and it is all in Italian! My head pounds after an hour, as my brain is just not used to all the work!! I was going to join a gym but Antonia and I are back pounding the streets to school everyday, so I've put it on hold for now. My feet and ankles ache enough with going a treadmill too!

I think it is really sad that everything, including friendship, seems to be put on hold here once the summer starts. From the end of June to the beginning of September we hardly saw anyone outside of family. Okay, so we had our fair share of trips too, but I know we saw more of people in the UK in the summer than we do here. We were invited to a friends house at the beach just before school started here. That was really nice, and now we have done it this year, I'm guessing we will be welcome next year too, especially as we had been invited already in July and couldn't make it then. 

One thing I am really getting into now is Facebook. I seem to be finding more and more people on it from the past. Some I contact, some not, but I'm guessing that goes both ways. I like the live chat and have chatted with a few friends and family recently. My nieces and nephews go on. I wouldn't normally call them so it is nice to be in contact this way. However, I think I am all but banned from Alex's site - he is too cool to have mum chatting with him ;))!