A big weekend for bears

Hello! Hope you had a lovely weekend. We did!

Mud run...hanging out on the beach with the best kids ever...W and Lulu coming back to shore, wet and muddy...Adventure Island...FHB in the Best Place For Him...rollercoasters...old skool fun...new fountain on the seafront providing much entertainment for all...also-two birthday cakes; an evening with great friends and many margheritas whilst watching the Eurovision Song Contest; fish n chips; a slap up curry...aah- good times...x

Orthopaedic interlude

10 am (ish)
Me, to my colleague: Ooh, my shoulder really hurts. It feels like there's something catching in there.

4pm (ish)
Surgeon, to me: What's wrong with your shoulder? Have you hurt it?

Me, waggling shoulder: Well, I don't know what I've done, but it really hurts.

Surgeon, grabbing arm: Let me have a look. (Holds arm up). Does that hurt?

Me: No.

Surgeon, moves arm: What about that?

Me: Ow. It sort of clicked then.

Surgeon: Well, you've clearly got something catching in there. (Departs stage left).

Thanks!!!

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On a different note, I have just (literally just- my hook is still hot) finished the lion for my smallest of nephews. He's a very fine lion- photos to follow. I am very pleased!

x

Dinner date

On the guest list:

W, FHB, Mouse and myself.

Venue:

The beach.

Time:

6pm til bedtime-for-bears.

Menu:

Homemade pizza with parma ham and olives
Strawberries
Jelly

With orange juice or fruit smoothie to drink.

I LOVE living by the sea! 

x

Bad blogger

Wow, I'm not getting much blogging in at the moment am I? I need at least another three hours in the day. At least!

And then there's the camera situation...I suggested to W that I take my poor sandy camera into Jessops to be repaired but he reckons it is probably not worth it. So now I am angling for a smart phone with a decent camera on it (and sat nav). I think I may have quite a long wait. And it is a bit annoying because W's SLR is really waaaaay too big to cart around every day on the off chance of taking a quick snap of something interesting. And of course, I can't be trusted with it!

Anyway...hopefully normal service will be resumed shortly- in every aspect of life in this house of wild bears...x

Avoidance strategy

Last Friday, Royal Wedding day, at my parents'. Two small boys, not much interested in Princes and Princesses:

:: In sixteen years living in that house, it NEVER occurred to me to climb the willow tree. I feel ashamed.

:: Me: Be careful boys. Don't fall out of the tree, I don't want to drive to A&E.
  Boys: studiously ignore their mother.
  -Some time later...
  Me: You look a bit ruffled Custard. Are you alright.
  Custard (really pleased with himself): Oh yeah. I just fell out of the tree.

:: Only one injury incurred- a monster stomach scrape for one FHB who obviously found it harder than Custard to get out of the tree.  

:: Why have they got a golf caddy up the tree? Answers on a postcard...x

A windy airfield and my Mushy Peas cardi

Hello, Hope all is well in your world today. I still have a shocking cold and feel yuck, but I went with W and the bears today to see Toot and Papa go gliding. It was brill! I would LOVE to have a go one day too!

The airfield was Very Windy indeed and the bears all gathered in the boot of Papa and Toot's car to eat Polos and Pom-bears and watch the gliders. (FHB: Cor, not everyone's granny flies a plane!)

I wore my Mushy Peas Cardi, so I finally got W to take a photo of it- which is why the photo is quite so dreadful. (Forgive the sad face- I don't feel well and my nose is red red red. Also, I do not actually have a toucan's beak growing out of my head...)

The pattern is from The Crochet Closet by Lisa Gentry. Not sure about the rest of the book, but it was worth it for this pattern on its own- I Love It!

Three things to add:

1- I am not a tiny person, but the sizes on this pattern are so generous that I made the smallest one. And actually, I could probably have made it a bit smaller. A little bit of me is quite pleased about this.

2- As I put my cardi on at work the other day, one of the girls said 'Ooh, what a lovely cardigan', allowing me to have a most enjoyable Thank You I Made It Myself moment, which made me even more pleased indeed.

3- Some bright spark who runs the hospital has decided to paint the walls the same colour they are on the map. Which means that the walls outside my department are pea green and I look as if I am camouflage in my lovely cardi. Which makes me not quite so pleased after all. Especially because, on the walls, this colour looks like it should be in a bad public toilet.

Anyway, I am a happy girl and am putting this right back in my Ravelry queue to make another one. Perhaps avoiding a toilet palette next time!

x

Still...

...enjoying being back at work
...paradoxically, hoping my tenure will not be for too long
...trying to work out how you fit in work, kids, house, husband, a social life, a blog, a hobby...
...feeling tired
...consequently feeling like a bit of a flake
...got a cold
...have not got around to photographing my pea green cardi (which I LOVE!)
...making squares
...hooking a lion's mane (time is running out on this one)
...can't remember where I put my glasses
...haven't got around to recharging my Kindle, because I'm so knackered come the evenings that reading is way down there on the list of Things To Do. Which makes me Very Sad.
...enjoying browsing lovely houses we can't afford on Rightmove (with a Nice Cup of Tea)

Don't get me wrong folks, life is good- I'm just tired, sniffly and my feet are cold. Normal service will be resumed shortly!

P.S. Despite all the above, I really enjoyed the Royal Wedding on Friday. I sat and watched it with my Mum, while the kids romped around outside. (FHB: Hmph, well I don't care about that stuff). I did care, and it made me very happy to see something nice happening in the world...x