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Graham and I went in the car at the weekend to visit Graham’s parents. It’s his Mums birthday soon so we thought it would be a nice to go give pressies in person. Weather was reasonably good most of the time (though it did rain quite a while on Sunday) and we went to a couple of beaches too (piccies to follow). Second one was a bit chilly - I really do have to get around to getting a new winter coat (I’d wear my old one except I’ve had to charity shop all my old coats cos they drown me seeing as I’ve lost so much weight now).

We also went to Ikea on Monday (so forgive me if I rave ). I love that store. We got our new dinner set while we were there. Our old one we were given by my mother as we didn’t have one and (I think??!?) it was second hand when she got it too - so it’s fair to say it’s had a good share of re-use - it was in excellent nick till I got my hands on it - now it’s got more chips in it than a fish shop has potatoes Anyway in a nutshell the only dinner sets Graham and I have EVER agreed on are the ones that you seem to need a bank loan for (John Lewis prices can give a person a heart attack) but now we’ve found one in Ikea - and it was a bargain price too so you can’t beat that. Incidentally, it’s almost the same colour (without us realising at the time) of our new towel set we got at a bargain price a few weeks back - weird bit of coincidence there - I only realised when we got home, so at least a little of our flat looks co-ordinated.

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I’ve been fascinated lately by jewellery making - ever since I was looking for some beaded jewellery for a night out and found nothing but rubbish stuff in the shops. Anyway, I’ve since found that the jewellery making activity is just a smidge expensive, when you count the fact you need the tools, the jewellery parts and beads. The problem is that the only way I can see whether I actually like how fiddly and time consuming it could be, is if I buy the bits and do some - which I’m not going to cos it’s rather expensive if I don’t like it. So, I’ve decided to give a ‘bead loom’ a try. The initial set with the loom and the beads and all the needed kit wasn’t at all as expensive as the tools, parts and beads (to make necklaces, earrings, bracelets etc). The bead loom can only realistically help you to make beaded rings, bracelets and belts (if that’s your fashion), but it seems to me the cheap way of seeing if I initially like beadwork and it means I can make myself some really pretty bracelets how I like them.

It’s fiddly to set up, like you wouldn’t believe, but it’s rather cool. I shall post a piccy when I make a little more progress

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As any Star Trek fan knows, this is what Picard stated with regards to the Borg assmilating Earth.

Well folks, I have now drawn this line with the squirrels at the back of my flat. I have sacrificed too many plants over the last 2 years now and it is pissing me off considerably. This is what I did to my plants. Netting them seems to be the only way to deal with the squirrels and hopefully it will work. I know the solution isn’t pretty at the moment, but hopefully I’ll find a better way of keeping the netting on at some point. Every ‘more friendly’ method I have tried hasn’t worked and after digging up my lovely Fuchsia too many times (which I got last year at a RHS flower show Cardiff with Graham’s mum) this is it. The squirrels are not digging up the roots of my plants any more.

My Fuschia has flowered quite well this year and after the squirrels destroyed my daffodils (which I’d had the previous year too) I got determined that the Fuchsia would not go the same way. I hate squirrels.

Well, I’ve drawn the line, and if they wanna step up and challenge me, then they may end up with more of a challenge then they want.

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Since Graham got his new car (See here for more info) we’ve been checking out some of the local Hampshire attractions - which of course you can only really see a lot of them by car, which I think really sucks. Anyway, ‘nuf said about that for now. We went to Titchfield Abbey on saturday, one of the freebie English-Heritage sites. It’s very lovely and has over time had various renovations done to it - some including red bricks(!!!) and 2 very silly looking chimneys on the top, again in red brick. There were also some beautiful crosses in the stone walls and some latin tiles. We had a picnic while we were there too, it was very quiet - only 3 other cars were there while we were, and 2 left before we did.

I love places like this - it’s interesting to see and try to imagine what life was like for people hundreds of years ago - and really makes me appreciate my (too expensive in my opinion) electric heating, and the new car

We did end up almost missing the turn off for the Abbey though. They Abbey walls aren’t hard to miss, but the entrance looks like one those yellow/white gravel paths, not a road entrance, and if it wasn’t for the car we managed to get a glimpse of inside then Graham said he wouldn’t have gone in with the car!!

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This is just so worth blogging…. Celebrity Big Brother 2008 is being axed HOOOOOORAHHHHH They just need to axe the other one now {hint hint} and I’ll be much happier http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6961521.stm

I hate Big Brother big style - it really is a big load of rubbish.

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