Sweet nothings

ten, about now

1) I know, tuesday; missed it again. I think I'm totally going to just have a weekly ten round up and stop trying so hard to hit one particular day. Some weeks are just a lot of little bits sewn together, and other weeks are like a crazy blur. I dont always like it, I get a dizzy 'lost' feeling when things pick up speed. I dont even go to work 'in an office' and I swear I have no time some weeks to breatheeee. Mind you, I should be quiet; there was a time in my life where I had nothing to do and felt like I had nowhere to go either. I am beginning to see life is never a happy medium - its peak or a dip, its a rush or relax. Time to go with that and stop grumbling I think ;)

2) Reverberating around my head the phrase 'dont wait til you start dying before you start living'  Amen. Do you have a bucket list? And is your bucket list full of huge massive things like 'travel to riduculously expensive location' and 'jump from a plane'? Well; youre doing it wrong. You need to list the little things. Life is the little things. It is finding/making/having time to walk down the lane to grab an ice lolly. It is teaching the kids how to catch minows. It is making the effort to pack a blanket and have a picnic out of the damn car and on the grass. Ditching the Tv for a night looking at starry skies. Write a story. Paint a picture. By all means; jump from your plane, but dont assume your Bucket list of good stuff cannot start til you win the lottery. Life has so very clearly been shouting this phrase at me. 

3) Once upon a time I had a houseful of four kids. Lordy lordy, it was mad. Its was messy - and I felt judged. It was loud - and I felt judged. It was crazy busy and I felt sooooo different from every tiny one child family.
I did a lot of stressing over mess and noise. I did a lot of shouting about the mess and noise. Now, now I know the overly tidy, overly quiet, houses are dull as hell and they wished they were my mad house.
My two big kids are currently in various places about Europe -with plans to go to different places too and I know I DID GOOD. They are good people, they are FANTASTIC kids, sorry; adults.
They rock and the world is a better place because they are in it.
The morals you teach them, the genuine real values you share with them, make them a much better person than all the tidy rooms in the world. {But, guys, if you read this, yes, you still have to take your shoes off and make your beds... ;) } 

4) The world has eaten all my money. Just saying.

5) I'm an old soppy. I was away with some really good girl friends recently and there was one minute we were all stood on an escalator together. In some store or another. I looked about and thought how happy I was, with my girlies around me. I could have welled up there. Had I not been aware the girls would have teased me endlessly for days ;) One day, somehow, I will gather my girlies lovelies from all over the globe and be in the same place as them all. THAT is top of my bucket list. Friends I love, close by, somewhere nice. Like an escalator, obviously... ;) HAHAHA.

6) At the possibility of needing quite a lot of flooring in our possible new house to be {tooo many possibles - driving me nuts} I am obsessed with floors everywhere I go. I realised this was out of hand when I asked the guy in the coffee shop where he'd  got his floor. Of course he didnt get it, the big company did, and yes, he did act like I was seriously insane.. Nice floor tho! ;)

7) okay, after the escalator and floor posts, you too are prob doubting my brain sanity. Its okay :) 

8) There is a downside to having teens and adults out in the world you know. Other than you miss them, {and they seem to think you are a bank...} and thats that they tend to text random one line texts of utter depression or sadness.  things like  'I hate my life' 'I am so broke I might stay in bed all day' ' I am so homesick' ' life is ****' These texts send you into a frantic worrying spin. You send jolly replies and cheer up smilies. You hear nothing. You ring,  after  a day or so of worry, and
they are fine. they love it. they are a bit too busy to talk to you right now so ....

!!!

9)  Hugo cat has a new regular daily schedule... He wakes up in the kitchen, where he gets shut for the night, he askes for two breaksfasts.... this is fairly easy to get away with as so many of us feed him, then he goes upstaris to the main bathroom, where he sit on the stone window sill and watches the birds in the nearby nests. About twenty minutes after that, he climbs to the top floor and looks out the window for a bit, before retiring to his bed up there. He usually sleeps alllllll day. appearing at tea time for more food and a wander around the garden. Then he appears by my side at about 11pm to ask for even more food before getting shut in the kitchen for bed... Honestly; he runs this schedule pretty tightly every day. He's a funny one. 

10) Following the advice of the trainer at the gym I've been doing something very different to my usual workout. I have to date done three different exercise dvds and made an effort every day to climb the stairs at a run thirty times.  This week - since I started it - I'd like to say its brilliant but I cant move without saying ouch ...and am so tired I would like to nap hourly. But when checking these results with the guy at the gym, he simply said 'excellent! thats great!' Um... I am looking forward to back to the treadmill next week!!!

ten on tuesday. no really. 4th june 2013

1) Its Tuesday, I remembered. holy heck. I can feel myself grasping a little bit more sanity back and rationalising things. Behold my lovely blog to keep me sane and on the right track of days times and damn nice people who comment :) 

2) Lately it seems to be hash tags that are making me chuckle. Once solely used to 'keyword' things on sites such as Instagram, they are now all over my world and often very very funny. 

3) I have the app Happier, and I am liking it so far.. You know how us scrapbookers and story tellers are always on about 'being grateful for little things' and taking the time to appreciate  the now? {we are right by the way ;) }
Well this app askes you to write down every day three things that make you happy. In a very cute way with room for photos and sharing. I've really struggled to find things some days, and not had any trouble on others.  I like the way it categorises items so I can see what brings me more happiness - like being outdoors, being with friends, family etc. Its cute, not pushy.

4) Teen daughter is in Paris, France. She has a work placement from her current job over to one of their branches there for two weeks. I hope its going okay. I've only had a couple of texts...  She traveled by herself - via taxi, train, plane and thats a pretty big deal :) Okay - the big deal is she traveled by herself on all those and didnt get lost/end up in Morocco! I know plenty of much much older adults who couldnt do that! 

5) This weekend is a girlie trip with some of my dear friends. Its going to be, basically, silly fun. And lordy, I need me some silly fun. High heels, wines, dancing, shopping, chocolate, and no doubt a fair few stay up silly late putting the world to rights type conversations. {Please dont think Mr Britguy is left out, he's been on two boy's ski trips already this year, he's just fine!} Can somebody remind me to bring the phone charger, camera battery and heaven knows what else. We girls never EVER knowingly underpack!!!

6) Mad crazy rush over the last few school weeks to fit everything in before the summer break. There are trips and clubs and special days and a list as long as my arm of things to take in. I am the worlds worst mother at this stuff. I cannot keep it straight and organised any more. Which is why I adored this link, from facebook, to this blog the other day. I HEAR HER!!! 

7) Having started to try on swimwear for hot days, beaches and vacations... can I just say its exhausting shopping for it. Its exhausting stripping off to try each piece on, its exhausting figuring out the forty billion shapes, styles and designs, and its horrendous seeing the price of some of that stuff!! I have a body complex after any swimwear shopping trip.  

8) Buttercups have overtaken the bluebells down the lanes around here. The colour shift is quite impressive. Poking out from under hedges or filling the grazing fields...

9) Look at this little lady I have had the pleasure of photographing...

she was not sure about sitting on the grass at first... and had to sample a bit to check it out ;) 

10) Leaving you with this one of my nephews and my little people, out on a walk I dragged them on :) 

 

ten on tuesday 30th April

1) Mr Britguy had a birthday this week. He is now as old as me again. I do not like the teasing I get for the part of the year we are different ages. I think he enjoyed his birthday.... hard to tell. Men are not generally birthday folk. Me -I like attention, fuss and gifts on my day ;) He likes breakfast in bed, a gift or two, a day off work and thats about it.  Whilst out with Grown up Son we found this sign and made Mr Britguy stand next to it. funny!

2) I have lost my sorting out mojo. So much in my downloads folder to file, so many emails to delete, so many personal  photos to edit, pile of paperwork to sort.... meh. just cant be faffed. Its not urgent or exciting, so it gets left. 

3) I have new medicines... and they have knocked me for six. I'm so tired in a dizzy spaced out way. lovely, such fun!

4) I stepped up to confrontation this week, and its exhausting.... I'm rubbish at confrontation, {other than realising when its needed its needed, brushing things under the carpet is bad for your health} and it seems to make no difference if I am in the right or wrong, I find it equally as stressful. I don't know how well I handled it, I made my point, I got my apology and I moved on. breeeeeeeeath out and keep going. 

5) Mollie is off to Covent Garden, in London to see a Ballet with her school. How very cool. I cant wait to hear what she thinks of it!  I always get a bit nervous of the kids travelling by school coach, so I personally will be relived when she is home safe ;) Its a Mum thing. 

6) Acronyms. they are a way of my life, my friends life, my online life, and generally normal to me....... and I forget when they arent in every one's life. Get asked a lot by Mr Britguy - he doesnt live online like me ;) my parents/older relatives and a few off the grid friends. Which do you use most? I think LOL is my usual response to something via text.... IYSWIM is too. WTH is the polite version of a frequent one of mine too ;)  My kids use CBA a lot and a few others I sometimes have to pause and think about. 

7)We only have two pet chickens now, but they dilgently lay us eggs everyday. Not enough to feed the family all the eggs we need, but as a special treat.

8) I had m&ms for lunch today. It was a lunch on the run kinda day. These were all I had in my car!

9) Lost a whole hour of time today.... stood at the third floor open window, watching the deer graze in the golden light of not quite dusk. Watched the bunnies eat the lawn of the nearby Manor house, and the finches flit from branch to branch next to me. The wood pigeon dozed on the telegraph pole and the market pigs across the lane raced each other for the sake of it, across their enclosure and back again.  You could hear the plaintive call of the sheep several fields away, a cuckoo calling, and a few squeals from the pigs.
There was prob something more productive I could have done but frankly, I wouldnt have missed that hour for anyone. Living here, with a view from our windows, has taught us more how to just 'be' and how to stop rushing about sometimes.  Views rock.

10) loving HONY photography blog. Just love it. Been reading for a few months now. Would love to do something like that locally - although people being british and based in a village, will no doubt blank me or find me threatening...LOL 

 

ten on tuesday 22nd April

1) I've just discovered the 'dressing room' part of the H&M website. How fun. - you can try on {on a digital model} the clothes you are looking at, adding layers and shoes and all sorts. then you can bundle it all up and buy it. Its rather fun, and yes I know, its prob been around for ages... but I only found it tonight!

2) oh, I've got into a very bad email habit. I skim my inbox and read any important ones, I ignore the spam/offers/not so urgent ones. I've stopped deleting them....and so currently it says {at least}

and I have lost all interest in deleting them/sorting them. When I have a spare day in my life I will clear my inbox. *no spare day appearing ahead* 

3) I have buyers nerves. I pressed buy on a very....er...quirky gift for Mr Britguy. He's truly going to think I'm nuts. I have no idea if he's going to like it. But, I ask you, what do you buy the man who has everything he wants, asks for nothing {aside from occasionally mentioning he'd like to fly a jet fighter, drive a F1 car and other things costing about the same as a small house...}  and dislikes birthday fuss??? Well, you dont get him a thing, you get him an experience trying something. This has got harder too, as he has now done everything I could think of, {jet and F1 aside...} until somebody randomly mentioned this experience and I thought; oooooo thats new! and then I keep my fingers crossed he will actually do it. 

4) Part of our new house is open plan.... today one of the smoke detectors started doing that really annoying intermittent beep to warn the battery is low. Took me ages wondering around to find out which one it was as they all echo'd in the space... It was the one above the stairwell of course. We dont have a ladder and it required me balancing on a sofa bed, a wooden beam, and leaning across to a sloping wall to get it down. That saying 'do something every day that scares you'? Done it!

5) This is the week of appointments in this house. A whole week of hospital, dentist, doctor, teacher, client, and home appointments. I dont handle such a full and preplanned week of  'grown up' stuff very well, I have to do one day at a time and not panic by looking ahead. If I'm late for anything I get in such a tizz,  in fact I only have to think I'm late for something and I freak out....I am looking forward to next monday!!...

6) I've been asked to guest post at very cool places. I look forward to sharing that with you. fabulous fun and feels like such an honour! I also very much look forward to having a guest post back here :) :) *ahem Trude* ;) 

7) Hurrah for sort of spring, these bursts of warm weather are good for the soul. They do still turn into chilly spells of weather too and are making getting dressed a nightmare. I dont have a clue what to wear unless its raining or hot. this 'may do anything' weather has thrown me. Plus, I swear every year I look in my wardrobe as the warm weather arrives...and find nothing. Is it just me, or do you too say -what the heck did I wear last year??

8) Dont ask unmarried but living together friends  how their husbands are, it annoys them greatly. I'm sorry guys....  I have a pet hate question too tho - dont ask newly moved in people if they are thinking of living here long/moving soon. No, we never say never, but I just UNDID all those boxes thanks!

9) We - the little girls and I - walked approx 12-15 miles this weekend. Its just what you DO when in these lanes and its gloriously sunny. SO lovely.  One route took us by the ice cream parlour after 45 minutes of walking - v handy. But I personally liked the sunday route that {finally!} took us to the pub for lunch and back. Long walk, totally worth it. However, have to say, combined with the 40 minutes weeding also this weekend, my body is complaining a little!  Every time the sun shines here we look at the view and go walk and walk :) - could be either a super fit summer or a very achey one!

10) Speaking of blue skies, I just made this -

ten on tuesday 16th April

1) OMG its Tuesday and I remembered before it was Wednesday ;) Second OMG tho has to go to the date - 16th? already? Totally wasnt concentrating on the first half of April....

2) Coffee, tiffin and coffee. That's my morning sorted then. If you arent sure, a tiffin is a posh squidgy sort of chocolate refrigerator cake. Yes - the recipe. Will post it :) I have a bunch of recipe requests I need to address.

3) Took Pirate photos for the school today - it is dress as a Pirate day in the Infant school. Super cute. I love my work :)

4) POSTERS Thats what I am making. Photo posters, collage posters, type posters. New arty work requests have come my way. Happy to do it and happy to see the market for it too. Look forward to sharing it, when I can. 

5) Starting to believe the season has actually changed from its never ending grey wet freezing eternity. Things are a tad greener, seeds are growing, blossom is appearing, and its baby season around here. Particularly, as we live in farming country, piglets and lambs. Even the hardest heart is softened by the baby faces... 

6) Gym was awesome yesterday. New exercise app and new music, empty all to myself gym and SCHOOL WAS BACK IN. In fact most of the day was awesome because school was back in. ;) :) I'm on child 3 & 4 here people, dont judge me wanting child free time. I adore my girls. I adore my big kids too. I just dont want 24 hours a day with them right here under my feet so I turn round and fall over them. I'm a person too, as well as a laundry machine, entertainment provider and general cook! 

7) Caught up on New Girl, and Holby, - yes if my TV viewing is up to date, my ironing is done. 

8)  Excellent parents evening for Miss Mollie. I always feel for kids at school, they have to fit into these boxes and be brilliant at every subject, when really, in the real world who is good at everything? But Mollie is flying in her favourite subjects whilst still working hard in the things that arent as fun for her. I am very lucky to have had four bright kids, who try hard and do well, and generally come from/have a 'work' ethic. 

9)
The girls have new converse sneakers. Because of how shoes are here these days, they have reached 9 & 7 and never needed to tie shoelaces... velcro - yes, buckles - yes, slip ons of many types - yes. Shocked they didnt really know how to tie laces, we got these to help the issue, and yes because new shoes were needed. Both girls cracked the bow tying in a few goes. yeah!

10) We sorted out the girls clothes - we being me of course ;) The pile that didnt fit was nearly as tall as Daisy.... wow, how they grow.  Looks like some shopping is needed in the future. They are getting so tall... sigh....

ten things. you know. not on anything like tuesday. 11th April

Are you taking the spring school break off from writing ten on tuesday?
Taking a break from ten on tuesday? to keep it fresh?
I miss your ten on tuesday!

So, only when people actually said those things to me did I realise that indeed, tuesdays seem to have slipped by me this school holiday on the blog.  It wasn't a purposeful thing, no. It was much more a what day IS it? where are we supposed to be today? and what am I late for? sort of thing.
Like most of the school breaks ;) I am not one for doing nothing during a break from school but I am not naturally super organised and the unimportant parts of routine slip out the window pretty much....

1) This is a bit 'deep' but its right at the front of my head so...
Some thing, some how, over the last year or so, has really changed inside me. I dont know if its to do with the work put in to recover from depression and its lasting insecurities or if its a growing old up thing,  but there has been a noted shift in how I feel about particular things. Like -I cant bear judging - the assuming you know a person that you DONT know, or a situation you dont know,  and making some harsh judgments. Being a bit too vocal over what you think they should do, what you would do. I find myself more tolerant of different type of people, in different situations, than I was previously - yet ironically the one type of comment or trait I get super mad over recently is this judging thing. This is not just something I have noticed in my personal life,  but in the media so much more lately. Makes me sick. Walk a mile in their shoes, people, or shut the freak up. 

2) That soap box off my chest ;) Do you think my kids will notice if I make a chocolate tiffin with their easter eggs? so much chocolate just sat there. Makes me want to bake!

3) Manners. are important. How to hold a fork, dont talk to me with your mouthful -  please dont! Hold the door, say please and thank you. Look at people when they are talking to you, ETC. How about -respect, and not talking ill of the dead? I'm not remotely interested what you thought of Margaret Thatcher as a Prime Minster, but as a recently decreased person, with a grieving family, you can show some respect and shhhhhhh. Common decency and oooo, look; linked to number 1). Told you its bothering me!!!

4) I'm sat making a layout all about deer - never made one about deer before! - and wondering if it is too late to watch something on the iplayer as its midnight and the rest of the house may hear. I'm wide awake. Of course. this is because I fell asleep at 7pm for an hour or so... recipe for disaster! 

5) I was recently asked to think of the one person who changed your life. Not in a having my child was so life changing kind of way either. It was supposed to be someone unrelated to you. No, I cant name just one person. But I did think of a few people who had massive directional influences on my life. I think I will share the list at a later date, but I leave you to dwell on it. 

6) Wotsits. 96 calories. Mini roll of loveheart sweets. 21 calories. = my go to 'junk' snacks. Just saying.

7) Tomorrow involves a fun shoot. And baking. And uh...laundry. Woo hoo to the first two anyway! the third never seems to decrease..... is it just my house?!

8) Counting down. To a nice day, a horrible day, a bloody stressful thing, a night out dancing, a test, a meal, and a trip away. Luckily not all on the same day LOL LOL LOL but I am very aware of the dates on the calendar lately...Personally I'm a fan of May/June this year...

9) Need lots of sleep tomorrow. Not only is it the school run again soon, but there are more little girlie sleepovers here this weekend. No sleep had by many. Followed by cranky the following day. Lovely....

10) So many channels on TV, plus so little time to waste on tv watching means I never seem to watch what 'everybody else' is watching. This means a fair few conversations amongst friends where I look blank and have no clue at all what they are on about. Mind you, thats not that unusual ;) My viewing recently has been -Eastenders, Dr Who, Bluestone 42, The new Normal, Holby, and an occasional docu based reality show or two. I watch nearly all of this on the ipad while doing the ironing.... I cant remember the last time I sat down in the sitting room for TV watching. I'm normally here, in the study, editing and talking to you guys :) 

ten on thursday instead

I had a bit of a crazy tuesday  and an early night. so ten on tuesday got waylaid. Here it is :)

1) Dont you LOVE the {scary} insight into what other people are searching on the internet... Google's suggested auto complete... Like this one I saw today
 

HOLY heck. that's funny, Jam is obviously sooooo very similar to peanut butter you'd better google the difference. And the difference between me and you? CHASMS I think!!  ;)

2) When you know someone is not happy, not right and not doing okay about something.... you have two choices. Say hey, you okay? and change the subject. Or, sit down and just listen. To the lovely people who sat down and listened to me this week... Karma owes you big. Lottery wins and free cake, gotta be coming your way xxxx

3) Heres to booking holidays and trips, and getting to the fun bit of planning and shopping for it!! woo! shopping!!

4) As a someone witha total interest -bordering on fetish- in weather I'd like to announce I'm not reading the forecast anymore. Not since I spent yet another day with curling frizzy hair, in freezing cold drizzle, with blah grey skies all around and someone told me the next few days weather forecast. I nearly cried. I'm not going to even get up on Saturday!!!

5) Do you still know someone who cant use the internet? Are those people out there still? or can everyone at least use google? I recently had the pleasure {using the term politely and veree loosely} of talking to someone who insists the internet is just 'naked filth' {their words}  and bad for your health. wow. Now, I can survive without it thanks, but frankly having online banking changed my life. Never mind the support, knowledge, help and bloody good fun. And thats just on the naked filth sites. hahahaha. Joking joking. sorry. ;) HONEST to goodness tho, its not new nor newfangled, nor something you needed not be bothered with, it is the way we do things in the modern world, research and keep in touch. ITS ESSENTIAL> Its like rebelling against the  invention of books, or a pen. Sheesh. 

6) Playing some old Cds in the car. After a bit Daisy leans forward and says... what are they saying? I cant quite get it. I cant wait for Santa's what? 
It was

I cant get no satisfaction.

:)

7) Parents evenings loom imminent. I never quite feel grown up enough to go to these things. Mind you they are not much at these ages.... not like the secondary school ones where you have to wait around forever and see ten different teachers. *shudder* The infant school ones are best, first you attempt to sit on tiny tiny chairs that are practically on the floor, then you make a bash at deciphering the spelling/handwriting of your child's work {good luck with that} Then you ask how are they doing in maths... and they say fine. How are they doing in English? fine. Art? fine. PE? fine. Take a help your child with cursive writing leaflet and creak like mad getting up off low chair, go home.  Pretty much it. 

8) Daisy's school give termly certificates out based on 'golden' skills. The class secretly vote and certificates say things like 'for being a good friend' 'for always doing the right thing' 'for being helpful and kind'  How awesome is that? I wish we had them in our day to day life. How about 'for doing the tenth load of laundry even tho you did five yesterday'? 'for being a great friend and turning up with wine/cake at the right moment'? 

9) Pret sandwich bars do a small bar of semi dark chocolate with sea salt. It is rather perfect, in both size and taste. Just saying. 

10) Its that Easter-y time of year. When I try to ignore the perfect types who are talking loudly about the fifty million planned activities they are going to do with their children. Such fun, story book themed egg hunts at stately homes and making bunnies out of willow branches.  With fabric rug weaving and home made pasta whipped up with spring greens. Hand dyed goose eggs with intials freeze dried on. Preferably whilst wearing Boden wellies. Yeah. Its a lot like that here. But with supermarket chocolate eggs and DVDs....

 

ten on tuesday 12th March

1) I am multi tasking on the editing and photo front. It is not easy lol. I'm also waiting for the weather to warm up a teeeeeny tiny bit so I can get out on my next shoot!!!! IT IS SO COLD. 

2) I am keen to see who is the new Pope. Yes, I know. Ever since the Pope visit to our local town when we lived in Germany  I've been fascinated by each Pope. Honestly I had never seen such celebrity status grab hold of a town. There were Pope shaped lollipops, Pope hats, Pope flags, new donations of gold to the church shrines, weeping women, and more street cleaning than I have ever seen. It didnt matter your religion, or the level of your faith, you got caught up in the Pope is coming! fever. 

3) I had a lovely telephone chat with Teen daughter on Mothers Day. Shes a busy happy girl and loving her work. The photos back to home are a bit few and far between but otherwise I am so glad :) She texts me, and I send her care parcels. A sort of fair exchange ;) Shes currently looking after 70 children from breakfast to dinner and bedtimes. mmm. bet that bit is fun! She is also climbing mountains, doing challenging assault courses, kayaking sunlit rivers, and trying not to lose all 70 kids during hide and seek.... 

4) Totally Grown Up Son came home for Mothers Day and made me a favourite treat. Having him home is always lovely :) 

5) Its been a week of haircuts. The girls, mine, and then TGU Son's today. His didnt go so well. How bad?....He had to wait for the management to come and fix it and get offered free head massages etc... LOL {Dear son; This is what you get for going to cheap barbers and not a salon!} 

6) Its very hard to shop for warmer temperatures when its minus something outside. Just saying.

7) Darn good Tv on tonight. I'm not a TV person really, but tuesdays tv means I will have something to catch up on all week on iPlayer. Woot! Hurrah for the iPlayer on the ipad, or the computer, that means I dont have to go interrupt the TV spilling out Disney and Top Gear to the rest of my herd....

8) I have become very fickle with my Radio listening.... I have always been a mixtape kinda girl - even now its mix disk which sounds all wrong - but lately I find I am this radio station for the breakfast show, this radio station for the after school run, this radio station if I'm driving at night, and this radio station for hate-that-song-have-to-turn-over. Fickle I tell you. LOL And yes, 9/10 of my radio listening is in the car!

9) Excited to have planned and booked; a trip with some girlie friends to a nice four star hotel, a photowalk with a clever 'tographer, and a family London trip. Three more trips in the planning..... big world got to see more of it right? :)

10) A Daisy layout....

until next week.... x

things I've noticed - extra ten on wednesday......

1) We have a lot of bread in the house. This is because Teen Daughter and Mr Britguy are NOT in the house. 

2) We have half the amount of laundry too. See reason above...

3) I'm talking to myself a lot. Maybe its the reason above, maybe I'm crazy, maybe I just have a lot to say ;)

4) The birds nesting in the clock tower above my bedroom {absolutely not as grand as it sounds} get up at pretty much the same time every day. The tiny scrabbling noise followed with fluttering wakes me up. It is approx twenty minutes before my alarm is set to go off. Killer.

5) Even when you live in a rural area the only time you walk by the window naked or half dressed will be when there is a random passing person outside...

6) Children's hairdressers are an excellent idea. When you take your kids. When other peoples kids come in and are basically precocious, obnoxious, brats, then children's hairdressers are a terrible idea. Ditto children's saturday cinema viewings. 

7) Somebody has stolen all the medium envelopes in this house. wth??...

8) music really really affects my driving. If its fast and upbeat, I will overtake you.... ;) 

9) I can see the sunrise thro our loft window from my bed...sometimes the sun rises and floods the sky with golden light and streaks of pure beauty, amazing.  And sometimes the sun just sort of gets up and 'is there'.  I can relate.... ;)

10) I mailed out a few things today, {YES I lined up at a post office with the strange people who always seem to be there.. anyway ...} one thing I sent was a medium sized parcel to Wales - pretty far from here. How long do you think it will take? I asked... oh probably by tomorrow as its first class she said. wow. I also posted a card, {first class too} to the next town from me. How long will this take? I asked... oh about two to three days she said. um.... what? 

 

ten on tuesday 5th March

 I normal post my ten on tuesday so late its Wednesday. So just to mix it up, its still Monday here for a few minutes.. LOL ....

Sharing some randomness from my late night world. 

Okay, that sounds dodgy. 

Randomness from my normal world, even if its late? late in the day randomness? Randomness I finally have time to sit down and share? 

anyway....

 

1) I would like to stay here. Hawaii hotel. Oooo, looks pretty. And I'm writing this one first because my husband DOES read my blog, but merely skims it after about ten lines...

2) I would very much like to stay here too. Nothing like Hawaii, in the slightest...but urber gorgeous. And I think I can afford getting to here....A good girlie friend and I are looking for places to stay this year - I say here :) I'll write this second in case she skim reads it too ;)

3) Dooce never fails to make me laugh. She recently linked to this bad lip-reading and it made me laugh and  laugh so I thought I'd share it too. hours of fun...

4) Its a bloody nightmare changing a king sized duvet by yourself. Especially if you exercised your arm muscles earlier in the day and the part where you shake the duvet out with arms at full stretch is a lot like torture.... How much is a person paid to change duvets? And can I also hire them to do that horrendous job of unpacking and putting away forty billion groceries??? I HATE that job. 

5) The cat is talking to me. No, I haven't been drinking. He really is. He makes this tiny little chirpy purr noise at me when he wants feeding. If you make it back { I speak cat like Dory speaks whale..} he makes it again. Can go on for hours. Until he gets so mad you arent leaping up to feed him, that he bites you. Excellent way to shut someone up... Do you ever feel like that in some conversations with people?  Or is that just me....LOL LOL

6) I've stopped reading the weather. I get up it is cold, I go out it is cold, I go on the school run it is cold. Sun may shine thro the window but its lying and its still freezing when you step outside... 

7) Comments on this blog are just ....well, lovely. Thank you. Honestly.  They make my day. I keep hearing from people who say that I dont know them but they have been reading for years, or have followed my photography or digital pages... astounding. I'm no great shakes. I'm no author/celebrity/designer. I thought only my sister read it ;) hahahaaha. {cue my Mother ringing me...} ;)
I love to talk ;) and write, and this is a super lazy easy way to do that once  for everyone :) and keep it to force the kids to read when I'm old and grey. Erm....more grey. 

8) Spam and not so nice comments are just....not so lovely. at all. Sometimes I am made aware of people who dont like me but still feel the need to read my blog {and point it out!!} and I hesitate as I type, trying not to say the thing that will be misconstrued or get drawn into typing bitter posts and being mad at them..... However this isnt a playground. 
This is me on 'paper' and that was the whole point of blogging for me. Spam is going to get thro and Haters gonna hate right? If I didnt mean 'it' like 'that', they wont believe me anyway...and the rest of you knew I didnt  ;) 

9) Just ordered a HUGE piece of my photography work for a client. 30x40 inches. I'm so nervous before work gets here from my printers....supposing its wrong, cropped wrong, colour cast, has the title work spelt wrong and I have to reorder.... I feel sick. Yes I'm a wreck til I see it and check it!!! You should see me waiting on Wedding albums!!!

10) Can somebody remind me to buy stamps???  Or remind me to remind Siri to remind me to buy stamps. Today was the third time I went out for them but forgot.  Omg, can somebody just buy me stamps?