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Little by little…

Saturday, 19th May 2012 @ 17:09

Hello darlings! How are you a Saturday like this? I’ve been a busy bee. The whole week has been busy. Work wise, but also privately. We’re finally getting stuff done in the house and garden, little by little. It’s been a lovely day weather wise. And the forecast for next week is looking sunny and warm for a change. Hope our grass in the back garden grows quick, quick! So I can be out there and tan later this week.

In 7 - 21 days we will hopefully have a lawn here

We ate outside today

<3 my new water can

Table before

Table after

Happens all the time…

Wednesday, 16th May 2012 @ 21:40

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This is me, fallen yet again between 2 chairs

Wednesday, 16th May 2012 @ 10:59

It’s a sunny day in Maidstone. Lovely after all this rain…

I walked down to the Citizens Advise Bureau this morning, to hopefully get some advise about my current situation and National Insurance payments. She was really lovely the advisor. But to be honest, I felt I probably knew more about certain things than her. So it was a waste of time. Which I usually find when I tend to seek help.

It’s frustrating! Another thing that is frustrating is that since I’ve moved to the UK I feel like I always fall in between two chairs (Probably a Swedish expression, but it’s quite self explanatory…)

I’m never entitled to ANYTHING! Whatever it is. I have worked since I was in 8th grade, part-time obviously, and have probably paid tax since 9th grade. But every time I need some help back I’m not entitled. There always seems to be a “but if you hadn’t…” or “if you wasn’t…”

My biggest problem today was that I am married and/or that I don’t have kids. So I was “advised” to either get preggers or divorced. Another problem is that I am self employed. In other words; I am being penalised for trying to make my own living by not being entitled to anything. Life’s annoying.

It's a lovely sunny day though!

I even wore sun glasses!

Open fire place

Monday, 14th May 2012 @ 13:57

Jon and I have been such busy bees this weekend. One thing we did was spray the fireplace and I thought I’d share the result. It so great doing something you’ve been thinking about for a long time and to see the result.

This is what it looked like pre paint

We prepare with masking tape and newspaper, we still managed to paint the carpet. It's really horrible anyway, the carpet so I'm not crying.

The result

Too much?

Table table on the floor…

Sunday, 13th May 2012 @ 17:01

Friends of ours are moving house and kindly gave us their old dining table. I am so happy and excited! I’m going to sand it down and stain it darker. But we have a bit of a decision on our hands and I thought that I’d ask you – my blog audience – to help us settle it. First of all, this is the table and the dining room;

Jon is determined the table is to big and too dominant in the room. I agree it’s big but I think, since it fits in fine, that I can live with that. He has suggested that we can cut it in half. It will seat 4 then. I am leaning towards keeping it the way it is. But I can’t really decide, maybe Jon is right.

What do you think? Keep a bigger table and have the possibility to have a lot of people over or cut it and have a more spacious looking room.

Here’s the poll:

(I should have added “You have too many polls on your blog” on my blog poll to the right, shouldn’t I…?)

Should we half the table or keep it as it is?

Keep it! (80%, 4 Votes)
Cut it in half! (20%, 1 Votes)

Total Voters: 5

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Braai & garden work

Friday, 11th May 2012 @ 22:03

We had a braai today and started digging around the garden. We ended up digging up the whole thing which feels great. Maybe it will look like a proper garden soon.

This is what our garden looked like when Jon lit the braai

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Halloumi ♥

Friday, 11th May 2012 @ 13:52

Halloumi is so tasty! It’s like eating candy. Especially fried or barbecued with olive oil and sesame seeds on it. MMMMMMMMMMMmmmmmmmmm!

And our new Aldi’s got some for £1.99 which is half the price of other stores. I just love having Aldi’s a minutes walk from us, if it wasn’t for the crossing & lights – it would literally be a second away from us.

Feeling like a super hero

Friday, 11th May 2012 @ 12:30

Is there any better feeling than ticking off stuff from your to-do list? I have emptied my email inbox, all replies are sent. Great feeling! Bring on weekend! Well not really, I still have stuff to do. But at least I’m seeing progress.

Hey guys, it’s not raining today! Unbelievable. Might be able to have that barbecue after all!

New store & new old lady bag on wheels

Thursday, 10th May 2012 @ 9:50

They have opened the new Aldi store right next to us. It opened last Thursday and I think I’ve been in there everyday since then. Except Sunday when we were away. Here’s me shopping. Limes…

Jon doesn’t want to go shopping with me when I come dragging with this one. I don’t care. He should be happy I went for the neutral black one instead of flowers. “Hihihi” as they say!

“I ♥ your blog!”

Thursday, 10th May 2012 @ 9:36

Thank you everyone for visiting my blog! Yesterday there was an all time record of visitors. Which feels really cool. Who are you all?

There are so many different reason for visiting blogs. Personally I follow over 115 different blogs. Most of them, maybe 50% being personal, private, lifestyle blogs like my own. The rest of them consists of health & exercise blogs, some are professional blogs to help me keep up to date with web design and development, some are pure fashion blogs or interior design blogs. So I obviously visit them for different reasons. Some to get inspiration (most for that reason) and some for pure entertainment. Some I read with interest, some I just browse through and look at pictures.

I use Bloglovin to follow these blogs. It’s like an RSS feed that alerts me of all new posts. It helps me to keep up to date but not get stressed out about checking all different websites/blogs everyday. I won’t miss anything. Even though I can login sometimes and it shows I have over 500 unread posts, but it still doesn’t stress me. Because they won’t go away. It’s also easy to click through them all using Bloglovin’s toolbar.

This whole blog this is sort of a Marmite thing I suppose. Jon doesn’t see the point at all and he always mock me for reading blogs. But he reads mine non the less. Yesterday he all of the sudden exclaimed; “I love your blog”
But I don’t know if that counts because he loves me. And I am my blog. Ha ha…

So what do YOU think? Tell me;
It’s all anonymous and results can be viewed after you’ve voted. You’re also welcome to add an additional comment under this post.