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Three Corners– Red

Posted on February 28, 2009

Corey chose the theme this month– RED!  After last month when two out of my three pho­tos were red I had a hard time choos­ing some red photos!  

I found this on a train while at MOSI this month– it’s kind of a nod toward Jenty the SA cor­ner of our Three Cor­ners project.  I didn’t have a wide angle lens w/ me and was perched on a lit­tle plat­form try­ing to get the entire thing in frame but this was all I managed!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I found this tree while out on a walk last Novem­ber– we had been to the Remem­brance Sun­day ser­vice.  I think I blogged about this one– where Squidge was dressed to match the trees.  Still I don’t think I posted this par­tic­u­lar image.  It’s one of my favorites and can’t wait to see it start to bloom this spring.  I peek down the street to see what it looks like when­ever I pass nearby! 

 

This is my ideas book.  My scrib­ble book.  My to-do list. My gro­cery list.  My doo­dle book.  I use it to jot down pretty much any­thing and every­thing that comes to mind.  Squidge also uses it to doo­dle when we’ve been out and I needed to keep her enter­tained.  I’m much more orga­nized now and she has a doo­dle book of her very own that stays in Mama’s bag all.the.time.  

Please go and check out Jenty and Corey’s entries for the final month of Three Cor­ners project.  I’ve had a blast doing it and it has really opened my eyes to what is always out in my world.  Some months were tough and those were my favoritest and my best months as it forced me to think out­side the box.  I hope Jenty and Corey had as much fun as I did.  THANK YOU COREY AND JENTY for agree­ing to par­tic­i­pate in this project w/ me. 

Ooops! Some­how this post got stuck in my drafts and I never noticed!

iTouch iWalk iTravel

Posted on February 24, 2009

I’ve got iPhone envy– baaaad!  Only thing is I rarely use my phone other than to text so I can’t see the point of get­ting an iPhone.  Seri­ously I have a pay-as-you-go plan and only have to top up £20 every 2–3 months.  Now the iTouch sounds like an ideal com­pro­mise. It does every­thing the iPhone does except take pics and make calls.    Another rea­son I’d like it is that you can down­load that maps thingie so I’d never get lost again.  If you know me you know that’s usu­ally a prob­lem!  What do you guys think?  Any­one have one?

I’m still going strong with my morn­ing walks.  Now don’t get all crazy and think I don’t moan like stink when I’m get­ting dressed and head­ing out the door.  The impor­tant thing is I’m get­ting out the door– just 25 more days to go before it becomes  a habit.  Isn’t that what they say? We’ve also been eat­ing much much health­ier.  Gone are the fish pies, the chicken and chorizo casse­role (drool) the chicken and leek pies, the chili (have I ever men­tioned I make the best chili ever?) and all those other things that I tend to cook in the win­ter because it’s just good home cook­ing type of food and what I grav­i­tate to when the days start draw­ing in.  It’s been baked chicken, sal­ads and rice.  We’re try­ing to cut back on the carbs– I know, I know rice but give me a break I can’t cut them out all together!!!  Tomor­row I’m mak­ing Turk­ish lentil soup– it’s a veg­gie dish and I might make my own flat bread, we’ll see how it goes. Debat­ing on the bread because you know CARBS but it’s what is usu­ally served w/ this dish (so says Wal from his fre­quent trips to Turkey)

The days here are defi­nately get­ting longer, Wal and I noticed it was still light out at 5:30 the other day– Yay!!  Also plan­ning on going to Kid­der­min­ster. Any Ukers know the place?  Any sug­ges­tion on photo friendly places to visit?  Wal will be out vis­it­ing a cus­tomer and I thought Squidge and I could do some sight­see­ing. Ha look at me act­ing like peo­ple in the UK actu­ally read my blog!  

Look­ing through my photo archives– oooh mah gawd where has my baby gone??

In tunnel, searching for light.

Posted on February 23, 2009

Our looooooohaaaaaa­hooooooong road towards mov­ing from our bijou 2 bed­room house has taken a leap for­ward.  Not a giant leap for­ward but for­ward non the less.  This morn­ing Wal and I went to see our mort­gage guy.  We told him what we wanted and he showed us some thing, crunched some num­bers and viola!  Now all we have to do is sell our mofu’ing house!  I’m off to see an estate agent tomor­row to get this place listed.  I also need to try to sched­ule a view­ing of the house we want to buy.  I say try because the last time I tried to sched­ule a view­ing I couldn’t.  The sell­ers (two dif­fer­ent prop­er­ties) only wanted seri­ous I can move in 2 days (a bit of an exager­a­tion but not much) kinda of view­ers.  I’m hop­ing that because our house will be on the mar­ket we’ll be more sucess­ful this time.  So after many many years of walk­ing this path I think we have finally entered the tun­nel!  Now if only I could see that damn light!!

Squidge is still sick– this lit­tle cold is a bug­ger to get rid of but I’m hop­ing she will be over it before Thurs­day when we go swim­ming.  If she’s still not well then I’ll have to stay home, swim­ming takes too much out of her and if she’s not 100% she tends to have a melt down.

I hope every­one had a good week­end.  I man­aged to con­tinue my morn­ing walks– woot!  Not a big deal to most  but a big deal to me.  Wal didn’t leave the house apart from a quick pub run last night.  This is his usual rou­tine after com­ing back from a busi­ness trip– he veges hard for a cou­ple of days.  I’ve rearranged the bed­room and now have a bit more space. It doesn’t look the best (the desk sticks out a teeny bit) but you have to work with what you have.  When we put this house on the mar­ket (keep­ing fin­gers crossed it will be up by Fri­day!) I’m going to have to rent a stor­age place, we must de-clutter or it will never sell!

Sorry this post is a bit ram­bling but my mild is a bit on the ram­bly side so that’s what you get!  Oh before I for­get appar­ently I made it onto top mama!  Woot! Only about 18 months after all the cool kids got there.  I’m not really sure how it works but I think you’re sup­posed to go over there and click on my pick so I can stay on top mama’s front page.  So git yur butts over there!

Oh and because I don’t like to post w/ out pho­tos here’s one of Wal and Squidge at the Cbee­bies live show we went to over Christ­mas.  To say that this girl was excited would be an understatement!

 

Poorly

Posted on February 21, 2009

In Eng­land when you don’t feel well peo­ple say they’re feel­ing poorly and not sick.  If you tell peo­ple you’re sick it means you’ve been vom­it­ing– lovely innit!  It took me a while to fig­ure that one out.  I was always sur­prised by people’s reac­tion when I told them I was feel­ing sick or had been sick dur­ing the night.  Well for the past cou­ple of days I’ve had a lit­tle one who is feel­ing poorly.  This was what she did most of the day Thurs­day, snug­gled up in my bed watch­ing The Koala Brothers on her lit­tle pluter (my old laptop).

She has a lit­tle bit of a cough, runny nose and is feel­ing a bit warm.  She’s also been uber snug­gly which has been nice and not in equal measures!

Daddy came back from Turkey late last night after missed flights and delays due to snow.  It was super cute this morn­ing– she was in there call­ing us and Wal went in to get her.  She was chat­ting away as she does in the morn­ing then said “Oh! DADA!!”  when it sud­denly dawned on her that Dada was back.  At the moment she is on the sofa hav­ing Dada read her all her Win­nie the Witch books (she has 6). 

Went out for my morn­ing walk this morn­ing– Yay!  I hope every­one has a good week­end.  Any­one doing any­thing special/exciting?  I’m plan­ning on rear­ang­ing the bed­room and purg­ing.  I have clothes and shoes I shipped over when I moved here from the US, things I haven’t worn since mov­ing here!!  So off they’re going to a char­ity shop near me!

I’ve been play­ing around w/ some photo tech­niques, these pho­tos are sup­posed to remind you of old 70’s pho­tos.  Do they?  I think the top one is more suc­cess­ful and looks a bit  clearer.  The sec­ond one looks a bit dull. 

Thinking

Posted on February 20, 2009

I’ve  been doing a lot of that recently, it usu­ally coin­cides with one of Wal’s trips.  I’m think­ing I don’t do enough for myself.  I’ve never had a mas­sage.  I can’t remem­ber my last facial or man­i­cure.  I could get away with being some­what lax in the beauty regime when I was younger but not so much now.  I’ll be 39 in a cou­ple of months– even as I type that I get a bit wigged out.  39!! OMFG!  I still feel like that girl being dri­ven home by her dad from her orthe­do­n­tics appoint­ment singing along to the radio, check­ing out the boys walk­ing down the street hop­ing her dad didn’t notice!  

I’ve had this idea of doing a photo doc­u­men­tary of my last year as a 30-something.  Hmm writ­ing that down makes me sound ego­tis­ti­cal, no?  Ah well turn­ing forty I fear will be a bit trau­matic for me.  So to that end I am going to try to walk more– for myself.  alone. with­out Squidge. Just 30 min­utes in the morn­ing before I start my day so that I can get it all sorted in my head.  I think I need that, struc­ture and soli­tude.  I’m going to try to get on a beauty regime.  I need to take bet­ter care of my skin.  I sup­pose I should buy some mois­tur­izer.  I KNOW, can you believe I don’t own any mois­tur­izer?!?!  I’m going to try to pho­to­graph myself/my life for an entire year.  So there you go, three things to do– doc­u­ment, walk and mois­tur­ize.  What more could a woman careen­ing into her 40’s need?  Did I hear you say boob job and tummy tuck?!?!

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