Dreaming…..?

For those who know me this will come as no shock whatsoever, but I do have the strangest dreams. So, I’ve decided to try, when I remember and when I can be bothered to document them on here – my blog.

Since I had a very strange dream last night I thought, “there is no time like the present!” and thought I would start now, so here goes….

I actually had two dreams last night, but I’ll document only one of them.

My husband and I love camping, and well, in this dream we were camping but instead of a tent we had quite a well equipped camper van – which is fine, but I don’t think I’ve actually ever been in one. We were sitting down to dinner, when Rory Bremner (with his wife/partner) knocked on our door. We ended up going back to their tent where he presented us with a cabbage. The cabbage was ceremoniously taken back to our “well equipped” camper van, shredded and then cooked.

Any ideas where that came from? Hmm, I thought not.

I’ll be perfectly honest, this was the strangest dream I’ve had for some time – thank goodness for that!

Invites for Mum & Dad’s Ruby Wedding Anniversary

Well, as promised, here is a picture of the invites! Not complicated, simple but nice I think – it was the border on the right hand side that gave me the headache, but everything done now and everyone happy.

I enjoy making the invitations, although it always takes me a while to get going. But I enjoy putting them together and even don’t mind the repetitiveness of doing them and its always nice seeing the end result. When you see them all piled up there is a lovely feeling of satisfaction, not only did I design and make them, they always look more professional than I ever imagined and it makes me smile.

We’ve turned into children again!

Two weeks ago we bought, or rather invested in a Wii – the gaming machine that licenses adults to be childish. But. for all its simplicity, its really captured us - although we have, for all intensive purposes regressed to 8 year olds since having this machine in our living room. Having said that we have had the biggest amount of fun we’ve had in years and its brought out a competitive streak in the two of us which just makes us laugh.

We have just got the Summer Athletics game which is just madness and is affectively Nintendo’s answer to a game covering the Olympics. God only knows what anyone walking past our front room window must think if they look in when we’re playing on it. It doesn’t seem to matter if you’re expecting something to happen or not, but it takes you by surprise and then there’s a frantic movement needed to achieve the desired effect. I’m sure we’ll master it eventually but at the moment I would settle for knowing how to dive and enter the pool without looking like some sort of demented spider, and as for the tipple jump….. well, it doesn’t bear thinking about.

Well, I’m sure I’ll ache tomorrow……

Why?

For the first time in a few days I actually left work on time today and rushed home to do the invitations for my mum and dad’s 40th wedding anniversary next month.

All was going well until, I managed to break the punch I was using to create the border on the cards…. They only wanted 10, I’ve managed 9! How incredibly frustrating. I mean if it had broken after doing 2, that would have been bad, but after 9 – it just added insult to injury.

After a bit of a panicked phone call to my parents the crisis is averted as they will manage with only nine. Phew!! I’ll post a picture when I’ve finished them.

Tomatoes Update

Well, our first season of tomato growing has not been as bad as we had envisaged. The picture shows just one weeks worth! And we’ve not had to buy any for a few weeks now…. So, less expenditure, and those who read my previous post, you will be thrilled to hear – NO PLASTIC!

The Green Quest

Well, I’m on the “going greener” band wagon again.

I’ve been reading an article on the BBC website about one of their reporters who is trying to not buy any new plastic for an entire month. It means that she is trying to not buy anything that has plastic in it, around it or on it.

Its made exceptionally interesting reading, and its made me think. So much so, this weekend on our usual shopping trip (without the last antics of tantrums and parking worries) I tried, and failed rather spectacularly, to not buy plastic.

I think it’s a great thing that this person at the BBC is doing, and from other blogs and comments I’ve read can see the real benefits of not using plastic, but at the same time I think we have to be at least a little bit realistic.

For the vast majority of us who shop at the usual large supermarkets shopping without plastic is virtually impossible, as discovered by me at the weekend. We came away with just one thing that didn’t have some kind of plastic in its packaging – bananas. And I’m sure that if I really investigated the true origin of those it would involve plastic of one type or another at some stage in their growing and shipping life, not to mention the obvious food miles its taken to get them to the store.

It really is amazing to think that so much of what we consider perfectly normal and ordinary has a wrapping on it that is threatening to wrap our world.