Busy in the rain

I woke up this morning to 49 invoice requests in my inbox - not exactly an exciting start to the day (and it's taken me all day to finish them!) 

When I started at 9am it was dry, but as the day has worn on it started to rain, and then pour! - I sit in my conservatory for work, looking out onto the garden, so it's not all bad!   As i have sat here today - not totally focussed on my work it must be said, I have been watching the changes in the garden that the rain brings.  The grass has got noticeably greener as the day has gone on, the chicks are sitting on their perches, fed up with wet feet I expect. and I have watched  a blackbird, methodically tilting his head, listening, then diving in for his reward.... a fat juicy worm! He's worked hard in this downpour and deserves his good dinner.

This working from home lark isn't all bad! ;)

Spring

Apparently it's now sunbathing weather?!

Spot

2 Minutes out in the rain and I can't do a thing with my hair

All grown up now!

It's a noisy morning this morning ! LOL........ my babies are all growed up!

and my boy saying good morning to you

Race for Life - I need your help!

OK everyone it's another year for the race for life. Now as most of you know. as yet I have not managed to run the whole 5k non-stop (although my jogging pace at the moment might as well be walking anyway!) But this year I'm going to ask for your help to get me through.

Now I don't want to keep asking for sponsorship (although feel free if you have the urge - link in the sidebar there!! ) but I wondered if you would do something else for me? - I will pay £2 for everyone who sends me an MP3 encouragement message of 20 seconds or longer. What I was thinking was that I would make a playlist of all the messages, and some of my fave running tunes for my ipod, and hopefully if I hear those messages from around half way round (when I normally get bored/tired) it'll keep me going. You have plenty of time, my race isn't until June 20th and you can email them to me up until the Friday before for inclusion in my playlist and the £2 donation from me. Email to auntienoo{AT}googlemail{DOT}com Replacing the {AT} and {DOT} as appropriate.

There seems to be plenty of software around to record mp3 voice messages - just google "record mp3 voice" although I haven't tried any yet as I've only just had this brainwave!! If I find out from anyone that any are great or terrible I'll let you all know!! ;)

testing testing

Just trying out the new blogger gadget in iGoogle. They have certainly come up with some good new features since Google took over.

Is it Spring?

I'm not sure yet, the sun is out, the birds are frisky and I'm inundated with seed catalogues through the post...... something must be going on?

It Worked!!!!!!

 
How pleased am I?!

Brave or Stupid?

This is Under the Hoodie  from Stitch 'n Bitch Handbook

It's been finished twice now!! and once again it is going in for surgery! The first time I finished it I thought it was too short, so I cut it above the rib, and knit downwards, 1 inch on the front and 2 inches (1 inch short-rowed to give a shirt tail) on the back. - Lovely I thought!!  NO! when I put it on to wear at the weekend and actually looked at myself properly in the mirror (not something I do often) I decided that the stripe across the middle was too narrow....... So, in we go for open heart surgery!!!!

I've undone a row a the bottom of the stripe - I am hoping that I can knit downwards without it noticing (The jumper was originally knit bottom up) so that I can graft in the darker colour as it will be less likely to notice!

Wish me luck!

Who Knew?

Just boiled a bacon joint in 12 minutes in the pressure cooker! - Chicken & HAM pie tonight then! ;)

(I am also quite excited to find out that while i've not been blogging there have been changes afoot at blogger hq and we can now have pages and all sorts......... *wanders off wondering what different pages she can have - just for fun*)