Fish Pie

Tully and I made a really yummy fish pie to help us celebrate New Year. It looked really good so I thought I'd take a picture of it! As an aside it tasted even better than it looked.

New Washing Machine

Typical! Every Christmas some major electrical item seems to break, and this year it is the turn of the washing machine. Now the problem with that is that we have a stupid integrated one, which whilst looks very tidy is just a pain! Firstly there is incredibly limited choice (both in appliance and shop to buy them from), and then there's the whole having to fit the cupboard door on part too!

When we bought the house the previous occupant wanted to take all the existing appliances with them meaning we were in the market for fridge, freezer, washing machine and dishwasher, but could I find anyone to sell them to me??? None of the high street electrical shops did, and nobody I asked knew where I could buy them from. Eventually someone recommended I try Range Warehouse which proved successful.

So this time I didn't even bother looking around we just went straight back to Range today and bought this Indesit WD12X.

Lazy couple of days

Mark and I both finished work on Wednesday, and have enjoyed a relaxing couple of days whilst Tully was in nursery yesterday and today.

Both days we had big lie ins which I'm counting even though I got up and took Tully to school before going back to bed. Yesterday after hearing so many good reviews we went to see Casino Royale. It was as good as I'd been told, and I really enjoyed it. I think it's my fav Bond film to date - certainly from the recent ones anyway.

Sadly today school finished at 2, so we had to look after our daughter ourselves this afternoon (cuh!) so we walked to collect her for a change, and stopped off at the park, before walking into Sale and then heading on home. Whilst in Sale we bought her a gingerbread Christmas tree, which due to it's solid nature kept her busy for the entire journey home, and she was still eating it 5 this evening! The most entertainment value we've seen out of 49p in a long time!

Productive Day!

I'm taking a couple of days hols as I seem to have loads left over that I lose at the end of this year. So far today has mostly been used in writing Christmas cards (almost done although not yet posted...!), and choosing some photos...

Now then, when Mark first moved into his houselet in Alty almost 9 years we picked out a couple of pictures to 'make do' until we found something we really liked, and again after decorating downstairs over 4 years ago we did the same thing for an extra picture (and this one is truely hideous - a £5 IKEA special that seems to reside in every ski chalet we've been to since!) The problem is we are never really sure what we like, and the second one is that many of our photos from recent times were only stored on the hard drive in the loft and, well, going up there to retrieve it required 10 seconds worth of effort!

Anyway I've spent much of the afternoon going through the archive of digital photos from the last few years, and finally picked out 3 examples from our hols in New Zealand to get enlarged. Just going through the 1300 (!) pictures from NZ took well over an hour, so since I went back as far a 2002 it took rather a lot longer. It was however a very enjoyable way to pass a few hours, and brought back some fantastic memories. There's so much I'd completely forgotten about!

(Actually the picture below isn't one of the ones chosen, but I do rather like it!)