Wheelbarrow fairy goes sweetie insane

Ah my it's been a busy couple of day! The wheelbarrow fairy doesn't know her doodah from her wotsit!! There is a huge list of things that need to be took to my friends, and there was...note was, 4 rows worth of potatoes taken up in the last 2 days. Lady came today...took 5 little bags back to London as she said they were wonderful and all her friends loved them..and there's 7 bags ordered for tomorrow! Busy fairy!!
And last night was the night of the sweetie madness! Above is the sweeties all ready for divvying up into 80 bags!!

And here are all the bags after the first fill....we didn't know how many to put in so we just kept filling!! We kinda went a bit insane after the first 40!! By the time we'd finished I was crying with laughter and DS was nearly sobbing...and I didn't eat a single thing till after we'd fill them so it wasn't a candy high!! Just insanity!!

And this is how very cute they looked when we'd filled and folded and stickered each and every one of them!! I am a GOOD person...a little insane now (when we finished I did a line of sherbert..actual sherbert, orange flavour...I don't do drugs! I sucked it up from the finally cleared table and DS said there were no more tears to cry laughing!)

Ah and this is the halloween marrow!! An unusual tradition we started last year of using alternative and readily available vegetables (especially when I can sell the pumpkins we grow for actual money!) I have saved one proper, full sized pumpkin for DS to carve tomorrow!

And this little fellow is...now lets see...the tiny pumpkin I brought in when I was making roast veg but the pan was too full to add him, on top of a mini pumpkin that the stem broke off! Oh and a couple of rubbery carrots(the rest are going in tomorrow nights tea, which I will be slow cooking overnight..a very mixed stew, so they can feed themselves...shhhh don't tell the men about the rubberyness!)

This was one of last years pumpkins!! I'm nothing if not inventive:D And if I can figure out how to rotate things I'l show you the rest of last years stuff..

Nope...I can't figure out how to rotate it!! Turn your head on one side to view!!!

This was DS's pumkin last year...tilt head in opposite direction!!

And this is just a really cute picture of Gingy with her new sign on her little basket house:D

And this is the lazy assed tea we end up with..straight from the stores...when I've had a busy day!!tin, tin and freezer!! It's like someone else cooking for me!! And anyway..I've got stew to prep for tomorrow...my excuse..sticking with it...now...off to decide what scary outfit i shall be sporting tomorrow night!! There may be pictures!!!

Wheelbarrow fairies and ghosties

The wheelbarrow fairy loves Halloween, and loves even more that she can go help her friend who lost his wife to prepare and enjoy it. Last year she was still with us albeit in her wheelchair and in a lot of pain, she still managed to dress up(after a good dose of morphine) and looked very like Grotbags! And we made her laugh...which made my life worthwhile. So I have made a start of the garden decorations...this little fellow if a rubbish bag ghostie. One pedal bin bag, some scrunched newspaper, and some fishing line...eh voila..crazy ghostie to string up!! With special facial features added by me and DS!

And this is the remnants of the window decorations we made last year for the window from black paper. It now resides in DS's window! He loved the whole catty- batty theme! This year we are going more spooky...I've made a haunted house sign from some old tree and a piece of board (pictures to follow another day!) And I have an ancient, grubby wedding dress which is being made into a full size, rather creepy ghost for next to the front door!

And this is one of the incredibly cheap batties we bought...I mean seriously..that is nasty! It will frighten small children :D I promise to take pictures of the garden when we've decorated :D so watch this space! (Son put this ugly thing on his hand like a glove puppet and growled, so the humour value alone was worth 99p!)
My friend sent me for sweeties with a large wadge of cash (and I'm giving him the change back!) Sweeties.....

OooOOooHH I do like sweeties....and we got to go to Makro :D Everytime I go there I want to open a sweetie shop!!! And then there's the chocolate....

OoooOooOhh chocolate!!! Three....yes three carrier bags FULL of chocolate! He asked me to do 80 trick or treat bags as thats about how many called last year!! 80!!!! I'm off to NOT eat chocolate!!!

Wheelbarrow fairy MIA

The wheelbarrow fairy has been missing in action...or maybe missing out on the action! Is she in the shepherds hut??
No!!
She has been without the interweb as....no more silly little dongle that doesn't work when it's windy of if a plane goes over..we finally, after 6 years..have broadband!! In an unlimited capacity...may I just say ...WOOHOO!!
The other reason for missing-ness is most metalpausal..even with liberal aplication of clarysage!

I mean see what happened to DS when I'm in one of those moods...looks like someone's dragged him through the hedge backwards..then forwards..OK so this was him dressed up for the last day of the half term in a Halloweeny type of celebration! Liberal splashes of fake(honest) blood and some good old fashioned backcombing!!

And when I brought some wood in for the burner I noticed this interesting piece of bark and I would swear it was looking at me! Paranoia? Insanity? Or just a good imagination? And it definitely doesn't look happy, so I saved it from the wood pile just in case its the spirit of a wood fairy!
Ah another funny mood...off to do things!!

Wheelbarrow fairy and the bloomin' great sword

Never annoy a menopausal woman holding a sword! Especially one who is a part time wheelbarrow fairy and full time anime schoolgirl/heroine!!
This is the new green dress. Ok, so maybe meant for someone
(a) a size or 3 smaller and
(b) a year or twenty younger,
but it made me feel like a zombie killing anime schoolgirl!! Talk about empowerment! And the sword belongs to DS! (And yes the mess you can see is part of my kitchen oh the shame!!)
Me and the dog.....

(her names Sooty..she is the third Sooty as dad wasn't very inventive with names) went for a walk and we came home with .....

Woohoo rosehips!! It's time to try to make rosehip syrup. First time this year :) So thats my job for the next rainy day (probably tomorrow then!) I do like a bit of vitamin C in my life!!
Also found in amongst the weeds that are now dying some lovely purple..

Beetroot! So purple sarnies for OH at dinner time and lots leftover for tomorrow:)
Off to do superhero/anime /fairy jobs...washing up, tea bag pot emptying, loo roll replacing!

Wheelbarrow fairy goes to the shop

Ah would you look at that little pile. Thats this weeks shopping.(Cost £13.50 for Mr Aldi)
At the start of each month or the end of the last I put £25 in four little money baggies with week 1 etc on them. £100 for basic everday things that we eat. (I'm a very sensible fairy and like to be prepared in case of a lack of cash or electricity disappearing, or me buying more jars and having b***er all in the bank! !)
No, that isn't all the food we will eat this week (well the gherkins may be for DS, he is a strange lad!) as you know...there are alot of shelves and fields with alot of vegeatables in them! We just seem to eat alot of bread and dough related products!
(An aside- Ds didn't get told off today, he hid in the upstairs quiet part of the library to study and generally stayed out of harridans way! Parents evening next week, :) I have a list and I'm not afraid to use it...maybe I should put my fairy wings on for the evening? She already has a problem with DS obviously so maybe she'd be nicer to a fairy??!)
I'm running on today..all over the place. Lots of work done today and not enough tea. 240 individual celeriac cut and ready to box in the morning, been shopping (not my favourite chore but it wasn't for alot!) 50lbs of artichokes dug from the ground whilst being poked...by their overlong and evil tops. Canned another 8 pints of grape juice...so pretty and purple. Cooked shepherds pie from scratch, with enough leftovers for at least another meal for everyone..maybe two (mum is there meat in this pasty?!) (and I was given the mince as a thankyou :))
Just printed off some sample letters for my friend who wants to retire this xmas but is dyslexic. I am chief secretary and adopted daugher (or so he informs me!)
I guess I'm doing all these things I do to keep busy and not have too much time. I looked after dad for a while and it left a hole that I keep trying to fill with fairy things!
Rambling. Like a small child who's overtired.
I shall be back when rested. And not feeling so very old!
PS the maltesers are for OH! I prefer toffee crisps:D
(all donations etc ;-))
PPS the spelling is awful today as I'm not typing this on word first...for some reason it'll never let me take my words back...like life really:)

The wheelbarrow fairy, tomatoes and a washing line

The wheelbarrow fairy, tomatoes and a washing line. What a mix! It was raining again so fairy found things to do!
First was cut off the overhang from the porch that has been causing the guttering to dribble (OH should have a round tuit for xmas as he hadn't gotten around to it yet!)
Next was tackle the emptying of the small greenhouse of weeds, tomatoes, peppers and snails (I just don't like snails!) Small greenhouse~~> this is the one dad made for under a tenner!

So, tomatoes in a box to continue to ripen, peppers in the house, all weeds in a pile in the hegde!! Now we find the washing line i bought by mistake at a rally last summer and string it up!

And finally cat blankies with somewhere to dry that won't cost me the earth in electric!! Another load went on later and is happily drying out of the rain but with a nice breeze through both doors of the greenhouse :) clever aint I!!?
Then there was alot of grapes lovely and purple...so there's a vat of grape juice dripping through muslin in the kitchen:)
And then there was DS. He's really not a happy bunny. Everytime he wears something different the head of sixth form(we shall call her harridan henceforth) bans it within a couple of days. I'm not imagining it. First it was hats, hoodies, jeans , soft soled shoes came next. Last week it was gloves (yes she banned gloves as winter comes up!) and today DS was told as he shivered from his ride to school on his ped that he wasn't allowed to wear a scarf. Harridan picks him out as an example every day. Today he was wearing.. Nice new leather man shoes, proper slim fit mens trousers, a smart shirt, a tie and waistcoat. He has to wear a leather jacket to ride his ped...and a hoody or he'll freeze. But before he'd had a chance to remove his outer garments haridan had started on him. And here's my favourite bit. He volunteers at the schools sister site (primary). Which has the same headmistress. He was told today, by harridan to remove his piercings if he wants to keep going.
THE NEW HEADMISTRESS HAS HER NOSE PIERCED!!
(and her tongue for that matter!)
I'm big, you're small,
I'm right, you're wrong.
I shouldn't be sat with my 17 yr old son crying, telling me he doesn't know how much longer he can stand staying at sixth form because of her. Rant over!!!!

Messy wheelbarrow fairy

Wheelbarrow fairies always make a mess. I'm sure of it. First thing this morning, after the fairy had found the worktops again, the kitchen looked...well like a kitchen (if a kitchen looks like hand me down cupboards and alot of jars with pennies in!) After about an hour the worktop had dissappeared under vegetables and apples AGAIN! (DS had eaten his stash of fridge stewed apples, 4 pints of them, so it was time to do more!) So today we have another 8 pints of apples..thats one monster saucepan full! DS put himself on peeling duty for which the fairy was most thankful:) So 4 being water bath canned as I type and another 4 in the fridge for DS to devour. At least I know he's having one of his five every day in apples! And the vegetables...green tomatoes, peppers, onions and horseradish from the garden. For Mexican green tomato relish, now re-named Wow Wow Relish as it has 2 tablespoons of chilli powder in it!!

Wow Wow relish...yep...another TP reference..you can guess who my favourite author is. It had to be..as I think this may be HOT..chilli powder, mustard powder and horseradish:-O
And then there's some apple in jars..oh the excitement!! I'm sure sundays should be a day of rest!! Not for wheelbarrow fairies!!

Wheelbarrow fairy in the dark

This is Pepe looking cute in a 'new' charity shop cat carrier!(it wouldn't let me write anything so I thought I'd put a picture on first!! Joy of a rural connection and pages that don't load properly!)
The wheelbarrow fairy had to sit in the dark..which meant all she could do was read with the headtorch! The last two nights we have lost our electricity. Last night it was whilst we were asleep so it just meant no alarm this morning. Thursday night it went off when I was sat on my sons bed talking to him while OH was watching a dvd. Son used his phone to get to kitchen, gave me headtorch, which was on its special hook. Picked up normal torch for OH and then picked up a candle and matches. (hallway) DS went and sat by the fire with his book. Then I put on the kettle and made a cuppa!(gas cooker and we always use a kettle on the hob)

Now think...with the energy companies threatening blackouts in the UK this winter what would you do if the power suddenly went out?

Being a sensible wheelbarrow fairy who every winter has some form of poweroutage (alot of trees run over the overhead cables, a couple of years ago we had no power for over a week!) I keep torches, candles and matches where everyone knows they should be. Cheapy headtorch is the best thing, it goes where you go, means you can read but don't look in the mirror when you go to the loo!! Splang reflection in the eyes!
Sorry..sensible fairy!! But today I was a bad fairy as I bought these.....

Every fairy should have a sensible pair of winter boots and these are not they!! Every winter I allow myself a pair of boots. Last year black ones (still in perfect order and shiny) year before brown (little worn but still good and comfy) black before that(still in one piece) black before that( soles have gone but the tops are good...fine if it doesn't rain!)
So this year I have RED boots!! Just like Nanny Ogg!! Red shoes no drawers? or is it red hat?? Or is it net curtains? Ah but would you look at their shiny redness..£19.99 worth of pleasure. Not feminine! Not sexy! Very zombie apocalypse:)  A tadge clown:-P Just wait till I show you the dress!! Maybe another day! Its a bit anime..japanese schoolgirl..you're a long while dead and I shall wear what I want!! Tomorrow I shall be back to fairy duties ...theres wow wow relish to be made..and I've already got the horseradish so hot hot hot!!! (it grows in my garden like a weed!)