The Norty Corner

October 2016 Not really had much success with getting into this blogging thing. I know my blog is there but i never know what to write and then like today when i remember it and think i might do an update, I find I've forgotten my login and password and then go into melt down while trying to fathom out what i need to do to get back into blog land.  I never know how blogs fully work nor am I computer savvy, I pretty much tap a key and hope for the best- failing that there is always a window open to ask google the most basic of eye rolling questions. Life has been a bit up and down in the last months, i left my job as it was causing me to stress out - rather unnecessary on my part as it was due to the shortcomings of others rather than my own, i now work from home doing book keeping which i do enjoy, although the work tends to be clustered rather than spread out. But.... on the whole it was a good move. Unfortunately the anxiety has taken its toll and i rarely go out the house

So here it is first post of the year and what a miserable day greets me as i type this. It is now February!!!! We seem to have bypassed winter and gone straight into spring, the daffodils are already out on the road sides and even the lazy little ones in my garden have been awoken far too early for there liking. The weather here is up and down, one minute we have storms the next we have beautiful sunshine, that's such a wonderful thing about British weather - you never know what you are going to get. So christmas....... , seems like forever ago now, we spent it at home just the 5 of us and of course our 3 furry family members. I was relatively organised this year and made several of these little Christmas cakes alongside the bigger one for us. They make great additions to homemade hamper gifts . I was studying pinterest hard for ideas for wrapping and found some great tutorials for turning wrapping paper into bags for awkward shaped gifts, and how to jazz up normal boxes t