Six strange things about me....

Well, I been tagged to tell 6 strange things about me....

1) I have a Daniel O'Donnell calender on my office wall. I bought it as a joke for my friend for Christmas, but it made me laugh soooo much, I kept it!


2) I am utterly and completey obsessed with "Nick & Jessica, Newlyweds". I have no idea why! I consider myself a fairly deep, thoughtful and even intelligent person at a stretch...but I LOVE watching it. I have watched the same episodes again and again, and am gutted they are now divorced. Weird!


3) I have a stationery fetish and will buy post it notes, notebooks and pens in an uncontrollable frenzy.

4) I have a series of beauty spots in the shape of the eiffle tower on my left fore arm.

5) I can't stop re-arranging furniture. I spend hours moving the sofa, the sideboard etc, then spend the same amount of time putting it all back exactly where it was. When my husband gets home, he has no idea what adventures the pieces of furniture have had while he was at work.

6) I dislike chocolate and ice-cream. Chocolate hurts my teeth and ice-cream...well, why would anyone want to put themselves through the displeasure of eating something soooo horribly cold!

So there you go.
Six weird things about me!

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I can't visit anyone's blog on my links list!!
So if I haven't paid you a visit for a while, it's not because I don't love you anymore!!!!!
I don't know what to do...
any ideas out there in cyber space?

Eeek,

xxx

Candles, open fire and a Chinese take-away

Yesterday we got hit by the MOST amazing storm. Apparently there were gusts of up to 100 miles an hour. So, as you would expect, the power went after lunch yesterday. So I lit the fire, I lit a gazillion candles and put some batteries in the radio, settling down on the floor infront of the fire and gazed at the trees blowing outside the window. I must have sat there for hours, just doing nothing but staring out the window...
Then it got dark, then I thought, sod it, I'm having a glass of wine, so I did just that.
Husband got home and as the cooker wouldn't work, we HAD to get a Chinese takaway, Oh! the trauma! We spent the rest of the evening playing cards and getting slowly sloshed. It was the best night I've had for a long time. Sometimes I think of hiding the tv altogether, so we can do that all the time.

We went ot bed with the power still off, and woke up in the morning with the power still off. Thank GOD it came on at about 9ish, the thought of going through the day with no coffee or bacon sandwiches was terrifying.

What a mess!

I can never wait to get sowing, so every January I get peas, broad beans and sweet peas underway. I've got some basil sown as well. Never had much success with basil. I always dream of rows and rows of lush bushes, and presenting my friends and family with home made goblin market pesto. Never happens.

My peas are looking a tad leggy, I never know why that is. Are they too warm maybe? Well, I've bunged them out to harden off now, along with the beans. I'm planning a trip to Wickes to see how much drain pipe is....I've always wanted to try the drain pipe pea sowing thing.

I've tried soaking my sweetpea seeds in warm water over night, lets see if it makes any difference eh?!

Oh Aunty Em!

There's no place like home,
there's no place like home,
there's no place like home...

Right?

Well if this is home...I'm not sure I'd want to leave munchkin land, (not that I'm claiming I ever have left munchkin land!).

I like my house, it's so cute, but the location...there is nothing here for me.

I feel no connection to it at all.

The situation here and the way we live literally on top of our neighbours stresses me out.

You may well be reading this and thinking...tsk! Ungrateful cow, look at what you've got! More than a lot of people! But trust me...it's time to move away. It's time for Nick and I to LIVE our lives together, have an adventure...

I'm scared!

Erica
xx

Uh-oh!

Splurge on interior items for the bedroom, including two doilies?
Baking fairy cakes for my husbands pack lunch?
I'm actually thinking of making a pack lunch?

It's finally happened,

I've turned into my mother....!!!!

Spring? Hello?

I love sowing seeds.

I sow as early as I can, probably too early!

Here's the first little glimmer of what's to come from my allotment this year, peas and broad beans.

Tomorrow, if the weather's fine, I'll go and dig.
It hasn't stopped raining for what seems like forever, and my allotment is just a mud bath.
My garlic is poking through the earth at last, I still get excited, I'm such a saddo.
Nick says he can get me some pallets from work, this means I can build my first ever compost bin! I might make some leaf mulch aswell this year.

Water was a serious problem last year, so now is the time to collect it. I need more butts, trip to the tip soon I think!
I did see a bright pink bath that was dumped outside someone's house in town, now a huge pink bath would look wonderful...alas it will not fit in my car.

revel in the seasons

I love weather. I like it baking hot, freezing cold, thunder, as long as it's doing something...

My favourite season is Autumn, but days like today make me wonder.

The sheer darkness of it. I love it. I HAD to go out and be in it. I was hoping to find some rooks but there are none in the village, there are some in the next village, where my allotment is...I'll take some pictures next time I'm there.

My only complaint about today's weather is that it could have been a bit colder...

I am having trouble uploading my photos...will try again in a while.

Time for an early spring clean...very early.

I'm desperate to clear out the lounge, it's so cluttered. Maybe I'll change the colour?
Maybe a nice warm green?
I like the red though...any suggestions?