What a cool date to complete on, seeing as I am pregnant I am not allowed to lift a finger so it’s been a very relaxing house move for me, but for Mark it’s been a bit hectic. He’s been a godsend and done so much, I am not off work till next week so it’s all down to him at the moment!
Wednesday, 12 December 2012
Monday, 10 December 2012
Midwife Booking
We went to see the midwife at Bridgnorth hospital which is a lovely little place and definitely where I want to be as long as there aren’t any complications, I don’t want to be in a zoo being ushered in and out with loads of other people, it’s just not me. So hopefully it works out. She tried to hear a heartbeat but couldn’t as baby was hiding too low down, she did say I was about the right size so that’s good to know. She also took loads of blood!
Monday, 19 November 2012
Birthday
All I wanted for my birthday was to spend the day with my lovely hubby and eat some yummy food at the German Market. So we went for lunch and devoured some deep fried cheese, spicy frankfurter, cheese garlic bread, a custard doughnut and some spiced apple juice (Mark had the alcoholic version). It was so yummy, we don’t bother to look round the stalls, they’re all same old same old, once you’ve been once you’ve seen them all. All we go for is the food, just jump on the train from Wolves, it’s dead easy.
Finished off the evening with a takeaway from my favourite Indian (Albrighton Balti) and ate with Mark and mum. It was the perfect day! And my naughty husband bought me a Kitchenaid mixer which I have always wanted but he really shouldn’t have! I look forward to testing it once cakes stop making me feel sick!! He also got me a onesie which I love and is so warm and comfy J
Tuesday, 4 September 2012
Three Finals!!!
I compete in agility and my little sheltie has always been known as all or nothing, most of the time being nothing as we struggle to work together a lot of the time. Over 9 years I have tried to achieve consistency and struggled. Today out of 5 classes we won 4 and had a 2nd in the other qualifying for a national final. This is the third final she has qualified for so far this year and I am just so chuffed with her. Saying that I don't think any of the rounds was particularly pretty!
Sunday, 26 August 2012
Segway Rally
Many thanks to Buyagift for this Segway Rally for Two Experience
Mark and I have ridden a Segway before when we were in Paris last year. We had booked a group Segway Tour and it turned out only the two of us had booked it so we effectively had a private tour, it was brilliant and we flew round Paris in record time on those speedy little electric machines.
We had seen the off road Segways at Cannock Chase and fancied a go on them, so jumped at the opportunity thanks to BuyaGift :).
There are 12 locations available across the UK so chances are there is somewhere fairly local to you. Our local group was at West Midlands Water Park near Tamworth. Booking was easily done and I ensured we had an evening visit so we could get there after work.
Upon booking in we were kitted out with knee pads, elbow pads and a helmet. There were 8 of us in a group and a couple of instructors, we were quickly introduced one by one to the Segway and the instructor made sure he was close by for those a little weary of the machine.
The Segway is controlled by distributing your weight, if you have ever played on a Wii Balance Board it is probably a similar sort of skill!! To go faster you put your weight on your toes and to slow down/go backwards you distribute your weight into your heels. Steering is carried out by simply turning the handle bars left and right. They are quite easy to control once you get the hang of them and are great fun.
The instructors let us have a play about to get used to them on a big flat area, they then called us in for a couple of games. We were split into two teams of four and started off by a simple sprint relay back and forth, it got a little bit more tricky as we then had a slalom race and finally we had to do the slalom race backwards!! Great fun and a really good way to get us used to controlling the Segway.
We then moved on to maneuvering the Segway up a bit of a slope, a lot trickier than it looks, you had to keep the Segway steering up the slope and lean into it. Gradually the slopes got steeper and steeper, trickier and trickier! Our instructor then took us to the top of the hill and told us to go down it! Then onto a bigger and steeper hill which we went down and I sort of might have fallen off just as I hit the bottom! Oops.
All in all it was good fun, I was a little disappointed at how slow the Segways were as the ones in Paris were a lot quicker so I expected these to be faster for some reason. I also thought we might go somewhere, ie round a forest tour or something similar but all we did was a couple of slopes in the same area. I would recommend it to someone who hasn't tried Segway before.
Visit Buyagift for this Segway Rally for Two Experience
Mark and I have ridden a Segway before when we were in Paris last year. We had booked a group Segway Tour and it turned out only the two of us had booked it so we effectively had a private tour, it was brilliant and we flew round Paris in record time on those speedy little electric machines.
There are 12 locations available across the UK so chances are there is somewhere fairly local to you. Our local group was at West Midlands Water Park near Tamworth. Booking was easily done and I ensured we had an evening visit so we could get there after work.
Upon booking in we were kitted out with knee pads, elbow pads and a helmet. There were 8 of us in a group and a couple of instructors, we were quickly introduced one by one to the Segway and the instructor made sure he was close by for those a little weary of the machine.
The Segway is controlled by distributing your weight, if you have ever played on a Wii Balance Board it is probably a similar sort of skill!! To go faster you put your weight on your toes and to slow down/go backwards you distribute your weight into your heels. Steering is carried out by simply turning the handle bars left and right. They are quite easy to control once you get the hang of them and are great fun.
The instructors let us have a play about to get used to them on a big flat area, they then called us in for a couple of games. We were split into two teams of four and started off by a simple sprint relay back and forth, it got a little bit more tricky as we then had a slalom race and finally we had to do the slalom race backwards!! Great fun and a really good way to get us used to controlling the Segway.
We then moved on to maneuvering the Segway up a bit of a slope, a lot trickier than it looks, you had to keep the Segway steering up the slope and lean into it. Gradually the slopes got steeper and steeper, trickier and trickier! Our instructor then took us to the top of the hill and told us to go down it! Then onto a bigger and steeper hill which we went down and I sort of might have fallen off just as I hit the bottom! Oops.
All in all it was good fun, I was a little disappointed at how slow the Segways were as the ones in Paris were a lot quicker so I expected these to be faster for some reason. I also thought we might go somewhere, ie round a forest tour or something similar but all we did was a couple of slopes in the same area. I would recommend it to someone who hasn't tried Segway before.
Visit Buyagift for this Segway Rally for Two Experience
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Friday, 24 August 2012
Friday, 17 August 2012
What is she?
I sent off a DNA test for Dizzy 3 weeks ago and have just had the results - so what breeds do you think she is crossed with?
Turns out she is german shepherd cross border collie - as we thought, we did think possibly rough collie. It is a fabulous cross, she is so intelligent and easy to train. She can be a little dominant at times but otherwise is such an easy going laid back dog. I would love another of the same cross.
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