Tonight I managed to install twitterific on my laptop – no stopping my tweets now! We’ve had a really busy few days with my sister and three nieces staying with us. We have been to London Zoo, Camden Market, Covent Garden, the Natural History Museum and I feel like I have spent this months paycheck feeding them. Thank god I am only an auntie and I get to wave goodbye to them and get my life back. My poor sister has to live with them!
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We are enjoying spending some sunny days by the sea in Devon. Today I purchased a lovely Lloyd Loom chair which is in desperate need of some tlc. It just about fits in the boot (along with all my other lovely purchases) and I am looking forward to getting it home and covering it with some Cath Kidston fabric. It will look great in our house 🙂
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Right now I am all cleaned out. We have spent the day finishing off loads of half finished projects, so we have filled holes, painted walls, chopped up trees, cleared the garden and cleaned the house from top to bottom. I take great pleasure in cleaning bits of the house that were clearly never touched by the previous occupants. I have gone through many cleaning wipes and I look forward to enjoying sitting down and admiring my nice clean house.
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Today we are feeling very proud of ourselves. We have ordered our first compost bin to recycle all our kitchen waste from here. Apparently it takes 6-12 months to turn into something good enough to actually use…. I’ll have to make sure I don’t get bored trudging to the bottom of the garden with my vegetable peelings and egg shells! Robin finally put the washing line up so at last we can hang the washing out. This is a good thing and was one of the reasons we wanted a house with a garden.
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We found a lovely hedgehog underneath our rotten old shed today. He was curled up into a ball around some old plastic bags. We scooped him up and deposited him in the park at Ally Pally this evening. Robin spent the day pulling down the old shed and rotten tree with the help of some friends. Now we are left with a(nother) big pile of garden rubbish to burn – then we can finally start planning the new garden 🙂 A garden was one of the requirements of our move and we’re really looking forward to having proper outside space.
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Newbie swap: Pick 3 items, originally uploaded by Jennifer Young. I received my first swap today – all the way from Tasmania! The package was great, lots of stickers, a cute bookmark and notepad. I’ve sent three swaps off to my partners around the world. I hope they like them.
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Hooray, almost the end of my first day being 30. I had lots of presents including a nice new Orla Kiely handbag and necklace. I had lunch with my workmates and saw Spamalot this evening. Exhausting but lovely.
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literally and figuratively as today is the last day of my second decade. I was fortunate to take a trip on the Piccadilly Line to Cockfosters for the first time. I was on a course at the Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture which has a fab museum display and shop!
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Spent a lovely weekend staying local for a change. We spent Saturday visiting Crouch End and watching Shaun of the Dead – the two go really well together! And today we visited our local farmers market and garden centre in the grounds of Ally Pally. We have stocked up on tools for tackling the garden but are hoping our poor rotten tree will come down of its own accord in the windy weather we’re having at the moment. Otherwise my poor boyfriend will have to learn how to pull it down before it falls and destroys our brand new fence.…