Not looking forward to this!!!!

A very good morning to all my friends in blogland!!

I just wanted to let you all know that I won't be around for a while (not sure how long yet). I am off to hospital this morning to have an operation to replace my left knee!!!!

Scary!!

I should only be in hospital for five days, but I don't know how long it will be before I can sit at my computer!!!

I should definitely have let Mr Angel buy me a laptop for Christmas!!!

Still looking on the bright side, I hope it won't be too long before I can get around!!! Then I'll have all day for the next couple of months to blog!!!!

There's always a silver lining!!!

I'll be back on-line as soon as I can!! In the mean time ....

Sending kindest wishes and love to you all!!

Winter wedding!!!

Last Wednesday 30th December, I attended the wedding of my friend Lesley's daughter Katie!

Katie married Mark at St Mary Magdalen Church in the village of Magdalen Laver in Essex.

The weather was horrible: it was pouring with rain, very dull, and freezing cold!!!

The welcome we all received though, was most definitely warm and loving!!!

The church was beautifully decorated and surprisingly cosy (they made sure it had been heated for days!!)!!

The bride looked stunning in a latte coloured wedding gown (no photo's yet - sorry)!!

After the wedding ceremony we went back to Lesley's where there was a marquee set up in their garden!!

The marquee was beautiful!!

We were met with a Winter Pimms and hot canapes!!! Just right for the time of year!!

The we enjoyed a lovely meal of traditional 'bangers and mash', served with onion gravy and roasted veggies!!!

Then to finish, Lesley had made 90 portions of her signature raspberry cheesecake!!! Signature - not able to be frozen raspberry cheesecake!!! Yum yum!!

What a mum eh!!

Then we had a fantastic disco and danced the evening away!!!

Congratulations to Katie and Mark - wishing you a long and happy life together!!!

Kindest wishes and love

Happy New Year!!!

Wishing you all a very Happy New Year!!

Thank you all very much for your support during my first few months of blogging!!

Kindest wishes and love

A Christmas gift for Lesley!

You might remember from an earlier post that I made my friend Lesley a cake for her 'special birthday' in October, and No1 Angel decorated it beautifully for me!

Unfortunately Lesley did not have a cake stand to put it on!!

So I decided to buy her one for Christmas!!

I didn't want to send it empty so No1 Angel made these lovely marzipan fruits and flowers to fill it!!!

She's a very clever Angel!!

I loved them and so did Lesley!!!

Kindest wishes and love

Thank you boys!!!

Shortly after we completed our Christmas stocking swap, hosted by Bekimarie of

The rambling of an everyday mummy

I received this very sweet note from the 2 little boys of LissyLou and the 2 little boys to thank me for the gifts I sent them!!!

They drew me this lovely picture too!!

How kind of them!! I was so pleased to receive it!!!

Thank you boys!!

Kindest wishes and Love

Christmas Wishes!!!

Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy and Prosperous new year!!

I hope Santa brings you everything you wished for!!

Kindest wishes and love

My weekend jaunt!!!

On SaturdayMr Angel I had planned to go to France for the day with some friends!!

We booked to go on the Channel Tunnel!!

Some of you probably heard that it was not running on Saturday!!

My friend called the information line, and the recorded message said that there were 'delays'.

As it happened, this turned out to be a slight understatement!!!

Anyway, to cut a long story short we didn't go to France for the day!!

But we did drive round Kent and Sussex, had a wonderful lunch in an hotel (somewhere!!!) and saw some beautiful winter scenery!!!!

We headed home for an early dinner!!

The men then decided that they wanted mince pies and custard!!

What could we say!!!

Bon Appetit!!!

Kindest wishes and love