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 Halloween and stuff

I got some good news this week regarding my Water Bill and Southern Water ( see this post http://amethystlady.blog.co.uk/2009/10/12/water-bill-7152421/). We had someone come out and check the water meter and our thoughts were confirmed, the meter number assigned to our house wasn't our meter! Good news indeed after facing a £76 water bill for just one month. Even the guy couldn't understand how the mixup has happened. Our meter isnt on our property it is up the road and round the corner..........what a weird setup lol. At least it's all sorted now.

Him Indoors went back to work this week after having three weeks off with a bad back...............so it's nice and peaceful now lol.

I got a lovely dining table and chairs secondhand for £56. It was an absolute bargain and the table is real wood too and been looked after ever so well. The chairs are a bit scruffy but nothing a gentle sanding can't fix.

The twins now have glasses for reading. Funny thing is they like wearing them where as most kids wouldnt at their age lol.

I hope everyone is having a lovely weekend and Happy Halloween to one and all!

Day spent fishing

We thought it would be good to give Sarah and Ben some time on their own together so we took the twins fishing with my sister Sharron and her partner Dave. We went fishing on the River Rother at Wittersham which was really really nice. It was the twins first time at fishing and Ashley caught the biggest fish of the day. It was a Rud lol.

Ashley with his first fish.

Joshua with his first fish.

Me concentrating on my float.

Him Indoors making tea.

For some reason the sheep really liked Him Indoors and kept invading his fishing spot to come down to the water to drink lol. We had a really lovely day and the weather was just like a hot August day. My feet were melting in my wellies lol.
It was nice to get out of the house as I havent really been anywhere since we moved house. I was so proud of my boys as they took to fishing as a duck does to water and they want to know when they can go again lol.

Quiet weekend and sick twins

It's been a quiet weekend which has been nice.

The twins have had a sickness bug for a week now. One gets it, gets over it and the other one gets it again. So at the moment, Ashley is with me and Joshua is with his dad. We are hoping it will break the sickness cycle. Joshua should be back tomorrow.

Instead of the usual roast, I got the slow cooker out and did a really nice chicken casserole complete with baby potatoes in it. It really was nice and tasty and made a nice change.

It was supposed to have rained today but it didnt so I am hoping it stays nice again tomorrow so I can take the doggies for a nice long walk. I've been a bit stir crazy the last couple of days lol.

Him Indoors did the garden on Saturday. It looked like a jungle lol. Before and after pictures can be seen here

http://grumpydragon.blog.co.uk/2009/05/02/hollington-jungle-tamed-6048072/

Can't think of anything to say now, so I will say goodbye for now lol. Hope everyone else had a great weekend!

The twins meet Carrie King.

This is the twins with Carrie King. She is the author of The Life in the Wood with Joni Pip. We popped into Waterstones and didn't know there was a book signing. Carrie has been dubbed 'the new JK Rowlings'. Carrie is such a lovely lady. She had so much time for the boys and she even gave them a poster that all the other kids didnt get and signed it too. I must say, I am looking forward to reading the book too.........it's fantasy based with time travel and has really good reviews.

Sorry about the picture being blurred, him indoors took it on my mobile.

The twins are 11 today!

My twin boys Ashley and Joshua turned eleven today. I can't believe how quick the time has gone! We spent a nice day in town with them where they spent all their birthday money on various things. We had lunch in The Rainbow and then they wanted a McDonalds for tea. Here's a piccy of their birthday cake, and yes, thats them on the cake lol.