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Saturday is Caption Day
Go for your life! Call this picture what you will. If you feel inspired, hop on over to Mammasaurus blog to see what the other nutters have posted!
Tagged Hairy Dogs, saturday caption day
Olympic Meme and a claim to fame
I’ve mentioned on here before that I’m slightly excited about the Olympics and every day we get closer to going, we get that little bit more giddy. The Olympic torch will pass M & V’s school, Derm’s Shop and T’s nursery on Friday (Ooh the pressure of deciding where I’m going to watch it!) so it seems like a good idea to join in with the Olympic Meme. Its supposed to be a bit like the Olympic Flame and carry on going until the Olympics start. I was tagged by Kate from the Five F’s as she has heard me blathering on about the Olympics before. The Meme was originally started by Lou from Bloggomy asking us nine Olympic related questions. So here goes … 1. If every day tasks were Olympic events what would you get a gold medal in? Cakes perhaps? Procrastinating? Talking? Drinking Gin? Certainly nothing practical and house related. 2. As a child (or now even) did you excel at a particular sport and if so which one? I was a good swimmer (yep, it runs in the family) and enjoyed synchronised swimming but I was always a bit too concerned with what everyone else was more »
Foodie Penpal – The Big Reveal
There’s a new craze sweeping the nation this month (No, its not queuing for petrol or pasties)..Its sending total strangers packages of food goodies. Carol Anne from This is Rock Salt has co-ordinated us all in joining in with an idea started by Lyndsey from The Lean Green Bean. Basically, we find out what sort of food our foodie partner likes and send them a mystery package. On the same day of the month, we all blog about it. Easy! There’s always an air of expectancy and a slight frisson of nervousness with these things. What if I really hate my package? What if I get my package to send completely wrong and my partner hates theirs? I needn’t have worried – I was really pleased with the package that I received from Rachel. So what did I get? A lovely Recipe Journal with a handwritten recipe for Bara Brith immaculately written inside, and some tea-soaked fruit (which smells divine) which will be used this weekend hopefully. I’ve been meaning to buy some marmalade for ages after going to a WI session run by an expert on Jams & Preserves – I have bad memories of tasting marmalade as a more »
Silent Sunday
No words, Just a picture to sum up my week…
The Life of a Toddler – Imperfect Parenting
I’m good at being an imperfect parent – very good, in fact. I’ve mentioned before on here that Tara is very fond of eating cat food. We have done everything to try and stop her. I’ve tried reasoning and explaining with her (yes, I know how ridiculous that sounds to a 1 year old), I’ve ignored her (thinking she might not like the taste – she does!) and I have been known to raise my voice bellow like a fishwife. So I’ve given up. When I remember, I move the cat food bowl where she can’t reach it, but this means that Darren the cat can’t reach it either so he is less than impressed. I’m hoping its a phase that she will grow out of …soon! To add to this, Tara has now started another phase – how could you let me forget that toddlers do this? The empty everything out of every kitchen cupboard phase. Its endless – the plastic beaker cupboard cupboard has been tidied away 4 times already this morning, the tin cupboard is now reduced to a holy mess instead of my normal anal, faced up-in use by date order and the biscuit cupboard is more »
Books By My Bedside
Jen at Mum In The Madhouse tells me I have been tagged to share with the world what books are currently by my bedside. The books I have by the side of my bed are a real snapshot of ‘Me’ at a moment in time. I always have a book on the go (and probably another in my handbag, and maybe another in the bathroom, and maybe even another in the car) and there are always a selection of books that I just like dipping into for those few moments before I can’t keep my eyes open any longer. I think these are commonly known as coffee table books but I don’t have a coffee table. So my list: Reading Books Lizzy Harrison Loses Control by Pippa Wright – I actually finished this last night so it is due to go in the WI Book Swap Box. I bought Me Before You by Jojo Moyes at the same time as Lizzy Harrison so have no idea what to expect – anyone read it? How to be a Woman by Caitlin Moran – I’m over half way through this and made the fatal mistake of picking another book up before finishing more »
In My Kitchen – January 2012
Cake of the week is taking a week off due to basically not having any time to make any cakes this week. I thought I’d use the opportunity to join in with the In My Kitchen Link Up run by Fig Jam and Lime Cordial which is a lovely blog that I’ve recently discovered. On the first of each month Celia shows us what she has going on and plans to do for the next month and invites us to do the same. Our New Year’s Resolution of getting the children to eat new food and us all to eat more homecooked food is going really well. Tonight we had duck wraps in Chinese leaves with pomegranate and hoisin sauce. After the initial discussion about eating dead ducks (Violet) and not liking lettuce (Millie) we dove in – and very successful it was too. The duck was a whole duck, ready seasoned with sea salt and pepper – I think next time we will try to experiment a bit more with some spices to try for that authentic crispy duck flavour. We are drinking Yorkshire Tea at the moment. Long long ago when I was a checkout operator at Morrisons more »
Saturday Caption Day
Saturday is caption day – What can you come up with? I am sooo rubbish at these … I’m joining in with Annie over at Mammasaurus’ Blog – Find lots more photos with brilliant captions over there
Tagged children at halloween, funky pumpkins
What is going on?
A new week and a chance to look at what is going on in the Costello household. This blog is a chance for us to look back at what we did (and what we spent our money on!) If you fancy joining in with ‘What is going on?’ feel free – if you are not interested, again feel free to click on other posts. Some weeks the questions may change but the general gist will stay the same. What are we watching? The Tour de France is on every night in our house. This time last year I had morning and evening sickness with baby T – I feel so much better watching it this year! The crashes are gruesome and how the cyclists get around those bends with a sheer drop at the top of a mountain is beyond me. Compulsive viewing! What are we listening to? [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_a46WJ1viA&w=425&h=349] Don’t know why this one has come out of the archives – I had a phase of listening to it at uni and it has magically appeared on the playlist in the car – the kids aren’t convinced …yet! What are we reading? Millie is working her way through the more »
Britain’s Biggest Mess
I’ve been tagged by the lovely Louise over at Bloggomy in the Britain’s Biggest Mess Meme. The aim of the game is to share the bits of our house and garden that need a little TLC or in my case, a blinking good tidy up! I’m ashamed to say that any of the messy parts of our house are down to me. I am very lucky to live with a man who loves DIY – he seriously has been known when bored some evenings to potter down to the shed and get the emulsion and proceed to touch up near enough every wall in the house. Needless to say, we really haven’t got any DIY projects that need attention. So we live in a palace, a shrine, a showhome? … Nah! I’m the messy one (aswell as the three children. On my list of tasks to complete before I’m 40, is the ironing. This picture shows just a part of the ironing. Oh how embarrassing this is. The next embarrassment is an area in our dining room devoted to my business. I store most of my cake equipment at my Mother-in-laws but last week brought some stuff home that I more »
