YO HO HO!

What a fabulous day we had! We took part in an official record breaking attempt, which was  for the most pirates ever in one place.
The current record was 1000 in Carolina USA, but the record got SMASHED here in Hastings. The official count was just over 6000!
And the town mayor got a certificate for the town from The Guiness Word Records as an official world record. It was such a good day with some fabulous costumes adults and kiddiwinks alike. We had just a pirate day last year with no record attempt. I think this event will take place annually now. Our town is such a wonderful place to live. We have great festivals like the Jack in the Green where all the bogeys and sweeps come togther. This week is old town week and it culminates tomorrow with the carnival.

The pirate day was on meridian tv news which can be seen here.

http://www.itv.com/meridian-east/yo-ho-ho16019/

BTW I got seriously sun burnt even though there was hardly any sun out...................thats the sea breeze for you lol. My face is bright red although the camera didnt pick it up very well.

Me sunburnt and for some reason one eyes one way and the other is the other way roflmfao and and you can see Him Indoors in the reflection of the glass lol complete with his go faster stripes hi visability top from work. Looks quite ghostly lol

I'm Engaged!

Yes you read right, I'm engaged! This is the story behind the tattoo lol.

Colin was always asking me to marry him and was always saying no lol. So a couple of weeks back, knowing Colin hates tattoo's, I said to him, 'The day I'll marry you is the day you come home with a tattoo of my name on your arm!' So you can guess what he did............yup he got it done lol.

Last Friday we went to my best friends wedding and Colin was best man.

Colin and I........I don't like wearing dresses hence my expression lol.

Jayne and Olly

At the evening reception, Colin did his best man speech and then the little shit my beloved started talking about me. I knew right away what he was up to and  dived under the nearest table head first. The groom, Olly pulled me out by my ankles and put me in an arm lock lol, so I couldn't run away.

Colin proposing

Colin proposed to me complete with ring and asked me to marry him next year.........I called him a few choice names and said yes lol. At this point I was still sober lol. 

We had a fantastic time at the reception. Jayne changed out of her wedding dress and we rocked out with plastic  blow up guitars as she had a live guitar player/singer at her wedding Mick Mepham who is fabulous and has played with greats like Eric Clapton! If you haven't guessed, Jayne and Olly are bikers :)

Jayne and Me

Me Jayne and the twins

Ashley rocking with the big guys

Jayne Ashley and me.

As you can tell, Jayne and I don't act our 46   years of  age lol. We were the bestest friends at school and  somehow lost touch and she found me on Facebook. We are having a ball together and act just like school girls giggling all the time.

Happy

I am very happy today as I won another book on Goodreads, French Silk by  Sandra Brown. Should get it in about 4 to 6 weeks.
While I am on the Subject of Goodreads, the first book I won was Quantum Breach by Mark Powell a new up and coming author. I really enjuoyed the book and gave a good review and wrote privately to him via Goodreads to let him know a bit more indepth how I enjoyed the book as I didn't want my public review to contain spoilers. Well, his new book comes out in July but not here in the UK to the end of the year, but he is sending me a copy because in his own words, I have been a good supporter of him. How nice and generous is that! I am very happy and can't wait to read it.

I know it's been a while since I have blogged but life just seems to get in the way every now and again. I am now expecting THREE grandchildren this year. Must be something in the water lol but can't wait to meet them all. I am having two grandaughters but we don't know what the third one will be yet.

Bigus Dickus

Yes, I thought that would grab your attention lol.
We watched the 2009 Christmas episodes of Dr Who and loved it. I got tearful when he transformed into the new Dr...........
But we ended the night with a bottle of Merlot..............Echo Falls no less. I usually hate Californian wines but I do love Echo Falls Merlot but I digress, we ended the night with Monty Pythons Life of Brian and so I say good night and Bigus Dickus to you all

Bread, Dr Who and stuff

It's been a long day for me today. Got up and went out in blue skies and sunshine, came home in overcast skies and raining cats and dogs.

First I went to Weight Watchers and lost another 1 lb. Then we went into town and did some grocery shopping and I went and saw my gorgous pregnant daughter Becky at the restaurant and gave her her easter eggs..........even though she's 27 she' says she's never too old for eggs or selection boxes at Christmas lol. I also bought a slicing machine for the bread to make the bread more econimical than the huge doorstops Him Indoors keeps cutting off lol.
We took the shopping home, picked up the twins and then went to my other daughters to give her her eggs and my grandsons eggs.
By the time we got home I was knackered and had to go to bed for a couple of hours which I never do but I only had two hours sleep last night..................my own fault, stayed up reading The Lovely Bones, and it's hard to put down. It was nearly 6am before I tried to sleep. Note to self..........try not to make a habit of it!

I made my second loaf of bread today. I think I put a bit too much water in as it was a bit tacky and the top end had a big air bubble in it but it tastes ok. It's still a huge learning curve for me.

Right, I'm off to watch the Christmas specials of Dr Who as we missed them so bought the DVD as we need to catch up as the new series starts tomorrow, yipee! Hope the new Dr is as good as Tennant was!

My first loaf of bread

My first loaf turned out really well apart from the blade being in the end of the bread but according to the instructions, thats a common occurence.

I couldn't resist eating some as soon as it was cool and had a couple of slices with home made coleslaw.
In all honesty it tasted better than shop bread. I made it with just strong white flour, yeast, salt and water.
I need to invest in a food slicer though thats for sure!

Home baked bread

Hmm, my bread machine has just been delivered and I've never had one before. I purchased it because I want good wholesome bread not filled with all the crap that manufacturers of comercial bread plonk in it nowadays.  I also got a book from Amazon which also turned up this morning, called Fresh Bread in the Morning by Annette Yates, http://www.amazon.co.uk/Fresh-Bread-Morning-Your-Machine/dp/0716021544/ref=pd_cp_b_0   with lots of lovely recipes reducing the need to use milk powders and less salt, sugar and fat so that the loaves turn out as natural as can be. Blimey, it even has a recipe for chocolate bread! Can you believe it lol. Never knew you could make choccy bread lol. Need to go to the supermarket to get the ingredients tonight so I can make my very first loaf tomorrow!  BTW, I've never made bread, period lol.
I am soooo looking forward to the smell of baking bread!