Painting N' Decorating. Over the summer I painted two of the three bedrooms, and last week finally did the third so the carpets we bought in February could be laid. Just finished doing the stairs/bannister/upper hall, and now it's on to the bathroom. Lewis and I scraped the walls where cabinets had been stuck (leaving plastery lumps behind) and ( Read more... )

This marvelous little fellow arrived on my doorstep this morning, looking for a home, 12 Inches tall and fully articulated:


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Yum! Haha!


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I'm now on the other end of a process which has been going on for months. We had been looking for a council house swap not long after our daughter came on the scene as we were then instantly over crowded. We almost had a swap in September but it fell through. It was going to be a three way exchange with us moving into the house of the people who ( Read more... )

That was the worst New Year in my life. At the in laws, everyone except the mother in law was miserable. She offended certain people thus ruining her own so called party and remained oblivious. It was dull and desperate. I didn't even drink it was that bad, there was no point being the only one. Plus the presence of my brother in law cast its grim ( Read more... )

Beats the X-Factor, get it right up ye, Sacharin Si!

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Lewis and I had some fun today testing out his new sledge. I haven't fallen off a sledge for years, I heartily recommend it!


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This morning Lewis and I slipped and slid most of the way up to school, both of us nearly fell more than once. You could skate across the road ( Read more... )

I have been going through this journal the last few days and copying the entries into a word document. This is the first and longest running blog I have, there's a load of stuff from uni onwards, things I'd forgotten all about. I keep a diary now which I started this year. It has become a good habbit, so there has become less need/use for this, or ( Read more... )

Not quite Christmas yet, obviously but we're getting there. Still got alot of presents to buy for people, and we've been doing the cards tonight too ( Read more... )