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Road Trip

Posted on April 29, 2009

While Wal is away I’ve been traips­ing all over Eng­land.  Today we went to Birm­ing­ham again.  I had expected to hear peo­ple who sounded like Ozzy but I didn’t hear one per­son who sounded like that– a huge dis­ap­point­ment.  Well folks I’m actu­ally too tired to blog so I’m just going to throw a bunch of pic­tures up an will edit it all in the morning.

I also fin­ished my hats last night.  

I’m really pleased with how they look and can’t wait to use them.  The mid­dle one is my favorite — it has lit­tle bits of color that I think will really pop depend­ing on the back­ground color.  I have a few more to make  but I think I’m going to change the pom-pom a bit just for a lit­tle variety.

Here today gone tomorrow

Posted on April 25, 2009

 

Wal just got back from a week long trip to South Africa.  It was a long trip w/ a break on Wednes­day due to the SA elec­tions.  This morn­ing I picked him up from the air­port and he imme­di­ately crashed on the sofa for a cou­ple of hours.  When he woke up he told me he was leav­ing tomor­row for Turkey then Italy.  GREAT!  In the one hand I’m pleased as punch that he’s busy and keeps bring­ing home the bacon, I would be an ungrate­ful per­son if I were to com­plain about that.  On the other hand OH MAH GAWD I NEED A BREAK!!  I will  be get­ting a break from the Boo soon enough and I couldn’t be hap­pier.  I’ve signed her up for nurs­ery 2 days a week start­ing in mid July.  Yay!  I think that she needs to be around other chil­dren w/out me run­ning inter­fer­ence from her.  I think that I will be a bet­ter mom if we’re not all up in each oth­ers junk all the time.  

The weather here has been fan­tas­tic and we have been out and about enjoy­ing our­selves.  On Wednes­day I went to Bra­mall Park w/ Byr­ney (who is ready to POP!!) and had a good time walk­ing around and pho­tograph­ing Noah. I took what I think are my best pho­tographs EVAH!!  I just loved the fact that he was wear­ing all a nice vibrant blue and the grass was sooo green.  It makes him just pop right out of the pho­to­graph!  On Fri­day I drove all the way to Liv­er­pool to go to a craft fair.  I got sooo freak­ing lost and almost gave up but I got there in the end.  We had a good time, I would have had a bet­ter time if I didn’t have Squidge with me. Have you ever tried to maneu­ver a pushchair around a crowded room filled w/ crazed blue haired crafters??  No? Let me just say it was inter­est­ing.  Then my dar­ling sweet daugh­ter turned into a thief!!!!  While Byr­ney and I were look­ing around she was pinch­ing balls of wool/yarn!!! Can you believe it?!?!  She’d taken three balls and sat on them.  She was only found out when I noticed her play­ing w/ some­thing and looked a bit closer.  So I’m a proud owner of 3 balls of some seri­ously nice wool which I turned into this…

I was going to have my mom make me some hats for some new­born ses­sions I have com­ing up.  While at the craft fair Byr­ney and I were chat­ting and we decided it was prob­a­bly pretty easy to make so I thought I would give it a try.  I’m not fin­ished w/ the hat I still need to make the pompoms/bobbles but I thought I would share the results so far.  I’ve also com­pleted a cute pink one and am work­ing on a beige one.  I think I’ll make all the hats then do the pompoms.

Happy Earth Day

Posted on April 22, 2009

Enjoy­ing our lit­tle cor­ner of it…

Sneak Peek

Posted on April 22, 2009

Have you checked out my pho­tog­ra­phy web­site?  I’ve made a few changes so pop on over and have a look!!

I’m post­ing this here due to my pho­to­blog being off line at the moment.  I’m hop­ing to get it back up and run­ning some­time today!  Yes­ter­day I trav­elled down to Birm­ing­ham to visit a friend.  We are both ex-pats and I ‘met’ her on an on-line ex-pat forum I used to fre­quent  A LOT when Squidge was first born.  I really got to ‘know’ here while she was strug­gling w/ her daughter’s med­ical issues.  I’d send lit­tle cards or toys  and that pro­gressed to send­ing some of Squidge’s clothes she had out grown.  We finally met in per­son yes­ter­day and it was a great time.  I should have got­ten there ear­lier– the time just flew by and then I had to go– I was wor­ried about the traf­fic!  Maria men­tioned to me that her daugh­ter did NOT like her photo taken.  I took this as a chal­lenge! LOL so here is a sneak peek of her daugh­ter– I think I rocked the challenge!

 

 

I hope Maria loves them as much as I do!

Engines

Posted on April 19, 2009

 

I’m still here just don’t feel  much like blog­ging.  Will be back to nor­mal soon– I hope.

Met V for a lit­tle tour of an engine museum.  I took loads of pho­tos of engines not so many of Squidge– these are the only 2– baaad mama!!

 

 

Also didn’t call my Mom for her birth­day .  HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOMMY!!  Will try to phone this week.

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