How fun would this be?!

Husky Trekking on the Moors.

Now I just have to wait until October to do this. October is also the start date of the open university photography course I would like to take, the month of my wedding to Mr SilverClouds, and the second month of my having joint responsibility for a brownie pack. Maybe I should book a holiday for November?

Kitchen = Stupa

Yesterday got away with me in the end. I scrubbed the rest of the ceiling and the walls in my kitchen, and hung up the Nepalese prayer flags I bought. I did some gardening, planting on the tomatoes and watering my pots. Hung out some washing, and cooked pasta for dinner.

We watched Cloverfield on the big screen TV, and with the surround sound, it made me get into it even more than the first time I watched it. I still think that the characer Hud is a complete wanker, and that the alarms that go off in Beth's building are beyond annoying, but I love how the idea of having one single shot the whole way through really drags you in. I didn't like The Blair Witch Project's way of using that idea, it just felt too cheap and I got sick of seeing really tight close ups of faces. Cloverfield made me feel like I was part of the action.

This morning I am indulging my OCD a little. I hate having paperwork in the house, but I also hate the idea of being left without paperwork that I later need. I finally came up with a solution, and it is going to be a long project, but I will feel better about it. Scanning. I am embarking on a mission to scan all the paperwork I feel the need to keep. Then I can fit it all onto a memory stick and actually put books on my bookshelf instead of paper.

Of sunshine and sunset

I have had a lovely evening. The weather has been scorchio today, so after a quick bath and brush up we decided to head into town to get some dinner. We decided to give indian or chinese food a miss in favour of a little bistro we have found. You leave the beaten track of the town down a little pedestrian side alley. There is a beautiful pink-red brick building with orange framed panelled windows, housing a quaint little bistro. The tables do not match, and neither do the chairs under the green and cream linen covers. 

The menu is on a blackboard on the wall, and includes delicious things like spicy pork lasagna and butternut squash with ratatouille and melted cheese. Mr SilverClouds treated us to a delicious meal, and then we had a wander through town. On the drive home, the sun was just setting, and we stopped for a few minutes to watch the neon pink sun tint the entire horizon the colour of cherry blossom. As we walked up the hill to our home, our neighbour was painting the village hall fence, and Mr SilverClouds commented how much he likes the smell of creosote.  

Reclusive

My hibernation mood is continuing today. I had my hair cut after work, and my new used laptop arrived today, so I have the luxury of typing from the sofa once more.

This morning I put together a lunchbox for Mr SilverClouds and left him a little card in it for him to remind him I love him. 

The weather has been gorgeous this afternoon, and driving home through the lanes with the window open and the sun filtering through the trees was just beautiful. I love where I live.

Impatience

My new used flaptop should be here tomorrow. I was hoping for today, but good old Royal Mail are being their usual speedy selves.

Today is a good day for hibernating, so once we have had our sausage and mash, and Mr SilverClouds has finished watching the football (Come on Barcelona!) there will be much curling up on the sofa and munching of chocolate.

Mr SilverClouds has just told me about a cool-sounding person he met today. He lives in Canada, and has cultivated a network of contacts worldwide with a reciprocal accommodation agreement. This sounds absolutely mind-blowing, and really appeals to me. I love travelling and adventures. I hope that I get a chance to meet him before he heads home.

The sky is falling!

Our barbeque was really good last night. Everyone had a good time, and we didn't poison anyone with the reggae reggae chicken, although our neighbour S found it a bit too spicy. It was lovely to have guests round, and I love to feed people, so it was a great day for me.

At the moment, I seem to keep having dreams where the world is ending. A few days ago, it was something along the lines of 28 Days Later, where most of the population was dead, and I was in a cafe I used to work in remembering when I used to work there. Of course, being a dream, the cafe wasn't the one I worked in as a teenager in real life, and the memories were nothing like my real memories.

Then this morning I had a dream that I was some kind of James Bond spy type person, and my Mum was trying to kill me along with some accomplices. She was chasing me through a cross between a museum/swimming pool/Bangor University Biology Building, and I managed to escape. As I was walking away from that building, I passed a classroom, where the teacher and lab assistants had been doing some sort of genetic experiment. The resultant baby creatures were just changing into some mad dinosaur type horror monsters, and the adults were removing the creatures before the students could see them. The last monster changed before they could move it, and it was going to attack everyone, then I woke up.

I think I may need therapy...

Holiday? Pah!

Today I feel the need to laugh in the face of the idea of bank holidays. Mr SilverClouds is working for 5 hours, so we were up before 8, and I haven't stopped since. We are having a barbeque this afternoon, so between tescos, laundry, cleaning the bathroom and preparing food, I'm having a busy day.

K and D are coming over with their son, and we have also asked our neighbours over. I have enough food for about 10 at least! Chicken is marinating, sausages are defrosting, cheesecake and chocolate fudge cake are on plates and covered ready. I just need to get myself in gear to make coleslaw, slice up the rest of the chicken, and then cook couscous and pasta salad. I love cooking for people, and this will be our first barbeque in this house.

Mr SilverClouds is buying a barbie on the way home, as his sturdy homemade one is in storage at the moment and we cannot get to it. I had best get to scrubbing the outside chairs down, as they have been looking pretty grotty.

Mmmmm sunshine!

Lazy Sunday

I gave in and cleaned the kitchen yesterday, although that was all. Instead I spent time online sending e-mails to see about booking things for my wedding to Mr. SilverClouds. I sometimes wonder how anyone ever found out any useful information before the internet. Need to have a look at some wedding venues to go on the shortlist? Search google and wedding directories. Looking for a cheap and inventive wedding photographer? Email the local uni art/media department. Need to know if a particular place will be open the day after the wedding? Look up their website. These things must have been very time-consuming and expensive before.

We visited our friends K and D last night and stopped over. K and I always have a really good chat, and hopefully we will have a really girly day out to give her a makeover sometime soon. She wants to have a bit of a confidence boost, so we will go to the hairdresser and then hit a department store make-up counter, followed by the shops.

This afternoon our windows were cleaned outside, so then I had to do the inside as well. They look great now, and have a few less cobwebs on them. I also bought a couple of plants for our garden, including bergamot mint which smells delicious. I adore plants that have scented leaves, and have pots of rosemary, lavender, blackcurrant sage and lemon verbena already.

Tonight I am working on another square for the patchwork blanket I am knitting. I will leave you with a quick snap of the work in progress left resting on a snoozing Mr. SilverClouds, who graciously helped me tidy and move furniture in the lounge today.

The first day of the rest of my life.

Today, I should really be tidying the house and cleaning, but instead I am procrastinating. My feet are cold sitting here, but all my socks seem such a long way away. I think I will just edit a couple more photos, and then I will get tidied up.