Pegs & Pickles

Ali Jay & Joel at Granny P's

2008-08-27T02:26:00.000-07:00

The Brown's Leaving Manchester party

2008-08-11T04:19:00.000-07:00

Fi made a wonderful banner for the Brown's, and we covered the house in balloons and bunting :)

This is the picture that went on the cake.

I brought some of our Homemade Elderflower Champagne ,

and that went down very well, .......a bit too well in my case :) hicc!

Fi getting sozzled !

The Homebrew might have had something to do with the next pictures :)

Good luck Ali Jay & Joel!!

Wedding Day

2008-04-14T12:02:00.000-07:00

The new Mr & Mrs Folkard

Getting ready with Alison, Kate & Anne

The Big Red Dress!!

The Rings

The Wedding Breakfast

The dancing!

Hen Do!

2008-02-26T06:50:00.000-08:00

Alison And Fi organised a Smashing Hen weekend for me :)

We all went into York and got dressed up :)

This picture now has pride of place in the livingroom :)

My two oldest friends :) Rachael coming all the way from Holland to suprise me, and Kate from Newcastle.

Pizzas and scary pressies for me, like the willy whistle.......who gave me that???

Not sure this was the look I had in mind for the wedding day :)
Hannah looking wide eyed !

EVERYTHING on this table was Veggi, amazing food for a lush place in York.

Then another amazing place to eat in the evening, our very own private dinning room, with totally cool veggi posh food!

Before and after? I'm afarid not!! :)

The Kitchen's Finished!!!

2008-01-14T10:00:00.000-08:00

Ali & Jay's Candle Lit Supper-New Years Eve

2008-01-02T09:34:00.000-08:00

The Hosts with the Most

We realized the wedding is now this year and round the corner...!

Ying & Michael

Fi's ( Nigella eat your heart out) triumphant pudding :)

I don't mind showing this as obviously it was a trick lens on the camera making me look like this..

Christmas 2007

2008-01-02T09:18:00.001-08:00

Emma & Craigs Christmas dinner with the 19.5 lb turkey!!

The GIANT Cracker!!!

New Kitchen Dec07

2007-12-20T03:52:00.001-08:00

Here are some before pics..

And here it is nearly finished, sorry about bad pics I did them in a rush last night, the 'glamour' pictures will follow shortly!!

My meat pictures!

Holland Holiday

2007-08-15T04:38:00.001-07:00

in Holland we drank lots of this :)

Here's Rachey Erik and Finn :) at the Kermis in Uitgeest.

Rachael and me went on this ride, which lasted a lifetime, but nothing like the one Matt and Erik went on........................

yes , they're smiling there, but it's not started yet. Boing!!

Then it was Laure-Anne's and Thijs wedding :)

here's Thijs before the ceremony

Both sets of parents after the ceremony.

Rich & sarah

Matt & Me!

Nieces & Nephews

2007-06-07T05:42:00.000-07:00

Anne came over from Thailand, to show us all her new baby girl Rachael.

who's a smiler :)

Alison and Jay brought baby Joel over to meet his cousin :)

Jay and mini-me

Easter at Ogle

2007-04-11T05:34:00.000-07:00

Throwing painted eggs in Ogle, it's a family tradition in the Folkards :)

Lucas in the plum tree

Finlay and new puppy Bracken.

New bedroom

2007-04-11T05:28:00.000-07:00

hi the new bedroom is just about done, here it is.

Bedroom ceiling

2007-03-22T06:39:00.000-07:00

At last work has been done on out bedroom ceiling that was falling down!

Here it is before the work.

then the battons went up to hold the new ceiling in place

You can see how bowed it is by the packing out they had to do at the edge.

Then new walls and ceiling were plaster boarded and skimmed.

So everything looks nice and smooth no, but we've lost our coving :(

But Paul the plasterer knew a man who still made it in the traditional way from original patterns, so we got him on the case.

Ta dahh here is the ceiling done but not painted yet :)

We are super chuffed with it, and it'll look even better when I've painted it!

Also I've nearly finished stripping the Art Nouveau Fireplace.

Updates when I'm out of DIY hospital :)

kitchen and kittens

2007-03-02T07:53:00.000-08:00

hi Anne, Steve, Josh and Rachel :)
here are the latest pics from Manchester.

the Kitchen!!!!!!!
well here is the new ceiling

and we have new double glazing round the back door. the other windows are going to be put in nest week :)
The Smeg Dishwasher is in the dinningroom and will be for a while......

and the we have the floor and wall tiles all ready for Harry to fit, we will buy the units when he's ready :)

The Bedroom :(
oh dear what a state, this is the ceiling that no-one will deal with!,but while we are waiting we've taken off the woodchip, and i'll clean up the fireplace.

so that's where we are up to !

bye for now :)
xx
aunty Matt & Uncle Lou

Burning Biscuits

2006-12-26T05:06:00.000-08:00

Matt eagerly waiting for me to stop taking pictures and have Christmas dinner :)

Xmas 2006 saw the voodoo vegi Pigs in Blankets............

that rubbish plastic moustash we got in our crackers

and we kept the fire burning with out of date oatcake biscuits

we then hit the Port and I got some lime in my eye....

I was the Fire starter :)

Antiques and Amarylis

2006-12-06T10:06:00.000-08:00

Went to my favourite place the Antiques village in Levenshulme and bought this for £30!
recon it's going to be a bobby-dazzler when I've re-caned it.

Hell Hole to Heavenly - the Bathroom!

2006-11-12T08:30:00.000-08:00

Our bathroom when we moved in, yuch!

The shower curtains really set the room off.

Then we got Dodgey Dave to plumb in the new suite.........

check out how he's managed to put the sink together beautifully.....

Then see how he's plumbed in the sink with amazing 'invisible' black pipes, even though he was meant to put the pipes under the floor, so they'd not be seen!

And see how carefully the loo was fitted, I've not seen it done better!!

it leaked, and the loo cistern was connected to the hot water, and he didn't know.Fortunately for Matt and me we know Harry and Adam :)

Harry refitted the entire bathroom properly and gave us a new window and fab new floor.

Here's Adam, he made us the ceiling shower rail and the curtain hold backs that are ladies :)

new diningroom

2006-11-12T07:45:00.000-08:00

At last the dining room is finished!!
Before.....

During...................
And After!!!

Ella Rose Christening

2006-10-02T10:20:00.000-07:00

hi here's some recent Pics of Aunty Lou doing her duty for baby EllaRose.
I'm with Beth and Kevin the two other god parents.

And here's Great Gran telling Ella what's what about men!

Lightning

2006-09-28T02:21:00.000-07:00

Hi here's Lightning, our new kitten :)

she's 8 weeks old and really cute!!

Thunder is not sure at all about Lightning and has spent most of the day outside meowing!!

Chutney !

2006-09-14T04:16:00.000-07:00

hi you lot!
Thought I'd make a blog spot too for all the Peg's & Pickles hot chutney news flashes !!
Life wouldn't be the same without Pickled Bunions and any other normal vegetable, boiled alive in pickling vinegar with our secret blend of spices!!

also it means I can put pictuers of us lot on the web too for Anne to see :)

We all went to Chris & Helen's, wedding recently in Macclesfield, here are some pics :)

Matt and I also went to the AMAZING MAISE MAZE!!!

with Emma, Craig, lucas, and Finlay

that's all for now :)