Hot hot hot summer days ...and it's only June !

I have been a tad slack with blogging. Quite frankly I have nowt to write about really, same old stuff. However I thought sod it I will write a few bits down if only as a reminder for me later on!

Harry has decided it's great fun to get up in the morning anytime from 530 so am feeling a tad tired most days...but at least we are up and out the door early, missing the midday heat. I was the first one in the playground today at 8am..crazy crazy time! It's quite funny getting in the elevator (whoops lift!) in the morning with all the "workers" I swear some of them huff under their breath at us. Is it because we have the luxury of being outside or the fact we are getting in their way and we should just stay inside "where we belong" hahaha Poor Old Harry spends the whole time staring at them and smiling but most of them are too busy reading their blackberries to take any notice. Shame as I am sure a smile from a cute one year old would start their day off much better than an email !!

I had an interesting experience in our local (crap) supermarket today. As usual there was one person on the tills so I tried to go to the customer service till to pay. However there was a right old stroppy cow on there today who wouldn't let me( they normally do) She was so rude I asked to speak to her manager. He came along and was not really any better and told me to queue up (well he didn't say that as they don't call it a queue here hahah but anyway...) Then I hear her say...that's what I told her...urghhhh I hateeeeeeeeeeee when they do that, so I swung round and said "yes but you were extremely rude with it"...and told him to "sort his staff out" hahaha I am such a cow sometimes but I just can't stand bad customer service it drives me crazy !!!

However my bad experience was rectified in a few short minutes. I had a lovely chat with a sweet old man (86 !!) who chatted about being in WW2 in the UK and sang "I am wild about Harry" I hadn't heard it so I promised I would look it up later on...which I did, I love it ! Then the final icing on the happy cake was when another sweet man stopped us and said, "I just saw you in the bakery...and your son is perfection" How cute was that !!! I love when random people comment on Harry! Well at least the nice comments ...not the horrible ones...remember the "that's not a baby that's a monster" comment ?!?! HAHAHAHA Old bag she was...and Haz was only 11 weeks or something crazy like that !

I am still enjoying being a vegetarian which is great. I am really chuffed with myself!! It helps that my fabulous hubby makes lots of veggie dinners for us....yes H+L lots of 3 bean chilli's but whose complaining - not me !!! I really don't miss meat at all which has surprised me a bit to be honest. However I guess its similar to when I gave up drinking about 8 years ago...I didn't really miss that either. I guess if you put your mind to something it helps. I do take my hat of tho to all my non drinking buddies who found it harder than me to give up...it can be such a struggle but wow the benefits are so huge so congrats - no matter how long or short you have been on the wagon -one day at a time!

I better stop chatting away as I need to make some "England" cupcakes/fairy cakes for the game tomorrow !! Cmonnnnnn Engerrrrrllllaaannnddd !

Oh have added the walking and sprinkler video on here so my aunt and cousin can see it, who are probably the only family left NOT on FB !









hahaha nowt to write about and have managed to write rather a lot :)

Florida !

So finally I can use my laptop again, Thanks Jeff you are a computer genius !


Florida feels like a life time ago already but we have only been back 2 weeks :(

We went to Anna Maria Island..about an hour or so from Tampa...as they say over here it was "awesome" !!! It really was !! White sands, turquoise warm seas...no high rises or chavs with their coolers and stereo systems hahahahah. We went with our pals and their gorgeous wee one which was a great idea, mainly due to the boys having fun with their dads while the mummy's sunbathed !

We also swapped babysitting and both couples got to go out twice ...very nice indeed ! The only issue I had with it was there was a very distinct lack of vegetarian food. I really struggled as it was fish fish fish (and no - real vegetarians do not eat fish !!!). I did have a rather funny conversation with one of the waiters about what I could eat. Firstly he asked if I ate chicken, and when I said umm no, he suggested that there was really only one salad I could have. As it included feta cheese and olives, I looked thru the salads to try and find another one (I hate both of these ingredients!!). I found one which sounded nice that had eggs. He looked and me strangely and said "well you said you don't eat chicken, eggs are chicken " ...yes yes I thought to myself, rub it in why don't you !!!
So I ate well ...lots of salads and a huge amount of watermelon !!! We also spent a night in the Hotel that we spent our wedding night in and visited our wedding spot on the beach - lots of lovely memories!!
It was exactly what I needed and I came back feeling refreshed and relaxed.

Here are a couple of photos...