Five on Friday

Hello again. Joining in with Amy from Love Made my Home for another Five on Friday. This week, its catch up time. Yes I have not blogged for…I don’t know, about a month now! Been seriously busy with back to back visitors in the holidays then the most hectic back to school experience ever, with multiple sports days, grandparents day, my birthday, music eisteddfods and my daughter’s birthday this weekend.

My crochet projects have fallen by the wayside lately, but I am hoping to catch up on some this weekend. I am in the middle of making a basket using some bargain chunky yarn on special from Lincraft. I really liked the bright yellow, and have mixed it with white for a speckled look. I am crocheting two yarns together for a studier basket, although its still a bit floppy for my liking. Maybe I made it too big, but anyway, it will be used to store my yarn overflow.

For my birthday we had a lovely lunch at Noosa and watched dolphins swim along the shore while sipping wine. The weather was dodgy but Noosa is always beautiful no matter what. I was spoiled this year when my hubby surprised me by giving me a stand up paddle board!! I have never done this in my life, but wanted to have a go. Now I have no excuse. On sunday I took the board out for the first time down at cotton tree, a calm inlet popular with stand up paddle boarders. I have no pictures to show you as I was by myself, and my wobbly beginner antics weren’t up to coordinating selfies as well. Anyway, I remained dry the whole time and did manage to master standing up and paddling quite a way. I even did a turn!! Below is a selfie of me at Noosa beach after our lovely lunch, very rare to see the beach this empty. There were still a few crazies braving the cool temps and heading out for a swim.

My friend made me this lovely chocolate cake for my birthday. She even made it gluten free so hubby wouldn’t miss out. So sweet of her.

I was treated to another lunch again today. Hubby and I snuck off to picturesque Montville and had lunch at The Edge. It was a gorgeous sunny day, a nice comfortable 23 degrees and we enjoyed spectacular views down to the coast.

I had to laugh at this sign outside the pub for ‘husband’s creche’, classic!

I treated myself to some new tea towels the other day. Now I know tea towels are not the most exciting thing, but look how cute these ones are from Bed Bath and Table, couldn’t resist!

We have a sick guinea pig at the moment 😦 I went to clean the hutch out the other day and found Fluffy struggling to move and dragging her back legs. She looked awful so I took her to the vet expecting the worst. The vet wasn’t too hopeful at first and suggested an x-ray but if her leg was broken they probably couldn’t do anything. Anyway, her leg was intact but swollen, so maybe she got it caught somehow and had tugged it too hard to break free. We have to take her for daily anti-inflammatory injections for three days and hopefully she will recover. We are keeping her in a laundry tub for now. Its cost us 230 dollars in vet bills so far!! We are crazy but I am such a sucker for a cute furry face.

Thats my five for this week. Have a lovely weekend everyone. Do pay a visit to the other bloggers joining in.