Another new look

Why is it that sometimes when you are bored you can find the most interesting things?
Last night i found this great site that has free templates for blogs. I had a look through and this is the one i choose. What do you think? I think it's fab.

I also changed my blog to beta which means you don't have to play with the html if you're not good with it. It's a great new way to blog but i can't use it at the moment because i want to use this template. But i do recomend it to everyone else. Go for it as it'll change your blogging life.

Bling

Yesterday I went out for lunch with my mum and we found the most wonderful bargain. We went into mackays and found these jeans in the sale for just £7, aren't they fab. I'm so pleased to have bling on my jeans as I've been admiring them for ages, but as I need a larger size it would have been very expensive to get them.

Ds is at his grandad's at the moment and is home tomorrow so I'm making the most of not having him. He went Monday evening. I do miss him but it's nice to have some time to myself as being a single mum does grind you down sometimes. I just hope that he's enjoying himself, well I'll find out won't I?

Today is my great Aunt's 80th birthday so I wish her many happy returns. I'm taking her out for a cream tea at the end of the month when DS goes the Isle of Wight for a few days.

I'm Hooked

Your Eyes Should Be Brown

Your eyes reflect: Depth and wisdom What's hidden behind your eyes: A tender heart

What Color Should Your Eyes Be?

You Don't Need a Man, but You Want One!

You like having a guy in your life, and overall, you prefer not to be single. You won't go out with a guy out of desperation.. you rather be alone. However, when you're single, you do tend to obsess a little over dating. Because no matter how good your single life is, it's better with a great guy around.

Do You Need a Man?

Cupcakes

When I was surfing last night I found this lush blog about cupcakes. It also links to other blogs. I just love it as it's full of recipes to make them. I just love them. I will at some stage make some yummy cupcakes of my own, when i do i'll take photo's.

Have a guess?

You Are Elektra

There's really no superhero with more style than you. Because who could beat being sexy assasin ninja?

What Superhero Are You?

You Are 50% Boyish and 50% Girlish

You are pretty evenly split down the middle - a total eunuch. Okay, kidding about the eunuch part. But you do get along with both sexes. You reject traditional gender roles. However, you don't actively fight them. You're just you. You don't try to be what people expect you to be.

How Boyish or Girlish Are You?

You Are 24% Evil

A bit of evil lurks in your heart, but you hide it well. In some ways, you are the most dangerous kind of evil.

How Evil Are You?

Well

Well what can I say?
Dom seems to be enjoying his school holidays so far. He's been going and playing with his friends and I've hardly seen him. He's been to the beach once and I've taken him swimming twice.
We went yesterday and took my niece Phoebe and they had a great time as we were in the pool at least 2 hours. Afterwards we had sandwiches on southsea common and then had to get the bus up to my mums and took about an hour.
With all that my arm aches after carrying a heavy bag. Never mind I'll live.

My went to the hospital this week to get the results of a CAT scan she had a little while ago. The good news is that the cancer isn't progressing at the moment, which means no change. So we just have to wait until the scan at the end of the year. As this has been going on for about 2 years now it's doing too badly.

Anyway what have I got planned?
Dom has his swimming lesson as normal on Monday. Wednesday we may go to the cinema. Thursday we will go swimming. Saturday we are going for a family picnic for my Great Aunts 80th birthday.
So hopefully there will be lots for me to blog about as I should try and post everyday.

School holidays

It's that time again that most sane parents dread, several weeks of kids at home and in the way. Today DS has been out to play and is now fast asleep in bed. I can't blame him, it must be tiring playing out in this heat.
I had better start making plans as to what we are going to do. One thing i do know is that we are going to go swimming once a week and he also has his lesson once a week. But it's the other days. I do feel sorry for him being an only child and not having a set playmate.

Anyway roll on september

yet more blogthings

Your Hair Should Be Orange

Expressive, deep, and one of a kind. You pull off "weird" well - hardly anyone notices.

What's Your Funky Inner Hair Color?

You Are: 40% Dog, 60% Cat

You and cats have a lot in common. You're both smart and in charge - with a good amount of attitude. However, you do have a very playful side that occasionally comes out!

Are You More Cat or Dog?

My present

Last night while I was in bed watching TV I heard a squeak but I wasn't to sure so I thought I'd ignore it. After a moment I two I thought better of it and looked down next to the bed and I saw one of the cats patting this baby rat. I know that they are vermin but I had to get it away from here. So I took it and put it in a box and took this photo. The girls spent the night shut out ( well they could get in the kitchen). I let it go, but I have no idea if the girls went after it again and I don't want to know.

I phoned the council about it and hopefully they will do something about it soon. I really don't want another one in the house.

I've been Tagged

1. How old are you? 29
2. How many kids do you have if any? 1
3. Are you married, single, divorced, widow,? Single
4. What is your occupation? Stay at home mum
5. What are your passions? My son, cats, family, crafts and the internet
6. Are you a dreamer or a dream seeker? Dreamer
7. Are you happy with the way you life has turned out? No i'm not. But i'm happy with parts of it.
8. Are you a scrapper and if so how many hours a week do you scrap? Not enough
9. What do you want to do before you die? I want to meet the man of my dreams
10. What is your favorite food? Pasta, i just love the stuff
11. What is the food you hate the most? Bacon and peas
12. What is the most embarrassing thing that has ever happened to you? I can't think of anything
13. What is the happiest day of your life thus far? When my son said mummy for the first time
14. Are you a neat freak? Not at all
15. What is the worst thing you have ever done? I don't know. Smacked my son once when he was naughty.

Off to tag someone who will it be?

Dr Who

Saturday was the last in the series and it was fab. I was expecting it to be scary but it wasn't the only thing was that i cried my eyes out at the end. Why do wwe have to wait until christmas for more. Ds is going to make my life hell as he loves the Dr. Well only 168 days till it's back on.

more blogthings

You Are a Cappuccino

You're fun, outgoing, and you love to try anything new. However, you tend to have strong opinions on what you like. You are a total girly girly at heart - and prefer your coffee with good conversation. You're the type that seems complex to outsiders, but in reality, you are easy to please

What Kind of Coffee Are You?

You Are a Daisy

You see the world with an artist's eye. Finding beauty is easy for you - even in the dullest of moments. You notice all of the colors of the world, from fresh grass to sunsets. You are a total optimist and hedonist. You love to drink life in.

What Flower Are You?

One year on tomorrow

I can't believe that it was a year ago tomorrow that the bombings in London happened. It seems so long ago. You just get on with life because you have to. I feel lucky that no one i know was hurt or even killed that day. Alot of people can't say that and sometimes i feel bad that we were alright. As a scrapbooker i had to get it in a album to remind myself and also future generations how awful it was on that day. So i did these LO's


I think that they speak for themselves and are powerful and make you think even a year on.
In a way it seems so unreal. I don't know about the rest of you but between 9 and 10 in the morning my thoughts will be with everyone that was injured or lost a loved one. I may even light a candle.

This morning

I caught an interesting interview on ITV's This Morning today about blogging. I knew that it was popular but didn't know how much until i saw this. I copied the following from the This Morning website

Bloggers are the fastest-growing group of writers in the world. Every day, around 70,000 people - that's one person per second - begins a 'blog': a diary published on the Internet. Many are intensely personal affairs, essentially no different to pen-and-paper journals people have kept for centuries... except they're published instantaneously on the web for the whole world to see. But it isn't just young male geeks doing it - a sizeable proportion of blogs are by women and over-30's.

Proving that truth can indeed be stranger than fiction, playwright Oliver Mann has compiled a play entirely extracted from real blogs, premiering next month at Edinburgh Fringe Festival. He joins us now to talk about the blogging phenomenon.

'Bloggers - Real Internet Diaries', daily at 3.10pm, Smirnoff Underbelly, Edinburgh (3rd - 27th August)

www.seebloggers.com

What is a blog?

"The most straightforward definition is 'online diary'," Oliver says. "But it's really just a type of web-site which allows its author to update content very easily, with each entry showing a date and time. So it lends itself well to personal diaries, but blogs can be used for all sorts of things. The word 'blog' is an abbreviation for 'weblog'"

What is a post?

'Posts' are individual entries submitted to a blog

What is the blogroll?

The 'blogroll' is the column on the side of some blogs which links through to all the author's favourite blogs

What is the blogosphere?

Blogosphere' is the term used to describe the online community engendered through blogging

There are dozens of sites to choose from when setting up a blog, but amongst the most popular are blogger.com (owned by Google), livejournal.com, and wordpress.com - all of whom offer free accounts.

www.blogger.com

www.wordpress.com

www.livejournal.com

About Oliver’s Play

Bloggers - Real Internet Diaries is the world's first stage-play entirely extracted from real British blogs. In the script, 10 'characters', played by 5 actors (they all double-up) take turns in addressing the audience in thematically-interlinked monologues. Characters include an agarophobic sex chatline operator (!), a nymphomaniac mum of three, a woman who obsesses about her teenage son, and a predatory bisexual buisnessman.

Oliver first had the idea for the play after discovering the blog of a contemporary of his from school. "My flat-mate and I both went to the same secondary school," he says. "A newsletter goes round; alumni write in and say what they're up to. One day this guy who was a bit of a peripheral character at school, a nerd really, wrote in saying, 'I've got a blog, check it out'. And we had that sort of macabre curiosity- we had to look him up. Turns out he was having a rubbish time - he was at University, as a mature student, but he was depressed, and still a virgin and so on. And, the thing was, there was this girl he liked who clearly liked him, reading between the lines, but he didn't seem to know it! We got completely hooked, constantly checking back for updates to see how this relationship developed. We started reading it out to each other. And that's when I thought, 'hold on, this is just like soap opera. It would be fantastic to recreate this feeling of intimacy in the theatre.”

I think that will be a great play and i'd love to see it but it's to far away so unless it comes down here or on television i'll never see it.

New look

Well what do you think of it. I was getting bored of the old look so I thought it was time for a change. I'm trying to find the right picture for the background and soon as I have it will look more like home. So bare with me while I get it sorted and looking the way I want it.

One thing I have done is to add a lot more links to blogs. I pop into these every now and then. I can't list everyone, if I did it would go on forever.