One Hand In My Pocket: Strawberry

Monday, 2 May 2011

Well..

I have nothing specific to blog about today, so it's just a catch-up on random things that have been happening this weekend.

Firstly I want to say a massive thankyou to Hayley, I won her April giveaway! I'm so excited, I never win anything, I'm not just saying that, its true! So I was so excited when she commented to say I'd won a beautiful swallow necklace. I'll post a picture of it up when it arrives. In the meantime, visit her blog, it's beautiful. : D

So, I went out Saturday night for my friend's 20th, it was so good. We ended up going to the pub instead of the original bbq idea & shared a bottle of wine & a few apple sourz with lemonades. Yum! Her boyfriend was driving so they went home about 11, where as I dragged 2 of my best boy friend's out to our local club where we stayed until 2 in the morning. Basically, one of the best nights I've had out in ages. However I felt it yesterday morning, ready to start a 8 & a half hour day with screaming kids at work. Urgh, I swear my body is getting less tolerant to me drinking so much!

I've started wearing my contact lenses again, my eye hasn't seemed to mind yet, so I'm slowly wearing them more & more.

& lastly I want to say a huge welcome to all my new followers, everytime I log on & see a new face I literally squeal. Thankyou so much to all of you. : )

This post would be boring without a picture, so... (apologises for the bright light & crap quality!)

Have a lovely day!

Wednesday, 16 February 2011

The Wonders Of The Countryside

It's beautiful weather today, the sun is out, birds are singing, it's just gorgeous. (Don't worry, I'm not about to burst into song!) Just taken my dogs out for a walk. They love this weather & hate the rain, so compared to yesterday, where I had to basically drag them outside, they happily bounced along today. We saw 7 buzzards, 4 deer, a fox & (so excited because they've come back again this year) 5 lapwings! They make the cutest noise, it's hard to describe, kind of like that electric noise you here on train tracks when a train passes through a station. I'm probably not explaining it very well, but its very cute! I'm absolutely in love with where I live (if you couldn't tell already!). I moved to the countryside about 6 years ago, with my parents, near to where our farm is. I've grown up with animals my entire life & I don't think I could imagine life without them. Apart from the usual house-hold pets, I've been lucky enough to have the typical farm animals too, such as chickens, cows, pheasants, peacocks, horses, etc. Because we live out in the countryside, we just have the adjoining house next door, but other than that, sheep are our nearest neighbours. No buses, no trains, just fields. It was really annoying getting around as I had to rely on my parents driving me places, but since I've learnt to drive, I've fallen in love with living here all over again.

So anyway, I thought I would post some pictures of my pets, so you can see how gorgeous they are.

Rosy & Emma - my first dogs. Both sadly are gone now, but they were lovely.

Harvey

We got Harvey 2 years ago from a rescue centre, he came over from Ireland & is our family dog. His favourite thing in the world is running & chasing smaller animals (such as foxes, rabbits, squirrels, etc). He's just a huge softy really.

Honey - 8 weeks

Honey - 3/4 months ago

This is my gorgeous Dachshund, Honey. She's the only dog we haven't rescued, I searched in rescue places & nobody seems to abandon this beautiful breed. You can see why though. I've had her just over a year now & she gets on so well with Harvey & my cat Strawberry. (Yes I know what your thinking, what the hell is your cat called Strawberry for!? I was 5 ok, I'll say no more!)