The sun has got his hat on ...

Hip hip hooray!!!

Ethan and I are just back from spending the day down at the beach, it was lovely, and you would be mistaken for thinking we were on our holidays it was so nice and sunny. We had a yummy picnic lunch with Michelle and Amy, I got to use my fab picnic hamper/rucksack thingy which is great as it never got an airing last year and i love all the nic nacks in it. Amy wasn't too well, so they left after lunch, but E and I are total beach bums, so we stayed longer, chilling on the blanket in the hot sunshine.

E is worn out now, and is currently fast asleep on the sofa ... bless his little sandy feet! Hopefully the rest o the summer will be great like today and we can have lots of fun outside.

I would kill for a cold Mythos about now ....

em xx

School's out for summer ....

Well it will be in 1 hour!!

Here is a Lo that I have just finished ... sigh .. wonder if I will get the chance to scrap in the summer holidays... hee hee!!

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We are off to the beach after nursery, hope you are all out enjoying the sun?!
xx

So tired ...

I am feeling much better now (still not eaten any meat though!!), but the bug has left me totally wiped out and I am v tired.

Need to get my head into gear as it is Ethan's party on Sunday and birthday on Monday, so I have one very excited little boy in the house!

As I said a wee while ago, we are all booked up for our team retreat, here is where we are staying... they call it a cottage, but it is more of a mansion. It looks lovely and I can't wait. I obviously need to get a wheeled tote thingy, lol!

I put the finishing touches to another LO yesterday (thanks to some goodies from Papermaze). The photos were taken on my camera, on the train to Edinburgh and E was in great form.
Right, i am off to put my feet up for a bit as I want to do some scrapping tonight, so need to conserve energy!

x

bundles of books ...

E and I have just been shopping, as much as I tried to explain to Ethan that is is his birthday in 2 weeks, he still managed to wangle a couple of Hot Wheels out of me!! I was also in Waterstons buying some new books, as R&J announced the titles for their summer book club and they were all on 3 for 2. I said that he could choose a book, so I had 2 and he got the 1 free, but then he said 'if you have 2, I need 2' ...

Well who could argue with that, especially since I am a sucker from books and I love the fact that E is as drawn to them as I am.. So this took us to 4 books, but it made more sense to pick another 2, to take advantage of the 3 for 2 ... so now I sit here with a pile in front of me!!

We also went shopping for a gift for the 2 newest additions to the world, the two little Browning Princes. Jay is now an aunty (officially, as E thinks of her like an aunty anyway!), so we had a little look at all the baby loveliness... I did swither about what to buy, nearly got some Dr who figures as I know Steve would appreciate that, but not sure that Emma would, lol!! It got me really in the mood for baby things (NOT having a baby again, just the buying of all the small clothes, sooo cute!!) and I am really looking forward to becoming an aunty later in the year...

Then we went to get some food bits ... I have been really affected by this illness/bug/thingy .. I am really off the idea of meat, and really can't stomach chicken. I was thinking yesterday about the practicalities of becoming a vegetarian again, but I don't think that it is possible at the moment, with Ethan. I did get loads of fruit (i am addicted to fruit right now, peaches, kiwis, cherrys and strabs ... yum!!) and some Falafal (which with satisfy my vegetarian craving!).

Right, I am off to find my bookmark and get reading!!
x

Rain, rain go away!!

Although on a day when i am indoors I don't mind so much, it is nice to be all cozy. We have just finished watching The Wizard of Oz and I am trying to sort through my photos of today... there are loads considering that we haven't done very much today, lol!!

Here are some pics of the LO I finished just before I got sick... hopefully I am on the mend as I am desperate to play with all my new stash.

Ohhh we have got our SPS retreat booked, it is more of a mansion than a cottage, stunning. I will find the link and post it. Can't wait, pink PJ's and SPS headbands all round girls!!

Ohh (again!!), I had a LO published in this month's SI, will scan it and post it when I get a min!!!
xx

a BUG's life ...

Grrrr it wasn't food poisoning after all, Ethan and I have a horrid sickness bug. I still feel rubbish and E had got it now. It has been hanging around for nearly a week and isn't nice at all. I am making some soup at the moment, not that I really want to eat anything, but I will try.

What is worse is that I got 3 lovely stash deliveries today and I can't play!!

That is all for now as typing this is hurting my eyes! Tomorrow is the 25th, so they are going to be some interesting photos!!

xx

Sick, gross, yuk!

Ugggg I haven't been well... After a really nice meal out on Wednesday with Rachel and our boys, I woke at 3am with with the certain knowledge that I was going to be sick immanently ... the event arrived at 5am. It was horrid, yuk, gross.. i won't go into detail. But i was very unwell. I am only just out of bed and haven't been able to eat anything since wed. Not that I want to eat anything, the thought of food makes me want to vomit all over again!!

I ate a chicken salad the night before and that doubled with watching River Cottage Spring and Hugh's campaign on intensive chicken farming have made me determined never to eat chicken again and then if I ever do it will only be free range organic chicken.

I knew all about the horrendous living conditions of intensive farmed chickens, but some how a cheap tesco chicken makes you able to push that to the back of your mind, but the nutritional evidence (of lack of) speaks for itself. There is no nutritional value in non-organic free range chicken and there is more fat than a MacDonald's. So it isn't the healthy option we once thought of and chickens today have no omega 3, which is entirely down to the way in which they are reared. Unlike the organic free range, who get to run outside (or just set foot outside!) and eat grass, all factors which help to produce the essential brain food, omega 3. This is an important factor for me as a mother, I want the best for my son and i really worry about what goes in his mouth. So I know it is much more expensive and we may eat less chicken as a result, but from now on, E and I are only eating organic free range.

I have signed up for Hugh's campaign, as ultimately i think that supermarkets have a duty to the consumer and should reduce the price, so we can all eat healthier and give the chickens a better quality of life.

Right, I am off my soap box now as i need to have a bath and open the craft obsessions order that has just arrived, lol!!

x