Cider festival and all is good

last night i went to a cider festival with liz and wendy. We got to sample about 15 different ciders all for free! Yipeee. liz knew one of the promo girls (she looked after her at ymca lol) so we got some merchandise too and our photos taken (not so good). after having our fill of freebies we headed to the indie brewery for some nosh and another drinkie. a lovely night was had.
also vented my spleen at lee and felt better, he took it well. Lol. I did the unforgivable thing in a fit of fury of saying to will that we were getting a divorce and he should choose who to live with. he promptly burst into tears and i realised the this tough gangster 11 year old is still a little boy and not at all ready to face the harsh realities of a grown up world. i quickly retracted and told him i was joking and he settled down. Never ever will i be that stupid and selfish again.

Moan moan moan - all about paint.

Why is it that mountains are built out of molehills, why does one comment fester and decay until you (well, I) am ready to pack my bags or more precise pack his bags and kick him into touch. Why when I feel like this can I see only his bad points, and believe me there are many of them, and none of his good points. Does he have any good points? Not at the moment he doesn't. Why is it always me that has to turn around and make the situation okay.....all because he said I should get my paintbrush out and paint the doors..and my response of "I don't like doing it so I'm not going to" launched him into one of his 'he is great and does everything rants'.

AND.....the neighbours were partying till about 3am this morning so I ended up sleeping on the settee....

happy days.

Christmas past...again

We had a lovely Christmas, quiet but still nice. I did feel the absence of family though, maybe it was because we have been back to Uk or maybe because my half were in Bali, dunno but there was something missing. We are hoping to go back to Leicester for Christmas in a couple of years, weather permitting cos looking at the crazy weather patterns of the last couple of years, the planes will be grounded! Weather is hot hot hot, worked yesterday instead of today so we are hitting Yanchep Park and beach in the fixed up kombi, yes he is fixed and also up for sale! A beetle called Basil is waiting to take his place! Blessings and peace to all xx

Felt-a-licious

have joined up to do this workshop on ems blog http://www.embers.typepad.com/. I love felted things but have no idea where to start, so what the heck for $25 I'm going to give it a go. I do think I am turning into Becky Bloomwood and might need therapy! I will post some pictures of my creations!!

So yesterday I did food shopping and Chrimbo shopping and felt really exhausted after my 5 days on at work. I'm wondering if we are not getting enough iron in our diet now we are substituting quorn for meat most of the time.

here's one of my danglies that I created

Isn't facebook fab??

I never used to think so, I thought it was stupid, people posting tosh like what they had for tea that day of what grand thing they were up to. Now I have warmed to it...it's great for looking at peoples photos, people who's photos you would never normally see. Maye it's just because I am a nosey so and so. I have got in touch recently with some people I used to go to school with. I wouldn't call them school friends, more just casual acquaintances. One girl in particular has touched me, Annie Leighton. She was a beautiful mystery at school, wise and mature beyond her years. Anyway she is now living the life I dream of. 5 acres of nothing that they are slowly creating into their home. They are in northeast Scotland and have dubbed it Coldhome. Very apt. if we were every lucky enough to have such a project maybe we could call it hothouse, as that is surely what it would be. She is surrounded by an extended family of artists and musicians and they are in the midst of building a straw bale timber frame house. By the sounds of things she has had her fair share of heartache but I am looking forward to getting to know her better and learning more from her.

Home and is it all forgotton?

Home sweeet home, but not as sweet as I thought it would be. Our house seems huge, sparse and impersonal after the cosy and cluttered homes of England.....will have to work on making more mess and more clutter!

Trip back was fine apart from the descent into Perth where the pilot seemed to oversteer and then understeer to compensate, the plane did a few pretty full on tilts and then thankfully settled down, all good.....

Lee ended up with jetlag and a dodgy stomach having to take 2 days off work. 2 days in 8 years not bad I suppose. I was back to work Monday and Tuesday and it was all okay. Kids pretty shattered and sleeping patterns a bit all over the place but settling down. School will soon sort that one out.

We are in the wet UK

We have been here for 2 weeks now, such a huge mixture of emotions. I spent the first few days in tears - sheer exhaustion due to the 3 days it actually took to get here, the lack of living accomodation and the revisiting of rellies. Thankfully I have settled down a bit and am starting to relax and enjoy it. It's weird, it feels as though I have never left, driving around the city feels the same, not much ahs changed.