The loft again

ok so now nearly everything is in order.

After all that i had a days rest and then ended up clearing out the shed yesterday with the help of Grandma. I hate spiders so hence why Grandma came to help. 2 trips to the tip later and my shed is now tidy and has less crap in it.

Next on the agenda is our bedroom which is soooooooooo messy i'm too embarrassed to take photos of it lol

The Loft...............

looked like this on wed night.....

and since then i've taken out the following

3 bin liners full of clothes for the charity shop

5 bags of fleece and terry off cuts (gone to Sarah M's now)

2 bin liners of rubbish.

you can actually see some of the floor and the table top and i'm going back up there this afternoon after a couple of hours on NWN on my new toy (which is going to be in another blog post.

This is just the beginning of operation house tidy but i have one less room to do as my girls (bless the little cherubs) gutted and cleaned the bathroom yesterday for me!

Oops.......not blogged since April part 1

OMG it's been so long since i've blogged and i've been to 2 weddings and 2 cub camps since then pmsl. This will have to be a pictureless blog today as my i used my mums camera for my sisters and my bil's wedding and Cub camp number 2

Lets start with my sisters wedding. My sister , Nichola Hazel Katherine Clark, married a Mr Toby Kinton on 18th April 2009 at Peterhead Registery Office. Thanks to Toby, who treated me to the air fare, i flew up on the 17th to spend the night before the wedding with my sister. The wedding it'sself was lovely and i got to meet some really nice people :0. I flew home on the sunday evening after being taken out to lunch by my father with my sister and BIL. I did have a long wait at the airport for my flight home but i spent that time reading and relaxing which was great!

After the wedding came District Cub and Scout camp. This was held over 3 days and was a very very busy camp with lots of activities for all the kids including a "Hinckley's got Talent Contest" which both my girls entered. The final was on the saturday night and i'm very proud to say that Georgina came 2nd in the cubs section and Alex came first in the Scout section and was overall winner.

right that will have to do for now as i've got to sort my cherubs out to go to school

Blocking..........

no not blocking knitting but blocking in a fireplace in my kitchen. This morning i had this in my

kitchen . It takes up rather a lot of room and all that happens is dirt falls down it onto the floor

But as Luck would have it i have a friend who is also a brickie so he's been round today and done all this.

just got to wait for it all to dry then he's going to put a skim coat on it and then i can strip the rest of the kitchen walls and get decorating. Tis only been 4 years since we put most of the kitchen in!

Stickies

These all belong to Alex and they are Stick Insects. Like snakes they have to shed their skins as they grow and when we first had them (i got them at the same time as we got Scales) they were less than an inch long. Now they are coming on for 2" long each and there are 4 of them in total. Soon they will be old enough to breed so we'll have lots of babies to give away hopefully lol.

Scales 'n' Georgie

At long last i have some piccies of Georgie holding Scales. Scales actually belongs to Georgie and not me but most of the time you wouldn't think that lol. Scales is very very fast so she made Georgie nervous to start with but she's getting to 'grips' with her now lol. Funny really since she's happy to have a huge Boa round her shoulders lol.

I think this is a really good photo of Georgie and Scales. My baby is beautiful (well i think so anyways) .

Welcome to 2009

Happy New Year to all my friends.

Now i'm not going to start this years blog with a list of resolutions as i don't do resolutions but i am going to start with a list of what i'd like to try to achieve this coming year. I'm going to try NOT to set myself goals that i can't even possibly achieve but feel free to tell me if you think i'm fooling myself on what i think i could do this year.

1) Lose 49lb. Ok so i'd like to lose this by may as we are going to Cyprus but that's only 2o weeks away so i'd be happy to of lost half of that 24lb is a more realistic goal i think for may but would still see me at a healthier bmi than i am now. My BMI is currently 33 EEK.

2) To be tidier. You can stop laughing Sarah and Olivia!!!!! Now i've been saying the same thing for years, that i want to gut my house from top to bottom and declutter. But the difference this year is i've no overlocker in the dining room and haven't got cupboards full of fabric so it could happen. But i'm not saying "i want to gut my house" i'm saying i want to be more tidy. Means i need to learn to put things away and allocate things a home!

3) To spin or knit for an hour at least 4 times a week. I tend to forget me time and i do tend to overextend myself too. I need to finish a few projects before starting new ones too.

4) Not to over extend myself. Say no more often which i'm slowly beginning to do.

5) To get rid of this sodding cold lol

there you go. not too hard really and all are doable :0)

I'm looking forward to this year. We have a holiday in Cyprus to look forward to and 2 cub camps. Woolfest and a 7 week summer holiday :0)