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292: Fill In The Blanks Friday

Posted on October 19 | Comments Off

Joining with Lauren from The Little Things We Do

1. One thing I plan on doing to relax this weekend is erm I have no idea! I’m in London tomorrow at CNMAC12, got lunch with a friend then a possible pub trip in the evening then catch the train home. On Sunday I’m on kid’s work, then there’s contact time, then hopefully some chill out time before coming back to work on Monday. Hopefully there’s some relaxing in there.

2. A big pet peeve of mine is bad spelling? Is that an okay one? I emailed a company yesterday and was like “btw good website but you’ve got a typo”. Wasn’t sure if they’d take it a good way but thankfully they did lol. On the other hand it didn’t work so well when I corrected a distributors spelling – if you want to return the product please spell your returns reason correctly or I will question what you mean.

3. I am really loving my woolie hat? I wore it yesterday pretty much from coming out of the dentist to going to bed. I think it was comforting while I was feeling sorry for myself post-wisdom tooth removal. Then again today my cheeks keep feeling really flushed especially my right cheek (tooth was upper right)

4. The rain is a bit of a downer, but kind of nice when you’re all wrapped up inside watching the rain fall outside the window.

5. My favourite girly indulgence is nail varnish – I don’t really do make up. I might put a little bit on if I’m going out somewhere but that’s about it.

6. A song I always get stuck in my head is at the moment it seems to be Kid’s Worship songs like God Can Do Anything or Gonna Jump Up and Down.

7. The best cure for stress is hugs. Lots of them. Especially unexpected ones – like Our Sidekick will come into the kitchen while I’m doing chores and be like “Can I have/give you a hug?” YES PLEASE! I love hugs!

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286: Fill In The Blanks Friday

Posted on October 12 | Comments Off

 Fill In The Blanks Friday - 12th October

Joining with Lauren from The Little Things We Do

1.  My favourite flower is I don’t have one favourite I think it’s a close draw between Gerberas and Daisies – then again they are both so similar that it might not really make a difference.  

2.  You should never talk about at the moment seems to be about chores and being tired but that is just our house lol. I agree with Lauren that politics is something not to talk about. We have a coalition here in the UK as there wasn’t enough of a majority for one party to win on their own or something like that. All I can say is that our three main political parties (Conservative, Labour and Lib Dem) need their heads smacking together because all they do is whinge about what the others have done rather than telling me how they can make this country better for the “Average Joe” like me.

3.  My favourite discovery as of late is well it could be Chipotle – I went for dinner there on Monday and although it was a little bit on the spicy side it was really yummy so I’m sure I could manage it again.

4. This fall you will probably find me wearing  jeans, a jumper and layers. Today for example grey long sleeved top with a tartan/checked shirt over the top.

5. I wish I were  sleeping or with friends – I’m having one of those days where staying in bed or having a big hug from a friend might have fixed at least how I felt about the day. Then again tomorrow is Saturday – I’m trying to decide whether to have a peaceful protest and stay in bed for the whole day.

6. My favourite TV show currently is   well it was probably Hart of Dixie but Season 1 just finished here in the UK. I’ve been watching Who Do You Think You Are every week apart from last week when they did William Roache’s genealogy. It just didn’t really interest me, whereas they’ve had Celia Imrie, Alex Kingston and Gregg Wallace on this season amongst other people.

7.  This weekend I want to sleep, eat, be merry but the first and second might be the only ones that do actually happen so I’ll have to find some other way to be merry – maybe massive DVD night with Our Sidekick.

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279: Fill In The Blanks Friday

Posted on October 5 | 2 Comments

Joining with Lauren from The Little Things We Do

1.  The last thing I ate was my breakfast. I had a sausage sandwich – I know it’s not good for me but I only have it on a Friday and even then it’s not every Friday. I try and be good but sometimes I fail.

2.  The last time I went to the beach was in July when we went to the beach at Barri Island in Wales. It was too cold for a paddle – I had a quick paddle but it was making my feet hurt. I have a rule that I have to paddle in the sea at least once when we go to the seaside (apart from the time we went to Felixstowe in October it was far too cold to be on the seafront let alone near the sea lol).

3.  My last vacation was   this summer. We went to Bristol with Our Sidekick it was our first holiday as a family. It was good fun although there were a couple of rocky moments where I think we were just driving each other slightly mad as we were in each other’s personal space a lot of the time.

4. The last place I drove was    to The Fountain to meet Chris for lunch, haven’t really seen him this week and we need to chat over some stuff before a huge explosion takes out half of Bedford!

5. The last song I listened to was erm I don’t know! We have the radio on at work, I have the radio on in the car and there’s the stereo playing music in The Fountain so it could be any song. The two albums I’ve been playing lots are Babel by Mumford and Sons and Our Version of Events by Emeli Sande.

6. The last thing I watched on TV was it was either Sing While You Work – it’s the latest Gareth Malone choir adventure (when is he going to come to Bedford? Then again I think statistically we have a lot of choirs it’s just I can never go to them and some charge to join what’s with that!) or Grand Designs Australia – me and Chris regularly discus what our dream house would be like. I think when he decides that we are going to build the house I am going to go and emigrate somewhere and then come back when it’s done because we’d just annoy each other because I’d be there wanting to learn how to do things (I learnt to tile bathrooms and replace double glazing windows because of my Grandad, then again him and his builder friend taught my Mum how to lay bricks.

7.  The last time I said “I love you” was probably to Chris earlier this week which is really bad. I told Tori my cousin that I love her. She’s been at university almost a week and I think as exciting as it is she’s missing home a little bit. I might have to organise a petrol pot so that if it’s really bad I can pack up one Friday and drive after work to her university and see her then come back Sunday in time for work on Monday or in time for contact time if needed.

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272: Fill In The Blanks Friday

Posted on September 28 | 2 Comments

Joining with Lauren from The Little Things We Do

1.  My first memory is I remember being about three or four and climbing out of the dining room door (which used to lead directly into the garden. I tripped over my own feet or the door ledge and fell over and grazed up all my knee and I remember it bleeding quite a lot. I told Mum about this memory a few weeks back and she said that she didn’t remember it lol.  

2.  My first love was okay so I’m going to be awkward on this one. The first boyfriend that I had and told him I loved him was when I was about 15. So I guess my first love would be my Dad in a way. He’s amazing and so encouraging. He’d teach me about stuff in the garden and help me with my homework. A few weeks back we were at the Fountain talking about various bits and he turned round and said he was proud of me then gave me like a manly punch in the arm – which made me jump and I nearly fell off the chair I was sat on. I do know that my Parents are proud of me but sometimes it’s good to hear it right? I met Chris when I was 15 and although I fancied him and we did try the going out thing for a few months, it didn’t really work at first but he was my best friend for quite a few years and clearly it was meant to happen because look at us know! Married and Foster Parents to Our Sidekick (okay so we didn’t do parenting the “normal” way but he needed someone and we stepped up to the plate).

3.  My very first favourite colour was pink. Well I presume that given that my bedroom was pink until I was about 13 or 14 but then again I’m not sure lol.

4. The first time I really felt like a “grown-up” was when erm I’m not sure I guess when I became responsible for another human being on a full-time basis (October last year when Our Sidekick came to live with us). You’d think that graduating from university, getting married or having a mortgage would have me feel grown up but clearly not lol.

5. The first thing I do when I wake up in the morning is pretend it is not morning and that I can go back to sleep usually it’s not – today made me nearly cry – I thought it was Saturday and was happy about a lie in only to realise that if it was Saturday why didn’t I remember going to the cinema with Libs? Oh dear it’s not Saturday it’s Friday and something about that super depressed me.

6. The first CD (cassette tape, record, etc…) I ever bought was I’m not sure if I bought it or if I was bought it but the first album I had was the Spice Girls on cassette tape (unless you count over killing my days cassette tape of The Eagles – I loved Hotel California!), about the same time I was given a bunch of blank tapes and would record songs off the radio to make my own mix tapes lol.    

7.  My first car was a dark blue Ford Fiesta, it had belonged to a boy racer before me so the stereo had been rewired and various other bits. It was great, until it started burning oil and then when it was really dying, my dad and I drove in convoy to the scrapyard and left it there to go to the car garage in the sky. My Dad was all ready for me to be really upset about it as it was my first car and things like that but I wasn’t. I then got my Yellow Fiat which I loved even more than my Fiesta lol.

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265: Fill in The Blanks Friday

Posted on September 21 | Comments Off


(Joining with Lauren from the Little Things We Do)

1.  Something I am very proud of is my cousin, like a lot of young people her age she is heading off to university in the next few weeks to study Psychology – rock on! I was telling Connect Group on Wednesday that I remember holding her the day she was born (or it was the day after she was born – I just remember she was little even in my 9 year old arms lol).

2.  My favourite thing about myself is my organisational skills. Okay so if you saw this picture from my Instagram or how messy my room is at the moment you wouldn’t believe me but I can juggle three diaries and I’m pretty good at making sure we’re in the right place at the right time.

3.  My favourite colour for fall is clothes wise is probably purple. Then again I don’t really dress in set colours for set seasons – I just go with what I want to wear each day (is that really boring?).

4. Something I’ve been learning lately is remember to trust in God, don’t stress about the future because he’s got the plans!

5. A book I am reading now/have read recently is “From Blah to Awe” by Jenna Lucado Bishop. I think it’s technically for teenage girls but I’m a girl and I’m in my twenties – I can still be a teen right? (When I’m not being a 26 year old Foster Mum lol)

6. My favourite Pandora Station is well, I don’t use Pandora. If I’m in the car chances are I either have a CD on or BBC Radio 2. Occasionally I flick over to BBC Radio 1 but it tends to be for the chart on a Sunday afternoon if we’re still in the car. At home I have UCB on and at work we have had BBC Radio 2 on this week at Scott Mills has been on the Breakfast show – I’m not sure if we’re going back to it next week when Nick Grimshaw takes over the Breakfast Show from Chris Moyles.

7.  This weekend I will be having lunch with my friend from school who I haven’t seen properly in about a year – I’ve bumped into him in town or while he’s at work but that’s about it. I’m then helping with the Mother/Daughter event at The Fountain.

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251: Fill In The Blanks Friday

Posted on September 7 | 1 Comment

1.  My favourite grade in school was  (in the UK it’s years rather than grades) I think my choice would be Year 11 – I’d be sitting my GCSEs but I’d be able to change my future and pick different A Levels. I was also helping with the youth group at church and although it crossed my mind about doing

2.  My favorite teacher was Miss Cafolla (Italian Teacher), Mr Broom and Mrs Brannen (Drama) or Miss Woodcock (Music) because I adored learning Italian until I got to Sixth Form and just couldn’t hack the pace – you were expected to go from a GCSE student who looked up most words in the dictionary to virtually fluent in the space of about 6 months and it didn’t happen for me – I would get muddled between the Italian I knew, the French that I’d been learning since Year 5 and the English I’d been talking my whole life. Miss Cafolla was an awesome teacher who always had time for my silly questions!

Mr Broom, Mrs Brannen and Miss Woodcock are in there because without them I’d have probably been kicked out of Sixth Form. I really messed up when it came to my Year 12 exams – I was great in the classes but put me in an exam and I lost the plot and I couldn’t articulate what I wanted to say. These three teachers let me stay, I had to understand that I’d probably not get higher grades than Ds at a push but they’d keep me, rather than me leave or start over. Two of the three teachers have either left teaching or moved on to different schools – I think number 3 is still at my Upper School.

3.  The highest level of education I have completed is a BA (Honours) Degree in Performing Arts and Professional Practice. I’d like to go back and do an MA in Media (Mass Communications) or try and get on an Anthropology course but they are just dreams.  

4. School lunches for me were usually cooked dinners from the canteen. When I was at Upper School I’d buy my sandwiches at break time so that I had time to eat them and get to whichever music practice was on (apart from Tuesday or Wednesday when it was trampolining and I’d eat lunch at break time!)

5. The amount of money you’d have to pay me to go back to high school would be cover my household bills etc and give me some pocket money so I can still look after the boys etc and then I’d really consider it – okay you were worrying about exams or which university you were going to go to but life in general was so much easier then!

6. A few things that will always remind me of going back to school are wearing new school shoes round the house to wear them in, trying on school uniform in the middle of August (my Mum was often on a mission!) and older kids getting exam results (that way I knew September was coming!)  

7.  The first day of school was always incredibly boring! You’d have to copy your timetable to your homework diary, when you got to Sixth Form you had to make sure there were no clashes due to your choices. I didn’t have this problem but my friend who was doing 5 A Levels (I was on 3 but the average was 4) always had clashes!

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244: Fill in The Blanks Friday

Posted on August 31 | 9 Comments

Fill In The Blanks - 31st August

(Joining with Lauren from The Little Things We Do)

1.  Over this labor day weekend I will be well it’s a normal weekend here in the UK so I won’t have Monday off (although we had a bank holiday last weekend so this week was 4 days woot!). My brother Rich and his best friend Aaron are doing a 24 hour Gaming Marathon for The Fountain. It kicks off at 9am tomorrow and finishes at 9am Sunday. Also this weekend we say goodbye to a friend S as he moves on from working at The Fountain which is really sad but we’re having a party tomorrow. Erm what else am I doing – I think I’m helping out at The Fountain but I’m not 100% sure.

2.  With the political debates going on right now, my thoughts are again Americanism lol. Erm Obama vs Romney as far as I know right? The thing that bugs me about politics is too much off the time they just point the finger and tell us what the other party didn’t do rather than what they are going to do for me. I’ve read about the lengths that the Suffragettes went to, to get Women the vote so even if I don’t necessarily agree with all the politicians say I am going to use that vote to try and change my country for the better – however that comes.

3.  Today I am super excited that I get some time to myself this evening lol. I think I’m going to start with going to my Mum’s to watch another episode of Newsroom. Have you been watching it?.

4. The best thing I’ve cooked recently was gluten free pancakes. I’ve not really cooked that much – I’ve either not been home to eat, we’ve been lazy or Chris has cooked lol. Yesterday we had cooked chicken from the deli counter at the supermarket and oven chips yesterday. It was supposed to be like supermarket version of Our Sidekick’s takeaway favourite in the hope that it was a bit healthier lol.

5. The last thing I bought was chicken and chips yesterday. Then again shortly it’ll be my lunch.

6. The best movie I saw this summer was  I haven’t actually seen that many this summer – life kept misbehaving! We did however see Brave last weekend which I really liked. I started watching Precious earlier this week as it was on iPlayer but the Mum just kept bugging me – why do people think it’s okay to beat their kids? (Then again Gabourey Sidibe is an awesome inspiring actress)

7.  The best book I read this summer was erm I don’t know – I’ve been trying to cut down my “in progress” pile as somehow I managed to get to 12 in progress! I even dug out my copy of House and Philosophy in the hope that I’d finish reading it but I’ve not been in the frame of mind to get my head round philosophy. In the last few weeks I finished We Can’t Go Home Again by Max Dubinsky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chobsky and now I’m reading Flash and Bones by Kathy Reichs. I will cut down that list!

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237: Fill In The Blanks Friday

Posted on August 24 | Comments Off

 Fill In The Blanks - 24th August

(Joining with Lauren from The Little Things We Do)

  1. My favorite thing to do on Friday is when I finish work, collect JD from work or from her house and then head over to MK to go to the cinema – usually preceded by dinner.
  2. This Friday I am doing stuff! After work I went to the park and went for a run/walk. I managed to do 1.84km and it was probably about an equal split between walking and running which means I think I am getting better.  I came home and grabbed a shower – when I flooded the floor I remembered that I needed to replace the tube that runs from the shower head to the taps. I got dressed and mopped up the water (ended up with a really wet knee on my jeans lol). When Our Sidekick got home we headed to The Fountain to collect Chris from work. I then spent the evening writing blog posts, emails and generally not doing any chores lol.
  3. The best thing about a weekend is when you have Monday off as well because it’s a Bank Holiday! Woot!
  4. Now that summer is almost over, I’m feeling nervous and excited. With August coming to an end it means that Our Sidekick is starting Upper School and I’m a bit nervous if we’ve got everything sorted and things like that. I’m also excited because it’s a huge step for him and minus the bullying I enjoyed Upper School. (And now that term is almost started I don’t feel so silly about planning Christmas things now lol)
  5. The best thing I did this summer was going on holiday with Chris and Our Sidekick (You can read the posts here).
  6. The thing I’m looking forward to about fall is the temperature cooling down a bit now I’m getting into running – last week it was too hot and I thought I was going to die or something equally drastic lol. I had a lay down on the sofa after running and two hours later I realised I hadn’t really done anything other than 2 and a bit laps of the park and then crashed in a heap at home.
  7. If I had to be stuck in one season for the rest of my life, I would choose Spring or Fall – when it’s sunny but not too hot so you need a t-shirt or vest top on but also not so cold that you need a big wooly jumper on and you feel like the Michelin Man!   

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230: Fill In The Blanks…

Posted on August 17 | 2 Comments

Fill In The Blanks

(Joining with Lauren from The Little Things We Do)

1.  The best thing to do on a hot day is hang out in the shade in the garden or hang out in the living room with the patio doors open as wide as they go.
2.   The best place to be on a hot day is   okay well it kind of depends on how hot we’re talking because heatwave hot here in the UK you just sit still and do as little as possible lol. Then again I work in an air con-ned office so it’s nice and cold even when it’s roasting outside!
3.  The best thing to eat on a hot day is ice cream, ice pops or BBQ food – it somehow works – hot weather = BBQ Time.
  
4. Hot days make me tired and thirsty and sometimes grumpy because I get all of the above!     
5. My go to uniform on a warm summer day is  t-shirt and shorts. Today it’s a vest top with a blouse over the top so that I’ve got my shoulders covered (Something about working in a vest top is only when it’s really really hot and I have to be at work and even then I’d rather wear a T-shirt).
6. The scent that reminds me of summer is  strawberries, the salty smell that you get at the beach and the smell of a swimming pool.
7.  My favorite thing about summer is picnics in the park with friends, BBQs after work, hanging out chatting with friends and family in the garden while watching the evening come in. This year it was watching the London 2012 games. Roll on Paralympics.

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160: Fill In The Blank Friday

Posted on June 8 | Comments Off

Lauren from The Little Things We Do prepares the prompts for Fill In The Blanks Friday and it’s had a bit of a makeover and now rather than being 5+ questions on a theme it’s now going to be one prompt and you go write about that prompt.

So this week’s prompt is:

So, I blog because……..

I want to be popular.

Just Kidding!

I started blogging while I was at university – it kind of started on MySpace on the notes page bit then Chris said “Why not move to a proper site?” so I think I moved myself to Blogger and gradually steered my way to WordPress under Chris’s advisement and then ended up here with my own design and URL and everything. Doh! That is more about how I got started blogging rather than why I blog! I swear this is why I suck at exams – I don’t read the question or focus properly!

So I blog because…….I think it started as somewhere for me to vent and get rid of the tension – I was in my third year at university writing a dissertation entitled something like “Should Shakespeare’s plays still be taught in school?” well it seemed like a good idea – it was something I knew about but clearly I was on the wrong track then again I did Performing Arts I think I was on the wrong track most of the time! Anyway back to the point! So I spent a bunch of time with my head in a book, Facebook was just about taking off but it was still kind of unpopulated so you couldn’t really lose whole weekends to Facebook!

I got writing and that was that. I guess films like Julie and Julia and really people like Gala Darling and Dooce inspired me to try and write better and more to become that famous blogger from Bedford (What you mean you’ve never heard of me?!) but it doesn’t happen that way. There are too many bloggers and not enough blogosphere or something like that. Anyway in my little patch of the pond, I’ve met people through my blog/twitter and I’ve been recognised via my blog (which I’ve still not got the hang of – I get all like “What? You mean you read it and you’re not one of my actual friends or family! Okay……..”).

Over to you:

How about you?

Why don’t you answer the prompt “I blog because…..”

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