Seasider in the City…food, drink, toys, laughter & golf!
View from the grey cloud
01 month ago
in Family
It’s lonely sitting here by myself
I’ve never been here before
I only squeezed his cheek
He didn’t even say ouch!
If he’d just given me the dinosaur
I’d still be on the Sun
But now the teacher told me off
My peg got moved like I’m one of the naughty boys
Mummy will be cross and I won’t get my certificate
And maybe the Easter Bunny won’t come…
I’m really sorry!
Where the fun never ends!
11 month ago
in Family
I think we have a problem. Several months ago J kept seeing adverts for a new Channel 5 show – City of Friends. Instantly attracted to the fire/police/paramedic animals in it I promised to record it in our bedroom so that he had something to watch when Daddy is watching golf on the big telly. I put it on series link.
These pictures of my Sky Planner were taken on Sunday.
It seems we have 61 episodes recorded (and some other dodgy viewings too) but in all my searching I can only find that 53 have been made, yet all the synopsis are different!
He loves this programme! Most of the episodes seem to centre around Max, a trainee police-monkey prone to making mistakes and Jumpi a young kangaroo who is always causing chaos. It’s quite unique in the fact that animals and people are living and interacting as equals throughout which is pretty nice really. Even though there are what seems like a million episodes I can’t tell you how many times I have seen the one where Max loses the keys to Hayley the helicopter!
As is the way with all this type of kids show the characters are all sickeningly helpful and it teaches wonderful life-lessons. Clearly this isn’t a bad thing but the attraction for our 4 year old is the emergency services and the funny adventures that they all go on.
Oh yes, and it’s got a catchy theme tune (haven’t they all), so once you’ve finally got “Ma ma ma ma me me me me more milkshake” out of your head, you get to endure the City of Friends song all your working day!
If you have under 5′s you should give this one a try – catch it on Channel 5 at 6.20am every day. In the meantime, I need to get a life and regain control of my Sky+
Why I’m Giving up Clothes for Good
31 month ago
That got your attention eh?
If you followed my blog last year you’ll know that I took part in the Norwich 10k Race for Life to raise money for Cancer Research UK. On the day I always try to remember to take a bag of unwanted clothes to donate to the charity.
This year to increase the donations and spread the message further, Cancer Research are asking us to take any quality items of clothing to a local TK Maxx store, they will then be sorted, labelled and sent on to Cancer Research shops around the country. Once sold all the proceeds go towards research into beating childhood cancers.
Take a look at this video for the differences that this can make to the lives of many now and those in the future.
As part of this campaign I will be donating this dress, possibly the most expensive item in my wardrobe:
I bought it in the year after J was born when we had two weddings of close friends to go to, and I hadn’t lost the weight I had wanted after giving birth. I am not one for dresses (at all) and would certainly not spend a lot on money on clothes for myself. However, I needed something that would make me feel comfortable, when I was feeling very much less than this about my appearance.
I am happy to say that this is too big for me now, and I am never planning on being that size again. I hope that this dress finds it’s way into the hands of someone that will get good use out of it which helping to raise some much needed cash for such a worthy cause.
TK Maxx are after donations of any of the following
- Clothes: dresses, tops, skirts, coats, trousers, jeans and suits
- Accessories: belts, jewellery, bags, ties
- Shoes
- CDs, DVDs, books
- Homeware: linens, cushions, ornaments
Give up your Clothes at TK Maxx any time in April and help beat kid’s cancer!
The Tots100 are helping to promote this campaign with a special Carnival to highlight everyone’s posts – what are you going to give up?
Project 366 : Week 11
132 months ago
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This week we enjoyed a beautiful day playing golf, made friends with Perry the Shoulder Buddy, made a banana cake, dropped a banana cake, finally made some cycling progress, had the best delivery ever at work, and apparently ruined a very grumpy boy’s day!
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Reasons to be Cheerful – Week 11 #R2BC
82 months ago
Wow, sorry for being such a misery guts last week – I’ve read my post back! I can safely say it was all due to being very tired and run down. The following 2 days I felt dreadful and really ill. But a day in the sunshine on Sunday sorted me out and I’m happy to be back to normal!
A change in the weather seems to have made everything a little brighter and more cheery, here are my happy thoughts for the week:
- I have finally felt well enough to exercise again. I’m back running regularly and have properly ‘found’ Zumba! I’ve been going to classes and it’s really good fun! I haven’t gone the whole hog like most and started wearing bells on my wrists though! I was really (pleasantly) surprised when I saw that I had burned 520 calories in the class on Monday!
- The extra exercise has meant that I have lost 3lb in the last week and my orange trousers are a little bit closer to fitting! After a few comments I have decided that if they fit by the Summer I will wear them for BritMums Live - you’ll have no excuse for not being able to spot me at least!
- I had a pretty rubbish round of golf on Sunday, but I’m putting it down to a bit of rust! I am incredibly excited that my new orange golf bag might arrive tomorrow and so I’ll have it for my round this weekend – that’s how I’m planning on spending Mother’s Day, and the only way I’m likely to get any peace!
Make sure you head over and see the gorgeous Mich and have a read at what’s making everyone else happy!
I’ll leave you with my final reason for being cheerful this week – look how well my boy is doing!
