Give a girl a stick.....The Gallery

The theme for this weeks Gallery over at Sticky Fingers is Happy.

This was my eldest yesterday after a bracing walk through the woods with old and new friends. If this isn't happy I don't know what is. 

I would like to thank....

I have been struggling to write lately. Then again, I have been struggling to read, which until recently I have never had a problem with.

Sometimes big things happen and they mess with you in the strangest of ways. 

What I am coming to understand is that the brain is a funny old thing, well mine is anyway. 

I think I am OK but these little things give me away. But here I am. I'm writing, I have been reading a bit more. I have even been cutting back on the red wine. 

So in the spirit of the Bafta's and the award season I would like to thank a few people.

So I would like to thank @Mermhart (Miranda Hart) because her book is the first book I have properly enjoyed in ages, proper sniggering in bed whilst the other half tries to sleep. I would definitely recommend it.

I would like to thank my friends at work, who make me giggle when everything is crappy. Particularly when we do an office chair flyby the training room to disrupt the training and do Miranda galloping....more sniggering.

And my other friends who go along with my crazy plans and tell me they are a 'great idea....?' even though they have the potential for complete disaster, and yet more sniggering.  


And I would like thank my family who remind me that life goes on and there is so much more going on that all my stuff and that life should be giggled and guffawed at no matter what. 

 

Silent Sunday #TeamHonk

How My Children See Me Meme: The Return

So in  2009 she made me do this and in 2011. And now AGAIN....really?

The 'she' is Tara at over at Sticky Fingers

That's right she is making my children draw their most hideous flattering drawings of me. Hmmm.

OK so here they are. From my eldest - who is now nearly 10, the masterpiece below.

I would like to mention that I don't have cats eyes but she has my wearing my favourite T-shirt which is nice. I also appear to have lost some weight. Win.

And from the six year old, who told me she was not in the mood to draw pictures before she drew this - and I think it shows.

By the way, I do have a nose, and I am not a fan of fake tan, and I haven't been this colour since I was eighteen.

As for arms and legs, who needs them? And again, I appear to have lost some weight, instead I am kinda tree trunk shaped. hmmm.

If you would like to participate in this meme then please do, go to the Sticky Fingers website for all the instructions.

I will drag a couple of people down with me into this, as I am curious what their small people will produce for them.

The lovely WitWitWoo and the equally gorgeous Mammasaurus

The Gallery - Fitness

Like any parent, I want my children to eat healthily and be fit. Living in a city has some restrictions for them, I can't just let them run around in the street so there are alternatives.

My youngest will run, jump and skip everywhere, my eldest is more geeky (sadly, like me) her preference is to potter about, watch films, and play on her computer.

Both my girls love swimming and have been having lessons for a couple of years. However, they would kill me if I posted pictures of them in swimming costumes.

My eldest has been saying she would like to take up a martial art so after some consideration and research, we have sent them both to a mixed martial class every Saturday morning. They both love it, and have just earned their first belt. The picture below is before that on the day they got their suits.

I would recommend this to any parent, to get their first belt they both had to know how to ring 999 in an emergency, amongst other things.

Martial arts seems to be all about respect for one another, and now they have been doing it a few months I am really proud of them sticking with it.

For more fab photo's of fitness, go to the Gallery, and click on the linky's