Wednesday 4 May 2011

Overcoming a phobia...sort of!


Firstly, sorry for the lack of blogging...life has certainly got in the way! Very settled in our new home...busy making it look nice and welcoming. 

As the weather has been rather warm of late I've started on our back yard...which means overcoming a phobia of mine...snails! Yes I'm very very scared of them..slugs too! I come over all hot and panicky if I see one and of course the yard has quite a few of these animals. Well today I bravely managed to remove one from a plant pot...by flicking it away! Feel so proud of myself and hopefully this means that I'm going to be able to really make the yard a lovely place full of colour..providing the snails don't eat my precious plants!

So what phobia(s) do you have if any?

 Candy stripe Phlox - re-potted even with a snail in the way!

Friday 4 March 2011

We've done it!!


So Dale and I have finally decided on somewhere to rent, it's a lovely house nice and spacious and it's been recently decorated too which is a bonus! Also it's very near to where I work and lots of local amenities so all in all...perfect! 

Very excited to be able to buy nice things for it and make it our own and to just experience living together for the first time :)


Monday 28 February 2011

House hunting.

Right now my boyfriend and I are finally looking for somewhere to rent (we've been together for a very long time!) and I can't help but buy cute things for our future home! 


Whilst visiting family Down South I bought some of these adorable matryoshka dolls measuring spoons, how lovely are they! Can't wait to cook our first meal and to use them :) Next on my list of little things to buy is the Moomins cookbook....

Thursday 27 January 2011

An apology and a magazine interview.

Hi everyone, 

first I want to apologise for my lack of posting in the last few weeks! Life suddenly got very busy indeed. Hope you all had a lovely festive season, seems so long ago now doesn't it?

Secondly I would like to share a feature I did for an online magazine, I'm so proud of how it's turned out and want to thank the editors for giving me the opportunity!





Friday 17 December 2010

2 Trees


Just want to share this video with you all because it's very very good! Rather weird and a bit sad but the song is one of my favourites.
It's called 2 Trees and it's by a British band called Foals who are one the most amazing live bands you could see.
Enjoy.

Friday 3 December 2010

Snow = A Nightmare


You ready? Because this is a proper story.

Contrary to how I was feeling earlier in the week, I now have decided that I dislike the snow very much. This comes after the day I had yesterday which felt like a nightmare to say the least.

It started when I foolishly disregarded the advice given by members of my family and set off to work in my car, when I quite easily could have walked. I dug my car out of a huge heap of snow and set off. The drama started when I got stuck down a road near work and had to try and reverse out of the way for an oncoming van, slipped and skidded nearly hitting parked cars before getting stuck trying to park. I had to just bail out and leave the car parked rather shoddily. Felt rather shaken up once I arrived at work and decided that come the evening I would leave the car where it was if I couldn't get it out.

Went to unlock my car once I had finished work and did so before the keys slipped from my gloved hands......into the drain! I actually let out a scream of terror as I realised where they'd gone. I had to go home feeling distraught at the fact my car was left unlocked. However my Dad and Brother decided to go on an expedition armed with tools to try and fish my keys out...I felt optimistic but alas a phone call confirmed the keys were gone. (Please note I don't  have a spare!) So, feeling awfully glum about the whole situation I sat and thought about what I could do. Then my Brother appeared with a really long, thin piece of wood on which we attached an old wire coat hanger and so my boyfriend Dale and I set out in the snow once again to try and fish the keys from the drain.

As we were poking around in the drain several people passed offering their help, one lady suggested opening the drain, but to do that we need to move my car...so cue two men who offered to help push my car backwards with Dale to free the drain up. Their shere brute strength meant my car was sent backwards and we could open the drain. So began about an hour or so of fishing out leaves, a watch, a screwdriver and various other bits and bobs. Things were looking bad and so Dale rang a friend of his who lived nearby to aks if they had a magnet we could use and he did! But whilst we were waiting for the said friend with the magnet, the unthinkable happened....Dale fished out THE KEYS! I was in shock and just stared at them whilst Dale shouted 'well get them then!!' I carefully took the keys off the hook and danced around in the snow waving them in the air like a loony! Dale's friend arrived, a bit miffed that he couldn't use his strange
unfolding magnet thingy but he helped Dale give me a push start in the snow.

The moral of this story girls and boys is: Always Listen To Your Mother.

The. End.

Thursday 25 November 2010

Snow all over my car..

..this morning means it is DEFINITLEY winter!!!

Frozen hands whilst scraping it off but I do love it all the same :)