Weekend With My Cousin

At the end of September my cousin K came to stay for the night and to see our new house. She was supposed to be getting the train all the way to Penistone where we live, but there were signalling problems, so Lee and I ended up going to Meadowhall to meet K. While we were there we decided to have some lunch so we went into Pizza Express. It was only about 11.30 so Zizzi's wasn't open so we went to Pizza Express instead. K and I shared a mushroom pizza and I had some polenta chips too which were lovely. 

After lunch we popped into M&S for snacks for tea and then we came back to the house and showed K round and chilled out for a bit. Lee went out to a gig so K and I started going through my make up, which I had asked her to help me with. I got rid of a lot that I had very similar shades of. She also arranged my perfume and some of my jewellery which look really nice now. 

K and I sorted out our tea and ate it in the living room while watching a bunch of stuff on the TV including Derry Girls and Heartstopper (which we both love). Then we made some Christmas cards - I have a bunch of supplies and they're all now easily accessible so we each made a few. Lee came home and soon it was time for bed. 

In the morning I slept in quite late and then showered, and then we all had croissants and pains au chocolat for breakfast. We needed to plant some plants so K and I went off to Tesco to try to buy some compost but they didn't have any so we had to go to Pot House Hamlet. We then got back and planted my plants. A few of them came from the old house and my mum has been looking after them for me, and a couple were Christmas gifts from my mum. She kept saying we needed to get them in the ground before the first frost arrived so we finally did it. Well I mostly just supervised and everyone else did the hard work.

After that we all went upstairs to the back bedroom where all the books are. Lee and I have been working hard on organising and shelving them all. There are over a thousand books, wow. My very own library! K helped to shelve some books and she and I also did our nails - toenails for me, ready for my holiday. The books look so good, they're double shelved on most shelves and by genre. I'll share photos. 

K then wanted to get back home so Lee took her to the train station. I'm not sure what I did, but then about 4.30 I got ready to drive to Leeds for a swimming session. It was a LGBTQ+ disabled session at Bramley Baths so I decided to go. I've never been there before and it's a beautiful old Edwardian baths, truly gorgeous. There were probably about 25 of us. I thought I might know someone, but I didn't. But I did speak to a couple of people, and it was a nice session.

When I got back Lee and I had some tea and then I had a nice long bath. I'm still getting used to it and trying to have a bath every week, just to relax! 

All the make up I got rid of. Lolly took a lot of this for herself or her nieces when she came to visit the weekend after, which was totally fine! 

One of the Christmas cards I made, isn't it cute?

My perfume and jewellery on Lee's chest of drawers. I do have a lot of perfume, yes. I love it! In the little red tin, which I also really love, are perfume testers, way more of them than I realised. I've been using them pretty regularly as I'm trying to get through them

K and Lee planting plants in the garden

Ta da

This is the vanity in the en suite bathroom, above the bulkhead of the stairs. My make up is all on the right now with shower gel and hair care to the left. I actually moved that circular carousel on to the windowsill where it now holds Lee's toiletries and soaps. I put more skinarcare on the left

Here is the start

Of the one thousand books

Doubled up

That I own 

But there's still space for more! I will also be working at a desk built in to this bookshelf but I need to get my laptop sorted out first for that

And here's Bramley Baths from outside, it's so cute inside