Adventures

BEDM2015: Currently…4th May

Each Monday I start with a sum up of what’s currently happening around these parts – especially when some weeks seem to fly by quicker than others! Watching: Not so much since the Internet has been out at our house... Continue reading →

BEDM2015: Adventure

May has arrived which means it’s BEDM 2015. That is Blog Every Day in May. I’m hoping that I get ahead of the curve and I manage to blog every day in May. Some days I’ll have the prompts from... Continue reading →

Let Your Blog Shine: My Hometown

Over on Facebook I’m part of a blogging group. On the Wednesdays of each month we have a group prompt that we’re all going to answer. This weeks’ prompt is… My Hometown… I live in a town called Bedford. It’s about... Continue reading →

Sherlocked (and London)

3.43am Yes, I was awake at that time on Sunday morning and it wasn’t because of Jaxon for once. Our smoke alarm decided that we needed a fire drill. I think Chris said something about the battery dying but I... Continue reading →

2014: A Big Adventure

The whole of 2014 was a big adventure, we started the year by announcing that we were going to be parents. (53 comments and 81 likes later I think it’s the most popular Facebook status I’ve had ever!) As Jaxon... Continue reading →

Dear Jaxon…19 Weeks

Dear Jaxon, So normally I write to you on a Wednesday as you were born on a Wednesday. I decided this week that I would write to you after we’d taken Loz to the airport today. It was an early... Continue reading →

Our Blackpool Adventure 2014: Day 1

Each year on (or around) Chris’s birthday he does a mad challenge. We’ve done Land’s End to John O’Groats, the Tube Challenge and “Visit as many family members as possible in one day” Challenge. This year Chris’s goal is to... Continue reading →

An (Imaginary) Road Trip

With Blueberry’s arrival imminent, field trips too far from home aren’t really an option. I guess we could go to the seaside with Chris’s Aunt and Housemate (the housemate used to be a midwife and train new midwives) and be... Continue reading →

April 29: My Birthday Weekend

As I wrote on Thursday, my birthday weekend kicked off with going to the theatre to see The Pantaloon’s touring production of Sherlock Holmes. FridayOn Friday Chris surprised me by collecting me from work. I left via the pedestrian gate... Continue reading →

#Ironbridge2014: Day 6 (April 18th)

Original image found here.By this morning I was seriously tired. My body was pretending to cooperate but my mood was short and I wasn’t happy. The boys were getting on my nerves and I just wanted to go home. Chris... Continue reading →

#Ironbridge2014: Day 5 (April 17th)

Original image found here.Today wasn’t around Ironbridge or the local area. We went on a trip to Birmingham. Our Sidekick has an interest in fashion and shopping so we had a day trip to The Bullring at Birmingham. I’ve been... Continue reading →

#Ironbridge2014: Day 4 (April 16th)

Original image found here.Today started with a whole debate over whether or not it was time to get up. I could have probably slept for longer but the elephants wearing boots were awake and stampeding along the corridor so getting... Continue reading →

#Ironbridge2014: Day 2 (April 14th)

Original image found here.First thing this morning we headed to Telford town centre to find the local supermarket – it was a little challenging as Google Maps directed us to the old store and we needed the relocated one. It... Continue reading →

#Ironbridge2014: Day 1 (April 13th)

Original image found here.As normal we started Sunday with church. It was a special day as there was a guest speaker called Chris and a lunch for the associate pastor and his wife as he’s retiring. We left part way... Continue reading →

February 16: A Ride on a Train

The week and the weekend didn’t exactly go to plan but that is another story maybe in the future sometime. Anyway, so on Sunday, Chris and I decided that we would miss church for the morning and go off an... Continue reading →

2013: A Sort of Round Up

January January kicked off with a Burns Night hosted by The Murf. He even Blessed The Haggis – and I tried not to laugh! I’d been volunteered to sing or read a poem. Well I tried to learn the tune... Continue reading →

this week…

On about Tuesday of last week I realised that I hadn’t really been blogging. I seem to have either ran out of time or the idea of sitting down and writing something has driven me up the wall. I have... Continue reading →
Our Big Adventure 2013

our BIG adventure 2013: Day 8

In the summer of 2013, our BIG adventure as a family was to Blackpool and the surrounding area. Here’s the story of our travels… As requested by Our Sidekick we started the day off back at the dunes – more... Continue reading →

our BIG adventure 2013: Day 7

We started the day by heading to Manchester, Our Sidekick wasn’t aware of where we were actually going. We realised we were early so we went for a potter around the Trafford Centre (They have free parking! Why don’t we... Continue reading →

our BIG adventure 2013: Day 6

In the summer of 2013, our BIG adventure as a family was to Blackpool and the surrounding area. Here’s the story of our travels… Today started with an early morning wake up call. At 3:30am Chris woke me up to... Continue reading →

our BIG adventure 2013: Day 4

In the summer of 2013, our BIG adventure as a family was to Blackpool and the surrounding area. Here’s the story of our travels… On Monday we went to Liverpool, Chris asked me where we were going so I said... Continue reading →
Our Big Adventure 2013

our BIG adventure 2013: Day 3

This morning started with a similar amount of laziness. Chris and I grabbed showers before we headed out for the day. I drove us to Blackpool. We parked the car near the dunes outside of St Annes. Our Sidekick loved... Continue reading →

getting healthy pt 2

I think its actually part 3 of getting healthy posts if you include my letter to Chris. This is a high speed post as I walk to work so hopefully it makes sense. Those of you who follow me on... Continue reading →

adventures and holidays: paris

Back at the beginning of July, I started a series about adventures and holidays, I’m pretty sure that my next holiday will be somewhere in the UK mainland rather than jetting off somewhere far away and sunny. For now, a... Continue reading →

knitting…

This week it is World Wide Knit in Public Week. In a way we kicked this of with the yarn bombing along the Embankment in Bedford on Saturday – I have a bunch of photos to show off but but... Continue reading →

this weekend i… #twi

Joining with Sar from [Life of Love] and Syndal from Synfully Delicious. this weekend i… started my weekend at my Mum’s doing bits again then went to serve lunch at the residential home as this weekend was mad for other... Continue reading →

the pre-30 list

Each birthday I write a list of goals that I want to achieve by the next birthday, this originally started with 101 in 1001 days a couple of years ago that never really happened – I wrote the list but... Continue reading →

books: kept by elle field

A while back I made friends with someone called @ellefie on Twitter. We’d chat about anything and everything – usually books as we’re both massive book worms (just look at our Goodreads pages for that!!) One of the conversations we... Continue reading →

seventyeight: onehundredwords….#81

You can get more information and join in here. The prompt for this week is …the unseasonal weather meant … Each time the weatherman tells us it’s going to snow a collective groan goes round the office, then we ask... Continue reading →

things about me

34 (was supposed to be 50) Things About Me 1. Even now at 26 I still don’t know what I want to be when I grow up. 2. I think I’d be a writer. I don’t know what I’d write... Continue reading →

twentysix: what i did today

The crazy weather was set to continue this weekend. The weather was warning that we were going to have rain and snow last night but instead it was a bit of rain and sleet. According to my phone we had... Continue reading →

eleven: youth group

I haven’t been to a youth group in a while unless it’s to collect Our Sidekick from church and even then I don’t really hang around for long (mainly so I’m not like an embarrassing parent lol). A few weeks... Continue reading →

340: Wednesday Wonderings

YHA Nottingham I got in from work yesterday and a wedding invite had come in the post. There’s recommended accommodation in the invite but I had a quick look to see how far the local Youth Hostel was from the... Continue reading →

312: Wednesday Wondering v.5

We live in a world where we have a bunch of information at our fingertips – we unlock our phones and Google to our hearts content, but what about all those random questions, why was I looking and what did... Continue reading →

297: #JellyandBean

In that serendipitous way that you can “meet” people on Twitter now, two of my friends (one I’ve met in person, one I haven’t) have ventured into the world of Podcasts. This is still something I’m yet to try but... Continue reading →

290: Today’s Adventures

I’ve been thinking again – I know dangerous. About stuff. Well bits and pieces. You could say the Life, the Universe and Everything. (H2G2 rocks) Then again if I could think about that much then my head would explode. I’m... Continue reading →

289: Dear Monday

Joining with Megan from Happy Day. Dear Monday, I am pretty sure that every week you somehow sneak in that bit faster than the weekend before. Dear Kids Work, I think teaching Kids Work is a bit like riding a... Continue reading →

247: Review – August

Books We Can’t Go Home Again by Max Dubinsky The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (In Progress) Flash and Bones by Kathy Reichs Films Shipping News Batman Forever Ice Age 3: Dawn... Continue reading →

237: Fill In The Blanks Friday

  (Joining with Lauren from The Little Things We Do) My favorite thing to do on Friday is when I finish work, collect JD from work or from her house and then head over to MK to go to the cinema... Continue reading →

236: Results Day….

10 years ago this week I got my GCSE results. I remember because I was on the way to Soul Survivor with the church youth group, I also remember because my Mum phoned me to tell me my results (The... Continue reading →

234: Bedford Park Run. Wk2

Found here On Saturday I did Park Run again. I say run but between the heat and my ankle just being funky I pretty much walked a bunch of it – I still came in under an hour and surprised... Continue reading →

214: Films

If you hadn’t already guessed I’m a bit of a film nerd. I could quite happily park myself in front of the TV with crisps or popcorn and watch all the LOTR films or the Star Wars film (got to... Continue reading →

209: Bristol 2012 – Day Four

Today’s activity was Our Sidekick’s choice and it had lots of photo opportunities so this might be a bit photo heavy. (Also I’m writing this on my iPhone so the format might be funky!) Our Sidekick requested if we could... Continue reading →

208: Bristol 2012 – Day Three

Once we managed to all get ready (Our Sidekick had a 30 minute shower which threw everyone out of sync!) we headed for Cardiff. We had a rough plan of what we were going to do but once Chris realised... Continue reading →

207: Bristol 2012 – Day Two

When I wrote a day by day breakdown of LE2JOG each post was rushed to fit in before bedtime and all sorts of things, this time I’m trying to post what we did today to go live the following morning.... Continue reading →

206: Bristol 2012 – Day One

Having pretty much counted the days down (for 4 weeks!) to our holiday – it finally arrived!! We set off about 9am toward Milton Keynes. Chris has a particular route that he takes when driving to Soul Survivor goes via... Continue reading →

205: Life According to Instagram

Partially Inspired by Freckled Italian. 1. Me and Bex were at The Fountain for the work evening on Saturday and we made an accidental yummy creation. Bex had made a white hot chocolate and there was some left over so... Continue reading →

098: Review: March

March Books Read Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris (Sookie Stackhouse Book 1) Heat Wave by Richard Castle Interrupted by Rachel Coker The Half-Stitched Amish Quilting Club by Wanda E. Brunstetter Films Watched The Hunger Games Month in Bullets My blog... Continue reading →

085: New Family Additions

I took this picture earlier but in my crazy crazy ness to try and get other bits done round the house and getting these guys settled (or not so settled when next doors dogs made them jump out of their... Continue reading →

084: A Chilled Day

Today was so lazy!! I hadn’t really made any plans other than to work my way through the chores – the problem with Chris being so busy getting The Fountain ready means that I’m working full time and trying to... Continue reading →

035: Erm

Batten down the hatches – the snow is coming!! Well at 5pm when we went to help set up for my cousin’s 18th Birthday the snowflakes were tiny and just created a light dusting. We’d had the meal that my... Continue reading →

Travel Thursday: No 21

Travel Thursday is an idea a number of us discussed on Twitter and our friend Ian put together the prompts. Travel Thursday: The Most Dangerous Thing You Have Done While Travelling It wasn’t really travelling but it was away from... Continue reading →

#cnmac11 – Part Four

Part Four – I promise we’re almost there – I tend to ramble lots hence why part four when it was only one day! (It was either that or write like a 3000 word post and bore the pants off... Continue reading →

#cnmac11 – Part Three

Since the weekend I’ve been trying to write up what happened at #CNMAC11 – with the reception we had for The Fountain (Bedford) yesterday I feel like I’ve lost a whole evening to write so hopefully I can process the... Continue reading →

#cnmac11 – Part Two

So at first I didn’t hear back from MrsFurmanator we’d both got off the train at St Pancras International, I stuck my iPod on and headed for the shops in the station (I think it makes me look more at home... Continue reading →

Travel Thursday: No 18

Your Favourite Flight or Airline I’ve only been on 2 flights (technically 4 as we had a stopover on the way to Turkey and the way back from Turkey) they were both with the same airline so I guess my favourite would... Continue reading →

Travel Thursday: No 15

Your Favourite City You Have Visited Seriously just one city – that’s going to be a very tough choice. Well Amsterdam, Paris and Barcelona are most definitely somewhere up there in the top ones and if we went back to... Continue reading →

Chris’s LE2JOG Challenge: Day Ten

At the beginning of September, Chris set out on his birthday challenge to cycle from Land’s End in Cornwall to John O’Groats in Scotland (aka LE2JOG). This is my attempt to blog along the route. I came home on Sunday... Continue reading →

Chris’s LE2JOG Challenge: Day Eight

At the beginning of September, Chris set out on his birthday challenge to cycle from Land’s End in Cornwall to John O’Groats in Scotland (aka LE2JOG). This is my attempt to blog along the route. So it’s Saturday. This time... Continue reading →

Chris’s LE2JOG Challenge: Day Seven

At the beginning of September, Chris set out on his birthday challenge to cycle from Land’s End in Cornwall to John O’Groats in Scotland (aka LE2JOG). This is my attempt to blog along the route. It’s Friday today which means... Continue reading →

Travel Thursday: No 14

The place you’ve visited that had the friendliest people I think it would have be Amsterdam, I had a phrase book and kept trying to speak Dutch but a lot of the people I met were too excited to practice... Continue reading →
Travel Thursday

Travel Thursday: No 13

The most unusual place you’ve spent a night while travelling I went camping up in Scotland just outside Inverurie and I napped in the back seat of my Fiat Seicento. For most of the night, we stayed in the house... Continue reading →

Travel Thursday: No 12

Your most frightening travel experience Turkey again – one night there was a power cut – which probably would have been fine with but I was in a foreign country, sharing a room with my cousin (who at the time... Continue reading →

Travel Thursday: No 11

Your saddest/most upsetting travel experience I don’t think I have one – I guess being injured on holiday was quite upsetting but that was like an hour in tears and then move onto the next thing. I guess Turkey might... Continue reading →

Travel Thursday: No 10

A travel experience involving illness or injury Growing up I was a bit accident prone. One year we went camping near Dover – we’d been to visit a castle (Castle trips were like a staple of our holidays!) I was... Continue reading →

Travel Thursday: No 9

The Best Business Trip You Have Been On Short post today. I’ve actually not been on that many – I’ve been on three for the company that I currently work for – two were in Bedford (or surrounding area). The... Continue reading →

Travel Thursday: No 8

Your Funniest Travel Experience Anything with a youth group I think lol. In 2002 I went to Festival Manchester with the youth group I was part of, on the first day one of the lads in the tent next door... Continue reading →