Summer has finally arrived!

Well it looks like summer is finally here in North East England! Its so hot iv even been out and restocked my summer wardrobe! Its so nice to have sunny warm days everyone is so much cheerier! On Saturday evening we went for a walk on the beach as its so close to where i live and i rarely take advantage of it so off we went! Here's a few pictures i took on the walk :)

Footprints in the sand <3

Braving the sea !

So after looking through the photos it made me think how lucky we are to live so close to the beach and in such a beautiful little corner of the world :) Bit of a boring post today but its far too warm to sit inside and blog so i'm off to the beach again! thanks for stopping by xxx

Puppy swimming lessons??

As you can probably tell from the title today is a bit of a random blog post! I should probably start by mentioning since i did a couple of posts last April on introducing all my pets i never updated it when i got 3 little ducklings and a Labrador puppy in close succession at the end of summer 2012. I am going to do short blog post about the ducks at some point but this post is going to be about A puppy called Woody <3
We got Woody not long after my Granddad passed away and named him Woody as my Granddads surname was Wood (not sure what he would think us naming a dog after him but the thought is nice lol.)
Woody is now coming up 1 whole year old!! i cant believe how fast its gone!

This collage sums up this year tiny puppy a few weeks old to 10months old at the right hand side <3

Woody (Left) Ella (right)

All 4 pooches together :)

Hes still a cuddly little lap dog in his head <3

 So as he has got older he is so hyper active, a 10 mile walk isn't even that much of a workout for him, so one of my friends who has Woody's sister mentioned doggy swimming lessons which she goes to. Its actually called Canine Hydrotherapy but that so boring i much prefer doggy swimming lessons Ha! Anyway i took Woody today and it was FAB! He was totally not phased by anything swam for about 10 minutes (usually longer but with it been his first time he said that would be enough) then they bathed him and blow dried him, he was perfectly behaved and seemed to love the whole process <3 Definitely going to try and make it a weekly thing and hopefully take our other Labrador Ella next time as the swimming is known to be good for arthritus which at 10 years old Ella is beggining to suffer with. So heres a few pictures from today theyre not very clear as he never stopped moving and splish splashing!

I forgot to mention the swim session was £6.50 and a bit extra for shampoo after but a reasonable and fab service :)

On a slightly cheerier side!

After a long post about quite a depressing subject i feel i should quickly lighten the mood as i didn't start this blog to be all depressing and morbid (just the odd post maybe but that's life ey!)
So a lot has gone on since starting this blog, the main thing is finding love! A little twist of fate twinged with a little more sadness led me to meet the best man ever! My lovely pony who i'v had since Primary School had a leg injury and over a year of rest and vets bills there was nothing else that could be done and he was in pain so the only option was to have him put to sleep. . i promise i'm not going to get totally depressing again!! But i wanted to get some professional pictures taken of me and my horse before he went, i was recommended a guy who i kind of knew through a friend, he came to take the photos and we got talking, and ever since that day iv pretty much been head over heels! I know i said i don't believe in all that fate and spiritual business but again to make me feel better i think my Sunshine pony brought him to me and we wouldn't be together now if it weren't for him <3 And thanks to him i'm the happiest iv been for years!

Sunny <3

Gorgeous pony <3 miss him everyday!

                                       
                                               And a couple of sneak peeks at me and the boy :)

On whitby pier

at scaling dam

Skinningrove beach <3

 And just a couple of the pictures Tad (his real name is Dave) took of Sunny <3 He surprised me a few weeks ago with a hard back book full of photos of me and Sunny its absolutely amazing! Best present ever!

Anyway Soppyness out of the way, ill look forward to blogging about all sorts of exciting things and possibly throw a few reviews/make up-y stuff for good measure ;)

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Re-starting the Blog! Sad news to start :(

Hello there blog-land, its been a while! I have to admit i started this blog over a year ago halfheartedly and haven't really given it much thought.. . till now!
So much has gone on since April last year when i started this blog, my favorite person in the whole world, my Granddad was diagnosed with cancer in November 2011 a day before my 21st birthday, awful time for the whole family and especially for my Granddad. He was all set to have an operation on Christmas Eve to remove his tumor so we had Christmas the week before (little did we know this was the last one he would be here for,) His Op was actually cancelled and rescheduled for new years eve and it went as well as it could. After a few weeks, an infection in his wound, many a bump in the road to recovery he could finally come home, we thought this was the road to recovery and light at the end of the tunnel . . it wasn't :(
One day he went to a hospital appointment a routine thing, they were asked to go down to a small room where they told him the cancer was a fast spreading type and he already had secondaries. He couldn't have Chemotherapy whilst his wound was still infected so he had to wait, they said chemo may give him a few weeks or months on top of the 8+ weeks they thought he had left. After everything he had been through my brave Granddad opted to enjoy his last few weeks without the chemo as it could make him too ill to enjoy doing anything and may not of even given him more time. We had family from Wales and all over come to visit and spend time with him, and on the 26th June 2012 he went from talking and been up and dressed on the Sunday to been hooked up to a syringe driver of morphine and no communication 3 days later. In my job as a care assistant i see it a lot, people coming home to die and having carers to help, but we looked after my Granddad at home between us. On Wednesday the 27th June 2012 when everyone had gone to bed and i was doing my shift of sitting up watching him, his breathing began to change, by 11.58 he was hardly breathing at all and as their old grandfather clock chimed midnight he took his final breath :( Just me and him in the room, i felt so privileged to be the one with him, he really was my best friend/father/granddad/hero all rolled into one!

Always been my hero from day 1!

Favorite place to be as a child - granddads shoulder <3 

 It wasn't till i had woken everyone up and we all said our goodbyes that my Gran realized that it was exactly a year to the minutes that her sister passed away from the same type of cancer. . . i'm really not one for believing in spiritual things and afterlife but the fact that when my great aunt passed away my granddad was healthy and hadn't even been diagnosed with cancer and exactly one year on he joined her, i would really like to think that she saw hi suffering and came down to get him the anniversary of her death, whatever makes grief easier eh?! Anyway i'm really not sure why i have chosen such a sad post as my first dive back into blogging but it just felt like everything has revolved around that since i neglected my blog and i needed to get it off my chest somewhere. Here's some photos of me and my Hero! RIP Gerald Reville Wood. Gone but never forgotten <3

Their Golden Wedding Anniversary - i am wearing the wedding dress my gran wore  on her wedding day  (for photo purposes only lol)