Neglect

Happy New Year!  I really, really should get back in the habit of blogging.  The thing is I really love blogging.  Ok so I am lazy lol! But again as you do < insert huge predictable sigh here> you try to improve on your habits one habit at a time.  Last year I never improved any habits at all.  In fact I probably made the ones I have worse..  Yep I ate rubbish, I stopped doing the things I love, why because the lazy one took over.  Oh how I hate her!

Anyhoo new year new promises and a new me?  I think maybe I should just strive to keep happy.  Yes!  Things that make me smile!

Here I am still in the land of blogging since 2001…  I love it..

Blogging makes me smile …

Me and ma homies…..

The Homeboys are all settled now.  I moved them in to their little habitat and they were wiggling around so much that one fell off.  Anyhoo we were told that if we left him he should emerge, but I tell you..  I am not feeling it..

If you have ever watched the film Alien and liked it.  These are pretty much the same without all the slime..  If you never liked Alien then don’t do butterflies lol..

My poor old guy at the bottom I hope he makes it….

The babies are now in cocoon or chrysalis form and should be emerging in a few days.  I have my flowers ready and all I have to do is add the nectar and boom.. Healthy butterflies..  I am secretly wanting them to hurry up..  I want to see them already lol.. Yes, yes patience is a virtue.

Does anyone else have a scatty dog?  Or is it just me?

Astri’s La Vie En Rose Afghan, started already, I know, I can hear you all screaming at me about all the other millions of WiP’s that I have all over the place, but I really LUrVe this..

I never did too well at Slimming club this week.  But hey, when one stuffs her face, one will get a +2lb huh!!  However, <insert very loud cheering and whooping here> Sonny my boy has done fantastically well and lost 6lbs this week.  WOW!! That’s 11lb in 2 weeks and he is determined to get his stone next week..  I hope he does it, there is nothing more inspiring than your own efforts paying off…

And now for something a little different..

Well the babies are starting to transform.  They have stuck themselves to the top of the cups and are furiously wiggling away.. Or is that cocooning themselves? Anyhooo they are doing something.  They are quite fascinating to watch.  I often catch myself looking at them.  If you really don’t like ewwy critters, then these are not for you LOL!

{Swinging happily from the top of the cup –
hey bro hurry up or you will miss a swinging spot..}

So back to work tomorrow, back to work, back to routine, back to normal…  Ask me if I am still jumping for joy in 6 weeks bwahahahaha!

Ahh I am spending my last day, just chilling and trolling the internet looking at all the fabby blogs.. Like Apple Blossom Dreams who has just released her fine new pattern called La Vie en Rose Afghan which you can purchase in her Etsy Shop.

..painted lady butterfly’s..

It’s creepy and its’ kooky, it’s just a little spooky….  Well know these little bambino’s are my painted lady butterfly’s.  Well not at the moment they are just caterpillars.  As everyone knows I love butterfly's and when we were in IOW we went to the butterfly house and there I bought a kit..  Yeah can you imaging my gleeful squeals as I ran to the counter to pay?  So in the kit you get a voucher to redeem at insect lore for the larva, you get a butterfly house, which I will show you as my babies grow and you get all the information to get your butterflies all good and healthy.  I received them last Wednesday and in a week they have doubled in size.  I am looking at them now and they are nearly as big as conga eels honestly! I hope they don't learn how too open the lids bwahahahaha!!!

This week I lost another 2.5lbs at Slimming World..  Sonny and I go and he lost 5lbs <insert a big puff up of the proud mum chest>.  Mum made a steak and onion pie from the fake away books and it was actually really nice..  I am not one for making things I don't like to save ‘syns’  I would rather just eat normal but less.

On the crochet front.  I found this wonderful, beautiful pattern.  The thing is I had to order it from etsy and it cam all the way from Canada.   It’s called the circle of love blanket and its in a little pamphlet booklet called baby snuggles.  It is discontinued, but I am sure there are a few of them floating around somewhere.

This pattern is sooooo easy.  I made all 36 centres and I only started it last night.  I haven't been on it constantly either. 

Anyhooo I am off for now and I hope that I can keep up with my blogging and I hope you enjoy my rambles xxx

Edinburgh

Hello and happy Saturday.  Yesterday was so weird, I just kept thinking it was Thursday??  Its like those moments you get when you walk into a room and think hmmm what am I here for?  Anyhooo here are a few pics when Sonny and I went to Edinburgh and York.  We absolutely loved it and yes we or I will definitely be back next year.

I decided to make the trip and not drive, looking back yes it was a lovely but super exhausting weekend.  We went with a tour company called Newmarket Holidays which provided suitable travel for the weekend as well as all the arrangements.  On the way up to Edinburgh we stopped of in Harrogate and visited a little tea shop (a rare thing down here in Essex) well I must say it was absolutely delish.  It’s called Betty’s and after about a 30 minute wait we finally made it through the door. 

All I can say is WOW!! Sonny and I had Welsh Rarebit or posh cheese on toast for us commoners.  We are both watching our weight so we skipped the yummies below.

We visited The Royal Pump Museum which we couldn’t take pictures.  We had a good old sniff of the sulphurous wells and it absolutely stank.  If you visit do not take a good whiff, really don’t do it!

Opps!! Bwahahahaha! Sonny a light weight sleeping on the coach..

EDINBURGH at last…  The most stunning city I have seen so far.  There is so much to do and see one day was just not enough, not by far.

Holyroodhouse Palace.. The official palace of the queen..  HMMMMM! old and cold as they are, again no pictures allowed of the inside.  Sonny wondered if they had a golden throne ( a loo that was made of gold).  I said yeah but not for us mere peasants LMAO!!

While we were at Edinburgh the Fringe Festival was going on, I was a little upset that we never had time to browse as much as I would have liked, but it was fun to see the many, many crazy people out on the streets.

The finale The Edinburgh Tattoo, it was amazing, I mean awesome.  I am so blessed to have seen it and even though the heavens opened and we were frozen half to death, I am so PROUD to be Brit.  I am proud of our country and our heritage and I am proud to have such a great taskforce to protect us.   If one thing you do in your life, this is one that should be included on your bucket list.  It’s quite overwhelming and emotional..

Our last stop was at York and I will be visiting there for a good few days.  It was a wonderful and busy city.  I really am looking forward to going back to explore.  This is Mister its huge you can see it all over York.

All in all a wonderful weekend