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Boys day out

The boys have had a lovely day out at the Natural History Museum in Oxford. Comes highly recommended for kids and its free which is a bonus!

2011-01-23 @ 20:08:45 Permalink Allmänt Kommentarer (0) Trackbacks ()

Hannah birthday

I have lovely friends. And I am very grateful for that.

2011-01-23 @ 13:09:05 Permalink Allmänt Kommentarer (0) Trackbacks ()

A little parcel in the post

YYYiiieeepppee my bread tin arrived! I've been lusting over getting a vintage enamel bread tin for ages and finally got one. Old and rusty, and very beautiful! I sound like I am talking about something much more exciting than a breadtin don't I?! But perhaps it is possible to fall in love with a breadtin...

2011-01-22 @ 19:17:54 Permalink Allmänt Kommentarer (3) Trackbacks ()

Happy 30th Birthday Hannah!

2011-01-22 @ 00:35:08 Permalink Allmänt Kommentarer (0) Trackbacks ()

A little stroll!

I meant to post this yesterday but for some reason the blog wasn't working so hence here it is today! Went for a nice little walk with my lovely friend Marie who looked this fetching! She's gonna love me for this! Love you Marie! Puss o Kram!

2011-01-22 @ 00:25:31 Permalink Allmänt Kommentarer (3) Trackbacks ()

I thought only women hide their purchases?!

Minding my own business tidying up in the kitchen I start sorting out the kitchen cupboard which houses things like the hoover, iron, ironing board, washing powder etc etc. Something which def didn't belong there was the Fifa 2011 Playstation 3 game filed (read hidden) behind the dishcloths. I thought this is the sort of thing only us women do?! "no, honestly, these shoes are at least a year old" or "this old thing only cost me £10 (read £100) in the sale". Oh well, at least I won't feel so guilty next time I buy something I really shouldn't!

2011-01-17 @ 21:36:27 Permalink Allmänt Kommentarer (0) Trackbacks ()

Stieg Larsson - Millenium Triology

Just watched the second one; The Girl Who Played With Fire. Highly recommended. I have already read all three books so basically know what is going to happen but still very very good films. Of course I could be slightly biased in that it is set in Sweden, Stockholm but to be fair the books have sold more than 20 million copies in more than 40 countries so I think its fair to say that its a ten out of ten!

So sad that the genius Stieg Larsson did not live to see how successful his books became.

Have you read the books/seen the movies? What did you think?

2011-01-16 @ 23:55:35 Permalink Allmänt Kommentarer (0) Trackbacks ()

Wise words

You must begin to think of yourself as becoming the person you want to be.
David Viscott

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
Epictetus

I must try and remember these.

2011-01-16 @ 18:40:37 Permalink Allmänt Kommentarer (0) Trackbacks ()

Great "industrial" lamps - want one or three!

Aren't these lights great?! From Dutch shop 360volt.

2011-01-16 @ 17:59:51 Permalink Allmänt Kommentarer (1) Trackbacks ()

Esme first day out on her own!

Esme has had her first day out on her own with friends today! At just over 3 years old bless her. She was asked to go to an Indian restaurant with her friends Klaudia and Mika (Swedish girls also) and of course their Mamma and Pappa. I told her to be a very good girl and apparently she was! She enjoyed an Indian buffet of 3 poppadoms and a plate of rice! I have just been to pick her up and she didn't want to come home! Too much of a party girl me thinks..

2011-01-16 @ 17:32:44 Permalink Allmänt Kommentarer (0) Trackbacks ()

Baby Girl!

Congratulations to Neil and Becca!

She's a little bit of sunshine
She's a smile to light your days
She will steal your hearts and keep them
With her warm endearing ways

She's your precious little daughter
With a sweetness from above
Who will fill your years with laughter
And your lives with lots of love.

2011-01-15 @ 22:16:11 Permalink Allmänt Kommentarer (0) Trackbacks ()

Pippi Langstrump

Having just watched a Pippi Langstrump movie I realise that if I could be anyone else for a day it would be her.

She is independant, owns her own house and has a suitcase full of gold coins. She takes each day as it comes and doesn't conform to what society expects of her instead doing what she wants without worrying about what other people think. She is strong willed, generous, happy, a free spirit and lives life to the full every single day.

2011-01-15 @ 22:04:25 Permalink Allmänt Kommentarer (0) Trackbacks ()

First try outside on the new bike

Do you think Esme is impressed with her Christmas present?! Kids nowadays! When I was young I would have been grateful for an orange and a box of raisins. Especially loving the face on photo 3, will remind her of this in about 15 years time!

2011-01-15 @ 17:07:15 Permalink Allmänt Kommentarer (0) Trackbacks ()

Handmade Napkins

I had some leftover Cath Kidston fabric so I decided to make some napkins! Very therapeutic so I ended up making 8 of them. Would have carried on but had to restrain myself as I am not sure I am ever going to need like 20 napkins at the same time!? Now don't laugh, its my first attempt! Orders taken for weddings, ha ha!

2011-01-14 @ 22:43:57 Permalink Allmänt Kommentarer (1) Trackbacks ()

Toys toys toys!

AAARRRRGGHHGHGHHGHGH they are driving me mad! How can one little person end up with so much stuff and make such a mess?! No matter how many times we tidy up, five minutes later and it looks like a bomb has hit the house again! I'm one of those mean mamma's too and I don't buy her toys all the time, really only at Christmas and birthdays so I don't understand where all this stuff is coming from?! Maybe the toy troll's come and drop them off at night when we are sleeping? It's really starting to drive me nuts to be honest!

Maybe the solution is to hire some space at one of those storage warehouses situated next to the motorway and then me and Esme can spend our days in a little storagecage playing with playdoh, dolls, trains etc and she can make as much mess as she wants and then come home to a perfectly tidy house? Hhhmm, no? Perhaps I will have to have another think about this!

I know I know, when you have kids you have to live with the toys. But really, its getting out of hand now!

2011-01-13 @ 22:16:53 Permalink Allmänt Kommentarer (1) Trackbacks ()

Pipeline!

Ooohhhh please please please I will be a very good girl forever if my little plan is successful!

2011-01-13 @ 19:05:56 Permalink Allmänt Kommentarer (0) Trackbacks ()

Jag vill ha blommig falukorv

This is for you, he he! (you know who you are!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9HAKCnkrpo

enjoy!

2011-01-12 @ 22:21:13 Permalink Allmänt Kommentarer (2) Trackbacks ()

Giving blood

I am off to give blood again this afternoon, fourth time now I think. Hopefully they will take it today, last time they wouldn't take any as my iron was too low?! The lovely Emma is coming along for the first time today too, maybe my nagging has paid off! I'm sure she will be a very brave girl and it will all be fine!

Why don't you go and give blood too?! Make an appontment on 0300 123 2323, go on, call NOW!

And no excuse if you are in Sweden, just go to geblod.nu and then look up your local place for giving blood.

See I have done all the hard work for you, all you have to do is pick up the phone/check out the website!

2011-01-06 @ 15:55:35 Permalink Allmänt Kommentarer (0) Trackbacks ()

Look after the pennies and the pounds will look after themselves

We've been saving small change in a big old glass jar for Esme for about a year or so, literally mainly pennies and 5p coins. We counted it up today so that we can pay it into her bank account and it was £72! Now got another year of saving our little change for her!

2011-01-05 @ 23:34:16 Permalink Allmänt Kommentarer (0) Trackbacks ()

Patriotism is a love and devotion to one's country (wikipedia)

The longer I have been away from Sweden the more patriotic I become!

I love everything about the Swedish traditions, the language, the people, the country, everything really!

I have just watched "a year in the life of the royal family" on SVT Play which is Swedish TV online. It's making me all proud to be Swedish and makes me realise how important it is to me that Esme grows up knowing she is Swedish as well as British and that she spends a lot of time in Sweden if possible.

Leaving you with some photos of the beautiful Swedish royal family! Doesn't the future Queen and her new husband look like film stars?!

2011-01-04 @ 22:54:29 Permalink Allmänt Kommentarer (0) Trackbacks ()

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