Quotes of the Week

Arthur is using me as a climbing frame…

Mummy: Ooof! Arthur, how many feet have you got?! Ow!

Arthur: THREE!! *leaps up and down*

Music Quiz

A friend filled this in on Facebook and I decided it could be amusing to have a go at.

Turned out that despite my chosen artist having an massive repertoire it was still tough finding a title to fit both the question and myself! It was a good way to kill five minutes – have a go and link up in the comments afterwards if you want and I’ll pop over and look. If nothing else we might find some new music to listen to on the way

Using only song titles from ONE ARTIST, cleverly answer these questions. Try not to repeat a song title. It’s harder than you think.

 

• Pick Your Artist:

Don Williams

 

• Describe yourself:

First Fool In Line

 

• If you could go anywhere, where would you go?:

Standing Knee Deep In A River

 

• Your favourite form of transportation:

Peace Train

 

• Your best friend is:

My Rifle, My Pony And Me

 

• What’s the weather like?:

Shadow Land

 

• If your life was a TV show, what would it be called?:

Rainy Nights and Memories

 

• What is life to you?:

So Far, So Good

 

• What is the best advice you have to give?:

Learn To Let It Go

 

• If you could change your name, what would it be?:

Amanda

 

• Your favourite food is:

Just Enough Love

 

• Thought for the Day:

We Should Only Have Time For Love

 

• How would you like to die?

What Does It Matter To Me?

 

• Your motto:

Lord, I Hope This Day Is Good

What’s In There, Then?

Beth and MummyWalker tagged me in this brilliant little thing to share the contents of my fridge with the world. Seeing this post just made me laugh, then panic slightly as my fridge is clearly in need of a clean, not to mention it’s almost empty…

I love the idea of this mostly because I’m really nosey curious and like having a peek in other people’s houses (or fridges in this case).

So here we go: My fridge!!

What’s in there?

Top shelf: 3 Muller Fruit Stars yoghurts, a tub of Utterly Butterly, a box of free-range eggs from a friend’s small-holding, a tupperware containing a large portion of my Dad’s fish pie and veg (for Sy’s lunchbreak), a bottle of Heinz BBQ sauce and 2 of Tori’s gel/water filled teething rings.

Second shelf: A tub of Stork margarine, a carton of orange juice, half a tub of coleslaw, tomatoes, a packet of ham and some button mushrooms.

Third shelf: ANOTHER tub of Utterly Butterly (it was BOGOF), 2 Snowballs (bottles of drink, not actual snow), half a tub of ready made chocolate fudge icing, a pack of green beans and a pack of mange tout.

Bottom shelf: Nando’s Sundried tomato marinade sauce, Nando’s sweet and sticky marinade sauce, Heinz tomato ketchup, a bottle of Pepsi and a bottle of Orangeade.

And in the door…:

Top shelf: 2 blocks of cheese, a tube of Primula cheese & ham spread, a tube of tomato puree and a squeezy bottle of lemon juice.

Second Shelf: A jar of gherkins, a small jar of orange marmalade, a jar of raspberry jam, a jar of black cherry jam and a jar of damson jam. (I like jam…)

Third shelf: Cheap crap co-op mayonnaise, a jar of Hellman’s mayonnaise, milk, a bottle of sweet chilli dipping sauce and a bottle of light balsamic salad dressing.

I’m not entirely sure what this says about the eating habits of me and my family other than we clearly like butter…

So, what’s in your fridge folks:

Inside The Wendy House

Liberty Falls Down

Over The Hill Mum

(Mostly) Yummy Mummy

TiddlyOmPomPom

Create Your Own Album

Spotted this fun little post over at Liberty Falls Down and decided to join in and have a go

Create Your Own Album

Instructions

1 – Go on Wikipedia and click Random Article. The first one you get is the name of your band.
2 – Go on quotationspage.com and hit random. The last few words of the first quote is the name of your album.
3 – Go on flickr.com and click “explore the last seven days.” The third picture is your album cover. (You can only ‘right-click’ save the Thumbnail image, not the full size one on flickr)
4 – Edit them all together to make your own album cover! (I used Photoshop but you could use PhotoBucket or any image editing programme you like).
5 – Tag everyone you want to do the same.

NO CHEATING – don’t go refreshing lots of times to get cool stuff!!

Here’s mine:

I’m just going to tag a couple of peoples but if you want to join in anyway then go ahead and leave a link in the comments box and I’ll hop over and have a peek

Hannah @ Metal Mummy

Ivy @ Ivy In The Corner

Paula @ QWERTY Mum

Jon @ specs, rugs and sausage rolls

 

Liberty’s Album (which is much cooler than mine) can be seen here < she has way more photoshop skill than me. And she got a cool picture.

Making Smiles On Faces Award

Yaay, I’ve had an award for making someone smile *feels special* Liberty over at Liberty Falls Down has awarded me the Making Smiles On Faces Award. Which has a nice shiny picture – look!

 

So now all I have to do is pass it on to 5 people who make me smile with their blogs! Lots of people’s blogs make me smile but here are some that have made me smile most recently and why:

 

• Tiddlyompompom – So many of her posts make me smile, or actually laugh out loud. And she actually managed to get me to organise myself enough to pack my maternity bag properly via her fab Personal Challenge post

 

• Metal Mummy – She just makes me giggle. All the time…

 

• waterbirthplease – I’ve only recently discovered this blog and it’s already a firm favourite!

 

• Northern Mum – I love this blog so much, it was one of my first discoveries when I started actively reading other blogs. And all my love and thoughts are with the family right now – I hope they get to the root of Baby Beautiful’s seizures soon and that everything turns out well xxx

 

• Mummy From The Heart – Michelle’s blog makes me smile regularly because she is just that sort of person. Also she runs the Reasons To Be Cheerful meme which reminds me to smile even when I’m having a bad day

 

So thank you for making me smile guys and enjoy your shiny award!!

Reasons To Be Cheerful

Another week has been and gone and it’s time to share my reasons to be cheerful again – now is definitely the best time to be doing this because I am not feeling wildly cheerful. I had my flu jab yesterday and judging by my headache, general achey-ness and hot forehead I’m one of those lucky ones that gets the ‘mild symptoms’ afterwards. Yay for me…

Enough of that. Here we go:

1.

On Monday I had my second highest ever number of blog views in a day (173) and ever since then I have consistently had at least 82 views. Which is noticeably higher than my previous average of about 28. This makes me happy because I am really starting to find my way in the blogosphere a bit now and making lots of new friends along the way.

 

2.

I won the opportunity to review two things on my blog in the coming weeks – a book and a wrap-around towel designed just for Mum-To-Be’s.

Very exciting

(Many thanks to Angry Robot Books and SportyBump Ltd. for these)

 

3.

I went shopping and bought the last of the bits for my maternity bag and I have almost finished packing it too. This means 2 things: 1) I am more than likely going to successfully complete my Personal Challenge for January and 2) It is getting to that time where BabyBump could arrive ‘any time soon’ – exciting!! (Just 5 weeks and 3 days to go…eeee!)

 

Theses are my reasons to be cheerful for the week – What are yours? Blog your reasons and link up over at Mummy From The Heart so we can all share the love together (one day I will figure out how to make the linky thing appear on my posts…)

Top 5 Famous Dinner Guests

So, I’m stealing this off Liberty who stole it off Ivy who apparently got it off Paula(…and I’ll stop there)…

I started to think about this and came up with about twenty people, so if anyone was unable to come I have back-ups. Though quite why anyone would turn down the opportunity to have dinner with little old me I have no idea

So here they are, my Top 5 Famous Dinner Guests:

David Attenborough

I know, I know, David Attenborough must be on so many people’s lists but he’s a no-brainer for me. Not only does he have one of those voices that you could listen to for hours regardless of what he was saying but I imagine he’s also a very interesting person. Particularly if you are a bit of a wildlife nut, like me.

 

Neil Gaiman (oh, and Cabal and Lola too)

This man’s books are brilliant. Fact. They open my mind, my eyes and my imagination. They make me laugh out loud, shudder in disgust, wince along with characters and even, on occasion, cry. The chance to talk to the mind behind them would be beyond awesome. Not to mention the fact that his blog and tweets prove that he is very definitely human and very definitely as awesome as his books.

Cabal and Lola are far too beautiful to be left out of the dinner party, even if they don’t really count in the 5. You have seen them, right?

Mike Rosenberg

Who? Mike Rosenberg is the lead singer of Passenger, one of my favourite bands. He is essential to the party list for entertainment purposes. What is dinner without music? And his music is fantastic.

 

Nigel Hinton

Nigel Hinton is responsible for one of my all-time favourite children’s book series ‘Beaver Towers‘ and I would absolutely love to meet him. Even if it was just to squeak at him about how much I adored Baby B…

 

Ben Miller

(I can hear you sniggering, Liberty.)

Ben Miller is on my list because I completely adore him. Okay? That’s it. I fell in love with him when he was in Johnny English, then utterly more so when he was in Doc. Martin and his best friend was an invisible squirrel of large proportions (this kind of thing instantly endears me to people…don’t ask) and now, the icing on the cake? He is in Primeval. Which is made of awesome. And has dinosaurs. And Ben Miller. And dinosaurs…

 

However, should this dinner party ever come into reality it would be a disaster because I would be a gibbering, strawberry-coloured wreck in a corner totally incapable of coherent speech or, probably, any kind of movement that didn’t involve falling on my face/dropping things. And if I were in charge of the cooking, well…Supernoodles anyone?

That’s my list – what’s yours?