Me and That Boy

Our Danish Adventure: Last Day

Each year we end up going somewhere different for our summer holiday. We’d look at a couple of ideas but still wasn’t really sure where we wanted to go. When Chris asked me and I said I didn’t know, I... Continue reading →

Our Danish Adventure: Day Seven

Each year we end up going somewhere different for our summer holiday. We’d look at a couple of ideas but still wasn’t sure where we wanted to go. When Chris asked me and I said I didn’t know, I showed... Continue reading →

Our Danish Adventure: Day Six

Each year we end up going somewhere different for our summer holiday. We’d look at a couple of ideas but still wasn’t sure where we wanted to go. When Chris asked me and I said I didn’t know, I showed... Continue reading →

Our Danish Adventure: Day Five

Each year we end up going somewhere different for our summer holiday. We’d look at a couple of ideas but still wasn’t sure where we wanted to go. When Chris asked me and I said I didn’t know, I showed... Continue reading →

Our Danish Adventure: Day Four

Each year we end up going somewhere different for our summer holiday. We’d look at a couple of ideas but still wasn’t sure where we wanted to go. When Chris asked me and I said I didn’t know, I showed... Continue reading →
Image of Nyhavn in Copenhagen. A red box includes the text "Our Danish Adventure"

Our Danish Adventure: Day Three

Each year we end up going somewhere different for our summer holiday. We’d look at a couple of ideas but still wasn’t sure where we wanted to go. When Chris asked me and I said I didn’t know, I showed... Continue reading →
Image of Nyhavn in Copenhagen. A red box includes the text "Our Danish Adventure"

Our Danish Adventure: Day Two

Each year we end up going somewhere different for our summer holiday. We’d look at a couple of ideas but still wasn’t sure where we wanted to go. When Chris asked me and I said I didn’t know, I showed... Continue reading →

Our Danish Adventure: Day One

Each year we end up going somewhere different for our summer holiday. We’d look at a couple of ideas but still wasn’t really sure where we wanted to go. When Chris asked me and I said I didn’t know, I... Continue reading →

Crazy Tidying!!

Back in 2015, I purchased The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying by Marie Kondo and started reading it. I think the saying thank you to my clothes was the thing that put me off at first although I was still excited... Continue reading →

Our Glamping Adventures – Day Six

Back in September (ish!), I asked Chris to look at accommodation overnight when we were in Norfolk for Becca‘s Wedding. Chris came up with the idea that we’d go glamping in Norfolk. This time it would be in a yurt... Continue reading →
Glamping in November - Our Week in Norfolk

Our Glamping Adventure – Day Two

Back in September (ish!), I asked Chris to look at accommodation overnight when we were in Norfolk for Becca‘s Wedding. Chris came up with the idea that we’d go glamping in Norfolk. This time it would be in a yurt... Continue reading →
Glamping in November - Our Week in Norfolk

Our Glamping Adventure – Day One

Back in September (ish!), I asked Chris to look at accommodation overnight when we were in Norfolk for Becca‘s Wedding. Chris came up with the idea that we’d go glamping in Norfolk. This time it would be in a yurt... Continue reading →

Happy Three and a Half Birthday Jaxon!

Dear Not So Little One aka Jaxon aka Blueberry, Three and a half years ago, you decided to enter the world. You were late and kept messing about but eventually with some encouragement you arrived (birth story). When you turned... Continue reading →
Review: November

Monthly Review: November 2017

I stumbled across Belle’s review posts over on her blog by accident and decided to attempt to revive my own Monthly Review posts. This is November’s review. You can see others here. What went well this month Get Christmas shopping finished... Continue reading →
Simplify

My Word for 2017: Simplify

This year my focus word is simplify. Every year, I’ve always struggled with resolutions. At school we’d often have that task in English where we had to write our resolutions and it would do often be a pointless exercise. My... Continue reading →
Blogmas

Blogmas: Day Two

Here’s Blogmas! Technically I think it’s supposed to be Vlogmas but in the CRAZEE that is coming over the next few days the idea of trying to film and edit without Jaxon creating havoc just makes me a bit more... Continue reading →

{Fostering} Us at Five…

Back in October, five years ago, I went to work with three people living in our house and then I came home to four. Usually the “Us at…” is followed by how many years Chris and I are celebrating along... Continue reading →

Haven Holiday 2016: Day Two

We had a false start to our day when Our Sidekick got up for the loo at 4.30 yesterday morning. Chris heard the door go and though Jaxon was up and wandering round so he jumped out of bed and... Continue reading →

Us @ 9 (well 11ish)

I realised that on our wedding anniversary, I forgot to post about us. I think life was getting crazy busy and it didn’t happen. So I’m posting today. It’s the 11th anniversary of you proposing to me. Will we do... Continue reading →

Happy Second Birthday Jaxon!

Dear Little One, Happy birthday my special precious. Today you turn two and it seems like the last two years have flown by. I spent the evening with a friend from our New Church yesterday and talked through your birth... Continue reading →

Wild Nights By Phoebe Smith

I won this book in a Twitter competition towards the end of last year. This post has been sat in my drafts as I always meant to complete it but in between everything it didn’t happen. I was determined not to read... Continue reading →

Chris turns 30 (BEDIA)

This isn’t quite the same picture that I posted on FB yesterday and also it’s quite Jaxon heavy (oops!). Yesterday was Chris’s 30th Birthday so he had the day off work and we spent the day as a family. Even... Continue reading →

Jaxon’s Trip to Legoland

A couple of weeks ago we were offered tickets to Legoland by Chris’s Auntie and her housemate that appeared in the paper that they read. We figured that if we selected particular date ranges then Our Sidekick could come too... Continue reading →

BEDM2015: Us @ 8

Hi Chris, Eight years ago today we got married. I still tell the story of how I watched Flubber with my bridesmaids plus Hannah on the morning of the wedding. We don’t do stress as Mum said leading up to... Continue reading →

Currently…Birthday Edition

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: Bones – While we ate dinner at Mum’s on Saturday we caught... Continue reading →

TIGF: Things I’m Grateful For

Each Friday I join with Ashley from Hello Nature and Laura from Ginger + Co to share the things I’m grateful for this week. Chris Last Friday was horrible. I’d not felt right when I woke up to feed Jaxon... Continue reading →

My First Car #myfirstwheelscomp

Sometime around February/March 2003, with some assistance from my Mum I applied for my first licence. I was determined that I would learn to drive. For my 17th birthday I was given a “batch” of lessons. Around this time I... Continue reading →

Our Christmas Traditions

Source Each family have their own traditions when it comes to Christmas and the “holiday season”. With Halloween, Bonfire Night, Thanksgiving (for you U.S./Canada Peeps and us this year as we celebrated with our friend from the U.S. who is... Continue reading →

Currently…10th November

Currently… image from rukristin Watching: Strictly Come Dancing Forever Grey’s Anatomy Doctor Who Downton Abbey Million Dollar Listing NYC Reading: Eleven Doctors, Eleven Stories (I’m up to the Second Doctor) Listening: Not so much music, as I write this I’m... Continue reading →

The Wedding of The Year

Just over a week ago, my little brother (who could sort of be my big brother given how much taller than me he is!) got married to his lovely girlfriend Heather. It’s taken me over a week to sit down... Continue reading →

Dear Jaxon… 7 Weeks Old

Dear Jaxon, Today you are 7 weeks old. You’re starting to hold your head up more and also you’ve discovered your hands so between meals you often wedge your hand in your mouth and have a nibble. We seem to... Continue reading →

Currently…25th August

Currently… image from rukristin Watching: The West Wing (Season 6 – I finished Season 3 as I wrote the post and somehow have made it through the rest in a week. It means I’ve got just over a season to go.... Continue reading →

Currently…18th August

Currently… image from rukristin Watching: The West Wing (Season 3 – clearly I don’t have enough to be doing then again it can play in the background while I do other bits) Thor: The Dark World Dead Poet’s Society Aladdin James... Continue reading →

Dear Jaxon… – Two Weeks Old

Dear Jaxon, You’re now two weeks old – how did that happen? We spent a chunk of last week hanging out with Grandma S, as she was on “Hannah Duty”, she helped me round the house and looked after you... Continue reading →

1000 Things…

Since finding out that we would be welcoming a new member of the family, I’ve kept meaning to have a sort out and deal with some of the clutter that has gravitated it’s way to our bedroom like a black... Continue reading →

Us at 7

On the 13th September 2005, Chris proposed to me, he’d written a treasure hunt and involved a whole heap of our friends including our friend Sheens who lives in Australia!! The last clue was in my Parent’s caravan which when... Continue reading →

AtoZ Challenge: F is for…Films

F is for….FilmsThis weekend was a unexpected mass film weekend. On Sunday evening, Chris and I went to see Noah at the cinema then this evening we went to see Divergent. As you may have heard, Noah has had it’s... Continue reading →

January 1 – Road Trip (of sorts)

Each Christmas we end up doing various catch ups, spend some time with my parents, see Chris’s Parents and see my Grandparents. As well as these we go to visit Chris’s Auntie and her housemate/lodger (she’s like a second auntie... Continue reading →

December 28 – What Am I Doing??

I don’t know the actual source of this picture so I can’t tag it and give if the reference and all that sort of thing but having just googled Tetris Blankets there are like thousands of different incarnations out there... Continue reading →

Monday, why did you misbehave?

Two years ish ago, Our Sidekick and us adopted two Guinea pigs called Samuel and Owen. They were sort of rescued when a friend of ours could no longer look after them. I think they’ve been a bit spoilt over... Continue reading →

282: Dear Monday

Joining with Megan from Happy Day. Dear Kewey and DanDan, thank you for playing host to me, S, LB and Andy – I had a lovely time. The bacon sandwiches for breakfast were yummy, that spaghetti bolognese was awesome too... 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 →

221: This Week

This should be a good week. Okay so it didn’t start on a good note but I am determined that by the end of the week it will be a good week. It is positive thinking and all that. So... 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 →

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 →

121: Chores – Good Cop or Bad Cop?

Clearly I’m still getting the hang of this Mum thing. Each morning Our Sidekick has a list of things he has to do before school. Along the lines of: Shower (if needed) Get dressed Comb hair Have breakfast Put breakfast... Continue reading →

072: Dear Monday

Linking up with the newly engaged Megan from The Happy Day Blog. Dear Inspiration, I’m beginning to think that I need some way of recording my blog post ideas while I’m in the shower because you send me the best... Continue reading →

065: Dear Monday

Dear Chris, so Friday was a day of epic ups and downs. Thankfully it ended on a good note with The Fountain getting keys to your new building (yay!) but you got stressed out by all the opinions you were... Continue reading →

064: 1 Year Ago Today……

This gorgeous girlie married her fab hubby. I’m here in the UK but Branden and his friends (I think!) set up a stream on the internet so that his family in the US who couldn’t make the wedding and me... Continue reading →

025: Family Time and Bits

Listening to  Allsorts really, I have an audiobook of Pride and Prejudice so I’ve been listening to that while driving home from work so that I can make time to fit in “reading” it. Watching Lots of TV. It’s not... Continue reading →

Review: November

Places visited Oldham Ulverston Coniston Windermere/Bowness-on-Windermere and The Beatrix Potter Museum Tarn Hows Keswick Lake Coniston Lake Windermere Wast Water Honister Pass and Slate Mine<> Derwentwater Conkers National Forest around Ashby-De-La-Zouch London – BBC Western House London – Royal Albert... Continue reading →

Firsts in Our Foster Family: Cinema

Since becoming a foster parent to Our Sidekick I started counting “Firsts”. When you’re a parent you count, first steps or first words but with Our Sidekick being older (and able to do them!). I counted other firsts, our first... 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 →

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 →

{Well Hello There}

So I had this whole plan to get back into normal blogging this weekend but it didn’t seem to happen – Saturday was good to a certain point then I had the mother of all headaches and had to retreat... Continue reading →

Travel Thursday: No 7

Your Most Emotional Travel Experience Today is a short post – partly because I’m writing it at about 00:30 on Friday morning (Rather than Thursday) but also because to me it’s in the past. My most emotional travel experience was Barcelona.... Continue reading →

Travel Thursday: No 6

Your Most Enjoyable Journey This is a hard one – there’s Turkey because it was the first time I went on a plan, Amsterdam because of the epic train trip right through the Dutch countryside or Corcieux/Strasbourg because between me and... Continue reading →

Travel Thursday: No 4

The worst hotel/accommodation you have stayed in The worst accommodation that I’ve stayed in would be the B+B near Earls Court that me and Chris stayed in, it was called the Hotel Olympia. We’d gone to London for a few... Continue reading →

Travel Thursday: No 3

Travel Thursday is an idea a number of us discussed on Twitter and our friend Ian put together the prompts. You can find the prompts and join in by taking a look at Ian’s blog. Travel Thursday: The best hotel/accommodation... Continue reading →