I saw 5 ladybirds on my dog walk. Just hanging about on a stone post. I saw one at first and stopped to look at it, then spotted it's 4 mates.
Then later that day I was letting the dog out and there, on our patio door, was another!
I googled the meaning of seeing ladybirds.
Apparently my "wishes are about to be granted and positive changes and abundance are approaching."
So that's good.
New colours for October.
I got totally sucked in to the Gen See "viral" matte liquid eyeshadow on the gram. I must've clicked on it once and, I kid you not, the bloody thing came up once out of every 10 posts I scrolled through after that. And every single time I looked on stories. Every day. For months. In the end I caved and I ordered the two colours that promised I would have lighter and brighter eyes, I would look wide awake without trying and have a glow like I slept 10 hours.
I can confirm that none of the above are true and I still look like I'm surviving on 2 hours sleep in a field, and I have zero glow about me.
However, they did come in the cutest packaging, a colour blocked little box, which inspired my colours for this month. So all was not lost.
Does anyone else get back from a holiday and decide they're gonna just live on fresh fruit and veg from now on?
I'm just nipping to the supermarket cos my breakfast was a massive disappointment this morning....
This is a picture of the dog waiting patiently for me to get back from 5 nights in Greece....
I made some patterns from the GreatCupboardClearout.
Then added them to some kitchen containers....
And then, of course, I had to add them to some baby outfits....
We have this massive corner cupboard in the kitchen with spinny-roundy shelves for food. In my dream kitchen I would have a cool walk-in larder with everything stored in a neat and tidy order. But I'm stuck with this. The spinny-roundy mechanism is clunky and results in spillages. And stuff always falls over round the back. I chuck stuff in it and close the door, and try to ignore the smell of spilled soy sauce on everything.
Anyway I decided to clean it out on Saturday.
It's practically empty now cos it turned out that most of the shit in there went off in 2022. Including THREE tins of butterbeans.
We don't even like bloody butterbeans.
We walked the dog through the woods yesterday.
We did not see any bears.
We did see the pub though. And we did sit in the beer garden for a bloody lovely Sunday roast.
Look, I know I sound bloody old and boring saying this, but....how the hellie can it be September already? Where has this year gone?!!
This is the barn owl who lives over the back moor. He's usually spotted at dusk so we don't see him in summer. But dusk is creeping ever earlier so we might spot him again soon.
I mean he's a lovely sight.
But I'd prefer to keep the 10pm daylight ta.
Our little monkey had a birthday yesterday. And horror of horrors he had to work!
The kid who was always on some exotic foreign holiday on his birthday, or in recent times had the bank holiday to shield him, had to actually do a full day's work!
I mean, he made it to 22 before he could no longer blag a free day off.... but still....poor Alf!
Well August has been flipping busy so far. Busy with work and busy with play.
Not so busy with personal work cos I haven't had a minute....
We're off to the horsey races tomorrow.
I'm not that fussed about horses. Or racing. But I'm excited to see everyone. Especially Tina and Kevin from the Isle of Man cos we don't see them nearly enough. And I'm looking forward to wearing the fancy frock and eating the nice food and drinking all the drinks.
I'll just ignore the horsey part.
I was walking through the carpark in our local retail park yesterday when suddenly this bloke flew by me at a million miles an hour. I looked up to see that he was chasing a helium balloon that had escaped. His fingers were about 3mm away from the string when a sudden gust of wind sent it rocketing into space.
I was waiting to get eye contact with this bloke so that I could express my deepest sympathy. We've all been there.
But he didn't look at me. He just bent over double and screeched from the top of his lungs, "FUCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK!!!!!!"
So that was nice.
He'll pay the extra £1.50 for a weight next time I imagine.
I finished all my real work yesterday... so of course I decided to do some more carbon paper sketches. I can't get enough of that carbon paper choppery.
I went for a nautical vibe this time...
I faffed about with my carbon paper sketches and made this...
...on repeat...every single walk...
Dog: stops for a sniff and a wee.. like every 20 meters.. on every single walk.
Me: FFS!
Dog: just ignores me.
Like how does she even have any wee left in her 🤷🏼♀️
Let's not focus on the football.
Let's focus instead on the bloody fabulous weather we're having...and the garden...
This week's plan so far:
Working on some jigsaw puzzles, getting 2 new tyres for my car, 2 yoga classes, at least one England match in the pub (🤞), my cars' MOT, a funeral and waving the youngest off to Austria for the week.
OMG it was hot today. I mean I like it hot... but 31 degrees with no aircon is HOT.
The dog was not impressed.
