This week has been amazing so far .
The sun is out.
Dave has a new job [ and more to the point its the one he wanted ]
I had the most excellent day off in Soho which included sitting in the sun drinking wine and talking to people and having a generally wonderful day.
I've got a bonus at work!
My mum is coming over to take me to lunch as a surprise.
And a friend sent me this which had me grinning.
Oh, and if you have any idea for how to make the filling for a pimped chocolate bourbon then please feel free to leave suggestions.
Personally I think they should go for the pimped jafa cake, but its already been done, and her daughter wants a selection of pimped biscuits for her 21st.
Oh Oh Oh..and how should I decorate the garden for Emma's 16th?
I'm going brain dead and she keeps going off on complete flights of fancy when i ask her .... by which i mean it would cost thousands to do what she wants.
So any ideas for fun 16th birthday styleee will also be greatly appreciated.
:D
:D
Friday, May 05, 2006
Wednesday, April 26, 2006
Olive has new shoes
And has had her tracking sorted too, so now i can zoom about without feeling like I'm gripping a pneumatic drill.
Plus i bought her an itrip so that i can listen to something other than crapy radio stations while doing said zooming without having to carry loads od cd's.
I only keep copies in the car anyway so that if someone horrible ran away with them I'd still have m y originals, but even so its a pain.
I also bought 'switching to the mac' so i can stop bothering my friends with silly questions ..... or as it was put ' so that i don't have to tell you one day, and then tell you again the next, and the next......' :D
and i saw A season for the dead by David Hewson in waterstones, which is the first in the series that a sacred cut is part of, so i got that too.
I didn't have any luck finding the jacket that i wanted though...they had it, but only in sizes that would fit a baby :( so I guess I'll just have to lug my coat around till its warm enough to be sure that i won't freeze on the station on the way home.
And now, I'm going to finish my tea and tootle off to cyber candy for goodies for the girls, and make my way home
Plus i bought her an itrip so that i can listen to something other than crapy radio stations while doing said zooming without having to carry loads od cd's.
I only keep copies in the car anyway so that if someone horrible ran away with them I'd still have m y originals, but even so its a pain.
I also bought 'switching to the mac' so i can stop bothering my friends with silly questions ..... or as it was put ' so that i don't have to tell you one day, and then tell you again the next, and the next......' :D
and i saw A season for the dead by David Hewson in waterstones, which is the first in the series that a sacred cut is part of, so i got that too.
I didn't have any luck finding the jacket that i wanted though...they had it, but only in sizes that would fit a baby :( so I guess I'll just have to lug my coat around till its warm enough to be sure that i won't freeze on the station on the way home.
And now, I'm going to finish my tea and tootle off to cyber candy for goodies for the girls, and make my way home
Sunday, April 23, 2006
Tickets! and bouncing:D
Much bouncing around the room happened yesterday for some very good reasons.
Dr Who , thanks to jo who reminded that me it was on and set the sky thing to reming us. :D
Green Wing , which i missed on friday and had to spend the day at work walking away to avoid listening to everybody going over all the funny bits...which basically means ALL of it :D
Richard Ashcroft, well, ok not in the flesh, but the tickets got dropped off :D
Of course this then prompted the question this morning of who was going to look after Jo when we go....
and of course I'd totally forgotten to add this into the equation.
So now I'd better ask my mum nicely if she'll have her for the evening.
Todays bouncing has already started due to Dave getting up earlyish with an upset tum and hence me also being up earlyish, checking out the gig listings at brixton academy while i was looking for directions of how to get there and ending up booking tickets for Death Cab For cutie too.
Bounce Bounce Bounce
:D :D :D
Oh, and if you watched it, did anyone else find it sightly surreal that they cast Pauline collins as Queen Victoria?
Dr Who , thanks to jo who reminded that me it was on and set the sky thing to reming us. :D
Green Wing , which i missed on friday and had to spend the day at work walking away to avoid listening to everybody going over all the funny bits...which basically means ALL of it :D
Richard Ashcroft, well, ok not in the flesh, but the tickets got dropped off :D
Of course this then prompted the question this morning of who was going to look after Jo when we go....
and of course I'd totally forgotten to add this into the equation.
So now I'd better ask my mum nicely if she'll have her for the evening.
Todays bouncing has already started due to Dave getting up earlyish with an upset tum and hence me also being up earlyish, checking out the gig listings at brixton academy while i was looking for directions of how to get there and ending up booking tickets for Death Cab For cutie too.
Bounce Bounce Bounce
:D :D :D
Oh, and if you watched it, did anyone else find it sightly surreal that they cast Pauline collins as Queen Victoria?
Wednesday, April 19, 2006
elderberry and damson
Damn, damn and double bugger.
I've just taken a walk down to the very end of the garden to get a closer look at what has actually been done to my trees.
they were supposed to be tidied up and an overgrown elderberry cut down .
*Note to self*
Never, Ever leave workmen to work unsupervised.
Ever.
At All.
Not even for a second.
And what do you think i found?
A missing Damson, which they were supposed to prune gently so that it would start to bear fruit more prolifically.
and a flowering [ if rather hacked about ] elderberry.
I could have cried.
So i think they are all going to have to come out, and I'll start again.
Hmmmmmmmm.......
I was going to draw a little plan of how it will look in the end, but I can't find the equivalent of 'paint' on my mac.
Now it's quite possible that its me.
Especially since I got moaned at recently for asking the same question about how i did things on here too many times.
*hangs head in shame*
But I really HAVE looked this time, and i can't find it.
So.....lets see if i can paint a mental picture.
Behind the new patio, running to the very end of the garden, is a space that was full of brambles and big river stones [all buried and we have no idea why they were there] and a mish mash of overgrown shrubs and leggy trees.
its about 15' by 20' and at the moment had earth piled up in a hump down the middle so it arches upalong the longest length of it.
What we want to do is level the earth, cover it with a thick layer of gravel, put some stepping stone type slabs in the central section, running from the steps that come from the new patio to about 3' from the back [ really just so i have somewhere stable to stand while i prune the stuff that's going in.
In the rectangular area surrounding the centre I want to plant some medium sized shrubs, probably with a holly and something else suitably spiky at the back where the fence opens out onto the garages behind, and a flowering cherry or a magnolia and an apple tree.
If I chose them properly even when they are fully grown there will be enough space for both of them.
Then I'll put some low lighting down there, and a semi hidden bench,and just keep it as a quiet secluded part of the garden for me to sit and read in.
That will leave the new patio for sunbathing / playing netball on.
The bit up from that with the big pampas grasses/a dwarf willow /a mock orange [philadelphus] /some honeysuckle /a couple of cordyline/a potentilla/ and some incidental bits and pieces.
All of which should be big enough to screen the view of the house from the lower patio and vice versa.
Then finally the lawn and the small patio up by the house.
Its a long thin garden.
But it's MY long thin garden, and i can see how i want it to be in my head.
I've just taken a walk down to the very end of the garden to get a closer look at what has actually been done to my trees.
they were supposed to be tidied up and an overgrown elderberry cut down .
*Note to self*
Never, Ever leave workmen to work unsupervised.
Ever.
At All.
Not even for a second.
And what do you think i found?
A missing Damson, which they were supposed to prune gently so that it would start to bear fruit more prolifically.
and a flowering [ if rather hacked about ] elderberry.
I could have cried.
So i think they are all going to have to come out, and I'll start again.
Hmmmmmmmm.......
I was going to draw a little plan of how it will look in the end, but I can't find the equivalent of 'paint' on my mac.
Now it's quite possible that its me.
Especially since I got moaned at recently for asking the same question about how i did things on here too many times.
*hangs head in shame*
But I really HAVE looked this time, and i can't find it.
So.....lets see if i can paint a mental picture.
Behind the new patio, running to the very end of the garden, is a space that was full of brambles and big river stones [all buried and we have no idea why they were there] and a mish mash of overgrown shrubs and leggy trees.
its about 15' by 20' and at the moment had earth piled up in a hump down the middle so it arches upalong the longest length of it.
What we want to do is level the earth, cover it with a thick layer of gravel, put some stepping stone type slabs in the central section, running from the steps that come from the new patio to about 3' from the back [ really just so i have somewhere stable to stand while i prune the stuff that's going in.
In the rectangular area surrounding the centre I want to plant some medium sized shrubs, probably with a holly and something else suitably spiky at the back where the fence opens out onto the garages behind, and a flowering cherry or a magnolia and an apple tree.
If I chose them properly even when they are fully grown there will be enough space for both of them.
Then I'll put some low lighting down there, and a semi hidden bench,and just keep it as a quiet secluded part of the garden for me to sit and read in.
That will leave the new patio for sunbathing / playing netball on.
The bit up from that with the big pampas grasses/a dwarf willow /a mock orange [philadelphus] /some honeysuckle /a couple of cordyline/a potentilla/ and some incidental bits and pieces.
All of which should be big enough to screen the view of the house from the lower patio and vice versa.
Then finally the lawn and the small patio up by the house.
Its a long thin garden.
But it's MY long thin garden, and i can see how i want it to be in my head.
Monday, April 17, 2006
fur coats , stiletto's, orange people and queues
Yup, all of the above were things that we saw on our weekend away at Alton Towers.
I don't have the energy right now to go into why people were wearing full length fur coats and stilettos to a theme park, and it would all be speculation anyway, but the orange people were scary.
I sort of hope it was fake tan, but somehow i doubt it.
Lets just say that on a chilly drizzly english easter sunday I didn't expect to be confronted with bare middles, low tops, corsets, 5 inch heels and spray painted faces .
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