Spice Girls

Apparently this was not meant to be an insult

While sitting with two of my female friends, Ben came over and said "this isn't meant to be an insult but.... you three and C remind me of the Spice Girls."

This lead to him being asked why? how was it not an insult? and did he want to borrow a shovel?

The European Monsoon, Meese and Snowflakes

apparently this weird wet weather we are having is not unusual and happen every june and is known as the european monsoon. this monsoon brought a herd of meese to my house today.

i didn't have to work for my seventh day in a row because of the flooding and decided to bake meese and snowflakes - and they are very tasty

Danger Night....

at the hopins

when i was invited to go to DANGER NIGHT at the hopins i had absolutely no idea what claire was talking about - after a few moments of claire repeating the phrase DANGER NIGHT at the hopins and me looking back at her blankly she explained its the fair in exhibition park. and the reason for it being DANGER NIGHT is because it was the first night - so everything might fall apart.

So we went with some other friends as well and had good fun, but we all felt a bit out of place - we were all too old, had no toddlers with us and forgot to wear our velour tracksuits!

Midsummer's Night

it was nice to be driving home from work at 9.50pm in daylight. i had just been watching an outdoor, promenading performance of a midsummer night's dream on midsummer's night.

homesickness

its rare hat i feel homesick but today i got it bad. i was close to tears driving home from work missing the friends i had so much fun with last weekend and i probably won't see for quite some time, busy lives and a few hundred miles get in the way.

I'm not lost - just undiscovered

On the way home from work in the car today the song (that I don't know the title of or the artiste) with the line "I'm not lost! Just undiscovered!" was playing on the radio. Every time I hear it it reminds me of a youth fellowship summer outing years ago....

We were all walking from Whitehead to Blackhead lighthouse. Catherine and I decided to take a short cut / alternative route to the lighthouse. After sitting at the lighthouse for quite some time the rest of the group never appeared so we headed back to Whitehead. On arrival at the carpark everyone laughed at us because we got lost - but Catherine and I kept insisting "we weren't lost! just they didn't know where we were! we knew exactly where we were.

Scary - Moi???

I have never considered myself as a particularly scary person, but on Saturday night it transpired that I once was. Even now looking back I don't think I was any more scary or angry that any other teenager. But some people think I was.

On Saturday night while out for dinner with Mr and Mrs C I was being accused of having broken Mrs C's bath 8 years ago (back when Mrs C was Miss T). I have no memory of this event but according to them they (and another friend) had decided it would be funny to put me fully clothed in the bath and when Mr C put his foot on my head to push me into the bath I lost it!!!

My response to this was "well if that is what happened I'm not surprised I lost it"

and in allegedly losing it I allegedly broke the side of the bath.

I still have no memory of this incident (obviously too traumatic for my brain to cope with)

Then Mrs C said "you've got to admit you were kinda scary back then when you lost your temper"!!!!

I won

Yay

I've managed to blog before Catherine and Esther today!!!!

We have to blog everyday from today till next Sunday and I have blogged first today!!!!

The pain of vanitiy

On Friday night we were out at a ball and I wore my wedding shoes (well wedding strappy sandals) and they KILLED my feet.

I have worn these shoes four times in total
#1 wedding day - I wore them all day not a problem
#2 friend's hen night - not really any problems
#3 andrew's work ball - I fell down the stairs in them because I couldn't walk in them
#4 work ball on friday night - I could hardly walk, particularly when it came to walking across the gravel carpark to get to my car (oh I was glad I had brought my uggs to drive in!!!!!

I don't think I'll be wearing them again

Metamorphosis

our back yard is slowly turning into a garden, we now have grass and the beginning of a rockery.

Bored

Match of the day is on and I'm bored!!!

Amadeus

The latest addition to our family was born today, although he won't come to live with us until the end of July. His name is Amadeus and he is a black and white Norwegian Forest Cat. He was only 12hrs old when we met him today.

Introducing

Our new kitten, he doesn't have a name yet, suggestions welcomed.

The last kiss

No-one told me it wasn't a romantic comedy....

Nutmeg

Nutmeg died on Good Friday. The house is now very quiet without her.

That's not how we practised!

Into riff x 2
Verse
Chorus
Verse
Chorus
Bridge
Bridge split - men sing bridge, women sing chorus
Bridge split no instruments

well that was how it was meant to go

however

Intro riff x 1
verse
chorus
verse
chorus
bridge
bridge split - men sing bridge women sing chorus
bridge - piano solo (singers standing in mute silence)

As I sat down I muttered to the trumpeter "that wasn't how we practised"

Juicy Moosey

Guess where we were #2

Here are the photos!

Where are we?

Guess where we were on Thursday - here are the photos

language barrier

When I went away for my course for a few weeks, I was exhaust when I arrived, then recovered during he week, but was exhausted again by the end of it.

On the first night I was sitting in the lounge with all the others on the course and two of them were chatting about the desserts they had eaten at dinner time, however I was struggling to understand the conversation, and I only knew they were talking about desserts because I heard the words "lemon sponge" but apart from that I couldn't understand any other words.

I put it down to tiredness

A few days later I discovered they were both from north Wales and Welsh was their first language.

I was relieved to realise that I wasn't losing the ability to understand English.