GRANDMA DAILY

Easter Flowers and Food

Grandma arranged flowers this morning at St Botolph's Church ,Cambridge.The weather is very hot so I hope they last.

Easter eggs for grandchildren ( and others) have been bought
from Marks and Spencers

A large and delicious Simnel cake is in the oven as I write. This cake dates back to the times when young servant girls were allowed to visit their mother over a holiday and bake her a cake using ingredients from the mistresses kitchen. It is a light fruit cake with a layer marzipan in the middle and marzipan finish .Will finish mine tomorrow.

Easter

Eggs, Simnel cake, Church flowers-- no time to blog today

Sew Easy Royal Wedding Cushion

You will need

You need a cushion pad 30x50 centimeters, 2 pieces of felt (green) 40 x60 cms, small pieces of yellow, and white felt for the crown and red for the hearts.Gold, ,red and black thread for the embroidery.
Use this template to cut out a crown and 2 hearts.

Use a strip of white felt for the fur at the base of the crown

Embroider the date on the cushion
Attach the hearts using red thread and blanket stitch
Sew both pieces of green felt together using large blanket stitch

Insert the cushion pad and stich up the last side
This design makes a simple cushion that children can make with Grandma , the colours could be varied for a pretty hand made wedding or new baby gift.

Times are hard-- encourage children to make simple gifts that will be treasured.

Royal Wedding Stitch Up

Grandma loves this knitted Royal Wedding and will give it to her granddaughters. It has been knitted by friend Julia Barbe using Fiona Gable's pattern book.More of these knitted characters will be for sale at St Botolph's Church Cambridge on 2 May 2011.

Prince Harry,Prince Philip, Queen Elizabeth, Kate and William,Camilla,Prince Charles and a corgi

Bluebell Burst

If the weather is warm this weekend look out for a bluebell burst .

Woodland Flowers from England

This is a good year for woodland flowers. Many can now be grown in containers in your own garden.The wild plants should not be picked. I have found my favourites, violets and primrose plants for sale on Cambridge market, they become well established quickly.

Grave Digging

Spent Sunday afternoon in London Road Cemetery, Coventry looking for my great grandparents grave. Inspite of getting a map and advice on where it is I could not find it so will seek more advice and look again another day

This cemetery is very attractive on a sunny spring day with about 2000 graves, many of them Victorian , they are very elaborate with interesting inscriptions.Primroses, violets and bluebells have grown up among the gravestones and squirrels and baby rabbits play happily in the grass.

Manchester

Grandma is in Manchester where Grandpa has been working.
Grandmas has been seeing old friends ,shopping in the excellent shopping centre.
The City Art Gallery is a good place to visit, very focused on Victorian and northern artists.
Grandma has not won any money on the Grand National but Grandpa has.

Cambridge Weather

Cambridge was the warmest place in England today at 23 degrees.
Had to look out some cooler clothes.
If you are thinking of visiting Cambridge remember that it can be very wet and rainy in the spring.

Cambridge Today

The Grand National

Grandmas everywhere have a flutter on this race.Even though she never watches another horse race all year this one is a national event and this Grandma backs horses for herself and several family members so they can gather around the TV on Saturday afternoon and scream hysterically for their horse.

Grandma fancies Midnight Club.
Grandpa fancies State of Play

It is easy to do online, not like the old days when you crept into a book makers hoping the neighbours would not see you.
My Grandmother, Henrietta Hancock owned a bookmakers premises next to her corner shop in Adnitt Road, Northampton when I was a little girl.
She often had a flutter for me -- I would get the winnings quite frequently.
Always nice to have extra pocket

ladbrokes.com makes it easy