Sunday, 22 January 2012
Listography - Top 5 Biscuits
Wow, good Listography by Kate Takes 5 this week, has me salivating at the mere thought.
Top 5 Biscuits.
My big weakness is biscuits. You can keep your crisps, cake, etc, I couldn't live without my biscuits.
My top 5 are (in no particular order, as that is putting way too much thought into this...):
1. Jaffa cakes
Love dark chocolate, love orange. Easily shoved in the mouth in one go. And used to be only 1 WeightWatchers point! (pre-Pro Points)
Bubbablue beat me to the 'full moon, half moon' thing. Still cracks me up! There's even a Facebook page for it! (see image credit below)
[image credit: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Full-moon-Half-moon-Total-eclipse-Jaffa-Cakes/232186933135]
2. Ginger nuts
In my mind - maybe a bit controversial here - the best tea-dunking biscuit. 'Nuff said.
[image credit: telegraph.co.uk)
3. Bourbons
It's chocolate, so that's a good start. Of course, you gotta take them apart and lick the chocolate creamy bit off first. And then they become dunkable too! Bonus!
4. Chocolate chip cookies
Even better when they're double choc chip, but delectable either way. Far too easy to polish off a whole packet of these.
[image credit: da.wikipedia.org]
5. Thought I needed to include a proper chocolate biscuit in a wrapper type biscuit, so I'm going for a Breakaway. Loved these as a child, my ex used to hate them so never bothered buying them just for me. Now I can have them whenever I want, yippee! (No, not yippee, waistline does not agree...).
I'm in serious need of a cuppa and something dunkable now. I have two out the five above in the house right now. Let me at 'em!
Head on over the Kate Takes 5 to see more scrumptious favourites.
Friday, 20 January 2012
Wakin' up in style
I did something the other morning in bed that I hadn't done in a while.
(No, get your mind out the gutter... )
I did a bed-dance.
What is a bed-dance, you ask? It's simple. A dance. Whilst in bed.
And the reason? Simple too. A fantastically upbeat and catchy song on the radio.
Normally, when the alarm clock radio springs to life at 7.04am, I'm already dodging B's sharp little elbow or knee as he clambers back and forth over me, as he brings armfuls of trains or cars, or a good proportion of his cuddly toys (and there's LOTS) through to my room to "help wake me up"... No time for bed-dancing. But this tune came on, one i'd not heard before, and I found myself jiggling my shoulders and flapping my feet (those are official Bed-Dance moves, dontcha know...).
B wasn't so keen on my song choice sadly.
That's not to say he's not into his current pop music. He has recently gone through a Bruno Mars phase (why Bruno was putting 'his hand down his pants' in The Lazy Song was a toughy to explain...). He has also been obsessed with Adele for a while too. Currently, his favourites are 'Moves Like Jagger' and 'Run for your Life' (Matt Cardle version). I'm sure he'll be on X-Factor in 10 years... (there's a thought, that X-Factor will still be going in 10 years, god help us all!)
Back to the song. The singer sounded like Michael Jackson a bit, I thought maybe it was a song he'd recorded but never released or something. So I continued my shoulder-jigging, leg-bending bed-dance until the radio DJ said who it was.
Never heard of Lloyd before, am I showing my age??
You have to admit, it's VERY catchy!!
(No, get your mind out the gutter... )
I did a bed-dance.
What is a bed-dance, you ask? It's simple. A dance. Whilst in bed.
And the reason? Simple too. A fantastically upbeat and catchy song on the radio.
Normally, when the alarm clock radio springs to life at 7.04am, I'm already dodging B's sharp little elbow or knee as he clambers back and forth over me, as he brings armfuls of trains or cars, or a good proportion of his cuddly toys (and there's LOTS) through to my room to "help wake me up"... No time for bed-dancing. But this tune came on, one i'd not heard before, and I found myself jiggling my shoulders and flapping my feet (those are official Bed-Dance moves, dontcha know...).
B wasn't so keen on my song choice sadly.
That's not to say he's not into his current pop music. He has recently gone through a Bruno Mars phase (why Bruno was putting 'his hand down his pants' in The Lazy Song was a toughy to explain...). He has also been obsessed with Adele for a while too. Currently, his favourites are 'Moves Like Jagger' and 'Run for your Life' (Matt Cardle version). I'm sure he'll be on X-Factor in 10 years... (there's a thought, that X-Factor will still be going in 10 years, god help us all!)
Back to the song. The singer sounded like Michael Jackson a bit, I thought maybe it was a song he'd recorded but never released or something. So I continued my shoulder-jigging, leg-bending bed-dance until the radio DJ said who it was.
Never heard of Lloyd before, am I showing my age??
You have to admit, it's VERY catchy!!
Wednesday, 18 January 2012
The Gallery - Eyes
The 'eyes' have it, in Sticky Fingers' The Gallery this week.
Found these photos from Hallowe'en time last year, B had great fun with his googly eyes!
Found these photos from Hallowe'en time last year, B had great fun with his googly eyes!
Monday, 16 January 2012
Messy Monday
It's Monday 16th January today. All Day. And apparently officially 'the most depressing day of the year', now that Christmas is well and truly over, still two weeks from next pay check (for those of you who actually get a paycheck worth mentioning...), and it's cold. And it's Monday, pure and simple!
Fortunately, it was a beautiful, crisp, bright day round these parts, which ALWAYS helps! I'll take freezing cold but sunny over milder but dull any day.
It was also my first day back volunteering for a pre-school Messy Play group, run by a local Community Health project. I've been volunteering with the group for about 7 months or so, for local parents to come along for an hour with their wee ones and have some free, messy fun without the hassle of cleaning up at the end! It's a great project, aimed at helping parents become more confident at doing messy, creative play with their kids.
It's hard work though, the kids like to make a LOTTA mess! Today, for example, it took 2 of us a whole hour to clean up! But the best bit is being able to have fun with the children: watching them pouring half a tub of paint on their mum's shoes, throw 'fireworks' with coloured shredded paper, or failing to make play doh and making gooey gloopy gluck instead!
What I took out of today, after a month off, was that I really enjoy working with children and want to continue to do so, but ideally, get paid for it! It's something I've been pondering over the past year since I was made redundant. And a year on, I feel I definitely want to follow this path.
I know I don't want to become a nursery or primary teacher, for various reasons, not least being the uncertainty of finding a teaching post.
So my big problem is finding a role which will fit. Not an easy task it seems...
Fortunately, it was a beautiful, crisp, bright day round these parts, which ALWAYS helps! I'll take freezing cold but sunny over milder but dull any day.
It was also my first day back volunteering for a pre-school Messy Play group, run by a local Community Health project. I've been volunteering with the group for about 7 months or so, for local parents to come along for an hour with their wee ones and have some free, messy fun without the hassle of cleaning up at the end! It's a great project, aimed at helping parents become more confident at doing messy, creative play with their kids.
It's hard work though, the kids like to make a LOTTA mess! Today, for example, it took 2 of us a whole hour to clean up! But the best bit is being able to have fun with the children: watching them pouring half a tub of paint on their mum's shoes, throw 'fireworks' with coloured shredded paper, or failing to make play doh and making gooey gloopy gluck instead!
What I took out of today, after a month off, was that I really enjoy working with children and want to continue to do so, but ideally, get paid for it! It's something I've been pondering over the past year since I was made redundant. And a year on, I feel I definitely want to follow this path.
I know I don't want to become a nursery or primary teacher, for various reasons, not least being the uncertainty of finding a teaching post.
So my big problem is finding a role which will fit. Not an easy task it seems...
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