I am alive!!

Sorry people i have been appalingly lax at writing on here all that i promised i would. They are still coming but will have to wait till my computer complete with pictures is up and running.
I'm now back home in London for the Christmas holidays and i'm now unpacking and catching up on all the sleep i missed last week due to it being such a manic last week of term.

Its nice but strange to be back. I was not looking forward to a house that doesnt have my normal food stuffs in it, and so not knowing what to eat for lunches etc. To some extent that has been true as there is little of what i generally eat in exeter, but mummy has promised to buy me things when we go food shopping soon. But on the other hand, i have been rediscovering all those food stuffs that i had forgotten i liked, or just knew ways to eat them. Whilst driving home on saturday we popped into a sainsbury's to find food for dinner and we bought mini baguettes, cheese, butter, pomadorino tomatoes, cucumber, a banana and of course a sharp knife to be able to cut slice and spread all the above!! I thought i would just eat all the bits seperately but while i answered my ringing phone mummy made me a cheese sandwich with edam and butter in the baguette. Now i have never eaten cheese sandwiches volentarily so wasnt sure if i would like it. But it was YUMMY!!! Also the pomadorinos were yummy too.

Then today for lunch i decided i would like some couscous. I'd had some the other day on its own when i wasnt feeling too well as we thought it was 'safe' food, i.e. it wouldnt make me throw up!! But today i decided i could put some things in it. So i added cucumber, pepper, more pomadorinos and some corned beef. All of these things i do eat but i never thought of putting them together!!!! I think maybe i'm growing up and discovering that i dont have to eat all my foods seperately and that some things do actually go together!!!!!

Anyway, enough waffling. I hope that keeps you going for a while, or at least until my computer gets put together!!

Hurray for Dartmoor

Barney and I are going away with our church for the weekend to the middle of Dartmoor.
Really looking forward to it!! Will hopefully take his camera so we can record events and show all you guys what we got up to.
More soon I promise.
Hope you have a good weekend, whatever you're up to!!

My Sister Loves Me

My Debbie loves me enough to ring me up all the way from Texas. Isnt she amazing!!!!
I got really upset on saturday cos it only just sank in how far away she was and how i wouldnt see her for three months. Reading her post about her travels made me cry!!! She just sounded so Debs-ish and like she was having fun but i couldnt enjoy it with her, and what tipped the boat was that i couldnt just text or ring her anytime i wanted like i used to.

Anyway, enough of the moaning!! I left a sad comment on her blog saying that it had made me cry and so she e-mailed me and said she could ring me up. Yay.
I then had fun working out when i would be around and she would be awake, with the 7 hour difference. But we managed it and today she rang me. Hurrah. I was bouncing off the walls. She sounded so near and just like she does at home, looking after small children and generally being bouncy. It was really lovely just to have a natter about what she's up to and explain a little of what she's been doing. And mostly just so we could say how much we loved each other and to cheer me up cos she is brill.
Now i shall endeavour to e-mail her lots and catch up that way cos it will be much cheaper and easier for us to bring the other one up to date with whats happening in the world without both having to be awake at the same time. But just the fact that she thought it was worth ringing me up has made my week and my month!!! Hurrah for Debbies. I'm sure Blest must be enjoying it lots having her around and i'm just happy cos she's happy.

Enough waffling and grammatical nightmares! But be impressed i wrote a post. I will do my best to write more soon.
Love Me :-)

Adventures on the moor

This weekend my Mummy and Daddy came to stay near Exeter for a few days. So Barney and I got to spend some time with them. Hurrah. On Friday they took us out onto the moor.
We had great fun climbing over Haytor and various piles of rock!! We meant to take the camera, then forgot :-( but the weather was very misty so it would not have been great picture weather anyway.
However, Daddy did spot a couple of 'letterboxes' under two of the rocks. One of these had a stamp in so we stamped a piece of paperI had in my bag and wrote our names in the small pad in the box.
Hopefully if this works, you should be able to see the yellow duck we stamped and the date and place for posterity.
Mummy says i have to look after it well, and she wants to keep it when we're done. But at least i'll have photographic evidence of our trip to Haytor.
For tea we all had yummy fish and chips from a local shop. (except Daddy who had chicken)
Then Mummy and Daddy went back to their B&B and we all collapsed into bed from a lovely but tiring climb on the rocks.

The adventures of out of date eggs!!

Thursday 18th October:
Well it all started whan Barney's housemates bought a new pack of eggs and appeared to forget the still more than half full old packet (11 eggs still remained from a pack of 15)...

Then Barney discovered that the eggs were best before the 18th and so really needed using, but were apparently being ignored by the rest of the house. (everyboday say 'ahhhhh'!!!)

So Barney hatched a rescue plan for the eggs and I got in on the act to help out. We racked our brains for all the egg recipes we could think of and to calculate the numbers of eggs needed for each.

We tried putting the eggs in water to see if they would float just to check they were still fine to eat, before using any of them. (For your info. eggs will float if they are BAD so dont eat them then!)
4 became a yummy lunch of scrambled eggs for the two of us and three were destined to become a victoria sponge.
That still left 4 to be used the next day.

Friday came and still there were eggs left. But new ideas were not far behind.
2 became a strange sort of croque-madame* for Barney and 2 more went home with me to be transformed (with several other vital ingredients!) into apple cake, described by all who tasted it as delicious!!
So at last the stock of eggs is used up. Hurrah.

Then I come home and check in my cupboards and see 3 more eggs which need using soon.
What other weird and wonderful things can we do with eggs? Will they get eaten in time or forgotten, hidden in the back of the cupboard.
I challenge you, the reader to inspire us with new and exciting ways to use our eggs.
(I'm sure we will buy some more so any suggestions can and will be tried!!)

*Check this out for yourself but i think technically croque-madame is toast with cheese and ham with a fried egg on top, but Barney had his own version with scrambled egg instead. It was quite yummy so he tells me, so perhaps i'll have to try it out and you could too!!

HELLO WORLD

Hello anyone who might be reading this. (So thats about 5 people then!!)
My sister Debs has made me set up a blog so she can find out what I'm doing here in Exeter when she goes away to Texas!!

My brain is very tired at the moment so i dont promise to make sense but i will do my best.

I will attempt to post more exciting things very soon, but this is just a hello to everybody.
One day i might even work out how to put links on my sidebar and then you can hop around the blogosphere finding other exciting people i know.

Anyway, enough waffling. Till i connect with the world again, terra.
Have a nice day :-)