Wednesday 25 February 2015

New watch

In my last post I mentioned that my watch got broken in the garden. I've been wearing a watch for about twenty years and quite honestly I feel naked without one so while I'm waiting for mine to be fixed I needed to get a replacement.

I had a look on ebay and there were a few I liked but I didn't want to wait for delivery and I didn't fancy trawling through the jewellery shops in Newport so I fell back on ol' reliable Argos. I wasn't really impressed with the range but then I was only buying a quick and cheap one to tide me over until my 'actual' watch could be repaired.

After probably about an hour of comparing (I'm very picky) I ended up with this one:


 



It's pretty, feminine and has a traditional leather strap. SBB thinks the face looks too big for my wrist and I have to agree, but I still think I'll keep wearing it every now and again.
The bonus is that I bought it with Nectar points so it was 'free'!

Back into the garden!

I do love spring, don't you? In fact, it's my second favourite season - autumn being the first. I love the sound of birds singing in the trees, new flowers popping up out of the ground...

 Ah, isn't it lovely? Oh. Wait.
 The pesky little bugger burst right through the webbing!
 And here's another. This is a huge bulge in the gravel border.
The red arrows point to all of the flowers 'springing' up. I'm not sure where they've all come from. The border down the side of the house has been dug over several times and sprayed liberally with plant killer. The most annoying thing is that I like spring flowers! I enjoy watching them grow. I just wish they wouldn't grow in (and OUT of) the gravel border that I've spent good money on.

I also had a go at an old bush in the front garden.

Before
After
 
I wanted to dig up all the roots to start cleaning the ground properly but it was one of those bushes that, anywhere the branches touch the ground they sprout roots. I bent the spade. I broke my watch. I gave up.
I've had this watch for about twelve years and all I've ever had to do is replace the battery. I'm a little bit gutted to say the least.

Saturday 14 February 2015

An overdue introduction

It's past time that I introduced two very special little ones!

 These are some early pictures of my fur babies - they're only about 10 weeks old in these two photos.
 So let me introduce you. First we have Cillian, our beautiful little boy. He's a little camera shy but when we do get photos of him they're so worth the effort:
And then we have Pancho, our little princess. She's stubborn and spoilt and utterly gorgeous! She, unlike Cillian, loves the camera. I just have to say 'Pancho, pose!' and she will:
They're both mini lops and they've just turned three years old. They're not from the same litter and we bought them from a breeder in Shoreham-by-Sea - I'd love to give you a link to her website but she seems to have taken down it down.
Look for more cute pictures and antics in the future!

Monday 9 February 2015

Birthdays and gardening

Yesterday was my 28th birthday - I kept expecting to feel different or that sense of being special that I used to get when I was younger but it just felt like a normal day.
We went food shopping in the morning and then headed out for lunch at The Wight Mouse Inn - we went with my parents, my mum-in-law and my nan on my dad's side. It was a lovely meal and the place had some great quirky touches to it.








Really want one of these!

Chocolate cake! Yum!

The view from the carpark


We missed our turning on the way home so ended up going through Kingston and and Chillerton - there's some lovely countryside. It was a shame that SBB had to nip off to pick up some keys because it would have been a great afternoon to go out for a walk.





Wednesday 4 February 2015

Time to say goodbye....

(Imagine that being sung by Andrea Bocelli)

Well, it was time to say goodbye to my beloved shower curtain. Yes, I said shower curtain. You see, our old shower curtain was specifically picked to match the red walls of our bathroom. (Love, love LOVE my bathroom so much! Ahem. Anyway...)

 
I loved it because it was bright and cheerful. Plus it really perked me up in the mornings. But years of use and washing meant that it was losing its waterproof coating and it had gone a a bit pink at the bottom. I tried to deny it but, alas, had to admit defeat and throw it away.

The one we bought to replace it was this one:
I thought I'd love it because I have a small obsession with rubber ducks but when we hung it up it just had too much white. We've had it for a couple of months now and I'm still not completely happy with it. I suppose at the end of the day it's JUST a shower curtain but I miss my old one.
Also, am I the only one that thinks there's something creepy about the light blue duck? It looks like it has teeth and that is scary on so many levels... Particularly when one is - ahem - vulnerable...

Plus it now doesn't match our bath mat.
If anyone hears of a place to buy brightly coloured stripey shower curtains let me know!

Monday 2 February 2015

New books

Happy Monday!

I had a little delivery at the weekend. Amazon was running a three books for £10 offer. Three books for a tenner? Yes please!

These are the ones I chose:

I'm so excited to get stuck in!

How about you guys? What are you reading/ which new books have you bought?