our holiday in bulletpoints!

• we went a day late due to the boyf having food poisoning
• we had a cabin at 15 Lake Beck and our back door opened into the forest
• it was at Winfell forest nr. Penrith
• Starbucks rocks
• we had a great photoshoot and the photos will be available soon!
• i packed WAY too many clothes. we needed half! (tho the weather was unpredictable so thats my excuse and im sticking to it!)
• the boyf is better at archery than me! i got a bullseye on my first shot and got progressively worse!
• i spent over £100 on clothes in Spirit in the centre
• the boyf bought me a union jack doggy doorstop (i already have a house full of them!)
• we took too much food
• my spa session was amaze-balls! i had a mud-wrap flotation thingy, which meant she scrubbed me down, covered me in mud, wrapped me in foil, dropped me into a floatation tank and gave me a head massage! 
• i got told off in the spa. apparently to go into the actual communal spa area you have to book the day. this is not what it tells you online!
• i bumped into one of the women that owns the hairdressers i frequent! she was there with her family and sister and her family! freaky!
• we went on a 'hawk walk' with Bob the harris hawk, theyre not native to this country and he was a 'teen' (very unruly, quite ignorant) that was a real highlight of the holiday
• the boyf, ive learned, does not like any activities, ever, unless you force him to do them and he ends up having fun. 
• i had a trike. ive not been on a bike since before i was a teen and came off in an accident. and even then it had taken dad YEARS to teach me to ridet. he had a blast this time round! the only drawback was that that trike weighed a tonne and when i had to go up hills... fail....!
• the boyf is a fish. he should have flippers and gills.
• he taught me to swim on my back!
• i went down my first ever waterslide! and then went on it again straight away!
• i also went on a really big flume-slide, which, tho i banged my elbow pretty badly, ROCKED! youre gonna have a problem keeping me off them!
• the rapids were glorious, had so much fun on them!
• the boyf wants to keep up with the swimming now we're back!
• Hucks diner sucked. tho they were very accomodating with my gluten and dairy intolerances
• after we left CP we went to Penrith for a few hours, then to a castle just outside
• on the drive home we pulled off at Kendal cos the weather was monsoon style torrential and the car kept floating due to it being a sudden downpour.
• in Kendal we popped in to see Kristiana at her new job! she was homesick that day, but it was really good to see her!
• i bought many many things. besides the clothes, i got 2 cushions for the lounge, some presents, some hanging things, some GF and DF choc coated biscuits that ive already been thru two packs of...
• i beat the boyf at scrabble by over 100 points
• we never watched the box sets i took
• there was a channel on the tv just set up for a badger-cam, watching a sett, on the night before we left, we finally saw a badger!
• Winfell forest is a conservation area for the red squirrel, which the grey squirrels kill with diseases and such. so its a really important place, we saw many! i was so pleased! we also saw pheasants, other game birds, and lots and lots and lots of birds, a few bunnies and random bugs :)

snapshots of august

do you like my lovely vile floral curtains that came with the house? this is my completely gorgeous lambs leather skirt and beaded top from kookai. i LOVE them!

dad has been picking these sweetpeas for mum every day when theyve been in bloom!

two very different sky shots and the same view :)

izzy and matt helping with the garden and some of the things we found...

this little biddy baby caterpillar had 'ugly bug ball' in my head from Summer Magic!

centerparcs

er, wtf do i take

the list in my head so far is as follows

food
washing up stuff
bath and kitchen towels
cooking stuff (pans/ trays/sharp knives)
toilet paper
cleaning products
kitchen paper


swimming stuff (goggles, shorts, costumes, underwater cameras)
walking boots, trainers, sandals


stuff for the photography sesh (black shirts and cords for the boyf, black dress for me)

hair straighteners, hair dryer, cameras,

bathroom products inc. make up

everyday clothes for all weathers

books for both of us (probs a car full but should be 3 each, the boyf will probs smuggle more, he claims his coursework for his law course, i say its a holiday, fuck off)

box sets!! (private practice season 1, greys anatomy season 5, house seasons 1 onwards)

board games and uno




what else?!

and no isobel, im not smuggling you in

i am so crap at remembering to blog, i am sorry! nothing much to report. infact im not sure theres anything to report...


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i got a new swimsuit. we're of to centreparcs in september and i plan on going on the waterslides and such. i have never ever been on one before. i am shitting bricks!
also there i shall be doing archery!!! and G will teach me to ride a bike all over again (the last time i was on one was 17 or more years ago, and saying it ended in tears is an understatement. we have a photoshoot booked (corny i know but i want to see what they can do) i have a spa session booked also (to give G some time to himself to read or whathaveyou. so yeh. i have a spotty coral swimsuit :)


i framed loads of pictures and cards and such and hung them on walls and placed them on mantles and such, and the house now looks more home-like, which makes me more relaxed and for some reason, it doesnt look as cluttered now theres stuff everywhere, the clutter blends in... haha :D


i also cant get both my adult bridesmaids in the same place at the same time. and i also might have found THE wedding shoes. theyre purple and G and felicia dont like them and im wondering if theyre too low, but cos i got them at schuh they have a 365 day returns policy and i get married in 11 months so im all good or taking them back if i find others more suited, even if i leave it til after im married!

i went shopping the other day, i bought loooooads of stuff, but, in my defence, some were clothes for centreparcs, some were xmas presents (i am ORGANIZED!) and some were a leaving present for Kristiana Marie, who i shall miss like an arm. some were also little things for me... in my defence, one was a useful diary (cos i dont like my hugely expensive filofax) and some were notepads for work.

that is all. i suck. kthnxbye!




p.s. i have almost fully sorted my study!
p.p.s the living room is PERFECT
p.p.p.s i appear to be getting fatter
p.p.p.p.s glyn has my car cos his has broken (AGAIN!) and it is PISSING it down outside, it is horrific.

um...

im not gonna put this in paragraphs cos i cant be bothered

-i now have the same color hair as this



which what im aspiring to have by the wedding, length, curls and color.

-we've managed to get thru all my greys anatomy box sets, we're 2 discs into the last one now. we've past whats on terrestrial tv. woop. i have no idea whats left after this. a full season? 2? it think 2.

-our bed has developed a severe squeek. so much so that we had to stop cos i was giggling my ass off at it, which made Glyn start.

-the shelf in the kitchen, which had loads of plates on, about 10 bottles of different types of oil, jugs, tupperware... collapsed. the kitchen was built on the cheap, (the insides dont match cupboard to cupboard, in either kitchen) but anyway they used cheap plastic things that hold up the shelves. they bent. they dropped. we were in the dining room and heard a crash. it took a while to work out what it was as nothing visible happened as the cupboard door was shut, nothing was broken tho. thankfully. annoyed tho.

-2 of my 3 orchids are dying. i dont know what im doing wrong. i might try special orchid food, but some of the flowers are dropping off :(

-im sick of doing washing. im sick of cooking. im sick of cleaning. im sick of looking at piles of detritus, unfinished rooms, and im sick of needing another set of drawers and 2 bookcases from ikea that we A) cant afford and B) cant fit in my car even if we put it on my credit card

-my back hurts, my neck hurts. i hurt. i have so many knots in my back, i cant wait to see my physio on thursday.

-we started watching The Informant. the boyf turned it off, it was boring, we didnt even get halfway thru

-i bought a Swarovski crystal oyster with a pearl set in it for my mum and dad for their 30th anniversary. im amazed cos mum actually loved it. dad had me get her flowers from him. so i did from my new fave florists. she liked them, yet still had a little complain. it wouldnt be her if she didnt. theyre beautiful tho. whether she whines or not.

-more and more ideas are formulating inside my head. for the wedding. not just general ideas.

-crazy weather today, it was very warm, lovely and sunny, and then we got an amazing rainstorm, so much so i set off from my house in the sun, and nearly had to pull over on the way to frannys cos i couldnt see out my windscreen

-speaking of windscreens. mine has a chip in it, the boyf and i were off to Trafford Centre (due to me seeing smoke plumes near the motorway and me wanting to find out why) and anyway, something hit my windscreen, hard, it shook the car, if whatever it was would have gone thru id now be a widow.

-smoke plumes were from horrific moorland fires in nearby halifax

-the boyf is taking me to NYC for my 26th, but it will be his 40th 2 months later, i might incorporate that into it, if i can

-im getting fat

and now im off to sleep, goodnight x

erm...?

not much to say really, but Felicia has requested i blog... :P

er, Friday to Tuesday i was pretty much just in bed (or the bathroom) with this stomach bug (so much like salmonella!) the boyf wouldnt let me come downstairs til Monday afternoon! (apart from when Glyn took me to my parents for sunday tea- wasnt a good idea, i seemed to get motion sickness in the car)
Tuesday we had a little trip to Tesco's where i kept loosing balance and was sooooo tired! Wednesday we went to dinner 'cos i had no energy to cook, three hours after we got back i spent most of my night in the bathroom... ugh! Thursday i drove to my parents and they were off to the garden centre at Shelley, so i went too (and was bought lots of things) then Friday morning, tho id had nasty tummy pains, i got dressed and walked to work! my knee is killing me also, and halfway my legs turned to jelly and i wished id driven but i got there, sat down for half an hour then started my shift- which seemed really really really f'ing long...

last night i got an early night as yet again my laptop packed up and died so i had a bath, read a bit and was in bed at half 9, i woke up at 5.30, went back to sleep and got up at half 8! Royal Mail say they tried to deliever us a parcel but we heard no knocking, banging or the doorbell, so we think they lied. now we have to go fetch the parcel from town. on Monday. fuckers. i needed them today.

well anyway, this morning we called in at the florist and i picked up from baby daffs/narcissus up for mum for mothers day seeing as i wont see her- then we went ot our wedding venue and paid our £500 deposit (!!!) we walked round the grounds of the hotel and i took a few pics. then we called in at my parents house, we played with the dogs, watched her make an egg custard and then went to my farm to get some meat from the butchers, so 2 sirloin steaks, a half dozen cumberland sausages, some dripping, a scotch egg, a cornish pasty, a steak and guinness pasty, a pork pie and a steak pie we went and called on my grandad. now were in the lounge watching live rugby on tv... im about to go and do some washing then i might go tidy the front bedroom. or make our tea... we were meant to go to a shopping mall today but my knee hurting and the boyfs ankle hurting, we cant drive much

so thats this week. erm... work tomorrow... x

p.s. its been sunny today, sunny and cold

pps. ive read so so so many books since i started my holiday 2 weeks ago, especially when ive been ill this past week.

Piece Hall

i took this picture on Saturday at Piece Hall in Halifax, the next town over to the north of Hudderfield, the weather, tho dreary and damp, was amazing to see x