3BT 7/1/13 Theories, Fed and Book time

• We have just started watching season 4 of Lost, and we're enjoying trying to work out what on earth is going on!!
• I rang home when I left work, and when I got here, dinner was ready.
• I managed to squeeze in a few minutes with my book this evening.

3BT 6/1/13 More room, Soak and Birds

• It was sort of sad putting all the Christmas decorations today, but it has made the living room look so much bigger.
• Having a long soak in the bath with some sparkly lush bath goo after our very muddy bike ride.
• We've been in our new house for just over 3 months now, but I still find it strange that we regularly hear seagulls outside, I quite like it.

3BT 5/1/13 Bike, Beast book and Blogs

• I survived my first outing on my new bicycle (on the day my mum rang to tell me she'd fallen off hers and broken her collar bone, so I wasn't feeling too confident!!)
• Swapping a book I ended up with two copies of for Christmas, for 'the book of barely imagined beings' I spotted it a while ago, so I was pleased to have an excuse to get it.
• Updating our blogs/diaries together, with hot chocolate before bed.

3BT 4/1/13 Pirates, Welcome back and Pudding

• A book I ordered off amazon arrived today, it's a Dorling Kindersley eyewitness guide to pirates. I always liked these books, they have enough information to be interesting, but not long and boring and plenty of pictures. It looks like it'll be really useful for my mini pirates.
• It was my first day back at work after Christmas today, it's always nice going back after a break because Shaun is always so pleased to see me, he is on his best behaviour.
• Digging out the last few chocolate buttons from the sweetie bowl to feed to Nick, who is suffering from over-gymed legs.

3BT 3/1/13 Humpty Dumpty, Perfect fit and Check.

•Today we got a kohlrabi in our veggie box, I thought it looked like a chubby little alien, with long wispy hair. While I was looking up what to do with it I found a quote from Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall saying it was "like Humpty Dumpty hiding in a hedge" I can sort of see what he means.
•We did another training walk for our trekking holiday, and I got to try out my new rucksack properly. It is perfect, It barely felt like it had anything in it.
•I finally thought I'd got the hang of chess, I was getting check after check after check... then I lost spectacularly.

3BT 2/1/13 Tidying, Gobbling, Just one more

•Now we're in a new house, we've decided to have a good old sort out of *stuff* and first on the list of *stuff* to sort out are all the letters and bits of paper that seem to have spread themselves across the house. By the time I finished sorting the rubbish from the useful bits, I was quite pleased to find my rubbish pile was bigger.
•I feel like I really REALLY earned my enormous lunch, after such a tough hour in the gym.
•Staying up til long past our bed time to watch *just one more* episode of lost.

Three Beautiful Things

Ok, so it's been nearly a year since I wrote my last blog post, and that's not good, but I have been pretty busy! We FINALY moved house in September, so I now have my own little art studio to work in, which is very exciting. I have also been busy with lots of arty things, which I will post pictures of soon.
Part of the reason it has taken me so long to write this post is that I just didn't quite know what to write, but this year I really want to get better at it, so I am going to have a go at doing my own three beautiful things, as well as blogging about my art. My cousin Clare started the original three beautiful things blog about 9 years ago and I always enjoy reading about things that have brightened up her day. Her blog is here.

And here are my three beautiful things for the 1st January:

New year, adventuring and bubbles.
•Spending New Year's Eve surrounded by lovely people, I was especially pleased to see Abi, who has recently had brain surgery, and had been unsure if she would be feeling up to going out for a late night party.
•Finding the path we wanted to walk down in the woods had turned into quite a deep stream, but walking down it anyway, because we're adventurers!!
•Celebrating the new year (again) with some left over Christmas fizzy wine, all to ourselves.


P.s. having said I will try to keep this blog up to date, I am going on holiday in a couple of weeks and it is very unlikely I will have any internet access!