Basicgrey May sketch

Here is my layout using the Basicgrey sketch for May

Mother's Day

Mothers's day is approaching fast, and I've actually managed to make something for my mother in law. I don't normally make books, I prefer to do layouts, but here is my first attempt.

Gone to Pot LO

Well it is half term, and I have managed to do most of the jobs on my To Do list (apart from the ones that I can't do cos it's raining, so I am treating myself to half an hour on the computer. Thought I would upload a recent LO, and a lovely piccie of my son, who wanted to scrapbook some aliens, so we made him into one. Unfortunately the (insert swear word here) printer wouldn't work properly, so I can't print it out for him.

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I know it's been ages since I last posted, and Chrissie keeps telling me to Update! Update! Update!. So I have been reading a few blogs to get me in the mood, and I thought I would do the list from Chrissies blog. Here's my version the ones I've done are in blue, my comments are in red
1. Bought everyone in the bar a drink. Yes but not with my own money!
2. Swam with wild dolphins
3. Climbed a mountain
4. Taken a Ferrari for a test drive
5. Been inside the Great Pyramid
6. Held a tarantula
7. Taken a candlelit bath with someone
8. Said “I love you’ and meant it
9. Hugged a tree
10. Bungee jumped
11. Visited Paris
12. Watched a lightning storm at sea
13. Stayed up all night long and saw the sun rise
14. Seen the Northern Lights
15. Gone to a huge sports game (and survived the crush afterwards)
16. Walked the stairs to the top of the leaning Tower of Pisa
17. Grown and eaten your own vegetables does Cress count?
18. Touched an iceberg I've been inside a glacier
19. Slept under the stars
20. Changed a baby’s diaper
21. Taken a trip in a hot air balloon
22. Watched a meteor shower
23. Gotten drunk on champagne
24. Given more than you can afford to charity
25. Looked up at the night sky through a telescope
26. Had an uncontrollable giggling fit at the worst possible moment
27. Had a food fight
28. Bet on a winning horse
29. Asked out a stranger
30. Had a snowball fight
31. Screamed as loudly as you possibly can
32. Held a lamb
33. Seen a total eclipse
34. Ridden a roller coaster
35. Hit a home run
36. Danced like a fool and not cared who was looking
37. Adopted an accent for an entire day I once talked like Elmo for a whole day just to amuse my kids
38. Actually felt happy about your life, even for just a moment
39. Had two hard drives for your computer
40. Visited all 50 states
41. Taken care of someone who was drunk
42. Had amazing friends
43. Danced with a stranger in a foreign country
44. Watched wild whales
45. Stolen a sign
46. Backpacked in Europe I've done my Gold Duke of Ed. Award so I guess that counts
47. Taken a road-trip
48. Gone rock climbing
49. Midnight walk on the beach
50. Gone sky diving
51. Visited Ireland
52. Been heartbroken longer than you were actually in love
53. In a restaurant, sat at a stranger’s table and had a meal with them
54. Visited Japan
55. Milked a cow
56. Alphabetized your CDs
57. Pretended to be a superhero
58. Sung karaoke
59. Lounged around in bed all day
60. Posed nude in front of strangers
61. Gone scuba diving
62. Kissed in the rain
63. Played in the mud
64. Played in the rain
65. Gone to a drive-in theater
66. Visited the Great Wall of China
67. Started a business
68. Fallen in love and not had your heart broken
69. Toured ancient sites
70. Taken a martial arts class
71. Played D&D for more than 6 hours straight
72. Gotten married
73. Been in a movie
74. Crashed a party
75. Gotten divorced
76. Gone without food for 5 days
77. Made cookies from scratch
78. Won first prize in a costume contest
79. Ridden a gondola in Venice
80. Gotten a tattoo
81. Rafted the Snake River
82. Been on television news programs as an “expert”
83. Got flowers for no reason
84. Performed on stage
85. Been to Las Vegas
86. Recorded music
87. Eaten shark
88. Had a one-night stand
89. Gone to Thailand
90. Bought a house
91. Been in a combat zone
92. Buried one/both of your parents
93. Been on a cruise ship
94. Spoken more than one language fluently
95. Performed in Rocky Horror
96. Raised children (or…raising children)
97. Followed your favorite band/singer on tour
98. Taken an exotic bicycle tour in a foreign country
100. Picked up and moved to another city to start over
101. Walked the Golden Gate Bridge
102. Sang loudly in the car, and didn’t stop when you knew someone was looking
103. Had plastic surgery
104. Survived an accident that you shouldn’t have survived
105. Wrote articles for a large publication
106. Lost over 100 pounds
107. Held someone while they were having a flashback
108. Piloted an airplane I've flown a glider (only for about 3 seconds)
109. Petted a stingray
110. Broken someone’s heart
111. Helped an animal give birth
112. Won money on a T.V. game show
113. Broken a bone
114. Gone on an African photo safari
115. Had a body part of yours below the neck pierced
116. Fired a rifle, shotgun, or pistol
117. Eaten mushrooms that were gathered in the wild
118. Ridden a horse
119. Had major surgery
120. Had a snake as a pet
121. Hiked to the bottom of the Grand Canyon
122. Slept for more than 30 hours over the course of 48 hours
123. Visited more foreign countries than U.S. states
124. Visited all 7 continents 4 down 3 to go!
125. Taken a canoe trip that lasted more than 2 days
126. Eaten kangaroo meat
127. Eaten sushi
128. Had your picture in the newspaper
129. Changed someone’s mind about something you care deeply about
130. Gone back to school
131. Parasailed
132. Petted a cockroach
133. Eaten fried green tomatoes ... yum!
134. Read The Iliad - and the Odyssey
135. Selected one “important” author who you missed in school, and read
136. Killed and prepared an animal for eating I gutted a fish on a survival course
137. Skipped all your school reunions
138. Communicated with someone without sharing a common spoken language
139. Been elected to public office
140. Written your own computer language
141. Thought to yourself that you’re living your dream
142. Had to put someone you love into hospice care
143. Built your own PC from parts
144. Sold your own artwork to someone who didn’t know you
145. Had a booth at a street fair
146. Dyed your hair
147. Been a DJ
148. Shaved your head
149. Caused a car accident
150. Saved someone’s life

Lovely weather

When is the worst possible week to have your roof reslated? Oh, I know, I know, is it this week with it's gale force winds, and horizontal rain? I haven't slept since last Friday night, because I'm lying awake listening for tell tale signs of leaks, holding my breath everyime there is a big gust, incase it decides to relocate the top of my house elsewhere, or worrying that burglars are shimmying up the scaffolding to steal my Christmas presents!

I must take a big breath and possibly a Nytol, anyway on a lighter note, Katie came up with a cracker this week ( no not a Christmas Cracker, a funny haha type of cracker) "Mum", she said "I know what a psychic is". "Oh yes" I replied. " It has two meanings" she said, "Number 1, it means you have dreams about what is happening in the future, and number 2, if Daddy was a SuperHero, I'd be his psychic!". This had me in tears, aah, she's only 5 and at that age it must be difficult to tell the difference between a psychic and a sidekick!

Gone with the wind?

I was driving home from swimming today, and listening to Steve Wright on Radio 2. His factoids section came on, and one of the factoids was,"the average person breaks wind 14 1/2 times a day. Tom (age 7) was listening to this and said "I've only done 2 today, so I have 12 1/2 left" and Katie (5) said " I' ve only done 1 , but it was a big one!"

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