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:

Coming to the party a bit late today. My lovely girls ;))

as always you can rock over to Mammasaurus blog to view some more. 

It made me laugh when Kate from Kate takes 5 who runs the Listography challenge every week posted this week. Thinking that no-one would enter. She clearly underestimated the british love of tea and in fact their tea cups or mugs. 

I saw it and immediately knew a few of my top contendors. I have my favourite mug and ill use it over and over again because its just…right. 

The little things are very important, the feel of the mug, the width of the rim, the decoration, the size….so if you head over to her blog she is actually running a competition now to win some mugs. 

Go check it out. 

my 5 are:

1. 
a new contender but its a keeper. 

2. 

This one, someone gave me ages ago. I don't even remember who but i like it because its my job and i love babies although its not the nicest mug. Design presides over funtion for sure in this case. 

3.
another newbie to the bunch but it just 'feels' right. A cuppa in this one will always make me smile. 

4.
this one is our 'uglymug' I dont think i have actually ever used it, it was a wedding gift and its really thick china and actually a very small and uncomfortable mug. OH has it often with expresso. But it warrants a mention 'cos its been with us for so long. 

5.

This is one of my favourite mugs (well the Super mum version of it) but sadly mine has broken and i so love the feel of this mug that i will even use my OH's mug. Its the rim and the feel of the cup in cupped hands. Just. Perfect. Pukka. 

🙂

I bet you could all come up with your own reasons and loves of the mugs in your cupboard. Come on and join in.

Joining in this morning with @multiplemummy and her meme family frolics. This week its half term in our house which means that OH is off as well and i had some annual leave from work so we headed down to my mum and dads. 

Mum mentioned that at a local athletics stadium a local Gold medal winning Olympic athlete was visiting the town with his team that he is now coaching for the coming 2012 games. Which is incidentally the American team (which seems a bit strange!) here he is winning with team GB at beijing 2008

Anyway he is from the town my parents live in and so the local athletics stadium put on an afternoon of bike riding, meeting the athletes and getting your bike serviced if you want. 

Thats one of the things that i love about the olympics that events like this get staged to get kids (and adults) interested in sport, exercise and getting involved. I love my kids to meet these athletes who are so driven and have such determination to achieve a goal and take part. 

As it transpired our youngest was asleep after a particularly bad night and i didn't get to go. The rest of the family did and i was secretly a bit miffed to have missed it. 

But the kids really enjoyed it and were buzzing about the bikes they could have a go on, the fact that the TV crews were there and that Aunty Joy was fearless about going to talk to them and ask them all for pictures. 

I was really pleased when my dad sent me the pics as i wasn't there. They had a great time. 

So big thanks to Jamie Staff and the USA cycling team for providing a real highlight for my kids this half term. Cycling with an Olympic Champion is not a bad thing to tell your friends about in school. Of course as a family we all wish them well for London 2012 in a few months. Im sure they will be very happy with the silver!! :))

click on the link below to see some other family frolics from this week.