STORM IN A TEACUP

Page 2 of the Oman Book

not that keen on this layout but wanted it simple and sand storm like

CARLESS & STRANDED

While I am sat here carless and stranded for the rest of the day while she is being MOT'd what better to do than procrastinate! And what better way than blogging is there to procrastinate?

I don't seem to be able to blog with out putting a photo in. I'm not sure why it just feels wrong with out one.

The first page of my Oman 2009 book.

click on the picture to see it larger

I'm not very good at remembering where I get elements from but I do know that the frames are Weeds & Wildflowers.

DIGGING IN THE DIRT

Plot No 17 has been ours for a whole week now and this little spade has been used a whole lot

We've dug some soil here

and here

we have sat eating chocolate in the beautiful sunshine


we even still have a few leeks left waiting to be pulled but for the time being we are digging around them and leaving them in peace.

WHO'S GARDEN WAS THIS

On Monday we got the keys to this place - Plot No 17

As you can see it is VERY overgrown and is going to take a lot of hard work to get in order.


We started digging and look what we found on the 2nd day!

It made some lovely Leek and Potato Soup.

COLD

HSMSHS has now moved to a new Facebook group which means I am more likely to join in as I spend a fair amount of time there!

Taken at Nantcol Waterfalls - his face says it all!

Today Pete goes to the hospital for a heart scan to see if there is any reason that he ended up in A&E with a dodgy ticker a couple of weeks back. Fingers crossed that they don't find anything.

15 YEARS AGO TODAY

AT ONE WITH NATURE

......sort of. The weather was so nice today that we decided that a visit to the beach was called for. Due to the fact that it is only 10 minutes drive away from the campsite Shell Island was the beach of choice. Little did we know that we couldn't get to it as the tide was in so after a quick reverse and 3 point turn with waves lapping at our tyres we headed off to Barmouth.

After a couple of hours lazing on the beach or paddling in the sea we went to hunt for food. We found "Good Luck" takeaway and "Chucks" diner neither of which sounded very promising!!! After the boys had footlong hotdogs they decided they wanted to go back to the campsite to play in the river. (photos to follow off the good camera).

I did dip my feet (and legs) but I have to tell you it was freezing, I have no idea how Pete and Kyle went swimming in it. A quick climb up my
mountain so that I could get a signal strong enough to log on meant that I could look for any geocaches in the area. Amazingly enough we were practically sat on one where we were so a very quick find.

And so I have caught up to now where I am sat clicking away on my iPhone looking at this.


I promise the burgers smell more appetising than they look -a bit smokey maybe but nice. So now it's time to eat. followed by a quick climb so that I can post.

-- Post From My iPhone

ON THE MOVE

This is now my third attempt at blogging whilst away. I did manage a full one last night at the top of the hill behind the tent (I need to go there for a signal strong enough to post). I had just pressed send and everyone decided to leave me there in the dark so I gave up and ran after them - what a wus!

I am sat here on the campsite with my cup of tea being amazed by how some people can behave. Whenever we go camping we get them, we seem to be drawn to them. You know the ones. They are the ones that don't think there is nothing wrong with shouting and banging car doors at 1am on an otherwise silent campsite. The ones who have 2 large dogs who think they own the site and can crap anywhere without it being picked up. The ones who have I don't know how many young sons who when the whole campsite is asleep at 6.30am run up and down screaming and the parents see no wrong in it. The ones who don't appear to be leaving anytime soon but will hopefully be too knackered to make any noise tonight.

I never ever sleep well on my first night of camping, never have, never will. Even the sheep and owls kept me awake and I swear that waterfall sounds like an approaching tornado in the middle of the night. Despite all this we are having a wonderful time and even have some very promising blue skies for the second day running.

Yesterday was Pete's 41st birthday and for a present we took him buggy driving near to Llandudno. It was a great success and we are planning to go again for a full day without the boys.

Right I have finished writing so now I am going to climb the mountain which allows me to post.

PHOTO TEST THIS TIME

Photo taken yesterday while walking the dogs.

-- Post From My iPhone

TESTING TESTING

Just thought I would give this a quick go before we are away for the weekend to see if it works. If it does I can blog from anywhere!


-- Post From My iPhone

NEW LOOK

Yet another attempt by me to resume my blogging. So I will start with a new girly look which is so not me but I like it, I would prefer it in a nice green but pink will do for now.

I'm sat here relegated to the dining room again as the house is full of teenage boys who spent the night here last night. I really can't complain they are a good group and have not been a scrap of trouble my only complaint is that they have made my living room smell of boy. They all (4 of them) stayed downstairs last night in the two living rooms playing on the XBox's all night with not a lot of sleep going on. Matt is going to be truly obnoxious later on as he really doesn't do tired very well at all.

Just a quick one from me today to ease myself into it again. Hopefully I will be back tomorrow ........

RED TAMIFLU

I seem to be feeling a little better today not 100% but not as awful as I have over the last few days. My appetite is not back to normal but at least I can now eat a small amount. and the headache has not gone completely but is definitely not as bad. I'm not complaining though as I have lost 7lbs since last weekend. Pete came home yesterday and said he had been listening to the radio and thought we had Swine Flu. This is something that hadn't crossed our minds at all until last night so we went and did a symptom checker which told us to phone the GP. As it turns out there is a good chance we have Swine Flu but seeing as they don't test you now we will never know for sure. I always thought that you got a runny nose etc with flu but apparently not. My temperature, chills, sweats, nausea, lack of appetite, fatigue, aches, pains and severe headache are all major symptoms. The Doctor said that Pete had to go on to Tamifu straight away as he is 2 of the high risk catagories and it is "better to be safe than sorry". and that there are lots and lots of cases of it in our town.

That only leaves one thing which is my photo for today's HSMSHS my beautiful RED day lily.

2 DRY CRACKERS AND HALF A PACKET OF QUAVERS.......

..... is all I have had to eat over the last 48 hours so not really up to doing a long blog today. I don't think the 48 hour long (so far) headache is helping much either as I can only look at the computer screen for about 5 minutes at a time.



so there you have it my pictures for HSMSHS for yesterday and today.
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