A new fangled invention...

I have a confession to make. I am a lazy Facebooker.
I blame weekend laziness, I know I should be checking our Dave and Camille Facebook page, clearing emails and seeing what my friends are up to via their status updates. BUT it seems that the moment Saturday hits, I just run out of motivation and I can't for the life of me turn on the computer. I have friends in England who are still waiting for pictures to be posted of Mia's birthday ... which was in January. Oops sorry John and Belinda. Now I find that because it takes me so long to check and update my Facebook that I am desperately behind the 8 Ball; one of my friends was in hospital and I had no idea! Another one of my friends had been having serious issues with her husband and Facebooked me to tell me the full story cos she didn't want to ring me too late at night! I think the moral of the story here is don't trust me to update my status, just try that new fangled invention called a phone - who knows I may even answer it!! xx

Rain, warmth and the love of a heat pump...

Do you remember singing the words to "rain, rain, go away, come again another day"? Today we are having the first proper rain here in weeks and I am excited about it because for the first time ever ... our house is WARM and toasty!! When our amazing landlords (yes grease, grease) agreed to put a heat pump into our house we never thought it would change our lives this much. Warmth and comfort is an incredible thing and one which I will never again take for granted!! I don't know how we have lasted two winters in this drafty, old villa without decent heating but those days are over now for us now, thank goodness. So today I embrace the rain, the southerly nip in the air and I will even celebrate the end of daylight saving because I don't mind - we are toasty in here. OK one thing to confess .. we haven't had our first power bill yet, so let's see how much we love the heat pump then!! Hahahaha!! xx

James getting ready for winter!

The inaugural rant about nothing

Today is a Sunday masquerading as a Monday.
It's a day pretending that it is a real day off, when really, the paper and computer beckon and convince you to start thinking about work ... just a little bit at at time. Then while I put off thinking about work for a while, silly little questions pop into my mind, such as:
- What colour is taupe and why do so many blog sites use it? (Apparently taupe can be a variety of colours but is defined as a dark grayish-brown color. Blah)
- Can you wear slippers over to a friends house to babysit? And what is the comfort vs style line with your slippers?
- Why do children only want to snuggle you when they are tired, grumpy or just seem to want to wipe their nose on your once was clean tee shirt?
- If you stop the washing machine before the spin cycle has finished, will it eventually break the machine?
- And the BIG question after the easter weekend ... why does it feel like chocolate easter eggs are not so delicious as they used to be? They just don't seem to taste as nice, as memorable. When I was younger for easter I would always ask for icing eggs as my easter treat. Yes, incredibly elaborate decorated eggs which were solidly made of icing sugar ... YUMMY!! Now it's all about the chocolate, and the chocolate just doesn't seem that good anymore. Mind you, it didn't stop James and Mia going crazy for chocolate this easter!!
Happy Easter ... xx

The photos are of Mia trying her first ever chocolate (YUM!) and James showing off his lollipop and easter bunny soft toy!