Lisa it's your Birthday, Happy Birthday Lisa!

Pumelled and Pampered

Yesterday signaled the start of a week long celebration of my friends 40th Birthday. We'd all organised to go to the Elveden Centre Parc for a pamper day. And it was a terrific day out. I picked up one of the girls along the way and we arrived at the Aqua Sana at about 10.15 were we were informed by the friendly staff of what the day involved. I'd booked a quick facial and was quite happy to pad around the luxurious Spa experiencing all the delights it had to offer. So after a quick refreshing cup of coffee I wondered off for my lovely facial. Not only was I treated very nicely I was even chatting the the girl about part-time work as a reflexologist - I may consider this as the benefits they got as employees/contractors sounded really good - guest passes and discounts on the chalets.

After being scrubbed, cleansed and and refreshed I joined the girls upstairs for a brief chat and then I had a look around. It had every type of spa you could ever imagine and lots that I had never heard of like the Japanese Salt Steam Bath which was fantastic, really comfy tiled seats to sit in and a foot rest was just at the perfect height so you could relax without straining your knees. Next there was the Balinese Multi Steam Bath, Indian Blossom Steam room - which was much gentler on the skin but still a fantastic steam.

As I had a sinus infection I took full use of the Turkish Hamman steam room and its "cleansing" properties - great for stuffy noses with all that menthol. I think I tried every experience at least once and thoroughly enjoyed the freebie sample of a face mask and moisturiser at the end the session.

Lunch was included so we all ate a light salad lunch, mine had crayfish and a high energy salad, with which I drunk some elderflower juice. And at 3.30 we had the devils delight of chocolate cake and a hot chocolate - very yummy.

Absolute bargain of a day out, not only my first day at a spa but also a very relaxing one - I'll be checking online deals this week as I'd like to go again!

Chicks, bunnies and a twig

Biscuits, paint and chocolate

Emily returned from the Childminders this week bearing gifts of biscuits (I like this childminder)

(PS it's a rabbit)

Work of art in creation
:)

Bargain of the week 4 large boxes of Thorntons chocolates for £4
And I never want to see another chocolate again :) (until next week maybe)

Bee's Knees' or the Squirrels Nuts?

Mums Day

Happy Mothers Day to all my friends and my own Mother.
Today started well with 2 cups of tea in bed that also included some pressies such as a box of choccies, 1 large mothers day card and 2 hand made cards. Some cash and a day out in Cambridge. I picked up my free tiny hair straighteners which was a cool free gift from a newspaper and then we headed to the town centre for some shopping. First stop John Lewis where the dude bought me a new saucepan (I have been harping on about the lack of pans in my kitchen - especially small ones) I'm a happy girl now. Next we stopped at Polarn o.Pyret and bought Emily some new all-in one PJ's with squirrels on them! I got some new underwear at La Senza and was treated to a nice lunch.

Now we are back home about to eat some lovely organic pie from Abel and Cole.

Enjoy!

5 minute microwave chocolate cake and other odd things

Someone sent me a recipe for a 5 minute chocolate cake that you can make in a mug in a microwave. So up for the challenge I tried it out!

What the heck...

Caught - the Toe Nibbler!

(Actually she was telling me about what these little piggies get up to)

Phoebe made this cake and yummy in my tummy it was too!
Erm...

Shout for Joy
Oh, no, no no..

Phoebe wanted me to point out that no children were harmed in the filming of this production and all feet were clean (very clean)

Woo Hoo - Summer's here

officially because we broke out the decking furniture!

Crikey!

As soon as one pops out... And someone else is pregnant too. My ex-neighbour has just informed me she's now 14 weeks pregnant - well I'll be busy over the next few months as I now have a backorder or 7 blankets to make for one person, one for Wendy, one for Lisa and one for Jules! (just as well I bought the material in bulk ;) )

Birthday News!

Welldone to Wendy and Craig on the arrival of their baby girl (4 hours ago!) After a very quick and not very painful labour (less than 2 hours, and she drove herself to the hospital - amazing!). I will blog more once I had photos :)

Welcome Charlotte Riddell.

A week in pictures - and where the missing things go!

Loves stickers! Not sure my couch did though.

Taking cooking seriously.



Likes the messy stuff

Biker Babe

The Black Hole (Where you can find you missing tiger toys, magazines and handbags)



(oh - a telephone and a giraffe)

Is it Sunday already?

Another hectic week - finally got my TMA sent in on Thursday evening - not too sure about the answers but I had a chat with my tutor on Saturday and even he agrees that the TMA questions were a bit "wooly". Now I've got to catch up on 5 weeks worth of work for the Interaction Design course - it's been kinda put to one side since my company restructured themselves. I wasn't too sure whether to continue with it or not. I could be doing with out the extra pressure just now. Anyway - this week I made another baby blanket for a friend of mine and it turned out really well. Sorry I didn't take a photo of it but I have lots more of the material and as soon as i get round to making some more I'll let you all see.

Granny Do has been here and I'm sad that she's going back home today as I feel that I haven't had a chance to spend any time with her. I've even managed to sort out some stuff on her laptop and show her this new tool for reading bed-time story called Time for a Story. But importantly she has been spending lots of time with the kids and the Dude and I managed to get out for a lush meal on Friday night at the Brampton Mill and grab a film at the pictures. I can really recommend Gran Torino by Clint Eastwood - excellent moving and thought provoking film.



Today I'll be doing the usual housework and stuff - but just in time for Red Nose Day I did this!


*not only do I get an ace picture, no plastic was wasted and I still spent my £1!

Hot Pants

Today's blog is dedicated to all those hardworking, muli-tasking, ever-loving mums out there

Ka-pow! Tomorrow I wear the stars!

Our Weird World

Busy busy busy - sorry to be brief -too much to do at the moment! Just to give you a taster of this weekend :
Friday - pizza with Lucie and Lisa
Sat - dropped Emily off with Lisa, had 3 hour lecture, picked up Emily, went to friends house to look at broken pc, took pc back with me, did the weekly shop (Tesco is my hell at 5pm on Saturday!), put shopping away, fed girls, bathed Emily. Spent rest of evening not feeling too hot watching films.
Sun - woke up with sore throat and nose - not nice :( Cleaned whole house, did washing and drying, gardening, took girls to feed the swans at the park, stopped for a coffee and we wandered slowly back to Waitrose to pick up some cones for ice cream. Made a quick lunch and had ice cream. Planted some seeds, threw out rubbish and stuff into recycling bins. Started dinner,tried to help mum with using a webcam on msn - failed on that :(
Had dinner, bathed Emily, and now just putting her to bed.

Some photos of just pure strangeness !

more can be seen here http://s84.photobucket.com/albums/k3/chenderson99/Emily/misc/