Ten on tuesday….

Ten

 

1. I watched one episode of one born every minute the other day because a friend told me that there was a lady on there who had reminded her of me. Mostly because she was having her fifth unexpected baby. You can read my reaction to finding out i was pregnant for the fifth time here. Im not so sure i will be watching it again, no-one needs to be crying at lunctime do they? My goodness. There was a disabled lady having her first baby who just had the most incredible spirit. Truly inspiring but left me in a bit of a mess for the school run. 

2. So its lent. What shall i give up? What is going to actually be achieveable?

3. Walk to school wednesday. I dont have issues with it. at all. I am lucky enough to be able to walk to our school and have done with all the kids most of the time. BUT on wednesday my three year old goes to pre-school and if i walk to school we are then late for pre-school and I hold those precious three hours of time with just one baby quite tightly and so arriving late means i am MISSING OUT. But my older kids always whine that they NEED to walk to school on walk to school wednesday. Now please don't think im being picky but doesnt the fact that my kids walk to and from school almost every other day sort of act as a bit of a credit balance in the walk to school deposit account? No? is it just me? Can someone tell my kids or maybe even the teachers??

4. I am loving the newborn shoots i have done recently. yes i know i could go on and on about this but i just love working with newborns (outside of the hospital). Not that i don't love my job in the NICU…ah..you know what i mean. 

5. This week i am very excited to be hosting the love pregnancy blogs bit of loveallblogs.com. I volunteered to help and pitch in. Now I have had five pregnancies and I work in a maternity hospital so im around pregnant ladies a lot so ill no doubt have a few things to share. But if you have any fabulous memories to share about your pregnancy or if you are pregnant and want to share the journey (and if you have a blog) then bob over and share your post on the love pregnancy blog page. Im really thrilled to be part of the team. 

6. music time. I heard this song on the radio. really love it. 

 

7. Im thinking of ordering our cereal direct from Kellogs. Maybe they could deliver it in some kind of storage container too. Seriously we go through so much of it. I found the baby eating a dry weetabix the other day. Now that is desperate! Someone feed that child!

8. On friday I will be watching this. In between managing the five little folk solo. OH is off away on a BELA weekend again. Anyone know if you can record live internet stream?

9. A friend of mine got me onto this New Girl.  I have to say i really like it. It does make me cringe and hide behind the duvet at times. But in a smiley sort of way. I watch it on catch up as with most things these days. It reminds me a little bit of another series though? Just needs a coffee house and i think it might be very close to another certain American sitcom. Any ideas what!

10. Pancake day was shared with some good friends this afternoon, which i was really grateful for. Having worked a night shift last night I was banking on some frozen Costco bought pancakes warmed up in the oven. But a friend of mine saved the day with home made beauties with lashing of lemon, sugar and syrup. Perhaps the most perfect way to have pancakes? no?

So lovelies, link in if you are up for it. If not go check out some other tuesdayten folk. 

hannah

Lucy

Helen

Jo

theoriginalbritgirl 

 

 

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London baby..

You ever know someone well that you have never even met? I did…until this last week.

The cool thing about blogging and being out in the internet in general is that you can meet some great folk who you would have no chance of coming across in real life.(yes there are some crazy ass weirdos as well!) Well i 'met' mel online years and years ago and we have always said that we would get together at some stage. 

This half term we managed it. Rendezvous: London for a afternoon of walking, photographs, food and chat. Yes lots of that last one 🙂

The day was always going to be a winner starting with me on a train BY MYSELF! You know things are desperate when you almost ask the person next to you to sit still! =)

It was a bit like a blind date sort of feeling i had arriving in London. I mean i hadn't actually ever met Mel before even though i 'knew' her and her family. So bizarrely when she walked over to me with her family i was all 'HIYA!" to her kids and they looked a bit bemused. As i suppose they should, they had never met me before and yet i could probably tell them what they had been doing yesterday!

So we walked and talked and talked. Stumbled across a camera shop and did some window shopping then stopped for tea and scones in Selridges (ooooh)

I don't know London really well. There were a few times when i thought 'ah ive been here before.' But whilst i am a southerner I have lived 'oop north' for a long time.

Mel sent me a message later the next day saying that she had forgot that I wouldnt know London as well and she should have showed me a few more sights. But you know, I probably wouldn't have paid that much attention to the sights. My heart was lifted by having some time when im not doing 'mummy' When stopping for a snack means that you dont need to buy a fruitshoot and smartie cookie as well. Having that luxury of time. Standing in St.Pancras station, people thronging around me going about their busy lives and i just stood still. Because I could. ah the indulgence of it!

But most of all I loved hearing about and sharing the little stories that are the make up of life. The good and the bad, the happy and sad.

You can keep your towers and your palaces, i'll take that every. single. time. 

London

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The weekend that was…

the sort of weekend where i have only just unpacked the suitcase, two days after we returned. Willing the kids school uniforms dry on the radiators because the weekend at the start of half term was full as well so missed the laundry boat. 

We returned from the south on Friday via some seriously long and boring traffic jams. Hands up who would like to spend 8 hours in a car with 5 kids? no? anyone?….

When we got home the kids were straight into bed and I had to set up for a photoshoot on saturday and find a way to climb Mt. Washmore. 

So im thinking i need another break now. Show of hands for another week off?

yeah….

thought so. 

🙂

Poppy18:02
My sweet little red head. '

 

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tagging me tagging you….

Ive been tagged in this mother of all tags. *holds breath*

My Difficult Dozen!

tagged by the splendiferous Melkshammum and trouble doubled. Two mummy blogs that i love to hang out at so how could i not join in. Here's how it goes:

The rules:

1. You must post the rules
2. Post 12 fun facts about yourself in the blog post
3. Answer the questions the tagger has set for you in their post and then create 12 new questions for the fellow bloggers you plan to tag
4. Tag 12 people and link to them on your blog
5. Let them know you tagged them

part one: check.

Part two: 12 fun things about me: hmmmm.

1. I can ride a horse, really very well. I used to teach in fact. Yes..that well. *obv would be very rusty and ache like crazy now if i was to sit in a saddle*

2. I was born in Brighton, but my mother is Irish

3. I used to work for a company called PGL (kids adventure holidays) I had to live in a tent for 6 months. At the time i thought it was fun *shakes head*

4. I travelled to Canada after my first degree and worked on a goat farm (oh yes i did)

5. My favourite dinner is christmas dinner. 

6. My favourite drink is the EVIL diet coke. 

7. I am a slummy chocolate eater. Give me Cadbury dairy milk over some fancy fondant any day of the week

8. I was secretly into Take That when they were first famous. I was at Uni during the 90's when it was only cool to like The Happy Mondays et al. I like Gary. 

9. I have spent hours watching youtube videos on how to master photoshop. Yes im that geeky. 

10. We had chickens when i was a kid and a cockerel who had the heaviest foot fall ever. You could hear him coming from a mile away

11. I was a skier before I discovered snowboarding

12. I like the sun, i like the snow. i very muchly dislike rain. 

So thats number 2 done. Number three is answer the questions posed by your tagger. I have two lots to answer so…um…

from double troubled:

1) Do you like being tagged in memes? yes sure 🙂
2) Ant or Dec? um im not sure which one is which…lol
3) Winx Club is an abhorrence to post-feminist thought and should be banned from our TV screens. Discuss. yes absolutely *no idea what that is*
4) What is the greatest TV theme tune in the history of TV? the A team
5) If you had to pimp your kids out for cash, would they be child models, a cute all-singing all-dancing supergroup, or up chimneys? b
6) Will there ever be a boy born that can swim faster than a shark? no doubt
7) If you could only ever eat one chocolate bar for the rest of your life, which would it be? Dairy milk
8) What would be your specialist subject on Mastermind? forgetting stuff
9) Can you play a musical instrument? no. does the spoons count?
10) If you were a character in a novel, who would you be? George from the Famous five
11) Who let the dogs out? Who, who, who, who? I have no idea but they are leaving all their sh*t over our streets and it drives me crazy. 
12) What is your favourite song? too many to say really. 
and from Melkshammum
My 12 questions:
1. Who is your celebrity crush? probably still Mr Gary Barlow 

2. What is your tipple of choice? a lovely pinot 

3. Who was the first musical act you saw live? the awesome Big Country

4. What was the first car you owned? A citroen 2CV

5. Where were you born and do you still live anywhere near there? Brighton *nope long way from there*

6. If you could live anywhere in the world where would it be? Somewhere in the mountains 

7. Can you speak any foreign languages, fluently? No, would have loved to tho

8. What fictional book would you recommend I read? um….reading? books? wah?

9. What is your best skill? making brownies!

10. Facial hair (on a man!) – Yes or No? only a little is acceptable.

11. Marmite – love or hate? love

12. Brandon Flowers – Hot or Not?!ashamed to say ive no idea who he is?
my 12 questions:
1. Electric blanket or cool sheets?
2. High heels or flats?
3. Radio or mp3?
4. Apple or not?
5. Coffee or tea?
6. Sweet or Savoury?
7. Half empty or half full?
8. Reality TV or not?
9. Pop or Rock?
10.Planning or by seat of your pants?
11. Home or abroad?
12. Football or Soccer?
Number4: to tag. Here we go:
right *phew* off  to tell those folks they have been tagged. 

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