Yes we are in a public convenience but had forgotton to get one of us together so had to improvise!
Sunday, 13 November 2011
Biggles was dead smart!
The service was lovely - Duke of Northumberland in tow, marching band, last stand played well adn the local old timers marched really well. Proud day all round for those in service, those who have been in service, and those we shall never forget. Love you Dad.
(I like Rememberance Day as a way to remember my Dad its nicer than this is the day you died of a horrible disease)
Well we made it through and Weeny was very well behaved! She was very impressed by Biggles in his Number 1's and even saluted. Bless! Will post pics when I have anotated - can't show faces in uniform fraid!
We wore our second hand clobber with pride - me in a marks and spencer autograph grey suit, Weeny in her purple frock. All pre loved bar the shoes and knickers.
Also this weekend I made two large batches of soup - lentil and veg and chicken noodle. Mmmmmm
We were also bargainous over the weekend as well - got new cardy ( preloved ) and a Next denim skirt ( £3) for weeny and a work top and black cardy pour moi for £3 also.
Superdrug are now making their own brand perm hair dye so have purchased to try. Only £3.50! me likey!
Tis the season for the bread maker me thinks - fresh home made bread goes so well with home made soup.
Off to watch some telly with A cuddley well behaved Weeny in our pyjamas already and under a blanket. Not long till we retire to bed.
Sleep well peeps
(I like Rememberance Day as a way to remember my Dad its nicer than this is the day you died of a horrible disease)
Well we made it through and Weeny was very well behaved! She was very impressed by Biggles in his Number 1's and even saluted. Bless! Will post pics when I have anotated - can't show faces in uniform fraid!
We wore our second hand clobber with pride - me in a marks and spencer autograph grey suit, Weeny in her purple frock. All pre loved bar the shoes and knickers.
Also this weekend I made two large batches of soup - lentil and veg and chicken noodle. Mmmmmm
We were also bargainous over the weekend as well - got new cardy ( preloved ) and a Next denim skirt ( £3) for weeny and a work top and black cardy pour moi for £3 also.
Superdrug are now making their own brand perm hair dye so have purchased to try. Only £3.50! me likey!
Tis the season for the bread maker me thinks - fresh home made bread goes so well with home made soup.
Off to watch some telly with A cuddley well behaved Weeny in our pyjamas already and under a blanket. Not long till we retire to bed.
Sleep well peeps
Friday, 11 November 2011
Remembrance day and the weekend. Am poppying with pride.
We cannot wait - we have alovely weekend ahead.. again.
Duckings, a haricut for weeny then a party for her by which time Biggles may have recovered from his officers mess do dah wotsit dining out night! He is leaving his job for the new one soon so gets dined out and a formal tarrah said! Lots of food and alcohol for free!!! He may surface around 2pm if we are lucky lol
On Sunday we have a remembrance day parade./service which we are going to all together poshed up. Biggles will be in Number 1's and Weeny is very excited. There is a parade of soldiers - she doesn't really distinguish between RAF and soldiers but gets that they all go to war adn do brave things. She is dead excited. there will be a helicopter fly by as well and the Duke of Northumberland makes an appearance.
We will be wearing our poppies with pride and remembering my Dad too. He was in the navy from 1939-1946. he dies when I was 13 so Weeny has never met him. She will inherit his naval stuff however and is kind of named after him - he was a James and she is a Jessica and she has my surname in her name. Both J Westbrooks. Was the closest I could get with the ex. We have his pictures up and old ones from WW2. bit of history for her.
I often wonder what my Dad would have made of Biggles. Firm handshakes and would probably straighten his shoulders a lot lol and would have loved the officers mess. Would have loved to have taken him. He liked the old queeny and would have stood to attention with pride at the national anthem and toasts to the old girl and been very honoured to have been taken there by Biggles. And any mention of Lord Mountbatten would have set him off! He met him many years ago and thought he was ace.
Hope he is smiling somewhere!
Duckings, a haricut for weeny then a party for her by which time Biggles may have recovered from his officers mess do dah wotsit dining out night! He is leaving his job for the new one soon so gets dined out and a formal tarrah said! Lots of food and alcohol for free!!! He may surface around 2pm if we are lucky lol
On Sunday we have a remembrance day parade./service which we are going to all together poshed up. Biggles will be in Number 1's and Weeny is very excited. There is a parade of soldiers - she doesn't really distinguish between RAF and soldiers but gets that they all go to war adn do brave things. She is dead excited. there will be a helicopter fly by as well and the Duke of Northumberland makes an appearance.
We will be wearing our poppies with pride and remembering my Dad too. He was in the navy from 1939-1946. he dies when I was 13 so Weeny has never met him. She will inherit his naval stuff however and is kind of named after him - he was a James and she is a Jessica and she has my surname in her name. Both J Westbrooks. Was the closest I could get with the ex. We have his pictures up and old ones from WW2. bit of history for her.
I often wonder what my Dad would have made of Biggles. Firm handshakes and would probably straighten his shoulders a lot lol and would have loved the officers mess. Would have loved to have taken him. He liked the old queeny and would have stood to attention with pride at the national anthem and toasts to the old girl and been very honoured to have been taken there by Biggles. And any mention of Lord Mountbatten would have set him off! He met him many years ago and thought he was ace.
Hope he is smiling somewhere!
Sunday, 6 November 2011
Monkfish Jag Jul and other pillion tales
Curry was lovely - had a steaming hot Monkfish Jag Jul. Super hot so couln't finish it completely but ate all the fish! Company excellent. Sunday we whizzed off to Jedburgh on B's bike. Had a coffee at the Edinburgh woollen Mill then came back across the Carter Bar border and past Kielder Reservoir.
Am very tired. B came for dinner and we are now plonked on sofa with weeny... need to attempt a bath............ and get ready for tomorrow. Super stiff from riding pillion!
Enjoy what's left of Sunday!!!
View from Carter Bar - Land of the Border Reivers!
Am very tired. B came for dinner and we are now plonked on sofa with weeny... need to attempt a bath............ and get ready for tomorrow. Super stiff from riding pillion!
Enjoy what's left of Sunday!!!
Saturday, 5 November 2011
Date Night!
Hair cut, weeny at the other familiy this evening ( we think - unless she gets upset and wants to come home and other family can be arsed to bring her.. sigh) Biggles has booked table at new curry house in town! Tarted up! Even got the make up out Whoo hoo! Bit of a 60's style goth theme gannin on with smokey eyes - I like it, Biggles will shake head most probably lol. A few beers in the John Bull - Old drinkers pub in a residential side street that stocks 135 different Malt Whiskeys and very nice European Lagers and other ales. No music, just conversation, It smells a bit but a proper pub none of this wine bar crap or trendy sofa style seating and lighting - PROPER PUB! Dart board. Stools. Crisps and pork scratchings behind bar! A few beers then a bit of marsala lol (no will be something more authentic me thinks!) new restaurant owners also own a restaurant in South Shields Ocean road - also known as curry street. It is the best place to go for a curry in the North East. So its very yummy!
Bought new to me trousers for work - Next Black £2. baragain - need to take them up however.
Bought new to me trousers for work - Next Black £2. baragain - need to take them up however.
Follow the link
http://www.photostoday.co.uk/photoDetails.aspx?ID=2785069
The buggers - the link changes to the entire gallery! Poo. Anyway if you can be bothered to search we are at the top of page 16 I think in October 11.
Follow the link to me and Weeny in the paper! Can't copy and paste unfortunately and the buggers make you pay for copies. Biggles has bought one for me though. Bless him.
XXX
The buggers - the link changes to the entire gallery! Poo. Anyway if you can be bothered to search we are at the top of page 16 I think in October 11.
Follow the link to me and Weeny in the paper! Can't copy and paste unfortunately and the buggers make you pay for copies. Biggles has bought one for me though. Bless him.
XXX
Wednesday, 2 November 2011
Busy Busy
Weeny all good at school and new child care breakfast club. Sticking iwth the old one after nursery as they collect and stay open till six. Howeer I can drop off earlier get into work a bit earlier and get back a bit earlier- will see how this goes.
Council appt not too bad - once am prioirty can start bidding on houses in the area I want- no time scale.. how long is a piece of string! Need to get letters from solicitors etc then I will be prioirty and can also apply to Housing associations who only advertise 50% of their stock on the homefinder council site.
Had a few ebay hiccups - some cheeky people out there buying and paying for the price but not including postage and then asking me to send it to Eastern Europe but sell it for a lower price!!! I think not ! £12 is £12 and I only wanted £35 for the item in total. ( RRP when new 89.00+)
Anyhoo other than that have a few more items to sell some clothes and bits and pieces any thing left over a friend and I will car boot. I still have to do Enviroclothes for extra pennies. I am going through linen and have a few items my sister and neice may like so I will hang on till they have said yay or nay and also gold to sel - Hatton garden metals me thinks as recommended by Hard Up Hester and martin money saver dude.
The crappy caravan Haven holiday has not offered any refunds only credit notes in my name only. No use to me ! Only site I wish to stay at is Caraig Tara in Ayrshire near my mum and I won't be going back there again. I shall argue the toss. Its £42.50 for one holiday and was £67 for the other.
Have alot of nervous energy at the moment. Quite odd.
Still need to get Bonfire night sorted for weeny. We are having Fireworks and fajitas on Friday with a fire pit! She is away on Saturday to the other place that has no name. I doubt she will want to stay over night but we shall see. Not sure what we shall burn - may make some paper Guy Fawkes with her tomorrow. Bit barbaric really for a three year old me think s but its a bit of history!
Halloween trick or treating was fine. We went around the cul de sac - Neighbours don't mind too much and put up decorations if they are holding halloween. You don't knock if no sign of halloween celebrations which I think is fair enough. A sort of code.
Halloween pictures out on Thursday so I wait with baited breath!!!!
Keep well frugal peeps!!!!!!
Eeek
Council appt not too bad - once am prioirty can start bidding on houses in the area I want- no time scale.. how long is a piece of string! Need to get letters from solicitors etc then I will be prioirty and can also apply to Housing associations who only advertise 50% of their stock on the homefinder council site.
Had a few ebay hiccups - some cheeky people out there buying and paying for the price but not including postage and then asking me to send it to Eastern Europe but sell it for a lower price!!! I think not ! £12 is £12 and I only wanted £35 for the item in total. ( RRP when new 89.00+)
Anyhoo other than that have a few more items to sell some clothes and bits and pieces any thing left over a friend and I will car boot. I still have to do Enviroclothes for extra pennies. I am going through linen and have a few items my sister and neice may like so I will hang on till they have said yay or nay and also gold to sel - Hatton garden metals me thinks as recommended by Hard Up Hester and martin money saver dude.
The crappy caravan Haven holiday has not offered any refunds only credit notes in my name only. No use to me ! Only site I wish to stay at is Caraig Tara in Ayrshire near my mum and I won't be going back there again. I shall argue the toss. Its £42.50 for one holiday and was £67 for the other.
Have alot of nervous energy at the moment. Quite odd.
Still need to get Bonfire night sorted for weeny. We are having Fireworks and fajitas on Friday with a fire pit! She is away on Saturday to the other place that has no name. I doubt she will want to stay over night but we shall see. Not sure what we shall burn - may make some paper Guy Fawkes with her tomorrow. Bit barbaric really for a three year old me think s but its a bit of history!
Halloween trick or treating was fine. We went around the cul de sac - Neighbours don't mind too much and put up decorations if they are holding halloween. You don't knock if no sign of halloween celebrations which I think is fair enough. A sort of code.
Halloween pictures out on Thursday so I wait with baited breath!!!!
Keep well frugal peeps!!!!!!
Eeek
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