A brand new dragons den

Yesterday, without intending to, we ended up buying Elliot an new home, which is actually more like a mansion. He has out grown the fish tank that we had put him in to start with and is now living in a huge 4ft long purpose built Vivarium and he's not a happy dragon. He was originally in the Living Room but due to the size of his new abode he has relocated into the playroom, trouble is there is more activity in this room and he is not used to that. Hopefully he will settle down in the next couple of days as he gets used to it and his beard will change back to it's normal colour. So my photos for show of Sunday are of Elliot and his new home, sorry they are not very good but the light is really bad this morning and I can't be arsed to faff about. The one of Elliot in my hand is for Mima as she asked what size he was when I saw her on Friday. He is still only small and has about another 8 months worth of growing to do so should double in size.

I've also played digi style a little bit this week. I have decided to not do 12x12 digi layouts but have gone for 13" x 11" as this size fits better onto my screen for screen savers and is the size of a blurb book - how handy is that.

WHERE THERE'S A WILL THERE'S.....

....A WAY. Which is today's prompt on HS:MS well away is but I couldn't think of a title for that so I sort of adapted it.

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This shot has obviously not been taken today from not so sunny Cheshire with no coastline. It was taken in August on the way back from France. That big boat is our ferry which was quickly sailing away from us, taking the boys away from us. Don't worry though their Grandparents were on the boat with them. I had somehow managed to loose our passports on the way to the terminal so they wouldn't let us on the boat. We spent ages looking through everything and searching the car to find them but we couldn't. The nice French people phoned up the UK and then let us on the next boat home where we got through customs in this country without having to show any ID !! Sort of makes you feel safe and secure knowing that security has been stepped up with the threat of terrorists doesn't it. Anyway we got home and started emptying the car and found both passports in the back of the car in the foot well. We still can't understand how we missed them as 4 adults searched there in France at least 2 times each and didn't find them - strange.

I'm off for an afternoon of gossip with Mima this afternoon which should be fun.

Kyle is still loved up and has actually changed his undies for 7 days on the run now which is unheard of normally.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU,

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR MIMA,

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!

Today's HS:MS prompt is miniature. This is how my miniature rose looks this morning. I'm keeping it brief this morning as I have a really busy day today and want to try and get as much done as possible. I have a pile of paperwork a mile high sat in front of me which is nearly as high as the ironing mountain in the other room.

The Lizard is still missing - I think we have seen the last of him.

Kyle is still in love and has reached his 1 week anniversary today - bless.

NEVER TOO OLD FOR MY DOLLS

HS:MS's prompt today is collect which got me thinking about my dolls. When I was little I used to collect dolls but not just any old doll. I used to collect national costume dolls the catch was that they had to have been bought in the country that they represented. During the 1970's and early 1980's I amassed a collection of about 70 dolls in total from all over the world, mainly thanks to my wonderful Grandpa who passed away when I was 16. He travelled everywhere and got me dolls from Russia, Africa, Japan and Romania to name but a few, all of which were unusual places to visit in the 1970s. My picture today shows the only one that I still have on display which is the Indian doll that he bought me back from one of his visits there. This is my favourite as it is where he was born and lived until he was 17 and where I hope to visit one day. All the other dolls are safely packed away in tissue paper and boxes in the attic as they collect far too much dust to be on display. This one is growing old, fading and getting moth eaten on my bedroom windowsill.

This is what happened to the rotten bananas the other day they magically turned into chocolate and banana muffins and then magically disappeared!

The lizard is still missing.

Kyle is still with Vicky and still in love. He kissed her for the first time yesterday from what I understand it was a peck on the lips but was very pleasant!

Twig is at the cleaners which is a good job really seeing as somebody left him outside this morning and I didn't realise until it was time for his appointment. By this time he had been for a swim in the pond, dug about in some mud and rolled about on a dead frog. I'll let you imagine the look on the groomers face when I dropped him off this morning and what I will be saying to the somebody when they get in tonight.

IT COULD HAVE BEEN WORSE ....

.... a lot worse. My initial thoughts for todays HS:MS prompt of snip was obvious for a dog owner, wasn't it? The problem was it is very difficult to photograph what is no longer there so that idea was a non runner from the start. Twig is not due to the groomers until tomorrow so another non runner. So I have resorted to snipping off the end of a spring onion, mmm not very good I know but it's the best I can do without going down the crafty path. It's taken on my glass chopping board - hope that answers your question Mima.




We have an escapee in the house running loose somewhere in the form of a tail less lizard. We have 6 small lizards in one vivarium who have lived happily together for 2 years now until "Spikey" decided to become a bully. Poor "Sticky" (yes, we are genuinely that bad at pet names) got in the line of fire one day and lost his tail. I think this was the last straw for Sticky and he made a bid for freedom last night, when Pete opened the door he used his arm as a spring board and headed under the sofa. Trouble is he is that bloody fast we can't catch him. Matt's idea was to tip crickets all over the floor and wait for him to come out, yeah really clever Matt the crickets won't go into the dark under the sofa will they! Pete's idea is not much better as he wants to leave it there until Twig finds it and eats it, very caring I must say. Kyle didn't have an opinion as he was too busy talking to Vicky on MSN again. So I will probably be spending most of today on my hands and knees with a torch trying to catch a tail less lizard as that is the only idea I can come up with. It's amazing how they keep wanting pets but then I am left to deal with them.

Rach
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Love is in the air.

Kyle has been smitten all weekend. He has been chatting to Vicky on MSN constantly and his even changed his user name to "This is Kyle and I love Vicky for ever and ever". I only know this because I sneaked a look when he was having his lunch, which he threw done at break neck speed so he could get back to her. Ahhhhh Young Love - I just didn't expect it quite so soon. He has even ordered her a cuddly bear over the Internet for a Christmas present, after 2 days! Last night he HAD to have a shower and do his hair before he put the web cam on! This morning another shower, hair all spiked up, Lynx on, Blazer wiped down, tie perfect and off he went to school - Boomchickawaawaa. Made me think back to when he was younger and we had temper tantrums and tears every time school was mentioned this lasted all through pre school and infants, every school day was a nightmare with him, he hated it that much - not anymore!

Well on to today's HS:MS prompt is almost. All I could think of was the horrible bananas that are sitting waiting to be frozen or made into banana bread. So here they are almost brown, almost dead, almost frozen or almost baked, take your pick.
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Now I have all my Christmas presents sorted out (they arrived 20 minutes ago) I am going to tackle Christmas cards today - just don't tell SuzyB as she thinks I'm washing my hair so shhhhhh. Hopefully I will have something to show tomorrow.

Rach x

Welcome to the Asylum

Self Portrait Saturday again. I thought I would go with my hands today with badly manicured nails and all. Ohh look I'm knitting - again. The scarf is growing and is about 1/4 finished, which isn't bad seeing as he wants it to go from knee to knee and he's taller than me.


A nice surprise dropped through the letterbox this morning in the form of an interim school report from Matthew. The last one was dire, very dire so he was threatened persuaded to pull his proverbial socks up and make more of an effort this year. It appears he has done just that so the bribe persuasion obviously worked resulting in 17 A’s, 27 B’s and only 6 C’s. I can’t wait for him to come back from his trip tomorrow to congratulate him and hand over his £17 bribe money reward as I am sure he will be as pleased as we are. I must point out that the marks are for Classwork Quality, Homework Quality, Overall Effort and Behaviour not for his working level which makes it even better that he has got good scores as it means he is trying hard. I have a feeling the fact that Kyle has now joined him at High School has something to do with this dramatic turn around – sibling rivalry and all that.

Now SuzyB might just be starting to think of buying things for Christmas presents but not me I’m not that slow. I have not only bought all our Christmas presents, well at least ordered them all, I have even bought Pete’s Valentines present for next year. Normally we don’t even bother with cards for Valentines day but I couldn’t resist and needed an excuse. We are going to Manchester Palace theatre on Thursday 7th February to see “The Asylum- the Circus of Horrors” not suitable for children! The circus of Horrors is now back with a brand new, super shocking, awe inspiring, jaw dropping show that will have you sitting on the edge of your seat (when not falling of it with laughter).

How cool is that? I like stretchy skin man myself, Pete's looking forward to the scantily clad females - typical. He'll certainly get an eyeful as I booked us front row seats this morning.

Pardon What Sorry?

Guess what I've been doing today instead of taking photographs titled disturbed. I bin playin' digi style and created myself a new header, like you need telling! Before anyone asks it's called that because apparently I use those words so often they must be my favourites either that or I'm going deaf.

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The big news is that Kyle has got himself a girlfriend. Vicky asked him if he would go out with her on the bus when they were returning from a school trip yesterday. According to Kyle they have held hands and hugged, which he thought was nice, but they haven't kissed yet. He took her photograph today and she is now the wallpaper on his mobile and I must admit she is very pretty. Kyle bought her a hedgehog toy yesterday and she bought him a rubber, Pete thinks this was a bit forward of Vicky so I explained that it was an eraser and he's now settled down.

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Did you know - It is estimated that the average person will spend about 336 hours kissing in their lifetime.

Anxious

is today's word on HS:MS which is a lot easier than yesterdays word of confused which I avoided. I don't do confused, I'm just confusing instead!

Today I am anxious because Matt is going away for the weekend, with school, on a Science revision thingy in Wales so his bags are sitting on his bed ready for him to pack tonight. He has been on lots of residential trips including Germany earlier this year but it doesn't get any easier, I still worry about him. I don't think the fact that he returned from Germany with a sling on one arm and an x ray in the other actually helps much. On the other hand I am looking forward to a teenage tantrum and argument free weekend - way hay!

My cold is progressing nicely, I now have a dry nose as it all seems to have gone south to my chest - like I need anything else down there. I'm hoping that it will be all cleared up by next week so that I can go and see Mima again.

Matt's scarf is growing and I have an order in for another scarf from Kyle so I must be doing something right. Just not sure that they will be ready for Christmas the little bit that I have done has taken about 3 hours so far. As a result of this I am planning to enter the speed knitting championships early next year. And yes I do know that I dropped a stitch on the red bit but I couldn't find it again and anyway I've told Matt that it is part of the design and what he doesn't know won't hurt him so shhhhhhh. I think it's a valiant first attempt at knitting.

Rach

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I'm So.....

Excited. Which happens to be todays prompt on HS:MS.

At the grand old age of 37 I have finally learnt how to knit - well sort of. I am starting off easy with a Dr Who scarf for Matt in red and black. It was all going swimmingly last night until I had to change colours and cocked it all up. I tried to undo it but lost the stitches so I had a hissy fit and unravelled the lot. My next door neighbour started me off again but she knits really loosely so that got unravelled too. A quick search on Google and I found out how to start off and now I am about 20 rows up and have gone wrong again so Mum is on her way up soon to sort me out. I think, at this rate, I will be ready for Monkey making by early next week at the latest and by the following week I should have a whole jungle full each with their own scarf!! Or I could just be buying one off Monkee Maker .

Not only am I excited about learning to knit I am double excited about learning to digi scrap using Kirsty Wiseman's tutorials. I got the third one this morning and have worked my way through it and done this weeks challenge. Not really pleased with the outcome as I don't like the flower but the challenge stated to use everything in a free kit and use it I did. The kit is called Peace & Quiet and I got it from here.

Rach

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Sad :(

Todays prompt on HS:MS is sad but we are not allowed to use a human face to convey this emotion. I have gone with todays sad and gloomy weather as seen from my computer seat as I think it makes everyone slightly sad when it's like this.

Not a good shot, the lighting is very bad here at the moment!

NOTHING TO SHOW OFF TODAY.

Well the title says it all really. I had planned to go out with the camera today and get some Autumn shots but the fog has put a stop to that. Anyway, I think I should be let off with today as yesterdays shot showed off my new hair so it can be counted as a 2 in 1. I'm in a much better mood today and like my hair again now it has been washed which means I will just have to get off my arse (which is still big) and wash it every day but at least it's quick and easy to do. My cold is progressing well and hopefully I should be over it in a few days which will mean that I can go and visit Mima again. I was supposed to go last week but had to cancel because of the cold but we did manage a long phone call where she helped me think through a dilemma on Friday.

Rach
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Bad Hair Day?

I eventually managed to get a picture of myself that I sort of didn't mind. Woke up this morning in one of those moods when nothing is right so I hate my hair today and NEED to have it longer again. My hips look huge today too, and my bum, I don't like my top as my boobs are too big, my ear sticks out - I hate days when I feel like this! Going to wash my hair now to see if it makes one jot of difference to how I feel.



Rach

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Mary, Mary Quite Contrary..

How does your garden grow? Well mine grows very well with no silver bells, a few shells and nothing at all in a row. I think I have shown most of my garden at one time or another and you have probably gathered by now that I love my garden. Not so keen on gardening though which is a bit of a problem but I get round it with a little bit of help of my own contrary Mary in the form of my Mum (who is called Mary). Apart from my veggies and fruit this is my favourite part of the garden.

The shelves are some pieces of slate that we found and put up there. In the summer we put candles on the shelves but at the moment this little guy is the only thing living on them.

Well I went and got pampered yesterday afternoon and ended up having all my hair chopped off. It's something I have been thinking about for a while now and I am so glad I have done it. I washed my hair this morning and it took seconds to dry and it didn't even need styling, how fantastic is that!! I'm sure it will take a while to get used to as I have not had short hair for over 12 years now but so far I love it. I might even take part in the SPS tomorrow.

Love, hate relationship..

Inside or out - what is your fridge like? What does it say about you?

Mmm what does my fridge say about me. If it could talk it would probably say "she loves her food but hates what it does to her". Notice the 2 pictures on the fridge door they're both of me when I was fat and they don't work. I'm going to try a new tactic and put a thin picture of me on there as I am sure that will be more of an incentive to loose those few pounds that have crept back on over the last 3 years. I also keep a list of what we are eating for the next week on there, a shopping list behind that, post its with the kids jobs for the day on, a chart showing how much the kids have earned this week and then any other bits and pieces get stuck on there too.

The stuff inside is not very tempting to me at the moment as it all tastes of snot. I am getting really fed up of this cold now. The night before last I hardly slept at all but then again what can you expect when you take tablets that are laden with caffeine at 10pm! Last night I made sure I took Night Nurse instead of Day Nurse and had a great nights sleep so feel a lot better. It's just the runny eyes and nose that are getting on my nerves now as every time I bend forward to do something I drip - not a good look on Christmas cards.

I'm off to the hairdressers this afternoon to be pampered. Hopefully I will be brave enough to go for a whole new look. Before that though I am going to buy some wool as my mum is going to teach me how to knit. I am starting with a black and red scarf for Matt which should be ready for this 18th birthday with any luck. All this so I can have a bloody monkee!

Rach

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HS:MS - Bedroom

Do you have a fave spot or piece of furniture in your bedroom?

I love the curtain rail in our bedroom!

Not a happy bunny today as I have been awake with a sore throat most of the night which started half way through Doc Martin last night. Last time I had a really sore throat I ended up with acute gutate psoriasis which lasted for months and months and covered me in horrible red patches. Apparently it was as a result of having severe tonsillitis so now every time I get a sore throat I panic. Hopefully this is just a cold as I can't see white blotches yet.

The boys choose their pumpkins at the weekend and cut them out ready for Halloween. Kyle's is the grim reaper, he had a little bit of help but Matt did the other one all by himself.

A good tip for keeping them from shrivelling before the big day is to put them in water over night or rub Vaseline round all the cut out bits to stop it loosing moisture. We've gone for the water method as it's less messy and we are not sure how flammable Vaseline is?

Rach
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HS:MS - Window

Choose your favourite window in your house. Show the whole window, the curtains and window decoration.

It only took me an hour to get this shot and then after all that it turned out pants. It's Matt's bedroom window so I had to open the blinds, open the curtains, make the bed, clean the windows, clean the windowsill, find the desk (under all the crap) and then clean it and then I spent ages trying to get the Plasticine out of the carpet. He fancies himself as a movie maker at the moment so we have Plasticine figures everywhere while he makes the movie which usually involves blood and guts - well what else can you expect from a goth! I love the way his room is full of black, red and skulls but he still won't get rid of his teddy bear which lives on his bed - ahhhh bless. At least the room will stay tidy for a few hours as the boys are back at school today - yay, yay and double yay!!

Don't be fooled by the "tidy" room, I have just moved everything into a pile at the bottom of the bed just out of shot. I don't ever tidy the boys rooms I only ever dump all the things that aren't where they should be on the bed and then clean. That way if they want to sleep they have to do something about the mess - it's worked so far!

Matt's mess - not bad for a 14 year old boy!

Kyle's mess mountain!!

Rach

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HS:MS - SOS

I took this photo of Kyle last week in the Forest of Dean on the sculpture trail. It was his turn to read the map and tell us which way to go, which to his credit he did very well.

Well I have worked my way through the first installment of Kirsty Wiseman's Digi Course and managed to retain some of the information. Today I decided to take up her challenge of downloading a free digi kit and using what I have learnt from the first lesson to create a layout. So here is my first ever attempt at digi scrapbooking using Harvest Spice from Shabby Princess. I don't think Kyle will like the flowers and sparkle that I have used on it but who cares it's not for him! I could easily get addicted to this as it is cheap, it makes no mess and I don't have to cut into my precious papers.

So now I have this as one of my screen saver pictures along with Hugh Laurie as House, Captain Jack Sparrow, Dr Who and generally any nice eye candy I find as I surf the net! Ooooh now that's a good idea - digi scrap the eye candy for my screen savers.

Rach
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Guilty as Charged

The blog police have been in contact with me and accused me of being mean and not sharing photos. So just for SuzyB here are a couple of photos from our trip. There are some more on the laptop of our visit to the Black Country Museum but to get them I have to get up and go and get the laptop so I can transfer the photos and that is far too much to ask.

Anybody that knows Pete knows that he is a total liability. In recent years he has been knocked off his bike and broken his shoulder, elbow and a rib or two, fallen off a skateboard while showing the boys how to do it and chipped his elbow, fallen 30 foot off a rope swing and broken a couple of ribs, severed his thumb tendon with a sellotape dispenser, broken his toe on a post and had more bruises and tiny accidents than I care to remember. So when we saw a swing in the Forest of Dean you would think that he would heed my warning of "don't you bloody dare" wouldn't you, ohhh no not Pete he has to jump straight on it.

As you can see he was having great fun. Until he decided that it would be even more fun if he was to jump off in my direction and run at me like a lunatic while I had the camera up to my face trying to take a photo. Unfortunately for him I didn't move apart from downwards and backwards rapidly. Pete tried to grab me round the waist but I took him with me where he landed face down on the forest floor with a bruised nose and bleeding lip. The thing is I don't understand how this is all my fault but apparently it is and I should have moved - at least I'll know next time. Don't anyone have any sympathy for the fool as he doesn't deserve it as he should know better at his age.

We found out that the swing was part of a sculpture trail in the forest so we carried on and walked the rest of it which took a few hours.

There were some pretty good sculptures there but this one was our favourite.

One of the other places we visited was Puzzle Wood which I can highly recommend. It is the remains of an Pre Roman open cast iron mine and is totally amazing. It's like being transported into another world where fairies, trolls and elves could happily dwell.

So all in all our little trip was a success and was well worth the £15 a night (not each) it cost us to stay in the Travel Lodge!

Well Suzy you asked for it, have I shared enough now?

Rach
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Violet

A quick post to put up my Violet as I hunted for this for ages so I am not going to let it be wasted even if we are doing Pink instead of Violet. I love this picture of my Grandma Violet who I never got to meet as she died before I was born.

HS:MS - Blue

My cunning plan worked beautifully, all I had to do was nag him to an inch of his life and he soon got in a mood, a blue one of course! Ingenious even if I do say so myself. As you can see he is going through a not wanting his hair cut and "I'll only wear black" stage - still!

Rach x

HS:MS - Green

This is a tiny bit of the green in my space today courtesy of my favourites the Japanese Anemone. It had to be something from the garden today but I promise it will be something different tomorrow, as I have no blue in the garden at all but I do have a cunning plan.

HS:MS - Yellow

No yellow flowers in my garden at the moment but there is this yellow hose pipe. I put the garden pictures down to the fact that when I am sat at the computer thinking I look out of the window and see the garden and that's easier than hunting round the house!

Ouch! Just had an accident with some soup, pity it wasn't red today! Just made some tomato soup for Matt's lunch and was pouring the bubbling concoction into his flask when I decided it would be fun to throw it all over my hand. I am sat here now with my hand in a bowl of iced water, never mind it will be OK in a bit. Just wish I didn't drop everything when I'm cooking!

The Mom Song Sung to William Tell Overture with Lyrics

Yesterday Sue directed me to this as I had moaned about the boys. It really made me laugh and it is so true too.

HS:MS - Orange

These little beauties are living in a pot outside my back door. I've been waiting for them to flower all summer but they are just in full bloom now. For some reason I seem to be going on a garden theme this week, just hope the weather holds out.

Pete did the normal bloke thing and flicked through the channels last night as he said the TV had had an update. He found a new channel that has amused him no end it's called "Dave"! How on earth can you name a TV channel Dave? Imagine it "Can you turn Dave on please".

I'm wearing my boots again today for the first time since the jelly fiasco! I have managed to salvage them by bunging them in the washing machine. I really didn't think that it would work but thought I may as well try it as they were heading for the bin anyway. At least I have saved some money much to Pete's relief as I did have my eye on a nice pair of Timberlands.

Rach

Roses are .......

Red. Which is the prompt for todays HS:MS.

I have no roses in flower in the garden at the moment but I do have a Virginia Creeper that lies on the gravel. It did used to go up the side of the garage before we knocked it down and since then we haven't had the heart to dig it up so it just creeps across the floor. One of the boys' spades seems to have ended up in amongst the leaves as they are both incapable of actually using the hooks that I put in the shed for their spades, skateboards etc. Rather like the wash basket, coat hangers, towel rail .................

Rach

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HS:MS - Tongue

A fleshy muscular organ in the mouth.

This is the biggest tongue in my space and the cutest.

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I had a culinary disaster on a grand scale last night the culprit .... a jelly. That's right a simple jelly caused carnage in my kitchen. It was one of those new quickset jellies that do what they say on the packet and set really quickly. They actually start to go gooey in the jug as you stir it. This is when I dropped it and it splatted EVERYWHERE, my jeans, my boots, all over Kyle, cupboard doors, the floor, the ceiling, the walls you name it the jelly splatted it and promptly set. So Pete came in from work to see Kyle topless and me on my hands and knees scrapping red jelly off the floor in my knickers! You must understand I don't normally clean the floor in my pants, well not when the kids are at home anyway, but my jeans had set and were in the washing machine. I don't know what surprised him most, the jelly everywhere that looked like someone had been murdered, me in my pants or me actually cleaning the floor!!

You've all heard of jellied eels, heres my take on it - jellied boots. Seriously though has anyone any ideas about how I should clean these?

Rach

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HS:MS - Game

A form of play or sport.

Not a difficult thing to take a picture of in this house. I would have had more choice but the 2 bearded dragons that we are babysitting for our niece are currently living on the toy trunk in the playroom so I can't get to most of the games until the weekend. I couldn't make my mind up between the old fashioned type of board game that we enjoy or the more modern games consoles so I have taken a picture of each. The only choice then was should it be the Wii, PSP or PS2 we have 2 of each here. Couldn't get the lighting right on the Wii even though I put it right next to the window so in the end I gave up and went with what I had got.

Steps: A series of flat surfaces to enable movement from one level to another.

I didn't manage the prompt yesterday so have caught up today this is one of the steps that we made at the bottom of the garden with reclaimed railway sleepers. Unless you have actually carried a sleeper you have no idea of how heavy they are. We ordered 30 of the damn things and after moving the first one, instantly regretted it. I must admit all the straining and huffing and puffing was worth it in the end, as they do look good. I am so glad that we went for the dirty reclaimed ones over the nice neat clean ones as they have so much more character. The metal bits are still on them and we positioned some so they were pointing up which the thrushes love to use to bash the snails on.

Crockery: A collection of ceramics, porcelain and china.

Not a chance of taking one for this prompt. We only have crappy white crockery here as it only gets bunged in the dishwasher or broken so no point in us having anything else. Kyle has his own special bowl, plate and side plate which are the same as all the others apart from the chips in the rims. For some reason he loves having the chipped crockery and we have to make sure he gets it every time.

Rach

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HS:MS - Autumn

The third season of the year.

I didn't go for leaves as I did that a couple of weeks ago and wanted something different today. I just love the way that these fungi look furry and soft.


I had another bout of can't be arsed over the weekend but only where photos were concerned. I really had no inclination to subject you to a picture of me, not that I mind having pictures of me on here, I just couldn't be bothered as you have all seen me before. Yesterday I couldn't be bothered to hunt for a picture that I wanted to show off as I really don't have that many and am not a very show offy type of person hence no weekend posts from me.

Friday was a pretty good day for me. I spent a couple of hours with Mima who is a lovely girl and great company and then Pete and I went to eat goose at my Dad's, which was delicious **Thanks Dad**. Other than that we have had a nice relaxing weekend which involved a little shopping, a lot of attic sorting out and some tip running with the crap taken out of the attic.

HS:MS - Blade

A flat sharp cutting edge.

Didn't fancy doing a knife, scissors or lawn mower so in the end I went for a blade of grass. This grass is over 5ft tall and stripey it looks wonderful in the garden.

I'm going to visit my new friend Mima again this afternoon which I am really looking forward to and then Pete and I are going to my Dad's tonight to eat Goose which I know will be delicious coz Dad's cooking it.

Rach
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I've been tagged

I've been tagged by: Hazel

Here are the rules which you must abide by if you are tagged.
1. Link to your tagger and post these rules.
2. Share 7 facts about yourself: some random, some weird.
3. Tag 7 people at the end of your post and list their names (linking to them).
4. Let them know they've been tagged by leaving a comment at their blogs.

Here we go get ready to be either riveted or bored stiff!

1. I have a tattoo that I hate. I had it done when I was 18 before everyone and their dog had them. It's a little bee on my left shoulder blade and I hate it now it has faded. One day I will get round to getting another one over the top of it.
   
2. I used to be a size 22. This was about 6 years ago now before I started dieting. At my slimmest I went down to a size 8 and am currently a size 12 but trying to slim back into an 8 or 10.
   
3. I have lived in the same house all my life. My Mum and Dad bought this house when she was pregnant with me many years ago. She got fed up of me not moving out so moved out herself and then gave us this house as a wedding present 13 years ago.
   
4. I hate milk and I mean really, really hate milk. I drink black tea and I can't eat cereal.
   
5. I have been proposed to by 4 different men but only ever said yes to one.
   
6. When I was 19 I went on a blind date with an Australian who was living in London. He took me to Notting Hill Carnival and I spent the weekend in London with him, which looking back was slightly dumb on my part. Luckily for me I had an amazing time and he ended up proposing to me a couple of weeks later. It was about this time that I met and fell in love with Pete.
   
7. I love being scared. Horror films do it for me the scarier the better. Horror books, supernatural shows, rollercoasters, white water anything that gets the old adrenalin pumping. I would LOVE to free fall from an aeroplane, I would probably pee my pants but then I'd want to go again!

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HS:MS - Mesh

A material made from a network of wire or threads.

Oh no my can't be arsed has mutated into writers block.

Rach

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HS:MS - Tray

A flat , shallow container for carrying food, drink and small items.

My tray is for the birds in our garden. I did contemplate cleaning it before I took a picture but 1. I couldn't be arsed and 2. I thought it might be more interesting with a dead caterpillar and grass cuttings in it.

I seem to be getting my mojo back a little bit but unfortunately this new found energy is going to have to be used on cleaning the house as I've neglected that over the last few days too. I suspect a combination of dark mornings, dark nights, cloudy skies and the time of the month have all contributed to my dark mood and lack of umpff.

I slept much better last night but we were disturbed in the night by a wailing 14 year old boy. Matt had decided to look at his snake in the middle of the night, as you do, and had come to the conclusion that he was dead so ran through to us breaking his heart. We resisted the urge to ignore him and dutifully got up to see the dead snake only to find that the damn thing was only asleep. Matt had forgotten that he doesn't have eyelids and presumed that because he was still with his eyes open he was dead. I wouldn't mind but this is the second time in a week that this has happened, talk about the memory of a goldfish!

Well I best go and put my mojo to good use before I loose it again.

OOhh I'm back again as I have just caught up on yesterdays prompt - card. This picture shows some of the card I have here. The grey drawers to the right are full of card bits, each drawers is colour coded and I shove any off cuts into it to use later, it works quite well.

Rach

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It's getting worse.

My can't be arsed itus is turning into something much worse - can't be arsed itus with insomnia. I have lain in bed awake since 1am listening to Pete fart intermittently and I can't stand it anymore so here I am at 4.27am up and trying to find something to do that is quiet which isn't as easy as it sounds. It's amazing how loud everything is in the middle of the night, even typing sounds horrendous.
Rach
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