Wow - three posts in one day - wont keep this up I promise - Louise has on her blog her 'needs' - so following her instructions I put Nikki needs into google and came up with

I need - your help
a nap
a bath
someone like pete
a little sunshine
to be brought down a few
the heating on
a friend
a loving home
to go jump off a cliff
someone to take care of me
an outfit
a psychiatrist not a show!!!

seems I am either a stray dog looking for a home or a scandalous celebrity whose entry in the urban dictionary is unrepeatable!!!!!

ok it still wont let me post more than one picture without mucking everything up - so here is my 3 x great grandmother Charlotte Pearson nee barnes in 1866 aged 20

Busy day today - so far we have - played computer games, watched the first bionicle movie (Tom is now watching it for a second time) done a simple layout of the trip to Tropical World, kind of decided on the entries for the end of course assessment for the open uni course I am doing, done painting with masking tape masks with Sophie and Ben and baked a banana and walnut loaf for the playgroup summer fair - phew exhausted!! lunch now then the children want to do more baking and I need to take some photos - prompt from Barry is cutlery and think I know what to try :)




With three young children lots of the cutlery in our house is brightly coloured plastic. I did plan to take a picture of the canteen of bone handled fish knives to continue the illusion to jems that I live in a castle but they didnt look good so it was plastic kids things instead!

Cannot figure out for the life of me how to put more than one photo in a post - hmmm - try again

Anyway - Louise gave us the prompt of 'clock' - here is our resident time turtle - he doesnt understand GMT summertime etc so is pointing at 6pm but other than that he keeps pretty good time for a stone turtle!

From the my space:her space blog I chose the word 'table'. This little bistro table was bought a couple of summers ago with the idea that Mum and I would sit at it drinking tea in the afternoon while the children played - the reality is we spend the afternoon rubbing bruises, sorting out quarrels, getting drinks, helping them to climb, pushing them on the swing --- anything other than relaxing really!

OK here goes - having a trial run putting a photo on my blog - cant be that hard if Louise and jems manage to do it - hehe - if this doesnt work I am going to sulk big time!!

going to blog more - promise

Ok - going to really tackle this blog milarky and learn how to put photos on etc - oops children fighting again it will have to wait

haircut day

everyone in the house has had a haircut today including the dog. George is a black cocker spaniel - very hairy and is currently being shaved to make him comfy for the summer - off to pick him up now. Ben had his first hair cut today as well - sad to see the baby curls go but he looks great

first post

ok new to this so here goes - only discovered blogs a few weeks ago reading others and now feel ready to start my own - wont be anything mindblowing just the ramblings of a harrassed sahm to three under fives - we'll see how it goes!!