Katybeans Ramblings

How bad am I??

2007-07-09T18:53:00.001+01:00

Looks like I'm not being very good at updating my blog LOL!!

Think I'll just stick with facebook for the time being.

Kathryn
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Home Sweet Home

2007-06-28T21:25:00.000+01:00

We arrived back home a few hours ago!

We had a fab time, despite the heat!! Greece/Turkey was having a heatwave whilst we were there and was way up in the 40's! Too hot for us, we were shade bathing a lot of the time, and didn't get off the ship in a couple of places due to the heat.

I did take some photos, but need to sort them out onto my pc.

A few days ago I had a manicure on the ship, and got chatting to the girl doing my nails and found out she was flying back the same time as us as her contract ended - well she was sat behind us on the plane, and whilst chatting she mentioned she was stopping at friends in Hemel Hemstead (she is an Ozzie), and bizzarly we gave her a lift back to our house (not far from Hemel), where her friend picked her up!! She was great, and gave me quite a few make up'y bits!

Bye For Now

2007-06-12T14:01:00.000+01:00

Well we're off to Legoland tomorrow, then staying at a Gatwick hotel tomorrow night, then flying off for our cruise on Thursday!!

Will hopefully have lots of lovely pictures to add when we get back on 28th June!

Kathryn
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Phew!

2007-06-08T10:20:00.000+01:00

Thomas went for tea at his friends yesterday after school, and I had to pick him up earlier than agreed as he went poorly! When I picked him up he had a bit of a temperature and was shivvery, anyway I packed him to bed with lots of Nurofen. He woke several times in the night and was sick once, but *fingers crossed* he seems ok today - kept him off school just in case!!

I was worried that he might be ill for our holiday on Thursday, but I guess it's almost a week till then and he'd have lots of time to get better!

What happens when you give a 5 year old a camera???

2007-06-02T19:48:00.000+01:00

Catch Up!!

2007-06-02T19:32:00.000+01:00

OOps, not updated for a wee while, but we went away last week to stay in Hayling Island (in a caravan without internet!!). We had a great few days, the weather was only really bad one morning, but we just went shopping!! We stayed in my husbands ex-Mother-in-laws caravan (been loads of times) which is on a site which has just been taken over and redeveloped, so lovely and new!! Hayling Island Holiday Park had a kids club with great evening entertainment, and an indoor and outdoor pool.

Whist we were there, we discovered that Tom is a bit of an adrenalin junkie!! We took him to the funfair (forgot my camera!) and we bought him a wrist band so he could have unlimited rides - well, he didn't want to know the kiddies rides and instead went on the roller coasters and big log flume - as Mark and I didn't have a wrist band, he was going on the rides with random strangers who would take him on (too short to go on his own - apart from one roller coaster which he stayed on 3 turns as we couldn't get him off!!).

Then, when we went to Gunwharf Quays in Portsmouth, he spotted this trampolene thing and wanted a go (not cheap at £5 for 5 minutes!), my heart was in my mouth at one stage as he went so high up and I thought he was going to flip upside down!

Oh Well, we go on the cruise a week on Thursday!!

Anyone Remember this??

2007-05-23T00:01:00.001+01:00

Tom was watching cbeebies, and Floella Benjamin was reading a story, which got me thinking about Playschool, so had a look on youtube, and in the sideline it had clips for the Flumps!!
I used to love this, but remember it being much more sleeker than this LOL

Tom the Artist!!

2007-05-22T19:40:00.000+01:00

Tom drew this picture at school today, they were learning about shadows, and the picture is the sun shining on the tree, and the tree's shadow - but I guess you can tell that ;o)

Chloe and Maisie bought him a few bits back from their holiday in Portugal, and amongst the bits and bobs was this huuuuuge pencil which he insisted on using to do his 'working'!

Released 4 more books today!

2007-05-19T15:56:00.000+01:00

I've just been into town and met up with a few other bookcrossers, and whilst there I released a few more 'lady' books for this months challenge!

My favourite one though, not one of mine was a book with 'wife' in the title, we were pondering where to leave it, then someone noticed what we were stood next too......
It made me giggle!

Bargain Hunt!

2007-05-17T13:43:00.000+01:00

We bought a few bits for Thomas today!!

In Tescos we got him a hooded towel thing (£5), a kagoul (£5), a pair of denim shorts (£4) - they are size 18-24 months, but the 4-5 year size looked massive and he's only got little legs! We then went to Sports Soccer (think that's what it's called?), and got him a pair of Reebok trainers which were reduced to £5, and some ski books that were £3.99. I know there's not much call for snow boots in May (usually???), but they are a few sizes too big and should fit him next winter!

New Toy!

2007-05-16T21:28:00.000+01:00

Today I got an mp3 player in readiness for my holidays!! I've never had one before and I'm very impressed with this one - it's a Samsung one and has built in speakers which slide out if you need them (it's still very small), the speakers actually go quite loud and sound great too!

So far I've only added my new Michael Buble CD to it but will add others as I'm not sure where to get them from on the web!
Looking forward to my day off tomorrow!

Still off school!

2007-05-14T10:53:00.000+01:00

Thomas woke up last night wanting to be sick again, but this morning he seems a little better but with a cold! I've given him medised hoping it dries it up so he might be able to go to school tomorrow!!

I just wish he'd eat as I'm sure he'd feel better!

I had a lovely surprise today, Camis (another bookcrosser) sent me a RABCK (for non-Bookcrossers, this means ' Random Act of Bookcrossing Kindness'), and it's The Kalahari Typing School for Men . I've read the first 3 in this series, so look forward to reading this.

How lovely is this?

2007-05-12T12:49:00.001+01:00

Whilst looking on youtube.com for Michael Buble, I found this video that a guy had made for his girlfriend to 'Everything' which is on Michael Bubles new album (I think it's my fav song on there).
I just couldn't imagine Mark ever doing anything like this for me!

Still Ill

2007-05-11T11:33:00.000+01:00

Another bad night with Thomas! He seemed ok around 5pm and was requesting noodles for his dinner - anyway, the noodles reappeared at 9pm and all went downhill from there!

Today he's very very whiny, and probably very tired.
Lisa (if you're reading), wonder if this is why he was such a grump on Monday when you came over???

Hope the weather improves for the weekend!

Off School

2007-05-10T08:37:00.000+01:00

Tom was awake most of the night (probably because he slept so much yesterday), and still has his temperature - haven't took it as I'm not really sure what your temperature should be LOL! - anyway, he's hot!! He seems a bit better, but isn't a very good patient as he's very whinny grrrr.

I had to go in to work for 2 hours this morning (on my day off!!), to make up for leaving early yesterday. I hope he can stay awake today so we have a better night!

Domestic Goddess!

2007-05-09T12:21:00.000+01:00

Yesterday for dinner, I made a Cottage Pie (admittedly the sauce was a Homepride jar) served with carrots and green beans, followed by Apple Crumble (crumbe recipe from Grandma) with custard.......

(these are uncooked on the piccie).

Thomas had a bad nights sleep last night and woke several times - this morning he said he didn't feel well, but I sent him to school as he kept mentioning that his friend Rory went home from school yesterday as he was poorly - anyway, got a phone call from his school whilst at work and had to pick him up at 11.30 grrrr.

He's now dosed up with Medised and asleep on the sofa!

Rain, Rain, go away!!

2007-05-07T09:16:00.000+01:00

It's a horrible yukky wet day today!! We have friends over today and it's a shame it's not nice so the boys can't play outside!

I do a themed book release challenge every month on BCUKextra (which is a forum for UK bookcrossers where we do challenges, and bookswaps!), and the theme for May is 'Women' - could be Lady, Miss, she, Her, mother etc.. I have a few books, but am struggling for release locations! I have only managed to release one book so far, and that was in the 'ladies' at Gullivers World!

I have a great book, with mummy in the title and can't think of anywhere to release it grrrrrr

Gullivers

2007-05-05T19:42:00.000+01:00

Today we had a great day out at Gullivers in Milton Keynes, it's a theme park for younger children, we took Tom (5) and he loved it!! He was so excited that he reached the 110cm mark and he could go on 'all' the rides!

He seemed to love the Log Flume (he went on 4 times with hubby Mark - I just went on the once and got soaked!!)

.... and a roller coaster called 'Python'
You can just make out Tom and Mark to the right of the post on the Left
Me and Tom 'monkeying around'
Popped into the huge Tescos in MK on the way home (but didn't see any clothes I fancied for my hols), then had a lovely BBQ tea!

Lots of Shopping Lists!

2007-05-04T15:48:00.000+01:00

I've just found this 'interesting??' site which has thousands of shopping lists that have been discarded and found - and then posted on t'internet!

see here! You need to scroll down to just underneath the three boxes saying 'free' and you can view all the shopping lists!! Hmmm what a strange thing to collect!

Hey!! 2nd Posting!

2007-05-04T15:25:00.000+01:00

Well I'm impressed with myself that I remembered to 'update my blog'!!!

The Bodyshop party went well, quite a few friends turned up, but we didn't manage to spend enough so I got any freebies - the stuff is quite expensive though.

I bought myself some Vitamin E cleanser and toner, and also a 'foundation brush' I've never heard of one of these, but you put your normal foundation on using this quite stiff brush rather than your fingers! A couple of friends already have/use them, so I'll give it a go and update how it went (bits don't get delivered until the end of next week!).

I don't need to work now until Tuesday due to Bank holiday monday, hope the weather is nice as I don't have anything planned. All Thomas (5 year old son) wants to do is 'play his playstation' - boring!!!!!!!

1st Post!!!!

2007-05-03T12:04:00.000+01:00

Well,

I think this is my 3rd attempt at having a 'blog'!! I never know what to right, so I'll try and promise to update regularly this time LOL!!

I'm really looking forward to my holiday, which is on 14th of June, and we are going on a 2 week cruise on Ocean Village! We've sailed on this ship twice before, so know what we are expecting.

Here's the ship!

I've even been looking for Ocean Village on youtube, and have been watching lots of cheesy home videos that people have posted!

I'm having a Bodyshop at Home party tonight, so will post and update how it went!