tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82150870361598139542012-01-27T13:33:00.568ZWell somebody has to!Tree Huggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00166591316623742571noreply@blogger.comBlogger1091100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8215087036159813954.post-79589199905359438492012-01-05T14:18:00.000Z2012-01-05T14:18:14.832Z

I was going to write about the Weather, New Years Resolutions and Current Affairs.  I have decided that your probably all sick of this so all  I am going to say for the moment is Happy New Year. 

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There is a Christmas Craft Fair tonight at Holy Trinity School , Ramsgate 7.00pm - 9.00pm, everybody welcome and yes I know its a bit early but I have been making christmas tree decorations for the last three weeks.

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My Grandad and Dad used to operate the slipways at Ramsgate Harbour. We were looking through some old pictures recently and came across this one which we thought was quite topical at present.This picture of the Steam Tug Kenia marked a turning point in the history of Ramsgate Harbour. The reason being that she was the last Steam Tug to be repaired on the slipway at Ramsgate. The companies that

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When we were in the Cotswolds a few weeks ago we visited Cotswold Lavender and tried some Lavender shortbread which was delicious. So I thought I would have a go at making some today.The recipe I used was one I happened upon in a magazine and it had cornflour in it which is quite unusual but the resulting shortcake just melts in the mouth and the lavender flavour is a fantastic reminder of

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Having just beat my son in the Headless Lego Tournament 7 - 3. He had now decided the game is boring and had wandered off to watch telly and yes I know I am supposed to let him win but it is nice for me to win occasionally.

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I felt the urge for cupcakes today, but not having access to any I had to make do with making some pictures instead.I was hoping that the lovely colours would take my mind off the weather, is it just me or has it got chillier in the evenings, I have taken to wearing a jumper which is not good for the start of September.

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I decided to try a pottery taster course at Hilderstone today. I am not too sure what happened as we were supposed to make a cone shaped pot to go on the wall, mine ended up as a rather oval type vase. Anyway it was great fun, out tutor was so fantastic I have signed up to do a course. Watch this space for more weird and wonderful thingys.

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The cake from outer space complete with space dust.

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I love buttons. It comes from a childhood button box that my nan had. She would bring it out when we were bored and we would spend hours counting and sorting them.I have started making button jewellery which looks really funky but trying to find the right buttons has been really difficult and expensive. But on holiday I discovered a lovely wool shop in the Cotswolds selling large packs of

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I attended the felting workshop as part of the summer squall event. Nobody quite knew what to expect and all those who attended took home a wonderful felted flower. It was really good fun and very therapeutic as there was a lot of pummelling involved - a great stress buster.Thank you to Joan Ward for a brilliant workshop and those at Ramsgate Arts for a job well done.

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Well haven't had chance to post about my little trip round the Turner centre last week. I thought it was a lot smaller than I expected but they seem very enthusiastic, I enquired what exhibitions we could expect but they are not releasing details until the Autumn but they have planned as far ahead as 2013. I also asked about parking - they are expecting people to park in College Road Car Park

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I had a good day at Broadstairs Market today, met lots of interesting people, watched the local kids hurl themselves off the end of the pier, chased litter around to stop it wrapping itself round by tables, ate freshly made doughnuts (haven't done that in years) and generally had a lovely day!

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Off to sell my wares at Broadstairs Harbour market tomorrow, thank goodness the wind has dropped.My littleun has had a nasty ear infection all week so in between feeding him medicine and given him hugs, I have been trying to make some more jewellery to sell this week, which hasn't been easy.How do other people manage to work from home? Its very difficult and with the holidays coming up I am

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I have been making a lot of flower brooches, hair slides etc to take to Broadstairs Harbour Market on Sunday - hope its not as windy as last week, we had to take the gazebo down or we would have ended up in the sea.We were quite surprised by the amount of tourists we spoke to on Sunday, didn't know they existed in such large quantities, everybody loved the place and the majority said they would

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This is my very good friend Emma from Ems Truly Scrumptious Cupcakes she is selling her very delicious cupcakes at The Dickens Festival, Victoria Gardens from 10am - 5pm. If you would like some more info on the cakes she makes please just click on this link http://www.emscupcakes.co.uk/

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The north easterly wind did blow yet again today which made it a really good day for flying a kite but you had to wrap up warm because it was freezing!

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I have been busy creating again. This time it's sock monkeys - my youngest has already sneaked this one into his bedroom. This one has found a new home with a friend.And this one has gone to my eldest's girlfriend.I was supposed to be selling them ebay and folksy, oh well gives me an excuse to make some more.

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Ladies Night St Mildreds Primary Infant SchoolSt Mildreds AvenueBroadstairsCT10 2BX£4.00 admission to include glass of wine and nibbles.Thursday 27th May 20107.00pm - 10.00pm Massage, aromatherapy, jewellery, handbags, iridology, nail bar, hair dressing plus much more

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Just a few photos of my garden. It's looking quite promising After the winter I was not too hopeful.But fingers crossed, It looks like it might be a vintage year!

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I did a lot of cooking last week, and these were one of my better creations - Lemon Meringue Cupcakes.I have been wondering whether you could make a lemon meringue pie into a cupcake and strangely enough I bought a cake book last week and there was a recipe for them, so how could I resist.I tried them out on all the family and everybody agreed they were delicious.

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Broadstairs library are staging The Isle of Thanet Photographic Society photo exhibition at present, and my brother-in-law has a photo on show(top right -the one with the crocuses).All the pictures are very good and worth a visit if passing. P.S Happy Birthday Louis.

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I received the following reply from Thanet Council yesterday - 'Thank you for your email regarding the above shelter, please be advised that it is on our programme of works to be repaired. Unfortunately, the problem with the roof tiles is due to a combination of high winds, general vandalism and footballs, and has actually been repaired on several occasions. Thank you once again for taking the

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My son has been learning how to ride his bike on the prom in the eastcliff area of Ramsgate. Yesterday I noticed the poor state of repair of the old shelter roof. The slates look very heavy and some have already fallen off. I think some TLC is due (or should I say TDC) P.S I have just emailed the council about this. We shall see what happens.

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We popped over to King George VI Park earlier this week and had a explore through the undergrowth and an Ice Cream. As you can see it was quite cold and miserable. Then today what a difference and what a beautiful sign of spring. We then wandered down the beach and found this poor old crab washed up. And then - silly me- I decided to get my bike out and have a very small ride, I am soooooooo

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Saw this tree at Wildwood yesterday, really old and gnarly- bit like the political system in this country.Well Gordan Brown is about to take the plunge and call a General Election. About time and of course the news programmes have already started wheeling out the experts - as if anybody takes any notice of them.All people are interested in are whether they will have to pay more tax and which

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We took the dog for a stroll down the harbour today and we couldn't believe how many people where wandering around.The market at the Harbour Arm was on today and my friend Ems cupcakes had had a really good day. Weather permitting it will be there tomorrow.Popped into the craft fair at the Pavillion and bought a couple of scarves to add to my growing collection.Then wandered up the High Street

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As the weather has been quite reasonable the last few days I have been out and about on foot (saves on petrol).On my travels I couldn't fail to notice the vast amounts of violets everywhere, this spring is turning into one of the best for a long time.We have just returned from a wander into Broadstairs where there is an Easter egg hunt at Balmoral Gardens, it costs £2.00 and the kids get a

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I'm glad I took this yesterday before the storm last night, as my poor daffs are looking a bit worse for wear today. At least there are some benefits to living down south, with the North looking to having a very white Easter. Those poor old Easter bunnies will have to get their snow shoes out to deliver the eggs.I caught a brief glimpse of the Chancellors (sounds like a band) last night very

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My girls have started laying again hooray - no more shop bought eggs. You can't beat their eggs they just taste delicious (but I would say that wouldn't I). They are actually in really good condition considering the winter we have just had.

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We went for a drive in the country yesterday and came across a field with six beautiful pigs in it. I wanted to put one in the boot of the car and take it home but common sense prevailed and I took some photos instead. I would like to own a couple of pigs and then eat them - think crispy bacon and sausages, but it is surprising the number of people who get all strange about the thought of that

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What a difference a week makes. As you can see I have an amazing display of daffodils, far more than last year and the tulips are doing well as well.I find today one of the better days of the year - firstly it is the first day of spring hooray! and secondly its my birthday (I have a very large chocolate cake sitting in the kitchen jut begging to be eaten but I am going to share it with friends

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 I have been taking a few flower pictures this weekend, to try and prove to myself that Spring is on its way. I took this this morning in my mums garden, one of the very few places at the moment which actually have daffodils. Happy Mothers Day.

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My son goes to Thanet college and he had to produce an advert for Tetley T-Bags. As you can see my kitchen was taken over for the shoot. Actually I haven't been paid my location fee yet, I better go and find out where it is!

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Seems like we are having our own cliff face problems in Broadstairs.All the beach hut owners in the bay just along from Stone Bay have been told that we can't put our huts down the beach until the 1st May, it was supposed to be 1st April (gives me a bit more time to repaint mine).A friend who was fed up at the thought of having to wait, rang the council who told her that the cliff face has

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I went out this morning looking at the high tide.I stopped off at Joss Bay to watch the waves and there was somebody surfing!As you can see the tide was very high at Ramsgate Harbour, this was about 45 mins before high tide!

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On Wednesday 24th February 2010 between 7pm - 10pm there is a Pamper Event taking place at G Casino, Westwood Cross, Broadstairs.There will be over 25 stalls selling various products including Jewellery, Handbags, Cupcakes, Chocolate, Clothes, Hair and Beauty , Massage, Make up and much more.It is free entrance with a glass of bubbly (non members will require photo id for entry).There will be a

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Thank god it's the last day of half term. Both myself and my littleun are desperate to get back to our routines - him to school to see his mates who he has missed and me to be able to get things done without having somebody moaning that he can't find anything to do by himself! Some of you might be wondering what the picture is about - its the new kid craze Gogos, they are like minature aliens in

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Just to say HAPPY 40TH BIRTHDAY to my sister, I better just repeat that HAPPY 40TH BIRTHDAY.

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I have started creating again.  This is my latest offering, beautiful isn't it. I think the weather prompted me to make something bright! Trouble is I don't really want to sell it! P.S I'm having trouble uploading my pictures from picasa so I hope this works.

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Well along with hundreds of other people we went walking yesterday and it was glorious. I know its another picture of the lighthouse but it is so photogenic, you just have to. It was so nice to get out after all the bad weather we have had recently, but there's talk of more snow at the end of the month!So make the most of it!

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I dropped my camera before Christmas but I managed to get a new one yesterday and this is one of my new pictures, its quite handy having a photogenic dog!

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I started this blog sometime ago because I fancied sharing with people some of my photos and general witterings. Monday I received a phone call - "I have just found your blog and I am interested in stocking some of your jewellery" ( I proceeded to jump up and down wildly causing the dog to look at me in disgust). Therefore after an exciting meeting with Emma from Em's Cupcakes (

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The cats like us decided not to do too much this weekend!

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I have a lot of craft fairs and parties on at the moment where I am selling my jewellery. So yesterday I managed to fit in a cupcake making session, these are made from polymer clay which I bake in the oven, sprinkle with glitter and make into bracelets. The little girls love them. My website is also semi up and running http://www.beadsdivine.co.uk/ I am hoping to have the shop online late

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Wow, really good fireworks tonight.

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I've been busy all week making jewellery for the craft fair at Holy Trinity School, Ramsgate 7pm - 9pm tomorrow night.The bag charms are always a good seller at parties but not having done a craft fair before it is very difficult to estimate quantities.I have also have some stock in a Hairdresser's - The Hair Cottage in Kingsgate which is selling well and this weekend I hope to have a very basic

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Whats the saying "Red sky in the morning Shepard's warning!"Which today has proved quite true!

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As you can see the illness is finally over and we managed to get to the free paper aeroplane making event at Ramsgate Library. There were lots of different types of planes to make and test. We then had to decide on one plane to fly in the final competition. The top three planes all won a book voucher. Unfortunately we came fourthish never mind!

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My eldest was ill last week with a bad temperature, sickness and all the other symptoms of flu. I must admit I did panic when he started spouting jiberish and looked like the undead so I went and got him some Tamiflu which worked really quickly. Unfortunately this Tuesday about lunchtime my youngest decided he felt sick and started a raging temperature. I therefore have had to nurse him during

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I am trying to sell some items on the Internet. Have tried putting some items on Folksy - a website where people sell handmade items, as it only costs 20p to list an item thought I would give it a go, trouble is haven't had anybody view my items yet, so have resorted to eBay which is going to cost me about £2.00 per item. Fingers crossed I sell something as I haven't got an event until the Holy

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WOW!!!!!!!! This is my red pepper that I have been nurturing all summer, I finally took the plunge to pick it today. I have never managed to get my peppers to go red before so I am really chuffed. I am trying to decide how to eat it now! P.S Made it into fajitas-and it was delicious!!!!!

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We took the dog for a walk last night and ended up going past North Foreland lighthouse and down through the fields to Elmwood Farm.You couldn't have asked for a better evening.I took this photo on my mobile phone and I haven't played with it at all, pretty good if I do say so myself, trouble is the place is so photogenic you couldn't do too much wrong.

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We went away in the caravan the other weekend down to Cottington Lakes at Deal, its a nice site with lots of space, a bar and for my motley crew - lots of fishing. So while they were very happy catching fish, I chilled out, relaxed and caught up on some reading.We then had a BBQ and our friend bought her fire basket along, so we had a real fire and toasted marshmallows which the kids loved.What

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I am not very good with pastry and do try and avoid making and cooking with it. But my hubbie decided he fancied a quiche and I really don't like shop bought ones. So I braved the pastry making and look at the result - fantastic, only problem was it didn't last long!!!

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This is a shot of the new Turner centre from the Harbour Arm at Margate. This was quite a difficult picture to take as I was trying to hold my nose at the same time, as the stench was unbelievable.It made me feel quite sick for a long time after.We had decided to have a wander along the Harbour Arm last Friday but unfortunately they was nothing open apart from the cafe but the smell was so bad

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I thought I would show you a picture of one of my creations. I bought the allsort beads and assembled them on a bracelet. I have made a necklace and a stretchy bracelet as well. As soon as the littleun goes back to school I am going to try to make the allsorts myself - should be interesting. I have also been experimenting with shrink plastic, it has lots of possibilities - watch this space!

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Just realised I haven't blogged for ages. I have been setting up my own business - handmade jewellery It all happened by chance, I bought some beads, made some jewellery, sold lots and people want more. So I have been trying to juggle looking after my little un and making bits and bobs.Anyway we enjoyed Folk Week last week it was so nice to have lovely weather, lots of people having fun, no

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We went to the Steam Fayre at Preston yesterday afternoon (it is still on today) as the littleuns spots have gone down and after being cooped up for a few days thought we would go and have some fun. What an amazing afternoon, it was just like stepping back in time to when I was a kid. It was a proper fayre with lots of rides for the kids including bumper cars and a coconut shy (my husband won

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I see we have our first case of swine flu at the Marlowe Academy (see Kent Online). I suppose as it was as close as Canterbury University it was bound to come this way sooner or later. Just spoken to a friend whose nephew goes there, it has all happened so quickly nobody knows quite what is going on yet. They are going to be advised over the weekend as to wether the school will be open next

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I have managed to grow an extremely bent cucumber that would not pass an EU inspection but what the hell. I am going to leave it until the weekend and make some tzatziki out of it with some fresh baked bread, YUM!!!!!On a more itching note my youngest has finally succumbed to Chicken Pox luckily its not too bad, he is covered in spots but they don't seem too itchy, fingers crossed this is a bad

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My son attended Karate on the beach at Viking Bay yesterday. He has been going to classes for a few weeks and is loving it. He ended up up to his waist in the sea and loved every minute which quite surprised me as we couldn't get him in the sea last year. We then strolled home through the crowds attending the Dickens Festival, to watch the flying displays from the Big Event at Margate from our

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The dog gets us up at about 5.15 most mornings ugh! So I thought I would make the most of a nice day and head for the beach early were I managed to get this quite lovely picture on my mobile phone.My littleun has gone down the beach today with the school. The kids in his year (all ninety of them) turned up with their buckets and spades so you can imagine what Viking bay will look like when they

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St Mildreds school in Broadstairs is having its school fete tomorrow at 3.00pm.There will be the usual stalls and attractions including a cake stall which I have been busy making my sticky creations for, though I slightly overdid the quantities ending up with about 56 cakes. But by the way I am having to fend off members of the family I will be lucky if I end up with 6 to take!

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My husband took this when we were on holiday a few weeks ago, I think it is a lovely photo very calm and serene.

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We had a lovely time at the Open Farm day at Quex Park, my son went on every single tractor (I went in a couple as well). We saw Wellington the Bull, and went on a really bumpy and exciting tractor ride.

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Here are two of my first home grown strawberries, they didn't last long. Hopefully there are a lot more were these came from, I just need some sunshine!

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What a lovely poppy makes you smile every time you go past. One of our new chickens died yesterday for no apparent reason. I am keeping a close eye on the other three but they look fine, very odd.We went and voted earlier, took the littleun with us and explained how it all worked, he was most disappointed when he found out he couldn't vote as well! Never mind only another 12 years!

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We went to the Cotswolds last week in our caravan and visited Blenheim Palace. It was a lovely day even the littleun enjoyed himself. I spotted this rather bottomly statue and couldn't resist taking a pic.

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I thought you would like to meet my new Chooks, two Marrans and two light Sussex. We have had them nearly two weeks and are hoping that they will start laying very soon. The Marrrans lay a dark chocolate egg and the Sussex lay a whitish egg, quite a contrast but both taste equally delicious.We did think about naming them but after the fox attack last time I am trying not to get too attached.

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Not at lot you can say about this apart from WOW!

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Its that time of year again when the beach huts come out of hibernation and return to there nesting site for the summer season. As I mentioned last post, ours hasn't quite woken up yet but in the next few weeks it will join its flock down on the front.We didn't go anywhere this Easter, instead we tidied up in the garden, planted some seeds, and ate lots of chocolate. My soon to be six year old

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Here is the new addition to our family, Harvey, who is a Cocker Spaniel. He is very cute but being only 16 weeks old it is very much like having another baby. He wakes up in the middle of the night to go to the loo and then he wakes up about 5.30 in the morning so we are quite exhausted. He went down the beach yesterday for the first time and they are putting the beach huts up in Stone Bay

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Isn't it surprising how much rubbish you collect over Christmas! As we will not be having a collection until next Saturday, we will dutifully take it over to the tip tomorrow. On the subject of rubbish I had to go and see the District Nurse at Newington Clinic this afternoon(my burn is getting a lot better) and coming home via Newlands and Dumpton couldn't get over the amount of rubbish lying

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And a good time was had by one and all!!!!!

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Seasons greetings to everyone. I have been up since 5.00am this morning my littleun was desperate to see if Father Christmas had been and of course he had BIG time. We are now in the process (I say we but I have left it to the male members of the family) of building a Lego Castle unfortunately last time we bought a Lego castle my husband spent ages (hours actually) building it and I managed to

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Well I know it isn't a Christmas picture but I managed to pour hot baked bean juice over the back of my hand and I have a rather nasty burn, so it is rather difficult photographing anything at the moment. But this sunset on Saturday evening rather took my fancy so I snapped it and it came out quite well.I suppose I could have snapped the hoards of shoppers at Westwood Cross on Saturday but when

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I thought this might brighten up everybodies day as I don't think it is actually going to get light today.I bought this at Bluewater on Tuesday, couldn't resist it. I love colour - I only have three black items in my wardrobe, a Tesco's cashmere jumper, a skirt from Monsoon and a pair of trousers - everything else is full of colour and I think it helps your mood if you wear something colouful - I

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I went on a girl's day out to Bluewater yesterday. There were five of us and great fun was had by all. (Thank you to the driver -Mamma Mia! never sounded so good. He He He)If you want to grab a bargain you need to get yourselves up there. I bought two tops at 50% off unbelievable. Signs for discounts were going up as we went round which made it quite difficult working out how much you should be

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Well Mr Darling's Vat cut comes into operation today, should be interesting when I go shopping later because you won't be able to believe the price tags as some shops are taking the cut off at the till and others will show the correct price - what a mess!Anyway thought I would post a pic of Father Christmas doing his best to cheer things up - I wonder if he will be having problems with his Vat

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We zipped over on the Eurostar to Disneyland Paris this week, it was really, really, really cold. We had a lovely time the Newport Bay Hotel was lovely, the staff were very helpful and polite. I am not a big fan of Disney but my hubby said the littleun would enjoy himself and he did - we went on the Buzz Lightyear ride eight times. The only downside was how expensive it was, the exchange rate

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Thought I would show you a lovely warm picture of the bonfire we had a few weeks ago.It is so cold at the moment - yes I know it is November but it has got cold quite quickly. We had to rummage around at the weekend to find all the scarves, hats and gloves (or should I say glove, they are like socks you always end up with one where the other one goes is anybodies guess!) so we could wrap up and

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Isn't the weather interesting at the moment - Saturday night was the coldest this year and as for the strange squally weather today well! Anyway on the subject of weather, why does it always decide to chuck it down when you have to drop off or pick up the kids from school? And why do people not put they headlights on when it rains?Anyway moan over, I took this photo while hanging out of my sons

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We woke up this morning to find that a fox had got to our chickens. I stupidly forgot to shut the run. One has completely disappeared, one was shall we say in a disassembled state and luckily we still have one but she is in a severely shocked state with a number of injuries. We are taking here to the vets at 10.00 so I will post an update later. I am so upset that it was my fault, my littleun

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We went to a Firework party on Saturday night. We had a lovely time although we were quite soggy by the end of the evening. I could have posted the usual firework pictures but I was so taken by the graphics on this box I had to show you a picture, somebody had really put some thought into this and the name of some of the fireworks - Captain Thunderbolt, Giant Mutant Lizard and The Mystical

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As you can see me and my 5 year old have been practising our Pudsey Bear (Children in Need 14th November 2008 )gingerbread recipe. I haven't made gingerbread for years but they turned out quite well. The cutter was bought from Lakeland Plastics last week for £2.99 with 75p going towards appeal.We were slightly disappointed when we woke up this morning and they was no snow but we did find some

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Popped to Canterbury yesterday as I wanted to buy a decent set of saucepans and some baking bits. Had a lovely time browsing all the gadgets that you couldn't possibly do without - chicken shaped ice cubes, leopard print cocktail glasses and rabbit shaped salt and pepper mills! Managed to find a really good set of saucepans which I can actually lift, they have a lifetime guarentee (the

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A couple of years ago we decided to put a wood burning stove in our house. What a good decision that was. During the winter we have it going just enough to keep the house comfortably warm.As you can see from the picture we have a large wood store outside, which we have delivered in the spring (back breaking work but quite satisfying) They are properly seasoned logs (they have been dried for

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This is one of the three chickens that I keep in the garden. They have a large run which is full of bark for them to scratch around in, but if we aren't using the garden (they are a bit messy) I let them out to have a scratch around and get rid of all the bugs.During the summer I get three eggs a day, but in the winter due to the reduced light levels we only get maybe one or two. Everybody who

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Even though the weather is a bit gloomy today, I spotted my neighbour's beautiful tree. Wow! I am not happy that the summer (such as it was) has gone but seeing sights like this does lift the soul just slightly.

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It was such a lovely day yesterday, I had forgotten what the consequences would be. Looked out of the window this morning and got quite a shock - lots of fog. I went to let the cats out and saw the garden was bedecked with jewels. I know when we were clearing the garden up yesterday that they were hundreds of spiders of all shapes and sizes!! but their webs are amazing especially when damp. So

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We had this through the door yesterday - an estate agent having to tell us how quickly they have sold a property and how many viewings and offers were made! Wow, just shows you how bad the housing market actually is!

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I took these pictures last week at Stone Bay of the removal of the Council Beach Huts by forklift. As you can see it was quite impressive seeing a complete beach hut being hauled up the very steep slope. They were being stored at Joss Bay car park at the weekend, I would hope this isn't a permanent arrangement, the local fire starters will have a field day!

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My son is taking a photography evening course at the College. This is one of his. I like this, very Ikea - put it on a canvas charge £9.99 we'll be rich! As long as we don't put the money in the bank.

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We went to the Kite Festival in Margate yesterday - it was fantastic, quite magical. The sun was shining, the beach was extremely clean, their was just the right amount of wind and everybody was chilled and enjoying themselves - not what you expect from Margate at all.This kite was made up of 60 kites at 3m intervals and including the lead kite was 200m long amazing! We got to make a free kite

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As you can see Jasper is getting a lot bigger. He is allowed out in the garden now, so he spends much of it running at full speed around and around eventually trying to climb the tree quite unsuccessfully luckily!The weather is nice at the moment but I just cannot get warm I don't know what that is all about maybe I'm coming down with something - hope not, as it is the kite festival in Margate

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This is a photo of a little area I have found for myself in my house. I have set up a table for my sewing machine and various other crafts. It is quite nice to have everything in one place.I have started rummaging through charity shops for bits and pieces. I got a large jar of buttons for £1.00 the other day which I separated into different colours they look quite decorative on my window sill. I

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This is our new cat Jasper we got him from the RSPCA for £70 this includes all his jabs, neutering and microchipping. He didn't have a very good start, they thought he was dead when he was bought in but he has survived very well, he still has a poorly eye but hopefully that will get better with time. He is very affectionate and soppy. My five year old loves him and spends most of his time

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Yesterday I made the most fantastic Victoria Sandwich. The recipe was from Hugh Fearnly-Whittingstalls Family Cookbook brilliant!

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Three guesses as to where we went on Holiday. We managed to get a late booking at a cottage on the Isle of Wight, so off we trundled with all our summer gear - swimming costumes, t-shirts, buckets and spades etc, but not to be caught out like I was in Devon two years ago, we also packed jumpers, and coats. Needless to say the weather was really poor and very windy we actually used the fire in

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