Midweek Football

On Wednesday we were lucky enough to be invited to spend the evening at White Heart Lane in an executive box to watch Spurs v Middlesborough all expenses paid!

The comany that are providing software for my company have a box in the West stand just by the half way line right behind the dugouts.

We had drinks and sheherds pie before the match which was very yummy. The view of the match from the box was amazing. The only downside was that we were behind a window so the atmosphere was a little muted. We still joined in with some of the chanting, except the one which goes you're support is ******* **** (My Finance Director was there and the bonuses haven't been signed off yet!!!!)

Plus we won 4-0 so all in all it was a pretty good evening!

I spent a little too long in the shop meaning we had to run for our train at Victoria but I finally got my stripy scarf!

The pictures aren't very good, as all I had was my phone camera and the floodlights were reflecting on our window.

Christening Photos

Just a few shots from Zach's Christening a few weeks ago.

Christmas Pictures

Jenny emailed me the other day with some Christmas photos.


Ollie, me and Zach

Ollie has veto'd the ones with him dressed as King Herod so I can't put them on here.

The one of Marc as a wise man, and Sebastian and Gemma as a shepherds are ok though!

Garden

Today we finally decided to try and do something about our garden.

Knowing absolutely nothing about gardening, we enlisted the help of Nan, Grandad and Mum. Unfortunately mum had hurt her hand falling down the stairs yesterday and got a bit frustrated that she couldn't help. We are very grateful for the help and guidance anyway.

The plans that we had drawn up were quickly disposed of as we couldn't have a flower bed next to the fence as we don't have base boards on that side. After some discussion on the shape of the flower bed the other side we decided on straight and set about digging.

It's been a long and arduous day and as our instrutors went home at lunchtime we had to finish by ourselves. It looks much better already and we have some other new plans for the rest of the garden.


Now we are both collapsed on the sofa with Abby after having soaked in warm baths for ages!

Kitchen update

We've finally finished painting the kitchen cupboards - they look really good now with all the doors back on.

Just the tiling and the skirting to paint now.

Exam Passes

I got the results for the exams I took in December. I passed both getting 87% for Tax and 71% for the financial reporting paper.

So I was quite chuffed about that as it means that I'm exactly half way there with 7 exams to go. It's also inspired me to take 3 exams in June so I will be very busy studying for the next few months.

We're all going on a summer holiday!

On Friday night Ollie was looking on the Internet to see if the England team had been announced when he happened to mention that the tickets for the under 21 game in Spain were only £20. So I asked how much the tickets were for the under 21 Euro finals were because its during our summer holiday from work.

As they were only cheap we've booked up to see England v Germany, Serbia v Sweeden, we have tickets to both Semi-finals so we can choose which one we want to see and tickets to the final. So our summer holiday is going to be 9 days in Sweden! It's somewhere we've both wanted to go and we'll have lots of time in between the football to explore and hopefully the weather will be nice enough to go to the beach. We're also going to have a trip to Copenhagen as it's a short hop across a bridge.

I'm really excited about it and although we have flights and the football tickets I'm now hunting through the internet for some accomodation and car hire.

Patrick's Birthday

Last night we went out in London for Patrick's birthday with a few of Ollie's Uni mates.

We had a bit of tube trouble with no central line meaning it took an hour to get from Victoria to High Street kensington. We had a quick drink in the bar where most of them have been watching the rugby all afternoon. Then we went over to the restaurant - Sticky Fingers.

It's owned by Bill Wyman and there's definately a reason why it's called Sticky Fingers. I had chicken wings smothered in BBQ sauce to start and Ollie had a half a rack of ribs. Luckily they provided handy wipes!

For main we had burgers, mine with sour cream, salsa, guacamole, bacon and cheese and Ollie had a sticky stack burger with everything you could imagine!!!!

Finally we finished off with a chocolate milkshake for me and sticky toffee pudding for Ollie. I think that I may have put the 3 1/2 pounds back on that I lost last week in one night!

We fell into bed at gone midnight only to be disturbed a few minutes later by the ginger cat from down the road which had snuck into our spare room!

Snowed in

Well we weren't exactly snowed in but there were no trains running past Gillingham.

However, by the wonders of modern technology we were both able to dial in from home and do a full day's work.

Bowling

Last Friday we had a long weekend off work for Ollie's birthday and on Friday afternoon we went bowling with Helen, Alan, Ethan and Niamh. Although Niamh was asleep the whole time and didn't actually bowl!

We all scored strikes, including Ethan and there were some fairly respectable scores. Ethan really enjoyed himself

HAPPY BIRTHDAY OL!

Here's a big happy birthday to my fantastic husband.

Hope you have a good birthday babe. Love you xxx

A very grumpy Kelly

I'm very grumpy today.

Last night, not only did I have to work late but someone stole my hat, gloves and scarf off the train! I wouldn't mind but I had knitted the hat and gloves myself and had only finished the hat on Saturday.

It may have been partly my fault as I left them on the upper shelf and then we moved seats slightly down the train and when we went to get off they were gone!

So I'll have to start the knitting all over again and put up with being cold. I might have a full set by the time it's summer!!!

Happy Birthday Nanna

HAPPY BIRTHDAY Nanna

Happy Birthday to you
Happy Birthday to you
Happy Birthday to Nanny
Happy Birthday to you

Hope you have a great day and I'll speak to you later.

Hello Niamh

And yes, that is my soft focus filter!

Congratulations to the Sharman's

Helen finally gave birth at 5:45 this morning to baby Niamh Eleanor Sharman who weighed 8lbs 1. Mother and baby are doing very well and I'll get some photos as soon as I meet her.

She was only a week overdue this time and I know Helen especially will be pleased to finally have her here.

I took Ethan to his swimming lesson yesterday as Helen wasn't able to in her over pregnant state and she didn't want him to miss out. We both has loads of fun in the water and ended up both very very worn out!

It's CHRISTMAS!!!

Christmas has come to our house. We thought as we were off work and needed to put some stuff in the attic we would put the decorations up early this year.

New Light

When we went to do our Christmas shopping last week we popped into Ikea as we needed a new light for the living room.

The old one didn't really go and the halogen bulbs didn't last very long and were very expensive. So we have replaced it with this which takes energy saving bulbs.

I started knitting Billy a jumper in January. I finished it a couple of weeks ago. There are a few errors in it and the sleeves are far too long, but he is happy with it, especially as it has now turned cold and is snowing this morning.


Although now he does want a blue jumper to go with his trousers! And a woolly hat!

Granddad's birthday

We invited everyone over for dinner for Granddad's birthday.

I was just mopping the floor when Laura and Wayne turned up in a panic because they thought they were late but they were in fact an hour early because they had forgotten to turn the clocks back!

I think everyone enjoyed their roast lamb and birthday cake.

Halloween Party

Every year Carole and Ian have a fancy dress party for Halloween. Each year our costumes have mainly consisted of whatever we could find in the bargain bin in Sainsbury's. But as this year was Ian's 60^th we thought we'd better make a bit more of an effort.

I was a fallen fairy and Ollie was death / Uncle Fester. The extra effort by Ollie of having his head shaved and being smothered in white face paint was worth it as he won best costume. Ollie, Marc, Gem and me also won the wrap a team mate in toilet paper game and our team won the balloon under the chin game too.

The pinata proved to be a bit tricky this year, we had one that you bash instead of the one that you pull the strings until it falls apart. It took about 10 minutes of heavy bashing with a Halloween axe before it caitulated. Although once it had there were enough sweeties in it to last until next Halloween, even with 4 kiddies eating them!

We let off some fireworks and had some sparklers once we had all found some gloves to wear.