jam and calm

had a lovely day yesterday at the wedding, the bride looked gorgeous, the grooms speech made nearly all the women in the room well up and the food was fabulous.

today was spent catching up with friends, checking out the garden vedge, making jam, baking biscuits and falling asleep on the sofa.

sundays

love'em

not an easy week by any stretch of the imagination. Lovely weekend last weekend with great weather and the chance to catch up with family and friends in our lovely sun trap garden. But then it was back to work on Monday with the doom and gloom of redundancies and the massive workload associated with that.
Not helped by a last minute demand to fly to to another country for a meeting, and a deeply unpleasant conversation which led me to consider resigning. Luckily (unfortunately) my up-duffed situation prevents that option so I was forced to calm down (after losing the plot with my ever-patient husband) and get on with life. In the middle of all this was a fun (if late) evening out watching Russell Howard in Brum.
It's now 4am on saturday and I am awake and shattered. so shattered I can't sleep which isn't ideal as I have a neeeeeeed for more sleep and have a wedding to go to in 10 hours. hey ho

Just realised I'd not posted this - Its definitely a baby, although it seems to have a gap between its head and body. hopefully that will get sorted in the next few months..... :-)

all going well, feeling fine, which is a good thing as work is busy and stressful, but thats part of the joys of being in my role I guess. house is still wonderful, enjoying lots of home grown strawberries and gooseberries at the moment, and looking forward to the potatoes, carrots, onions, courgettes etc.

new table and chairs

 


in our new kitchen in our new house.... oo oo oo oo

went shopping last weekend researching, and this weekend we actually bought! One lovely 7 foot long kitchen table, 6 lovely chunky oak chairs, one lovely wardrobe, one matching chest of drawers and 2 bedside tables.

Ooooh bedside tables. for the past 10 years I have used some wooden boxes that my cousin's wife gave me from a shop display.

I have finally reached grown-up-ness.

I'm on dial up, god its slow! but I thought it was time for a little update. House is still fab, garden is coming along, the slugs annihilated my courgettes but I saved a few and we have now resorted to blue pellets (we tried it the nice way..... now for the tough line).

Work is particularly difficult at the moment, so an extra day bank holiday is a great relief, and to top it off, its a birthday too :-)

We spent Fri-Sunday camping with friends near Symonds Yat, in lovely weather. Sat the boys and Tanya went climbing and we spent time watching them then found a pub when we got bored (having stumbled our way down the track and had to ask a lovely gentleman to help five month pregnant Amy down the slope). Sunday we faffed about for a while then went for a walk, ending up in the pub again.

Today we have pent time in the garden, went to a little street fete and then I came home and feel asleep for a fair few hours. My knackerdness is not unjustified, in that whilst the weekend wasn't overly strenuous I think I may have overdone it. I think most people now know but for the record I'm 15 weeks pregnant, getting fatter by the day and due November 17th. Not making it overly known at work due to the current challenges, but it is getting hard to hide the bump!

life is about to get very different!

on the move

we're packed... we'll fairly well packed, completely surrounded by boxes and absolutely knackered. We exchanged contracts today and complete tomorrow. Then there'll be no phone line for 11 days..... aaaargh how am I going to cope.

Normal service to be resumed at some point.....