discoveries of the weekend :D

Abi- Thank you very much for my letter card and necklace :D I wore the necklace to peterborough on sunday- and I'm going to wear it to harrods for afternoon tea- as it matches my TV interference dress! yay!

Getting a letter on friday afternoon cheered my evening up. it's been a very long week!

Aldi = amazing

how cute are they?! 85% dark chocolate..yummy..with orange..oh yes, this is a sunday afternoon treat to die for!

I bought these for a snack as traff took us on a drive- the 16 miles he runs and I had a misguided idea that we could get out of the car and explore- I missed the turning for both farm shops, In one of the two places I could have pulled over some horses with riders were in, and in the other we were beaten by a volvo! gah!

how very 1940s we went for a sunday afternoon country drive to take in the views (with the roof shut, its winter, but sunnies on)

my investment for the christmas season. this had better be amazing.

Allotment

My wife, clearing up all the twiggy bits.

this is the bit I've been working on- the front is onions, behind that in the tub are herbs- I've tubbed them to stop them spreading like crazy, and that stick-looking thing is a raspberry bush so hopefully I'll have some fruit in summer! round the herb tup I've also planted some daffodils, so that'll be cheery in spring!

Traffs handiwork on the other side of the allotment- he was determined to have a conifer. and he's planted it very randomly, but he seems happy. behind the conifer I planted some more onions since the ground was dug, but we didn't have any plastic to cover it with (see photo below).

Traff appears to have been building a fort- banking up the sides of his flower beds. 

Traffs fort and conifer tree. we dug the front of the allotment and planted more daffodils so they'll be pretty in the spring.

ALL of todays work- my bit on the left and traffs on the right and the daffoldils along the front- we have a long way to go yet, but you have to admit- this is a massive improvement on last time (the photos are in last month if you don't believe me!).

I have all the cloned plants from school to plant in spring, and I'm going to plant some pumpkin seeds too! :D

We're planning to leave the center of the allotment as a lawn and just digging beds round the outside for plants, fruits and veggies- since we don't have a garden so we can enjoy the summer when it comes- somewhere for BBQs and chilling out, so all this hard work will be worth it soon!

Lazy saturday

Traff and I went shopping in town- I bought a game for the Xbox and he bought ingredients for a cake he wanted to make from a recipie he found on something for the weekend.

he is such a good wife.

:D

I have also finished my xmas shopping for my mates! now just family to buy for and with over a month to go- this is a new level of organisation!

we put our bets on the football too-  I put a pound on and the return would have been over £1000- damn you oxford utd for letting me down- all you had to do was WIN!

traffs cake was supposed to serve 16 as a kind of victoria sandwich style cake. we'll be eating cake for a very long time.

Might send this one in to something for the weekend!

I have also discovered morgans spiced and coke in a can. so all in all this was quite a successful saturday.

to do, or not to do?

Bedford fireworks

I had an amazing evening at the fireworks! Jess, Si and I went to the white horse for dinner- it was lush! quite possibly the best pub food I've eaten in a long time!
and death by hot chocolate!

We met with helen, Michelle and some of Michelle's friends outside the rugby club to watch the fireworks display (opposite the fire engine).
Michelle bought sparklers for us!

The display was ok- It wasn't a patch on cardiff's but it was a laugh to be out. after the fireworks we went to the ship in town- which has t be the smallest pub in bedford! the 15 of us didn't even fit into the bar area- we had to sit outside!
although, this lead to the discovery of the coach house bar- which I like very much! :D

Reply from photomarathon

Hi Lau

Thanks for the note. The picture that was selected was topic 4 - Super Powers - great shot!

All the best

Mathew

Photomarathon UK

Is an Artist! or something like that- either way I'm delighted!

Out of all the thousands of entries mine got picked as one of the 45 to be displayed at waterloo tea gardens- I wonder which one they chose?

I emailed them to ask- I hope the email me back soon! eeek!

let me know if you go and see it...whatever it is! x