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The Game

Yes ALI - I agree - why not, it's Friday and time for a bit of fun (and it helped me learn how to do a mosaic! I am useless with flickr!)

1. Kung fu doggy Style part 3, 2. SWEETIE PIE, 3. High Park, 4. Max!, 5. Mark Darcy in B.J. Diary, 6. tea, 7. the bb, 8. Custard, 9. Young At Heart, 10. dVan, 11. bianca7A, 12. fabric2

Go on have a go too!

The concept:
a. Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search.
b. Using only the first page, pick an image.
c. Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into fd's mosaic maker.

The Questions:
1. What is your first name?
2. What is your favorite food?
3. What high school did you go to?
4. What is your favorite color?
5. Who is your celebrity crush?
6. Favorite drink?
7. Dream vacation?
8. Favorite dessert?
9. What you want to be when you grow up?
10. What do you love most in life?
11. One Word to describe you.
12. Your flickr name.

Here are my answers

And Ali - thanks - that was fun!

Edited to add - I've just joined the flickr group for this!

Tagliatelle Carbonara

One of the things on my 'to do list' is to cook some different meals for the family and try some new recipes. 

 

Last night I made this, a recipe I have made before but not for a long time. It is a very simple, fast and economical meal. 

 

 

Quick Tagliatelle Carbonara - Serves 4 - 5

 

Ingredients

Tagliatelle - I used one packet of fresh tag but you can use dried or even make your own.

100g grated white cheddar

250g pack rindless streaky bacon, cut into  chuncks

4 eggs

4 tblsps low fat double cream

garlic, 1 glove, chopped very finely

salt and black pepper

 

Instructions

 

Cook pasta in salted boiling water

meanwhile,

fry the bacon for five minutes until browned and then add garlic, fry for another few minutes and set aside.

In a small bowl combine the cheese, cream and eggs and mix together. Season with salt and black pepper to taste

Drain pasta and return to pan, add the bacon, mix and then add the cheese mixture, mix well over a very low heat for a couple of minutes.

Serve (optional - sprinkle on a little parmesan or black pepper)

 

It's very tasty - we had salad and a bit of garlic bread with it. Goes very well with a nice glass of wine! I must make it more often.  My son also ate the leftover portion for his lunch today.

 

 

Half Term

Oh my poor neglected little blog - I really must find time to post more often.  Good job I'm having a week off work for 1/2 term and have some spare time.

We spent the first four days at the caravan and had a trip into Hull,with my parents who were visiting. We hadn't realized it was the day Hull City Football Club were celebrating their victory.  It was crowded, 200,000 people lined the streets and many gathered outside the City Hall.

 

ermm.....I wonder what Queen Victoria would think of it all.

We decided to avoid the crowds and had a delicious lunch here instead.

 

Better get back on the diet!

The weather was lovely over the weekend but changed on Tuesday when it became dull and miserable and rained heavily all day.  Luckily for us it was our last day but I can't help feeling bad for the families who are having their week's holiday in awful weather.

Summer Breeze Makes Me Feel Fine

Isn't life so much better when the sun is shining.....I long for these lovely sunny summer days that we are having here in the UK.  I hate going to work when it's sunny but luckily I finish at 3 so we've been having BBQ for our tea in the garden...lovely.  I am making the most of it because I know it won't last but can we just have another weekend like the last one before it rains?? I spent this weekend at the caravan, we did lots of walking on the beach, BBQing, and I spent a whole day painting the two shed boxes we have at the back of the caravan.  They were looking very tatty so I sanded, primed, undercoated and then painted them in 'Buckingham Green' and now they look splendid! Although I am now aching in parts I had forgotten I had and I stupidly stayed on in the sun a bit too long so I am a bit sore too.  Ouch.  You'd think I would know better at my age would'nt you?

So back at work today and then I've been in the loft getting out my bag of summer clothes, it was suddenly sunny and I had nothing to wear and no flip flops..gasp! Another lovely thing about the summer is wearing less clothing after the winter and flip flops. So out came all the summer clothes and back up went all the dull winter garments, hopefully they will not come back down until September...late September.

I have the place to myself tonight, all the men folk have taken themselves off to the pub to watch the football so I am spending time this evening sitting in the garden, steadily working my way through a bit more of my book pile.

I love this book, New From Old: How To Transform And Customize Your Clothes by Jayne Emerson

There are a lot of great projects in this book, including a chapter on dying clothing which I found interesting.  I have some summer things that I am tempted to try it out on if I have the courage.

My current book stack....

I've read a couple of them so I'm doing well!  I've started to read in my lunch break at work and I am really seeing a difference in how much I am getting through so I think I am going to keep it up.  One good thing about my job is that I don't have my lunch break at the same time as the rest of the school because I cover reception duties while the receptionist is on her lunch break. Which means I get the staff room all to myself so it is nice and quiet and I can read.

I am also busy packing for a long weekend at the caravan so I am really looking forward to that and am taking my craft box so hopefully I will get some cards made, along with lots of walking and a Sunday afternoon in the pub! Lovely.